Timing

wighnoheat@live.com · Post by **wighnoheat@live.com** » Sat May 14, 2016 7:04 am

I am having problems with the program it seems to speed up or slow down or sometimes even stop for a second, Am I the only one?

draco2023a · Post by **draco2023a** » Sat May 14, 2016 8:48 am

Every once and a while..but not bad

Russ1409 · Post by **Russ1409** » Sat May 14, 2016 9:27 am

I thought it was just me....or more accurately, my computer. I figured some program or something was running causing Playground to stutter occasionally.

Post by **davidsides** » Tue May 24, 2016 11:25 am

Hi Russ1409,

I've experienced this before as well, but it usually happens when:

a. My computer has been on for a long time without being restarted
b. I have other programs open
c. I have internet tabs open

Try minimizing those situations and let me know if that fixes the issue.

Russ1409 · Post by **Russ1409** » Sun May 29, 2016 12:03 am

Hi David;

Thanks for responding. I could see issue A happening, as I have a laptop solely dedicated to the Playground sessions. I don't open a browser unless I'm buying a song. But, since it just sits on my piano, it doesn't get restarted often. I'll keep an eye on things a see if I recognize a pattern.

Post by **davidsides** » Wed Jun 08, 2016 9:46 am

Thanks. Please report back if you notice anything.

Phil_Surtees · Post by **Phil_Surtees** » Fri Jul 08, 2016 9:52 am

I have found that some music is shown in 4 measures per bar , while the next bar is 3 measures. This makes the moving cursor seemingly speed up, even though I know the tempo hasn't really changed, and it throws me off. I would like it to be standardized to 4 measures per bar, or truncate the 3 measures down to match the bar above.
I do occasionally experience a small hiccup in the timing, but it doesn't happen too often, and may be my pc.

Post by **thomas1018** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 9:52 am

Hi Phil,

Generally, we try to format segments with 4, 6, or 8 measures per system. There are instances when there is no way around having an odd number. Let's say a segment has 11 measures. We might have one system of 6 measures and one system of 5, or we might have two systems of 4 measures and one system of 3. A lot of these formatting decisions take tempo, amount of notes and difficulty into account.

Thomas

StevieRay · Post by **StevieRay** » Tue Jan 17, 2017 4:05 pm

I had the very same issue under Window 7 Professional and this is what I did to resolve the issue:
1) Close all other programs
2) Start Task Manager (CTRL/ALT/DEL) All three keys simaltanously will bring up Task Manaer.
3) Start Playground Sessions
4) Go into Task Manager and set the Task Priority of Playground Session to Realtime. Under the Processes tab find the Image Name, Playground Sessions. Then right click on Playground Sessions and select Set Priority and then select Realtime. I did this and was able to run other programs (email & Firefox) without anymore timing issues.

Good Luck,
StevieRay

sw1tch73ch · Post by **sw1tch73ch** » Wed Jan 18, 2017 8:46 pm

StevieRay wrote:4) Go into Task Manager and set the Task Priority of Playground Session to Realtime.

I need to try this. I'm running on a relatively low end Intel i3 system and occassionally see hicups in the program smoothness. This just might be the ticket to smoothing it out.

I'd entirely forgotten about Task Priority when I set things up.

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