Find/Replace

[Picolo Porco]

I know that Hoster doesn't support Find/Replace in the Edit Songs dialog. I'm looking for a way to update all of my old headers with correct punctuation all at once.

Ex. I'd like to change "Im A Believer" to "I'm A Believer" and "Im Yours" to "I'm Yours" at the same time by replacing all "Im"'s in titles with "I'm"'s. With 10k songs it would take me an eternity to go through them all individually.

Is there any way to do this?

[ddouglass]

Nothing else can do this. Hoster doesn't just change the database file, but also edits the header in the files too. The database could be done in Access but that doesn't fix the headers and as soon as you rebuild the database, then they are all changed back

[Roy Dennis]

As far as I know, if they are kma files imported from disc then no you can't.
If they are hard drive files imported then the only way I can think of is to rename the original mp3 and cdg files with a program like http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php
then re import them into Hoster.

Roy.

[admin]

Gentlemen, thank you for bringing this to our attention.

We are addressing this in Hoster 4.31, which will be underway shortly.

If possible, it will be added in the "Edit Songs - Multiple Tab" dialog.

[Lonman]

Might be hard to do. Most replace/find features in programs will find those parameters in other parts of the title as well - ie im able to import might come out as i'm able to i'mport.

[Roy Dennis]

This is how I differentiate. im able to import when you use find you enter a space before and after the im, as there is not a space after the m in import it ignores it so only selects im. same as if it were him, there is not a space before so will not select it.

Roy.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

This is how I differentiate. im able to import when you use find you enter a space before and after the im, as there is not a space after the m in import it ignores it so only selects im. same as if it were him, there is not a space before so will not select it.

Roy.

Depends on the program whether they actually look at the space as a space or automatically deletes it. Like old IE web browsers, if you had a space at the end, it would not recognize the web page because of the space, the newer ones delete the space if any at the end of an address and continue to the page. Just saying that is an obsticle that might need to be addressed in the beginning.

[admin]

Originally Posted by Picolo Porco

I know that Hoster doesn't support Find/Replace in the Edit Songs dialog. I'm looking for a way to update all of my old headers with correct punctuation all at once.

Ex. I'd like to change "Im A Believer" to "I'm A Believer" and "Im Yours" to "I'm Yours" at the same time by replacing all "Im"'s in titles with "I'm"'s. With 10k songs it would take me an eternity to go through them all individually.

Is there any way to do this?

We are adding this into Version 4.31, starting tomorrow.

We can keep leading and trailing spaces.

We'll add a "Find Replace" button at the Edit Song dialog bottom, to the right of the "Apply Change" button. When clicked, it will display a modeless dialog with the following controls:

1. A "Find" button that auto-renames to "Find Next" after the first find.

2. A "Replace" button that does the replacement, then finds the next occurrence, ready for you to replace it and find the next. This is a manual review, assisted to show you what the next "match" looks like. If it shows you something that you didn't expect to match, click "Find Next" not "Replace".

3. A "Replace All" when you are absolutely sure you string won't match unwanted strings/words. This will happen very quickly, and will have NO undo.

4. A "Find:" field and a "Replace:" field.