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Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

The sound problem seems like a hardware issue, not a Hoster problem, first question for this are both computers using the same Windows versions, ie XP,Vista or Windows 7 ?
2nd do you get the same sound problem if listening to songs played through Windows media player or any other software ?
3) Do you get the same problem when not plugged in to mains and running of battery power ?

Thanks for the early reply Roy.

In answer to your questions, 1: Yes both laptops use Windows 7 Ultimate. 2: I don't get the same static problem when playing music through other software. 3: The static is present whether the laptop is plugged into mains power or running on battery.

Through a further process of elimination, I'm pretty sure the problem is a faulty USB port. I used the external sound card in another USB port and voila!, no static. So you were right, it seems it was a hardware problem as opposed to a Hoster problem.

With this files problem try this:
First check that when you plug the external drive in it shows as the same volume letter on each computer, if thats OK follow the rest of the instructions.
First get a small thumb drive or use your external hard drive to temporarily copy some files too, you will need about 50MB spare space for this.
On the Rua laptop that dispays all the songs open the C\MTU\ folder,
Now copy the Hoster folder to the tempory drive.
Now on the Tahi laptop open C\MTU folder find the Hoster Folder and rename it to something like Hoster Backup, now copy the Hoster folder from the other drive that you saved earlier and paste into the C\MTU folder to replace the renamed one.
Now start Hoster and it should be a clone of the other computer, if all is now well and you need to save space you can then delete the backup Hoster folder. If things arn't right this can always be named back to it's original name after deleting the replacement.

I will now work on this second problem and let you know how it goes.