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What made you want to upgrade?

I was hoping that that function was part of Video Hoster and that would have been a reason to buy, at least, the LITE version, as a new purchase and not an upgrade, as 3.3xx are versions that are still working and I only needed a special application. And, the 25% off coupon made it very enticing...LOL.

Which version of Hoster do you currently have ?

Still using the 3.3xx versions.

What version of Songverter are you using?

My computer has 1.21 and I purchased a new copy 1.30 for another computer. Both versions gave the same results.

It is not a malfunction of Songverter, which I dearly love and use it all the time, where the problem exists. It is the older version of Hoster that has changed the KMA's to be recognized as a CDCDG import verses a HDBIN import.

What I did yesterday was to re-import the trks as HDZIPs. My thoery was that Hoster does not change the actual CDG and MP3 files within...only wraps a Header around the ZIP. The resulting .KMAs can be renamed to .ZIP and the two files within the ZIP can be extracted and will PLAY. This cannot be done if Trks are imported via HDBIN, HDCDG, or CDCDG as the complete file gets converted to the proprietary KMA.

So with the HDZIPs, I used 2.114 to modify the KMA Headers, via the modified Songs.MDB. I copied the modified files back to 3.3xx, rebuilt the DB and again, the KMAs were showing as CDCDG...as if the files were imported from a CD and not from a HD and would not Play unless I changed the TYPE field back to HDZIP in the Songs.MDB.

And, of course, Songverter would NOT convert the KMAs either. But, in this case, I could rename the .KMA to .ZIP, extract the two files and Play them OK. This means the main files within the KMAs were not corrupted as was the case with the "modified" HDBIN import.

I used a TXT editor to compare an imported KMA that played as a TYPE HDZIP with the updated KMA that wouldn't play due to the TYPE showing as a CDCDG and found where the difference was. I copied the correct HEX information to the modified KMA and Songverter extracted it correctly along with the updated Artist and Title info that I needed.

Now I just have to find a way to automate copying the correct HEX info to all the KMAs to finalize this monumental task.

I purchased the Tropical Zone 5 DVD Mp3+CDG set that has 800 Latin songs per DVD totaling 4000 songs. Upon extracting the Mp3+CDG files, all the ARTISTS were missing. TZL inserted Genre in the ARTIST field of the files.
This is what extracted:
0001 Pop - 1 2 3.zip
0002 Oldies - 100 Kilos De Barro.zip
0003 Salsa - A Donde Iras.zip

When it should be:
0001 El Simbolo - 1 2 3.zip
0002 Enrique Guzman - 100 Kilos De Barro.zip
0003 Puerto Rican Power - A Donde Iras.zip

From the TZL website, you can download a Listing for each DVD.
Hoster can import 99 songs per BookID. I copy 1-99 Artists from the list, drop it into the Songs.MDB Artist column, run the Update, and bam, no typing...Al done in a New York minute. Talk about a great gift for Christmas!

I'm sure this is all "Clear As Mud." Anyway, I've bent your ears enough. Suffice to say, I got it figured out. Mainly, I wanted to know if Video Hoster could update KMAs from an edited Songs.MDB.

Thanks for all the posts and concerns. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Norm...on my wife's account.