ind13 Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 do any of you use ejay? have you had any luck getting it to work on daemon tools? or a any other virtual drive. or anyone manage to get to work without the CD thanks
plexer Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 Is this dance ejay for schools that peopel say it evil? If it is then I've got to install it on 16 musci pc's in a couple of weeks time and I'd like to hear more about it. What have you tried and what's been the result? Ben
Dos_Box Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 Apparently the words 'Stake', 'Crossroads' and 'Midnight' are used to describe this particular piece of software quite a bit!
webman Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 It's not real music by a long shot; but it is fun
ind13 Posted August 18, 2006 Author Posted August 18, 2006 its just a pain, coz, you can do a full install, but it want's the cd to start the program after the program has started you can take the disk out. the main problem ive got is kids keep scratching the disks. and the cd drives keep getting vandailsed. its only for the music room 10 pc's ive only had a quick go at getting it working. saved an iso image of the disk installed dance ejay installed Daemon tools installed daemon script created a script that loads the disk. and starts the program but it still asks for the disk. im assuming that theres some protection on there but thats where i get stuck. and yes it is the devil incarnated. the other thing that annoys me is that last summer the music teacher spent a stupid amount of money on music software, a load of the sony stuff, cubasis, fruty loops etc, all of which are really good proffessional bits of software, but they necer get used. they only ever use ejay. anyway that enough of my ranting. any idea's (shooting the teacher is not an option, already though of that one)
ind13 Posted August 18, 2006 Author Posted August 18, 2006 i installed it from the disk, ill try it from the image see if that makes a difference. anyway its pub time so it'll have to wait till monday. have a nice weekend
plexer Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 I would think that installing from your image would be the answer as it probably writes a reference to the install drive to a registry key which you could change if you can find it. Ben
webman Posted August 18, 2006 Posted August 18, 2006 Yep, best thing to do if using a virtual CD, is to make the image, mount it, then install it from there; as the CD drive letter/path usually gets written to the registry or something similar during installation, and the program checks this location when it's ran.
Quackers Posted August 20, 2006 Posted August 20, 2006 I recommend you get the newer version, Ejay for schools network edition. Works a bit better than the old version. Does not need the cd to run either! you can just install in to a shared network drive and create a shortcut to the exe.
plexer Posted August 20, 2006 Posted August 20, 2006 Quackers: You just made my day as I believe that is the version we have ordered Just waiting for Ramesys to tell me when it's going to turn up. Ben
plexer Posted September 5, 2006 Posted September 5, 2006 Ok I've installed dance ejay locally on the machines and when logged on as a student I get a corrupt install message. But suprise suprise when logged on as admin it works. I've even given everyone full control on the folder to see if it's that and then work backwards on the security but that doesn't help either. I can't find any registry keys for it either. Anyone else got this version installed with no problems? Ben
Norphy Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Ok I've installed dance ejay locally on the machines and when logged on as a student I get a corrupt install message. But suprise suprise when logged on as admin it works. I've even given everyone full control on the folder to see if it's that and then work backwards on the security but that doesn't help either. I can't find any registry keys for it either. Anyone else got this version installed with no problems? Ben Sorry to bump ye olde thread but I'm having the same problem. Did you ever get this resolved? Cheers, Norphy
Scotmk Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 We have it installed on 16 machines in music and all works ok, virtual drive on server. (not sure of setup before my time, but I can find out if anyone wants to know.
Nij.UK Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 @plexer: I had issues with this aswell... from what i remember you dont point it to the exe that i think is located at the root of the folder, there is another exe floating about, i believe with the same icon. now here is the fun bit, i had to log onto each machine (bout 8) as admin and then run the app, this i think creates some files etc and then after that when kids logged in it was all ok.... good luck N
Busybub Posted June 20, 2007 Posted June 20, 2007 No problems here. I use MagicDisc 2.5.74 to mount the ISO locally.
alonebfg Posted June 25, 2007 Posted June 25, 2007 ok I have created a msi for dance ejay but you have got to use the network version cd. It works like a treat deployed to 60 machines no problem. You have got to use the network cd not the standalone cd else it does not work.
beeswax Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 must be a full moon. just spent a loooong day getting the new music suite ready for open day next monday, and we ahve a problem with dance ejay 7. for the time being we're keeping a copy of disc 2 in the dvd drive, and that'll change after monday. The problem we have, whether admin or not, is trying to save what you've done/created. It saves to a default folder on the C: drive, or so it says, but there's nothing there when you look. any ideas?
webman Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 I know it might be a bit obvious but have you checked users have NTFS permissions on the C: drive directory they try to save to?
beeswax Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 it doesn't even work when logged in as admin.
bishopsgarthstockton Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 we have this wonderful awsome lovely sexy software installed on 8 computers here. Personally i would like to shoot the owner lol
sqdge Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 We also have/had it - any software that requires booking someone to come to the school to install it is not a good piece of software in my book.
craigg Posted May 21, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 ok I have created a msi for dance ejay but you have got to use the network version cd. It works like a treat deployed to 60 machines no problem. You have got to use the network cd not the standalone cd else it does not work. We are having trouble creating an msi for this peice of software.. We have the network CD aswell. Apparently when the MSI is clicked nothing happens?! Any suggestions? Cheers
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