Songbooks

[goonie227]

How many of you use Hoster for your songbook and why:) :?

[gd123]

The word "Why" says it all.

[Lonman]

I prefer Access personally. I still use laser discs as well & those wouldn't be listed in a Hoster made book.

[UPNext]

Originally Posted by Lonman

I prefer Access personally. I still use laser discs as well & those wouldn't be listed in a Hoster made book.

Using Access, do you have anything that eliminates duplicate entries when your songbook is created?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by UPNext

Using Access, do you have anything that eliminates duplicate entries when your songbook is created?

With Access you can create your own queries to do just about anything you want, but it takes a bit to learn how. I have been using Access for 20 years and I find it quite easy to use.

[UPNext]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

With Access you can create your own queries to do just about anything you want, but it takes a bit to learn how. I have been using Access for 20 years and I find it quite easy to use.

Have you created a query to take out duplicates in your songbooks?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by gd123

The word "Why" says it all.

Whatya mean?

[goonie227]

Now if I could just type this would be a good pole by the GO CAVS.

[madjim- with the Lord]

I've recieved many compiments on my Hoster songbooks over the years. My singers like them.

Jim

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by goonie227

Now if I could just type this would be a good pole by the GO CAVS.

Sorry Goonie227, but there was no way the CAVS were going to beat our SPURS Dynasty!!!

[computex13]

I have KJPro but use Hoster because it is handy and I just have to keep up one database. I will like Hoster's a lot more when they put in the part for showing or deleting duplacate songs by the same brand. They were talking about that a while ago. KJPro is cool for looking up titles and artists that you don't have, to find out what brand has them.

Mark

[Doug Bracey]

I like the hoster songbook program because of the book id feature i just type in the book id and viola the song is there.
I also still use the big old pioneer laser disc but only because some of the versions are good.
So what i do is keep a separate laser disc songbook in my booth for the people who i know sing the laser disc versions.
Yes its a little more trouble but the customers are the reason i'm there
without them there wouldn't be any need for me.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

I like the hoster songbook program because of the book id feature i just type in the book id and viola the song is there.

Another reason I can't use the Hoster maker, I do prefer the disc ID (and not just an added line in the title line). Right now Hoster can't list the Disc ID instead of the Book ID (at least give the option to choose). Hopefully in the next release. And (well at least I can't find it) an easy way to delete selected duplicates out of the book but leave them in the searchable database.

[Doug Bracey]

Lonman do you know of anybody who has converted the old big pioneer laser disc into cdg's and then was able to import them into hoster?
At one time they offered the pioneer laser disc versions as cdg's but they didn't last very long and now i can't find them at all.

[Lonman]

No but I know someone that did transfer them down to DVD or VCD I believe. I have no clue as to how that works or how to do convert them to make them work in Hoster.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

Lonman do you know of anybody who has converted the old big pioneer laser disc into cdg's and then was able to import them into hoster?
At one time they offered the pioneer laser disc versions as cdg's but they didn't last very long and now i can't find them at all.

The only way I'm aware of is to use a TV capture card in your computer and then physicly connect your laser player to the inputs on the card. I've had to use this method for a few DVD music videos that refused to let me rip them.

My card (a cheap crappy one I wouldn't recomend) saves it as an mpeg file which you can use as is or convert to something smaller like wmv or avi.

At this point in time video cannot be imported into Hoster however they can be added to the playlist and played using the video tab at the top of the playlist.

[Wade Shuey]

I used to use kjpro before I bought hoster. Hoster is a whole lot easier to create the song book, but the features / options that kjpro has is a lot better. I agree with most everyone else. I would like to see a way to delete ALL duplicate songs from the song book ONLY and NOT the data base. I had over 20K different songs which created a HUGE song book. I went thru my books and deleted all my dups which too me over 2 weeks nipping a little bit at a time. I am now down to 17K unduplicated songs which helped reduce the size of my song book a ton. Now, when I need to make an updated song book in the future, I'm going to have to spend another 2 weeks or more to do it all over again.

Com'on Hoster Reps.... I know you can do this if KJPRO can.... You guys are good at your jobs and we love you for it. Help us all out.
~MMEntertainment

[billyo]

i used karaoke songlist creator, i can delete /hide duplicate songs and also edit , and create my on brand..

[searcherone]

Since 4.08 has the Songs.mdb file I wrote a little Access Sign-Up program. I copy down the songs.mdb and use it to allow singers to search the data bas and sign up for a song. This is networked back to my hoster PC where I run a second part of the program that allow me to see who signed up, Bookid, artist, title, manufacturer, and hometown of the singer. Since I can't tie in directly to hoster I just type the Bookid, singer and hometown into hoster, then click a check box on the record so I know I've already enterred it. I also have an update button that removes all the checked singers and adds any new singers to the screen. It's installed as a runtime on the signup PC so it takes very little memory on the Hoster pc.

I got tired of trying to read slips with illegible handwriting on them, and this although not perfect is much better than slips. Next step is to network 3 or 4 sign up PCs around the bar. I'm looking at using thing clients for this. I'll fine tune more once the season starts on the outer banks of NC and my singers list starts hitting 25 to 30 singers again.

[Musicman51]

Another reason i use KJ Pro, is i only run myself, not 2 or 3 computers. So i use Hoster Lite, there is no songbook feature.