Computer Idiot Here

[crazycarl]

I am not very good at computers, and I have over 12,000 songs to download into Hoster. I installed an 80Gb hard drive in my computer. do you all know if I need to install more ram memory
Sorry to bother you Karaoke Guys
Thanks Crazy Carl:?

[wackyquack]

You didn't state how much RAM you currently have, but I would think that 512k would be enough. :r

[crazycarl]

Is the 80Gd enough, And i think my Ram is about 240, I don't know how to tell. But i do have a new 512Mb chip I could install when I figure out how.:?

[gduns - with the Lord]

I imported all mine at the lowest rate. and i got 1050 cdg's on 49 gigs

I recommend 512 megs of ram. Min

[George]

Crazycarl,

You're in the Microstudio Forum. Suggest you continue discussions in the Hoster forum under the thread you started there. You'll more than likely encounter more Hoster users there.

Take care,

George

ADMIN NOTE: I merged the two threads into Hoster Help forum.

[admin]

In the Hoster manual, go to the Table of Contents, scroll down to find the Import Tracks Tab section, then find the Compression Ratio Buttons link part way down. Click this.

You will see the different storage requirements for the various compression ratios you can select. Most users find 128Kb the best for storage and quality. This runs 1.05MBytes/minute. If you have a 3 minute long CDG track, at 128Kb compression it will requre 3.15MBytes storage on your hard drive.

An 80GB drive (less 5GB for Windows C partition - which we recommend) = 75BB song storage, or 75,000MB.

75,000MB/3.15MB/song = 23,809 songs that are 3 minutes long. If your songs average 4 minutes each, that is 4.20MB, which would store 17,857 songs. I think your 80GB drive is sufficient for now. :w

Hoster's Add CD Track operation to allow playing a Singer's CDG disc at a show allocates 1600MB of Virtual Disc buffers. Thus, if you ever use this feature, you want at least 512MB RAM. If you only have 240MB (or even 256MB), that is barely enough to run Windows XP! :e

You need 512MB RAM.