Hoster wrong song numbers.
 

Hello All,
Can anyone help on this one?
Imported some discs into Hoster.
It read CD+G's and information appeared as normal, including the track numbers 1-19.
Selected all and imported.
When I pulled up the new discs from the Playlist, some had numbers from 10-89.
All other info is correct.
In the Hoster file database they are still shown as 1-19
Anyone know how this could happen?
And can anyone tell me if there is a simply way to to alter the track numbers without deleting and re-importing?
Is there a thread covering this?
Regards from across the pond.
Garry

Re: Hoster wrong song numbers.
 

Gary,
I have no idea how this could have happened. The Track Numbers are taken from the CD itself.

The only way to fix this, is to reimport the CD.

open up ms access
 

Do you know ms Access?

Only if you do or learn.

The database is located in the MTU folder.

mtu/hoster/databases/songs.mdb

or if you open up access, locate songs.mdb

you can view and edit any data in your database.

you can also really screw things up if you don't know what you are doing.

So ,first back up the data base by copying to a cd that way if you screw up you can always go back to where you started.

look in the path column of the row of the song that is mis numbered.
towards the ned of the path should be a . then a number, that number is the track
if you change anything in the path you must also locate the music file and make appropriate changes there, that way the the path points to correct file.

If you reimport like one of the suggestions it should correct the problem also, but you will have two sets of the same cd only under differnt paths and also more files taking up space on the hard drive.

Have fun.

remember, back it up!!!!

Sevekj

Re: Hoster wrong song numbers.
 

Hello All,
I posted this piece of information last August.
I didn't bother to re-import the songs given the wrong numbers, just used them as they appeared on my playlist as they were still working out.
Anyway I recently did an upgrade to the database and on pulling the songs up with the wrong numbers I found they have miraculously reverted to their correct numbers.
Just thought I would mention this as sometimes there doesn't appear to be an answer for some of the things that happen.
Regards from across the pond.
Garry

Re: Hoster wrong song numbers.
 

One time right in the middle of a show all my songs started coming up as 1 of 3 different artists. I opened up the database in Access and sure enough all the artists were messed up. I deleted and rebuilt after the show and it was fixed and hasn't reoccurred.
Perhaps sometimes the computer needs to show who's Really in charge of things. :g

Sam