Singer's list - max size?

[songpony]

Is there a maximum number of songs that can/should be kept in an individual singer's list? I have about 800 in mine (yeah, it's a lot) and obviously experience a huge wait time every time I open my list to select a song. I've always used an Excel spreadsheet for my list (and still have to for the video songs, since there's no way to get them in the Singer's List), but was hoping to use this new feature as the primary lookup for the majority of my songs. Just wondering how big I can go and still have it "usable" (able to retrieve a song before the current singer finishes). Thanks.

[madjim- with the Lord]

How long do you have to wait for your 800 song list to come up? Do you sing 800 different songs?

I don't think MTU put a limit on the amout of songs that can be added to a singers list. Of course the speed of the computer is always an issue.

Jim

[songpony]

Yes, I currently sing about 850 different songs (the remaining 50 are videos, so can't be added to the list). It probably takes 30 seconds or more to come up when a song isn't playing - when one is playing, it can take more than a minute (my processor speed is pretty good - 3.6 GHz). If I don't open it right after starting a song, I've found I can't get it open and get a song selected before the singer is done, which would then cause "dead" time.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Wow, that impressive. You must be one heck of a singer!

It's kinda obvious the the bigger the list, the longer it's going to take for it to load. At this point I guess you just have to make sure that you open a large singers list at the beginning of a song or wait till the next one, which is what you are doing.

Jim

[Singsation]

For solo work i would just save songs after playing and just save your show list, your only going to sing around 30 songs a night average, you can taylor the show lists for each venue or crowd and its easy to see your songs already cued and ready.

[songpony]

I'm a KJ - it isn't for solo work. Obviously, I don't sing that number of songs in a night, but that's the list I pick from when I'm in the rotation. I thought about trying to split it into multiple lists, but then I'd show up as multiple names, and have to remember what's in each list. For myself, I may just have to stick with my Excel spreadsheet, and just keep a more limited number songs in the list that I do most often. Thanks for the feedback.

[Singsation]

I don't think there is a limit, but in the future releases of hoster it is promised there we will be able to import video songs/videos into Hoster, wich will mean they will be in the database, wich is good as i have around 3000 video karaoke tracks.

[ddouglass]

Singer's database is not really designed for a one man show setup. Itwas designed for KJing where yoou have regular singers with a number of songs they sing regularly.
The more songs you add for one individual the longer the search is going to take. And it is a search as it has to look up each song you have added by bookid to find the Title, Artist, etc in the Songs Database.
If you are doing a one man show I would suggest you open it before you start and minimize it so it doesn't have to search each time. Then when you need it just click on it in the task bar then minimize it again when you are finished looking up a song.