A quick glance over this thread looks like the ability to use our own numbering methods are being slowly replaced.
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The Print New Release Pages option in the Prepare Song Book dialog will then work as it does now. In case you can't see it, the "elegance" is starting to happen here!!!
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This is known as "creeping elegance." What you're proposing here to to "break something that works" -- namely the Print New Release Pages -- so that you can "fix it later." To use your words; "The Print New Release Pages option in the Prepare Song Book dialog will then work as it does now."
It works now.... why mess with it?
(While you ask for opinons Dave, let's not shoot the messenger.)
I would much rather KEEP my books the way the are and be forced to rename my files to match what you need to import them into a database.
It appears that we would be suffering a HUGE (as in costly and timely) inconvenience for your programmer's convenience.
Currently, I can use MP3+G just fine... no need to change it; AND if I want it as a KMA file, I can burn it to a 39 cent disc and import it directly and use my own bookid. Would I care if it took a week to do this? Absolutely not... I've invested plenty of hours importing discs into KMA already and it's the upgrades I use DURING a show that matter to me (like a working fade button). Making books and importing files can be done any other time.
Most of the "upgrades" that have been added as of late are NOT (I repeat, NOT) designed to improve the operation of the program, there are still audio drops and other hang-ups. Automating another file format to import isn't going to make the program run any better -- like adding chrome doesn't make a car run better. After all, Hoster can't currently recurse file folders and find all the kma's on a drive by itself... we have to tell it where to look... not a problem in other programs and from a programmer's standpoint, recursion is VERY simple.
Frankly, it appears as though the upgrading (at least for me) has come to an end....