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Originally Posted by Roy Dennis
This is where the Index song files that I suggested in the first place is better at importing these type of files over the just adding folders from the rebuild dialog.
You either need to separate them into folders that have the same naming order or use the Import Songs/Index Song Files which opens the dialog for "Index Hard Drive Files"
This dialog may be more time consuming but you can see exactly what it's doing and how it names the files before you import it.
I take it where you say "others are named in this format cb4040-12" that the title and artist follow that number ?
Or is it just the number in which case is it a kma file as they only show disc id's ?
If it's not a kma and only showing a disc id did it show the title and artist properly before ?
Before doing the following you will have to delete the "ImportedFiles.txt" from the folder your re importing from.
Assuming the title and artist follow that disc id, If you open the Index Hard drive files dialog, tick the box to "Hide Indexed Tracks" select the kmh type and either mp3g or zip depending on the type in your folder. Brows to the folder until you see your files populated and press Select.
You should now see the files listed in the top window.
If you select one that shows the triple type number as in your example cbep487-04-16 -lee, Tommy - Good Times. It should appear in a window on it's own just above the fields and separators, now set the first 3 boxes to ignore, so taking your example it would be Ignore - Ignore - ignore -Artist - Title.
You will have to make sure the separator has the same spaces before and after to match as in your file name, then select the single option not batch and press the Add Files button.
If you have all the seperators correct it should now fill the bottom with the first 99 tracks, if these are all the same brand you can enter a brand name, Hoster will allocate it's own disc id best to leave that as is. Tick the select all box.
Now look down the list and check that the artist & titles are in the correct columns, if any show wrong untick them from the select box, when your satisfied they are right press the index files button. It will then index all those that had the select box ticked. After that repeat using the Add files button until you have no more with the triple disk id format then alter the field order to import the rest.
I think you will do better to select to import the triple numbers first as I think Hoster will separate them better that way.
Just as an extra note, using 5.10, the old Hoster folder that was normally in C:\MTU\Hoster has been moved and can now be found from Tools Menu/Hoster Data folder.
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Well I started from scratch again and I am importing my songs the way you suggested. First I went through my entire collection and made sure I only had one copy of each song. I am indexing them so I can see what is happening. Here is the problem. Some of the folders will show that about 25% of the songs have already been imported even though they have not been because I started over and deleted all the previous importedfiles.txt files showing they were imported and deleted all the kmh files.
These files that say they were already imported may or may not actually show up in the play list, sometimes they are just missing all together but many of them do show up when you search for them. For example "puff the magic dragon" shows up as already being imported. So I did not select this one to import it.
I then looked to see if I actually have the song in the search box and it does in fact show up however when I play the song it comes up as the song "Under the bridge" when it is supposed to be "Puff The Magic Dragon". I assume this has something to do with duplicated book id's so I went in and merged the duplicates and it found 127.
I still don't know how to fix this problem.
This is probably the problem but again I am not sure how to fix this
CBE2-30-06 is Under The Bridge
CBE3-30-06 is Puff The Magic Dragon