Delay in playing Zip Files
 

I don't know if this helps - but on an older version I had a similar problem. It would not view any zip files all of a sudden. I re-installed and all the files were visible again to view and pick to play. That was on my XP.

I use an XP & Vista 2 different machines. XP has Hoster 3.2

The Vista machine is newer and I am trying out the newest Hoster 4.11. I have a few thousand zip on the laptop and most of the rest on an external drive. I do get a delay (20 seconds) between clicking play and when the song comes up with the zip & KMA files. Is it because the files are still .zip? If so should I get the Song Converter to change them to kma? so that when I click play that load quicker? Everything in the "Remove Silence" is at 0 (zero).
Vista - 4GB Ram, 64 bit, hd 200GB with 140GB free
Any clue how to NOT have that delay?

Are you using two different forum names or are you a different person from the original poster of this thread?

I am not the original poster
 

I was not the original post but just a reply to the post and with a different question. Was that ok?

Except that his question was on Microstudio and yours was about Hoster.
So I have moved yours to the Hoster Help forum.

If you are adding them to the playlist from the Main Screen "K-oke" button then they will always have that delay because Hoster has to unzip them to play them and that takes time to do so.
If they are in your database from earlier version imports then the only way to get rid of the delay is to re-import them. Using Songverter to convert the zip files to KMA will not assign BooIDs so really is not a good way to do it.
When you re-import them Hoster will first unzip the file and then import as MP3+G to KMA. This way they will play instantly instead of having the delay as you have now.

There must be something else going on in your computers. Your Vista looks to be a lot more powerful than mine and yet on all of my machines - XP and Vista - I get maybe at most a one second delay playing zips from the k-oke button, and zero delay from those in the database as Hoster automaticly converted them to HDMP3G.

Sam