[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Bobby Moates

Hey Everyone, got the latest version of Hoster about 3 weeks ago. Purchased a huge download of songs in the ".zip" format that of course have to be changed to Kma/Kmh format. This is several thousand discs, and I find it extremely time consuming to have to click on YES everytime the program asks me "Brand i.e... (xyz) already uses this ID, use it?". There should be the option of (Yes to all) on the "Batch" index!!! Any ideas how to make this easier/faster? I already have 3 weeks tied up in converting these discs and at this rate maybe 2 more weeks to get it up to speed. This is far too much work for getting songs to the necessary format for MTU. Any Ideas?
Bobby

It's all in how you set the "Define Field Order" If you don't want it to keep asking and give you the chance to change it then manually set the define field order. By this I mean ignore all the pre-set settings radio buttons and use the individual field settings next to field order.
Now set the field order to ignore for "Disc ID" then "& This" for track # if it's in the file name. Now when you batch import it will import 99 tracks with an XYZxxxx Disc Id after 99 tracks it will automatically make the next DiscID XYZxxx2 and auto increment the BookID +1. it might ask you to put a brand in on the first one but should then just import all under that Brand name or Unknown.

Now I personally like to have some order in my imports so what I do is have a folder on the hard drive for each Brand. If the files in your "Huge Download" are complete original discs with their original DiscID then normally each track for a particular brand would follow the same Define field order, if you want these Disc ID to be shown in your database the Define field order can be set to automatically enter a real Disc Id rather than it's own XYZxxxx default. If you use this method then it will only import the amount of tracks that were on that original disc, normally only 10 to 18 tracks per Disc ID then it would automatically increase the BookID by 1 for each new Disc ID. Providing you set the define field order correct for each Brand.
Most of the new downloads from Tricerasoft and similar, the track id's are of little importance so setting these to ignore is fine but I still tend to download each brand to it's own folder.

Now I will point out as you say "Purchased a huge download of songs" that if these are zip files of original ripped cd's without the original disc media to match the content 1 to 1 are illegal, might not be much concern for private use but be aware of this if you intend to use them for public shows.