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For what it's worth I'll weigh in here.
I've visited Lonnies show once and although he was gone that night I found the show well run and the sound was awsome.
Lonnie has been a staple on many of the karaoke forums for many years and because of his many years running sound for bands and karaoke and because he keeps abreast of new equipment offering new ways to do old things, his advice is much sought after on many of the forums, much of which I've incorporated into my show over the years.
I used disks for 4 years before switching to Hoster and I can confirm that using disks CAN be faster although you do sacrifice convenience for it.
Ironicly I spend a lot more non-show time on show related activities now than I did before the computer. When I used disks I simply bought disks, typed the song title/artists into the songbook software, added the disks to the binders and I was done. Now I have to import them, watch a minute or two of each track to assure a good import. I end up spending time each week re-importing stuff that had issues as well as fixing misspellings in the database. Because I want to make better use of my rootid's I've taken to importing using Microstudio and then renaming each track to reflect the track number I want to give it and then import into Hoster. I've also started trimming long outros out of songs so my timer better reflects how much time I can be away from the computer, and then reimport those into Hoster. And then there's defraging, Microsoft updates, driver updates, moving new and edited KMA's to the backup computers, etc etc.
Convenience during a show?: Yes
Flexability during a show?: Yes
Time saving?: Not necesarily.
IMHO
Sam
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