Solving playback problems

The receiving computer can’t find a webcast

There are a few things you can try to solve the problem:

Make sure that the receiving computer can successfully "ping" the webcast machine.

  1. From the Windows Start menu, choose Run.

  2. In the Open box, type command, and then click OK.
    This opens a DOS-like window.

  3. In the command window, type ping <mycomputer>, substituting the name of your computer for mycomputer.
    If your computer can "ping" the webcast machine, you'll see a reply something like this:

Reply from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Try using the hostname of the PC instead of the IP address or vice versa.
  1. From the Windows Start menu, choose Run.

  2. Type either the hostname of the PC or the IP address as appropriate, and then click OK.

Playback stops and skips when mixing between songs

This problem usually results when MixMeister has run out of CPU resources. Make sure you have the recommended minimum system: a Pentium 2 class machine with at least 64 MB RAM and 100 MB of free hard disk space. On computers that don’t meet these minimum requirements, reliable playback depends on a variety of factors including amount of cache memory and hard disk speed.

I hear clicking, popping, static, and other noise during playback

There are a few things you can try to solve the problem: