Hoster or Hoster lite

[rmryanjr]

I'm considering making a Hoster lite purchase and i'm looking for advise.

My use is strickly personal except that from time to time I set up at my club. On the surface It appears that hoster lite would help greatly. The concern I have is that I already have all my disks (about 200) loaded on an extHD. I used micro studio to import them. Then auto named the track in MS. Then after importing I added the title name to the track. The file structure I used was Folder 1, has ten folder, each with a disk, and the that foleser contains the files.

(eg: "disk^1-08^treat^me^nice.cdg" )
( "^" =space)

I downloaded the demo and had difficulty in the field recognition peice. I understand data bases.

My question is as I import from the extHD to create a hoster file will I have to rename all the files again or is the demo restrictive and the "Real" verision will recognize my naming format easier? I would hate to have to renmame all these files. or imprt all of them again Phew!

I don't need the full verzion because some of my friends do have there own custom disks and I'll just use the JVC-303 to play them. So. I think The Lite version will be ok. I would like some opinions on which version to use if you will.

Thanks everyone in advance for your guidance and have a happy thanksgiving ! I hope i didn't confuse anyone

Bob

[admin]

Bob you can retain your names.

The Import hard drive files screen's CDG button was specifically written to do exactly what you want to do.

Run Hoster

Click the Help menu Read Manual command to open the Manual

In Hoster, click Import Tracks menu and click Import hard drive files.

In the screen that appears, click the CDG button. At this point, you need to read the manual on Importing Hard Drive Files as KMA Files, about half way down the first column.

When importing, your names should be retained using this screen. You might need to experiment with importing using the correct Brand-DiscID convention, which will replace your names with the standard names (there are some errors in the Database and with discs that were produced with a second set of songs but the same DiscID number). If your Brand/DiscID are not in our Import Database, your names will be used. You will need to understand the "Define field order" fields to set them up identically to your filenaming convention, which appears to contain some of the info about each song track.

NOTE: Custom Brand-DiscID entries will allow up to 99 tracks per "DiscID", but if your filenames contain a DiscID and Track#, then they are used to determine what DiscID and Track# are used for each file.

You can also create your own Brand name, or choose one of the custom names, then assign a DiscID number. I'm 99.9% confident that will use your "custom" names.

The Demo does operate identically to the full version, so if for some reason the Demo won't keep your names (again, I'm 99.9% sure it can do this), then neither will the Full version.

[rmryanjr]

Thanks, It's too bad that the demo version wouldn't "time out" instead of limiting the features .

I did try an orginal disk and it wouldn't let me import from a disk. Also, i understan there will be growing pains. Until I get used to it.

Back to the orig prob...I reformated my naming on one disk folder to create a separation in the fields and it satisfied my needs. It showed the disk# the track and the title. So, i'll just have to make minor adjustment s for now.


I'll check the manual you speak of before making the purchase.

Thanks again