Same Registered Hoster on Home and Business PC

[tymzend]

I know this question has been answered in some variation in many places on this site.

I have an MTU Portable PC, which came with Hoster loaded.

I am going to put a small karaoke setup in my basement, basically for practicing and such, learning new songs, etc.

To avoid having to unpack the business PC, take it to the basement to set it up, etc., can I load Hoster onto my personal PC in my basement for practicing purposes, or do I need to purchase Hoster yet again?

Thanks for your input.

P.S. - I read something about 2 downloads per registration, but not quite sure what it meant.

[Beavis]

you are right, you can do this. MTU allows for 2 installs per license. the second is for back up.

[tymzend]

Thanks Beavis!

Now, my bigger problem will probably be making my Home PC compatible (sound card, video card, etc.)

I doubt that I just load it on and it works fine.

[Beavis]

if you are going to use it just for home use, you wont need a dual display card. just use your monitor.


you can use any sound card, just get a external usb sound card, they are cheap on ebay.

i would test your computer with what it has. dont buy anything if you dont need to!

install hoster and test away !


you can always uninstall aand reinstall !

[Beavis]

just make sure you put it on a decent computer....use winxp !!

[Beavis]

do a search on ebay for

TELEX P-500 P500 USB DIGITAL AUDIO CONVERTER

[tymzend]

I have nice components in my home PC. I use it for internet gaming and such, so hopefully everything will be OK.

My internal soundcard is a Soundblaster X Gamer 5.1. A little old, but has worked great.

My video card is a 256 MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee.

I have 1GB Ram, and it's a 1.4Ghz AMD Processor.

A little dated, but hopefully it will work.

[Beavis]

you should have no problems !!

make sure you go get all windows updates befor einstalling hoster!

dont get the video drivers though!

[tymzend]

I received a CD with Hoster on it, the version prior to 2.219.

Now, I'd install that, then go to my download link and download the 2.219 update, and register?

Also, I am going to pick up an external hard drive, simply because I am running out of room on the Pc as it is.

Should I go ahead and load Hoster to that drive as well, along with my music back-ups? That way if I want to run it, it's all on the same drive?

Seems to me for transferring files, I could just hook up the external hard drive to my MTU PC, and dump the files right onto it. Do the book ID's and everything copy over as well? Probably doesn't matter. I don't use the songbook printing from Hoster anyway, just stayed with my other program for that.

Input appreciated.

Thanks!!

P.S. - I just bought a nice little home system for my basement. A couple of 150Watt active 8" FTB speakers (Jolly8BA) with tripod stands. A Mackie DFX-6 Mixer (32 bit integrated digital effects, very nice sounding), and 2 SM58 mics. Should be a nice home system for practicing, and now I don't have to carry the main rig to my basement. That subwoofer (Mackie SWA1501), rack, and Speakers are HEAVY to be carrying up and down steps.

My basement will have it's own little karaoke corner.

[gduns - with the Lord]

I would not put hoster on the external hard drive. install it to the computer's c: drive.

on the laptop, move the files off of the c: drive into a karaoke folder on the usb drive. you can then plug the hard drive with the karaoke files onto whichever computer you intend to use.

But after you move the files you will have to update the songs database.

[tymzend]

Thanks guys!