Playlists Issues:
 

Had to back up Hoster in my bk up drive due to a lost IP Address. Only way to get computer to work again was to clear it. Redownloaded hoster & now playlists will not play. Message error: Hoster is shutting down. Cant find path. I can make a new playlists but many hours to do this, days. What can I do to fix this problem?

did you rebuild your database ?

Not sure why or exactly how you "clear it". A lost IP address just means you have lost your internet connection unless there is more to this than that.
What operating system (Vista or XP)?
What version of Hoster are you using?
You will need to un-install and re-install Hoster to get it set-up correctly.

No did not rebuild database. Do I have too? I was to understand if I backed up everything in my external drive and re-transferred it over it would be fine. Am I missing a skin or something from Hoster when this happens? Some of my playlists are 10+ hours long. I have many of them.

If you have your KMA files stored on an external drive it could be that the allocated drive letter has changed. When you moved or backed up your data this could be the case so check the drive letter in my computer then go to Tools/Songs data/ Rebuild. Delete the old directories & direct it to your new disk i.d.

If you add a song to a new playlist will it play? If so then you do not need to rebuild the database.
Is it that Hoster can't find the playlist to load it or that the songs on the playlist won't play?
Please answer my previous questions also so we can all understand exactly what the problem is.

when we reinstalled the kmas from the bk up drive to the computer where the original place hoster puts them at we then rebuilt the song data base & the kmas worked fine. We then reapllied from the the original place from thebk up drive to the computer where hoster looks for them. But when yo to play a song off of the playlist it says Hoster has incountered a problem and completly shuts down hoster. Can you help? **If we create a new playlist they play fine. But the old ones will not. Is there a way around this to not recreate new playlists as this is very time consuming.

It would help greatly if you could answer the questions in my first post. Without knowing this information it is difficult to tell where the problem lies.

You need to know where you saved them before reinstalling Hoster. They may have been in C:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited. When you install 4.06 it seems to store them in C:\MTU\Hoster
So have a look in the previous directory and see if they are there. Else do a search for ".hst" without the quotes. You don't say which version of windows you are using but if it's Vista open the drive from my computer that you had them on before and type .hst in the search panel top right and it should find them. Then take a note of this address and from Hoster /File/open point it to the old address.

Tony, I rely heavily on Playlists. YES, there is a way to use your old playlists. If all your KMAs are now on a different external hard drive, then all you need to do (as someone said earlier) is to change the drive letter to be the exact letter of the previous drive. The playlists follow the path to where the files are located. Example: my KMAs were on a large heavy HP 160G external drive which was called "K". Then I got a Western Digital 250G pocket-sized drive to carry - and all of a sudden songs on my playlists wouldn't play either. Once I changed it's letter to "K" also, Hoster had no problem finding the files again.:)
**If you move any files from one folder to another after they were put on a Playlist, then you will have to re-add them, because Hoster has no way of knowing where you moved them to.**