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Originally Posted by Wrahn

I’m in the process of importing tracks onto my USB external hard drive using Hoster 4.32 and it’s a slow process. I’m also learning something new every day thanks in large part to the postings on the Hoster Help forum and the by doing the imports. However, I have some questions that I hope the experts can answer:

Originally Posted by Wrahn

1) How can I add tracks to the database without doing a rebuild every time I add them? It’s beginning to take a long time to rebuild.

When you import tracks they are automatically added to the database and you do not have to rebuild for those.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

2) What is the second number indicated during the rebuild process that indicates, “Currently processing Song DB track xxxx of xxxxx”? In my case the final number of tracks processed is 2,461 of 4,934. I don’t know where the 4,934 comes from.

The second number should be the total number of songs files in the hard drive folders you have under rebuild. If it is not completing to that total number then you may have duplicates in one of the folders. Check in C:\MTU\Hoster for a Duplicate songs text file.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

3) How can I change the DiscID of a CD ID I entered in error? Reading through the posts it seems it can’t be edited.

That is correct. The only way to change it would be to use the Edit tool and delete those files. Then re-import them with the correct DiskID.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

4) How can I keep the duplicate tracks that have a different brand, without having them appear in my songbook? I don’t want to delete these songs that took so long to import.

You can use the Edit utility to "Hide in Songbook" those that you do not want listed.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

5) How can I indicate the key change for a track in the song database and of course in the song book? I use my Hoster for my own use, so I need a way to know what key I’m using. At this time I enter a few spaces it after the song title, and then I type in the key change.

There is no way to do this in either the database or the songbook. However you can list your most sung songs under your name in the Singers database. When you add a song from there the set Keychange is done automatically.

Originally Posted by Wrahn

I have found that many CDs are in the on-line (in the sky) database, and that sure makes importing much easier and quicker. All told I “guesstimate” that about 4/5s of the CDs I have are in the databases. While the auto add title and artist makes the other 1/5 easier to import, it still is quite time consuming.


Thanks for any help you can provide,

Wes

Wes, are you doing the monthly updates to get the maximum songs from the builtin database? Also note that the on-line database has the artists names in Firstname Lastname order instead of the standard Lastname, Firstname.