I am running SAM 2018.2. I am having a continuous problem with Windows 10 locking up when running SAM.

Sometime it happens within a few minutes and sometimes it could be 2 or 3 days after starting the program. It does not seem to occur during any particular track. A particular track could play 10 times. Then on one play it will freeze up.

There are no other errors. The track just freezes and Windows locks up. I have to completely reboot the program to restart SAM.

This is really getting old. I have tried adjusting various settings in the configuration. (Packets and Buffers, etc.)

Let me know if there is anything else I can offer for information to help this. I would give anything to have a setup that would run with out freezes.

Are you running any PAL scripts? That is a common issue of memory leak concerns which causes SAM to lock up.

I would also suggest you run verify tracks to make sure SAM knows where all your tracks are.

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- Rob Oyler, SVS

Yes I am running one PAL script for station ID. I will turn it off and see what happens.

I will also check and verify the music.

Is the PAL script issue being addressed? How do I run station IDs if I can not use PAL scripts?

There is nothing wrong with PAL scripts, it is how they are written (or poorly written) that MAY cause a memory leak, without seeing your PAL script is would only be speculation that it is any cause for the lock up.

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- Rob Oyler, SVS

Is the script issue being addressed? How do we do station Ids and stuff?

Just add them to your normal rotation. Every X tracks play a station ID. If you'd rather play them in specific time intervals, use the Event Scheduler.
What strange use case do you have that makes it neccessary to use PAL for such a simple task as scheduling a Station ID?

Memory Leaks are an inherent problem of how the PAL engine is designed. If you design bad PAL scripts, you get memory leaks. And it's easier to design a bad PAL script than to design a good one. But it's not like Memory Leaks were an unavoidable problem or a bug in the engine.

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Ok, so I just added the IDs to the rotation within the config. It has been up for three days now without an issue.

As far designing a good or bad Pal script - I really have no clue how to do that. So I will stick with the internal configuration. All I wanted was a station ID every 15 minutes and a call for a commercial break from my provider.
Thank you.

This issue is resolved. Turned out to be a conflict between the mouse pad on the laptop and the USB mouse. Turned off the mouse pad on the laptop and it all went away.