[PastMember]

Alright guys, time to declare a truce here....

From an outsiders' point of view, I think you were talking apples-to-oranges... sort of...

I'd have to agree that the total number of duets when compared to the total number of NON-duets is pretty small..

BUT....

I'd also have to agree that it's convenient to have all the duets listed together on one handy page (or two) or at the very least, somehow "marked" in the general list so that you can spot them quickly...

There are those people that like to zero-in on duets...

OPTION #1:
I THINK THE QUESTION IS "how do you best implement 'marking' duets for your book?" Should there be 4 check-boxes for each track when you import the disc that are marked;

#1. NO DUET

#2. MALE/FEMALE

#3. MALE/MALE

#4. FEMALE/FEMALE

And then you let Hoster manage the rest? What if you make a mistake?

OPTION #2:

OR HOW ABOUT... creating a text file named "duets.txt" where you simply list the bookid's of the tracks that you want to have included on a duet sheet and hoster will sniff them out, sort 'em and put them in an rtf file ready to go?

I'm starting to LIKE this idea better for a number of reasons:

Lets say that the songbook part of hoster let's you create 3 text files (text1.txt, text2.txt, text3.txt) where all you do is put in a list of bookid's and the program would hunt down the track information and create 3 rtf files FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT...

You could use the first one for DUETS

The second one for FOREIGN LANGUAGE (like spanish) tracks

The third one that clearly lables the CHILDREN'S SONGS or COUNTRY SONGS.

A FOURTH TEXT FILE could be used to STRIKE TRACKS FROM ALL BOOKS... let's say it's named: "strike.txt" and what it does is block any track from appearing in ANY book. So if you want to have a purely "clean book" then you could include all the explict lyrics bookid's here and they wouldn't show up in the book.

If you wanted then again, to reprint your books WITH all the tracks listed, all you'd have to do is rename "strike.txt" to something else, run the book prep and voila! You have a complete listing again...


What do you think?