Microstudio, CDG drive and Hoster question

[Judith McIntyre]

I just purchased the Microstudio Suite 4 with high hopes of importing my karaoke CDs onto my laptop for future use. Apparently the drive will not read cdg, so I will have to purchase a CDG drive.
My question is: Must I have Hoster along with Microstudio in order to import the files?
I want to know exactly what it is I need, as I am anxious to move forward with using karaoke from my laptop rather than hauling all of my CDs and equipment around.
Thank you for your help in this matter, Judy

[jahern]

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[jahern]

It depends what your future use is. Hoster is geared for putting on a show. Hoster also can rip (import) the songs in a compressed format. This way you can fit a lot of files on your computer. It sounds like you have a lot of cd's so it seems Hoster would be right for you.

Microstudio will import and play large files onto and from your computer. In another thread I was allowed by MTU to mention some software, but I am shy about it here. In any case, even that software starts with imported files like what Microstudio can import.

Microstudio is not a very good player, but of course can do a lot of useful things.