[WT-support] mp3 recordings from several stations merged crash on fast forward/rewind

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Alexander Kurpiers <a.kurpiers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My problem: as soon as I try to fast forward or rewind, WT crashes. I
> tried 4.9.1 (= the version used during the contest) but same thing seems
> to happen in 4.13, too.
>
> The crash is mentioned in the posting above, too, but I don't understand
> yet how to avoid it.
>

As I wrote in that post
<http://lists.f5mzn.org/pipermail/support/2010-April/079511.html>:

... it is understandable that rewinding may not work if it has to jump back
> and forth between .MP3 files recorded on two computers when QSOs at a multi
> are interleaved in the log.  *So it's safer to jump to the QSO rather
> than to rewind and fast forward when you have two .MP3 files to play back
> from one log.*
>

You might find it easier to use this nice *new feature* of WT 4.14.0-dev
<http://download.win-test.com/v4/nightly/wt_dev.zip> (the development
version):

- New Goto Callsign edit menu (Shortcut Shift+Ctrl+G) to set the
  cursor on a QSO with a given callsign. By default, the callsign
  of the current QSO is searched. If it is empty (ie if the cursor
  is set to the last (empty) line of the log), a dialog is opened.
  The search is done backwards.


So instead of rewind, try:

   1. Enter callsign of QSO you want to listen to, and press Ctrl-Shift-G
   2. It will jump to the most recent QSO with that station
   3. Press Ctrl-Shift-G to jump to older QSOs with the same station
   4. Press Ctrl-Alt-Enter to play back the QSO
   5. Press Ctrl-G [Enter] to return to last line in log

In step when you can also leave the callsign blank in the logging window,
and just press Ctrl-Shift-G to be prompted for a call.

However, if you want the crash to be fixed, you have to put all the files
(merged .wt4, and all the corresponding .mp3s, maybe you wt.ini file as
well) into a Zip file on the web somewhere, then send F6FVY *a link* to the
file (URL), with explicit step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the
crash.  It's much easier to fix a problem if you can make it easy for him
to recreate the problem.

But, what do you expect "Rewind 30 seconds" to do?  Switch recordings and
play back the QSO made at that time (perhaps on a different computer), or
just rewind in the current recording you are listening do, without
switching .MP3 files?  Probably the latter would be more useful, but it
might also be confusing.

73,
Bob, N6TV
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