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Originally posted by dlessnau
If one can easily keep a hard drive with unencrypted songs and easily add unencrypted songs to the back up, that is all I need to hear.

Please tell me if the above is the way it is going to work, and I will stop what I am doing now and relax.

Just need a one word answer.

YES! IF we do it at all. There is a LOT of work for us to do this, so I need to see some payback on development. It is NOT what most users want, and Mike D. is a good example of this. Therefore, we have some serious thinking to do before I would take our valuable time to do this.

Right now, we are doing a major overhaul of Hoster in the following areas:

1. The Add HD Track and Add CD Track dialog boxes are gone. They are now embeded on the Playlist screen,with buttons to select which TYPE of file to add. The fields for the different TYPEs share the same location. The Add CD Track imports to a standard file, which remains on the drive if Hoster or the CPU crashes so you can open the Playlist Project (.hst file) and continue playing, with your CDG TYPE files still available. CDG TYPE files now key change also!

2. We are adding importing and playback of Audio CD tracks as a WMA file TYPE stored in a new wma.mdb database and songbook printing.

3. We are adding importing and playback of VCD and DVD tracks that can be added in the Playlist with any other TYPE of files.

4. We are adding PLAYBACK (no importing) of MP3 audio tracks to add in the Playlist with any other TYPE of files.

5. We are adding PLAYBACK (no importing) of MP3+G karaoke files to add in the Playlist with any other TYPE of files.

We are considering a PLAY ONLY version of Hoster, that has no import capability.

So, this encryption is at the bottom of our list at this time.