were you editing tags? that seems to be a pretty common crash problem.

What/where is best to edit tags?

nope, it happened last night when i did a search for rick james-mary jane( i think its a CC video with the friday clips in it) i clicked and dragged into the right deck, and it shut it down. i was like ? fuck me.. luckily it happened early in the night when noone was dancing. i used VSL


the first time it happened like a week ago i was using ME and 1.9.2 i clicked and dragged a track from the left deck to the right, and it shut it down, so after that i used VSL, it happened again when i did the same exact thing. so i bounced over to 2.0 beta 7 and VSL 1.2 beta... no problems the rest of the night...

and then this past wed i did the same thing with the clickn and dragging with beta public 1, and bam... shut down again!

so i dunno if its because i wiped my mac clean or what, i was using a program called paragon so it can read n write my drive on both pc and mac.

but since i formatted my external drive to journal, and transfer everything from a fat 32(mac formatted) to the journal(mac formatted of course)

The 2.0 beta 1 has issues with writing metadata to MP4s. Beta 2 supposedly remedied that. I had the same issue. Uninstalled and back to 1.9.2. Never had a problem with loading decks on either side with that one. Did you reinstall Perian when you reloaded your Mac?

no, i didnt load it back on...

i just went straight mac hard drive specs, and now transfer music from pc to mac thru fat 32 hard drive or a thumb drive...

but even if i went back to 1.9.2 that crash still happened..

im gonna upload the crash log today, just bummed that this happened even with 1.9.2

i thought at first it was the ME program, but i was wrong...

I've been using VSL very gingerly since my first crash ever with Serato. I've been using Serato since 2005 and I had my first crash a few weeks ago.

The main thing Serato had over the competition,... stability. 1 crash is all it takes for me to lose faith. 1 crash is too many. Period.

yeah, this sounds weird but im gonna bring my other laptop pc in to this wed nights gig, with(god.. i dont wanna say this) but with virtual loaded on it... just in case something happens again.... last time it was just dead air untill my buddy who left his laptop in the other room.. and guess what. he had on it... virtual. LOL.

hopin for the best =]

I have been having this happen here and there, and it's frustrating as hell. I even downgraded to 1.9.1, which helped for a while, but then I got a 57 (finally) and when I used it at the club on Friday, I got another crash. Thankfully, I had the Def Jam CVs in my bag and just threw on some tracks from those while I rebooted... but I had to hard boot it to power down. It came back up and worked for the rest of the night, but at my show on Saturday, I set up and my external was bricked... presumably due to something in this crash. I had 90% of my videos backed up, so now I am trying to reacquire everything from just the last couple of weeks and figure out what version I need to run to make this NOT happen! :(

Imagine how i felt when I got a bunch of crashes under 1.9+ hahaha

Yeah. It kills your confidence in the software. Now, I ALWAYS have an mp3 player plugged in to the aux in on my mixer just like when I first started using Serato in 2005.

I am digging through stacks of vinyl this week and will be bringing a couple of bags with me to the club this weekend, just in case. Which is never a bad thing, but it means that the video screens go blank while I reboot and mix wax lol.

yeah.. its nerve wracking, kinda like walking on glass(afraid to fall in).. i almost wanna go back to just mp3s till they figure some stuff out, i dunno.... but all my shows are video now.
but im def bringin in an extra lappie to the gig this wednesday night :/

its funny, i was super extra careful with what i was doign sat night, wasnt tryin to speed mix or anything and doubled checked everything i was doing to make sure ididnt have another crash LOL

but dont get me wrong i still love love love scratch

you have something in your settings set wrong.

I do, or Henry does? I just installed 1.9.2 and re-installed VSL 1.1.1 and am using a different external... what other settings should I look into?

And no, I am not running Perian. I have heard conflicting advice on whether it helps or hinders these issues...

I've had recent crashes also - the first in a very very very long time.....1.9.2, VSL 1.1.0

This was just a straight SSL crash before I even loaded VSL plugin
scratchlive.net


This was a VSL only crash a few days later
scratchlive.net

Have played a few times since and no problems... the randomness of it all scares me

No perian for me.... the last time I had VSL crash was when I installed Perian (3 crashes in 3 gigs in a row). I got rid of it and smooth sailing for almost a year until these recent ones....

Word, I had a ton of crashes with both Perian and 1.9.2 running right around NYE, so I downgraded to 1.9.1 and uninstalled Perian, and everything was fine until this week. I think my external may have been having problems, but I JUST got it... it almost seems like the issues were brought on by these crashes, as crazy as that may sound. :(

Either that or some kind of compatibility glitch with my 57? It was the only other X factor in the equation this week. :(

how do you uninstall perian?

I don't remember... I was in a frenzy trying to douche the machine before a show when this happened. It still shows up with a Swiss Army knife icon in the settings menu or whatever, but when you go to properties it says "not installed" and has a button to install it again... which I have not pushed lol.

It should also be known that this MBP is my first real attempt at Mac usage since the days of the Mac LC (1992? 1993?), so I am still stumbling around whenever I have to figure out how to do ANYTHING besides run SSL/VSL and download videos lol.

From what I've read Perian 1.1.3 had some issues as well causing crashes. 1.2 is out now. Check to make sure you have an updated version if you want to continue using it.
To uninstall, System Pefs->Other->Perian Click uninstall. Restart.

we'll see with the latest beta version, hopefully there will be another one out before this wed

there was an issue with perian 1.2 using 1.9.2 and 1.1. ive had the issue, but then a security update came out and when i installed it, everything was fine again.

now im runnin 2.0ssl, 1.2vsl, 1.2perian and have 45-60fps on high.

why r u using perian 1.2 anyways ?

if nathan suggests it helps quicktime/quickplayer run better...

werd.. maybe i shoudl get it then huh.. coolio

i really think its just the operating system... i went from 10.5.6 to 10.6.2

thats gotta be it, if it fucks me again this wed, im back to that shit.

i never ever had a crash and i had fuckin lame ass fuckin paragon on my shit.

i think its user error. I should start a business on setting up djs computers for them.

OS X 10.6.2 plus SSL 1.9.2 plus V-SL 1.20 NO Perian...No problems.

yea but alot of us are graduating from 1.9.2 and bracing the future with 2.0 and 1.2 man :)

Well...expect a crash then....

i hear ya charlie. thats awesome!

acutally no. I ran 2.0 and 1.2 for 5 events over the weekend and had zero crashes, zero hangs and fps from 45-60 :)

ah i got it...anyone who has a video file in any other format...and wants it mp4 high quality, hit me up. $1.00 per encode, guaranteed to be the best qt. haha

ibtl

henry u already owe me a fistfull of cash focker

paypal gQ

upped to VSL 1.1.1 today and seems better? live now on www.sceedle.com

on 10.5.8 btw

mines crashes too. It all started happening when I started using VSL.
Just thought i had to vent.
I feel better now :)

now that VSL is crashing often, i wonder how come the VDJ guys aren't in here clowing us.

too busy clowning us on their own forum

I don't think so fellas.
One honorable mention at the vip level but that is all that I have seen and nothing else.

But we understand that nothing is perfect, even in your world.

I'm more interested in what is causing it than anything else actually.
If its got swifty buggin, that's not good.

Always have plan B in place ready to fire is what I do.
Easier with PC due to cost, but normally I have a lighting pc/mac have sitting right there.
More complicated with video, but just the same a full back up keeps the confidence up.
Nobody can function under those conditions very well, it shatters the mind set.

1 crash in the entire time i've been using serato.

Luckily VSL hasn't crashed over here. Also running 10.6.2, Perian 1.2, VSL 1.2b, SSL 1.9.2. Only crash I had was with 2.0beta1 and that was offline at home.
Have you guys verified disk permissions or the disk itself in disk utility? You've got me wanting to take extra cables with me for the cdjs next time.

The first thing I do and recommend.
What comes back is what tells me how stable things really are.

I hate pinwheels....

Only one crash here too (since I ditched the buggy version of Perian)

Bingo. I check once a week and no software updates on Friday or Saturday.

heh liek millz said, the beachball of death... once i seee that.. im like fuck, i start breaking out the other laptop LOL

I had vsl randomly crash on me a month ago. when my mac popped up with strap has encountered an error and must close. I didn't click any thing and just rubbished the night out with that box in the corner of my screen lol

^^ stupid droid text predict lol. The box said serato has encountered an error and must close. But I djed the rest of the night 2 more hours with the warning box in the corner of my screen ;)

haha nice... i think im gonna video tape my screen so people can see what the hell i been going thru, my shit didnt crash tonight... but there was a couple moments that made me "what the fuck!?"

like when it just started auto scrollin thru my shit a million miles an hour! haha. i looked at my other laptop with virtual on it, and was about to cry! LOL. next thing u know it stopped. oh and it gave me the "beachball wheel of death" but it only lasted 8 seconds..

I had that auto scroll thing happen to me a few times. I would scroll down with two fingers and it would go bananas at light speed. I never did figure out what caused it.

im actually gonna set a camera to record my screen one night, just so i can see what thell is going on.. and of course send it to serato

user error :)

ha. thnx bro