Tom,
Tried the two Hosters open too, you're right, doesn't work.
George.
I was wondering when someone would ask 'whats the big deal?' Fair question. Many of my shows I run alone. I try to make them very professional and nearly all my announcements are made from stage, i.e., I leave the equipment, set up beside stage and after announcing next singer, return to the control area. At present I use three players so the next song is paused to three seconds or less from where I want it to start, regardless of the manufacturers intro length. Now in many cases the singer takes much more than three seconds to make it to stage of course, but if the singer is close by, I just don't like an awkward gap while the singer looks at their shoes (or at
me wth that 'hurry up' look!) I guess in a nutshell, I like to have control over when the song begins. That's what 15 years of running karaoke shows and about the same as a DJ does to you!
With reference to manufacturers logo, that was a point I hadn't thought of, but with three players I have a video switcher and the logo is not necessarily being seen by the audience anyway, particularly since I have a DVD of messages and info that I display between songs.
I'm just at the stage of importing songs at the moment, so I haven't done a show with Hoster yet, but at least with Hoster when you click 'play' the song (or logo or whatever) starts immediately, whereas a player has a 'mechanical' gap as well, if the song wasn't paused!
Thanks,
Al.
It sure would be a neat feature to include in a future upgrade!
