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Breakaway has met all my expectations. But I do have a small problem that I’d like to resolve. When I reboot my system Breakaway launches but is non-functional. I have to shut Breakaway down and restart it. I presume what’s happening is that Breakaway is being launched too early, before some dependency is satisfied. I thought to use the Services tool to lower Breakaway’s startup priority but I was surprised to see that Breakaway doesn’t have an associated service.
Is there some way to change the startup priority or otherwise resolve this problem?
Thanks for any thoughts or help!
Cheers,
More information on your system and OS might help. I think I have seen this on a Win 7 32 bit laptop.
Thanks for the reply, Milky.
System information? Duh! Actually, I assumed–wrongly, it seems–that Breakaway is implemented pretty much the same across the various Microsoft platforms on which it runs.
Anyway, I’m using Windows 7 (64-bit), 6.1.7601, Service Pack 1. My CPU is an AMD Athlon II X4; the system board has 8 GB installed RAM. Now you see why I didn’t want to say anything 🙂
If it helps you decide how to approach the problem, I’m a former software developer but not that familiar with Windows internals, specifically including ways of launching programs at startup other than using a service or the Start Up folder. (I suspect, and think I dimly recall, that there are ways of launching programs via registry entries.) Point being, I can probably help a bit more on this end than an ordinary customer and I can cope with general instructions rather than a detailed road map.
Having sat in your seat, though, I know how much more complicated it usually is when dealing with a client who thinks he knows everything. I’ll try to keep a rein on the nuisance factor 🙂
Cheers,
The instance I have seen (and reported) of this sounds very similar. It’s actually on my son’s HP laptop (Intel i5, Win7 32 bit). You say "Breakaway", but not the particular version. His is BA DJ. If he has the box ticked to launch on startup, BADJ launches and appears functional, but the sound is strangled and distorted (even Windows sounds). If he then shuts down BADJ and re-launches it manually, all is good.
As you say, it’s almost as if something else (like the audio layer components) has to get into gear before BA will work. I have almost the exact same scenario on my studio PC, except that it is still running XP Pro, and that works every time, so I suspect it is something to do with the way BADJ (or virtual cables) reacts with the new audio layers of Win 7. Thirty two or sixty four bit doesn’t seem to be a player.
I haven’t tried this, but, if inserting a delay will be a reasonable work-around until Leif can look at the code, try launching BA from a scheduled task, and maybe inserting a pause of a few seconds into the task. For instance, you could create a scheduled task to launch BA using an "On Event" trigger of "Windows Audio/Operational". This might give BA the wait-time it needs.
Sorry. I can’t seem to assemble the whole set of proper information. I notice that at one point I even spelled the product name "Breakway" rather than "Breakaway." Attention to detail was never my strong suit.
I’m actually using Breakaway Audio Enhancer in an application intended to flatten the dynamic range of PC audio. It works very well.
As installed, the application is launched using a registry key, which (as far as I know) provides no mechanism for sequencing or delay. It’d be possible, I suppose, to strip that out and launch only after a specified delay. But I’d much prefer identifying the dependency and somehow ensuring that Breakaway isn’t launched until the dependency is satisfied. Delays that work at one point have a nasty habit of not working at another.
Just want to confirm you are using the most recent version 1.30.02, as there were some changes to an earlier version that was supposed to resolve some issues with Win7. I’m not sure if the problem you are having was part of that fix, but you will still want the most recent version.
That’s a really good question. I don’t see an About box. I don’t see anything in the installation directory that reports version information, such as a Readme file. The version information doesn’t appear in the purchase correspondence. It doesn’t appear in the Control Panel Programs applet. There’s no Update function. Ah, the installation file is named 1.30.02. So, I must have the most recent version.
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