Recent Issues & Workarounds

If you're reading this article, you have more than likely seen or experienced the issue above first hand. If you receive a message that says "MediaShout 7 Can't Save File", or "MediaShout 7 Can't Open File", there are more than likely a few things going on. As a team, we are actively digging into this issue and are looking for permanent fixes from the developers to allow your experience as a user to be better and satisfying! In our research so far, we have found a few helpful things to check th...

If you find the need to reset MediaShout 7's user configuration settings, this tool will do the job for you. Some reasons you may need to do this may be if you are having difficulty launching MediaShout 7, or it does launch but your screen settings are invalid so it covers the screens with black, or other various issues. *This tool will NOT remove any of your scripts, saved cues in the Cues Library, or lyric database information. It will ONLY reset the configuration settings. To use the Confi...

If MediaShout 7 launches into a mode that is covering your control screen with black when you launch the software or after you fire a cue/page, there is usually an easy solution. In most cases, if you press F2 and/or F3, it should turn the black screen off and allow you to see the Control Screen and the Settings window so you can redefine the display outputs before firing again. To see this in action, we have created an article that explains Setting Up Your Screens in MediaShout (http://mediasho...