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Ok, I have a problem (what else?), I have a toshiba laptop with the g-force 4 video, USB 2, 40g and a 60g internal drive. I installed all the files on the 60g drive, and the databases in the databases directory of Hoster. Works great on the laptop, no problem. I purchased an external Plextor for the laptop. (By the way, under USB 2.0, the drive performed spectacularly. Normal burns averaged 44X and peaked at 49X. I must say I was surprised! Anyway, my problem is, I have about 100 disks, in various stages of damage (I had my CDG's in a 300CD jukebox, and had "HELP" bringing the equipment in -against my wishes- ...long story... anyway, the jukebox was dropped, causing massive damage to the jukebox, and scratches on many of the CDG's). I don't have too much difficulty reading these CDG's on my regular player, I guess it is because it is slow, so it does not have problems skipping. Drawback to the screaming fast Plextor (IDE) drives: pretty bad skipping. I also have a 40X IDE Plextor on my desktop, and I see I have the same problem as the 48x Plextor, some skipping on these damaged CD's. The damage is hardly noticeable while doing the gigs, as both the replacement jukebox and the regular CDG Pioneer player have very minor sparkles on the screen (I see them, but the singers don't notice them much). I have not gotten to the problem I am encountering yet, just wanted to set the stage so-to-speak. My solution is, I also have a SCSI Plextor reader (I have had it a very long time, and it has worked very well). Problem is of course, it is on my Desktop machine. I don't plan on using my desktop machine for gigs, (to big and bulky), but I need good clean imports. It takes some of these disks FOREVER to import, and some, not at all. Once I figured out the problem, I did some imports on my desktop, and on the difficult ones, I was able to import cleanly (a little slower than the clean disks, but reasonably quick).
After this long setup to explain what I am trying to do, here it is. I finally got my desktop running with Hoster, but I see no real way to tell it where to find the databases. I have tried several ways to get it to work, all I want to do, is use the desktop to import the files, and have the option of using either the laptop or the desktop to import. I would like the two systems to point to the same location (the laptop) via my network connection, according to the documentation, this is supposed to be configurable, I saw no way to direct Hoster where to find the files, am am wondering if there are any command line switches that can be used to configure where Hoster finds its files (or possibly a script to edit). I am not asking to have both computers to do importing simultanaeously (although it would be nice, I have spent 2 weeks importing, but have not gotten real far). A bit more explanation on what hoster is looking for might be helpful. Thanks for your help!
Emwalter
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