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Originally Posted by ddouglass
I have found more problems with Sound Choice and their cheap disks than I have with Chartbuster. I do all my imports on my backup machine with a 716 and have had the least problems with it over my 760 on show machine.
I don't slow the speed down unless the disc shows a lot of snowflakes. I also use the least compression as I have a 250GB and a 300GB hard drive so space isn't a problem. Less compression also helps eleminate snow also.
You can also import the worst through Microstudio (current versions) and reburn them onto a good cd to load in Hoster and that will also get rid of most of the snow. The version being worked on now will allow export as a Hoster KMA file directly (according to the News page), so that will save a bunch of steps.
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I just imported the same three disks into Hoster on my backup machine. The first disk had the same results as the it did on the show machine except, the minimum speed was 8x. The import at 8x on the 716A was better than the 760A at 6x. I might have imported at 192k on the 760A so this might explain why the import at the slow speed on the 716A was better as I know when the popup screen came up it was on 192k. I changed it to 128k for the import at 8x. The subsequents disks at 128k and 8x seemed perfect on the 716A. I might try re-importing on the 760A making sure I am at 128k and 8x or 6x just to see if they are better than before. Don't get me wrong, what I have done so far is very very usable, just not perfect.
I have been wondering when they were going to come out with the latest version of Microstudio as it is supposed to be able to import the Multi-session disks without the workaround that is currently being used to get the last track on those types of disks. I will definitley purchase that upgrade although people who are using Microstudio for their shows will not like it because it will not be able to be used to run a show. I too have 2 extra internal drives. Mine are Maxtor 200gbs. I run 1.5 gbs of memory. Both of my machines are 2.8gb Pentium processors. I have plenty of space, memory and processor speed to run Hoster. At any rate, I can fool around with the drive settings and use Microstudio to make a custom disk or duplicate & then import as you suggested. Thanks for your suggestions Dale.
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