Thank you very much MTU for giving some answers to my original post about Hoster 3.0. I own just about every piece of software you have developed. I am very pleased with it and I am happy to own it or have a liscense if you will. I understand fully what can happen to companies that flirt with copyright infringement(321 Studios and their xcopy software) etc. I as of yet have not made one cent doing DJ/Kj shows. I have however done approximately 30 shows for free. They were just parties! I am getting to the point rapidly where I have spent a considerable amount of money on equipment to do these music/karaoke parties and believe I have as much material in music songs and karaoke songs as many dj/kj's. I am willing to spend more, but would like soon to let the parties pay for the equipment I buy. Therefore I am trying to decide what to buy. For me, a dj/kj software program would be the best of all worlds. I would like to be able to play music doing crossfades and mixes etc. as well as karaoke. From what I can see, MTU may be providing that with future releases of Hoster. I have a Cavs unit with about 2400 songs on two disks and about 1,000 kma songs on my hard drive. Granted, this is not a huge amount but it will get larger. I would hope to be able to use either kma songs format or super cdg songs in mcg format either way I wanted to go. I realize that that neither you or the Cavs people want each other to be able to convert each other's formats. However, as you have said there are converters out there. You already convert CD+G format to your own proprietary format. I thought CD+G was proprietary. The people who sell super cdg format(mcg) have done the same. What stops you from converting their format to yours or them converting yours to theirs? I think the key is that what ever you convert, you have bought it and it is legally yours to do with as the law allows. This is why I brought up the issue of being able to import legally bought and paid for content protected wma files into hoster. The thing here as I see it is when you take the format of it from some disk that is meant to play in a cd player or dvd player (Cavs) and want to make the file smaller and use it on a computer, it takes on a whole new meaning. I believe you are basically format shifting it(putting in on different medium). You still bought the rights to use it when you paid for it. The problem is everyone wants to tell you that you can't use it any way but the way they intended for it to be used. This limits one's reason to go out and create something new or ones reason to buy something new. I believe MTU's product is the best there is at this point in time. I am a faithful customer. I am happy and appreciative of the fact that MTU listens to its customers and continually updates a great product. The thing is though, as you already know, there is no limit to what your customers want in a product. If you don't supply it though, and they can find it somewhere else, they will. I use Hoster and a Cavs unit every time I do a Dj/Kj party. I have never had a failure with Hoster. It is very hard to use the Cavs unit when someone wants to sing a song that is on a different disk. The reader must spin up and read the disk etc. It is by far much easier to use Hoster. I will probably not buy any more super cdg disks but I can't just throw away $500.00 worth of songs. I guess you could say I made a mistake. I know it now. Tha'ts why I wanted an idea of what was going to be in Hoster 3.0. I did not want to make another mistake.
Thanks
gpayne
P.S. This could be a hoster testimonial.