Dorico freezes, then won't start up until after reboot

[dspreadbury]

Welcome to the forum, @JTB. If you’re having problems with Dorico hanging after you close one project and open a new one, you’re having the MediaBay problem. Please see this thread:

Closing Dorico project causing program shutdown improperly; audio on left only

Hi @Xianmin_xkwauk, I checked back with the @Ulf and @dspreadbury and here is a first workaround to keep HALion 7 or HALion Sonic 7 installed (Windows only, I can provide a Mac version on request): To prevent any SteinbergMediaBayServer restart problems, here is a (zipped) bat file that starts it once and keeps it running. It needs to be unzipped and executed once after system start, before starting Dorico (you can put it anywhere you like, e.g. on your desktop and execute it from there): Sta…

We’re working on a permanent fix for this, but this workaround will help you in the meantime.