hoster and mtu
 

dont get me wrong i like hoster a lot used it now for 4 to 5 years but mtu does get behind and in a state of fluks all the time and also always will have a bug or to yes mtu does fix them in time it is a money thing updates all the time most fix problems or bugs. mtu has to many programs on the go and my thought is that some of them should be together in one program anyway. The big thing that hoster has on the rest of the pack you dont need a player to play singers disks brought to a show. i could go on and on but thats it. the program is a good one for what it is.

John,
You are correct, "what it is" is the best karaoke hosting program on the planet and "it is", the best.

Your complaints are unclear, please give us some details about your problem so we can get you going.

With All Respect.

Jim :g

Nicely said!
 

:g Jim that was nicely said! I am glad to be part of the hoster team also. I love my karaoke program and I receive great response from the singers because of it. I love it cause I never have to worry about a skipped cd ever again. I just need backups of the files. Yeah more than one if you are smart. I learned that from you. I am now in the process of rebuilding back where I was from a year ago cause I didn't have a back up. OMG it is a long road! But ya live and learn. And it only gets better with time. Thank you to everyone in this forum, and all the personnel that have made hoster what it is today. If it was not for yall, my business would only be half as sucessful and I would be standing there with disks working my butt off ( do yall remember those!).


Have a great day,

T & J's

reply
 

jim not really a complaint if i did not like hoster i would have trashed it long time a go. hoster has its good and bads like say vista and it was top of the heap for a long time and maybe it looks like it will be again after all the fixes are in. before another upgade charge. dont mind paying for new items but i thought it was a little high .not my problem vista gave so mutch trouble and also everyone has been told vista is crap at this time.
i do understand that the next upgrade cost should be at 5.0 so that means all upgrades to 4.0 should be cost free. hoster now looks like a really great program instead of just a program to play karaoke like a zip player does.i have looked at most of the programs out there for karaoke and most play zip files so if mtu is smart they should try and keep them in the mix at some point. there is a lot of companies out now with programs looking pretty good hoster does know how to keep it simple for most of it.
Thanks for lrtting me vent lol john

install
 

jim i had a problem at first with install but found my answer in FAQ Area working mutch better now.

I used hoster 4.03 last night to host my show and it worked brilliantly not one crash and the marquee and singer rotation and singers list works spot on ..i just need the key change to be right as soon as this is sorted i will be the happiest KJ in Manchester!

Singers Disks
 

I don't know about you John but I have alot of singers who are actually artists and make their own music. So therefore they can bring me their dub and sing their own song with this feature at my shows. I can also use the other programs to create the words for it too. So therefore I feel it is good for hoster to have those things, for just that reason. Another reason. Take Rehab, Sittin at a bar... Rehab has not released this song for karaoke, eventhough everyone on the planet wants it. Do you know you can take the original and make your own karaoke if you wanted to with the programs hoster has given you? I mean they give you the tools, we just have to learn how to use them. It takes time but it is well worth it to me to see smiling faces on my customers. I love my jobs and they love me. As far as hoster, yes there are other programs out there but by far I like hosters set up better and also like that hoster stays on top of all our requests. When they load a new version they are still sometimes trying to get kinks out, like anyother program. But you also got to understand that it has to meet microsoft and mac needs too. Sometimes that is difficult and it takes some brain work. Not everything you get runs perfect, even microsoft has updates. You just don't see what they are updating. The hoster crew listens to our needs and wants and tries its best to make their customers happy. Cause if they don't make us happy, how are we going to make our customers in the karoake world happy! 50% is the program the other 50% is personality of the show and how you present it. You have a messed up system you are going to have unhappy people.

I am sure you know this. But for those who read this and dont know, It is not legal to convert songs such as this to Karaoke and use them in your shows,:)

Exactly, and I have converted rehab using MTU products, and it gets sung quite a bit, too.

MTU has tried and did use zip files in prior versions. With the changes required to add all those new features you are now getting zip files cause extreme delays in unzipping and playing. So the decision was made to not actually play zip files. (Currently they will still play.)
You can still Import in zipped format, but they will be unzipped prior to being put in the KMA file. This does not affect your original zip file.
So you haven't actually lost the ability to use zip files in Hoster except for as singer temporary imports. How many singers do you have that bring you zipped songs to sing? I have never had any. They always bring either the original disk or a copy of one.
Laddie, you are correct in what you say. Big John, that does not mean those who bring in their own produced dub copies as they have the control on whether you can create the Lyrics for them or not. SO if they give you permission then you are legal for those.

I was not saying use rehabs I was giving that a for instance. If you have an artist who gives you permission to make their track a karaoke then you can use the formats that hoster has given us to do so is all I was saying. No other program out there does that in their packages that I know of. Sax and Dotty Don't. I have never tried to make my own yet cause I am still stupid on those programs, once I sit down and learn the features I am sure that it will not be hard. I will just read the forums to help me just like I did for hoster.

hoster
 

agian i will say hoster has some great programs or i would not use them.
i dont know everything about all there programs but have tried out most of them.
and at my age do really care about legal stuff most of what we all do one way or another at some point in probly not legal and for each country may very.AND for all of you that paid for every song you have good for you hope you feel good about it all. For me i will buy what i need to buy and get what ever i can any other way if you think this will hurt the industry maybe but not in my time dj music gets hit mutch more then karaoke and if you ask most teens where they get there music from its the internet and you think they paid for it.
if you have 50,000 songs and tell me you paid for them all i say ya right sure you did and some have two three sets wow really!!!!!!!!!

legal
 

No i'm not missing the point but everyone talks about being legal and even if you have 1 or 100 disks out 500 disks not legal are you legal and who is 100%. I just ment that if i need it to servive then I will find a way no need for you to tell me not to talk about it sorry if you think what i said hurts you in any way.

tracks
 

ok maybe buying per track for 2 or 3 dollars is the way it will go looks like a good idea how legal it is i dont know but say 3 dollars a song at 15 songs per disk of songs you want or need for 45 dollars is a better way.
I hear in the UK that no laptops can be used must use cds how true that is again not sure. also the feds know if you say you have 100,000 song at 3 dollars a song that you bought them ya ok.I dont deal with usa feds here anyway.lol just to get some hair on end guys lighten up.

topic
 

guys sorry i was off topic hoster 4.03 worked fine for me just lost some songs on a rebuild that i will need to fix. For the most part what ever part of hoster i used worked fine after i check out why something were working the way they did thankyou mtu looking pretty good. Only thing i dont think marquee will work on a 800mhz machine if you say that is the minimum that hoster will run at.You may need to shut a lot of things down to run smooth.

Pop Hits Monthly does have the song Sittin' At A Bar by Rehab.:t

Cool, what disc is it on?

Thanks

Jim :g

PHM0809 Track 07

Thanks Rob, I'll have to get a copy.

Jim :g