Just a couple more questions.

[Jimmy Crosby]

Hello all, regards, I need to pick someones mind. I have 2 Hoster lite and one Hoster full that I have to upgrade. My main PC is no problem with the CD player working with Hoster full. I am using the Hoster 4.11 Demo to check for problems. I have two Dell laptops, here with me now, with quick change CD/DVD. Plus a 3rd, an HP that get one of the Hoster lites, (unless MTU will let me swap the HP license over to a dell laptop)(BTW..the HP is with my grandson in Kansas)(I am in Florida) When I load the demo it tests the player and tells if it is good or bad. Well I have tried several of the players, at least 4 , all test good. Then when I try it import it just sits there and does nothing. When I found a drive that does work, and press the import selected tracks it hopes right to it and works. So the fact that they test good does not seem to mean it will really work. What's the point, tease you now or later. Now I have let it run for up to an hour and nothing at all.
I just want someone to tell me why that is, I am not having much luck reading the pages.
You have been a great help so far, especially Dale D...thank you up front for all the help and for all the help I got already.... jimmy

Oh yea there is 1 more little thing.. my desktop works well with the Hoster demo, but I have to add an external plextor for microstudio 4.00 to import tracks. .................hum.....go figure

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Crosby

Hello all, regards, I need to pick someones mind. I have 2 Hoster lite and one Hoster full that I have to upgrade. My main PC is no problem with the CD player working with Hoster full. I am using the Hoster 4.11 Demo to check for problems. I have two Dell laptops, here with me now, with quick change CD/DVD. Plus a 3rd, an HP that get one of the Hoster lites, (unless MTU will let me swap the HP license over to a dell laptop)(BTW..the HP is with my grandson in Kansas)(I am in Florida) When I load the demo it tests the player and tells if it is good or bad. Well I have tried several of the players, at least 4 , all test good. Then when I try it import it just sits there and does nothing. When I found a drive that does work, and press the import selected tracks it hopes right to it and works. So the fact that they test good does not seem to mean it will really work. What's the point, tease you now or later. Now I have let it run for up to an hour and nothing at all.
I just want someone to tell me why that is, I am not having much luck reading the pages.
You have been a great help so far, especially Dale D...thank you up front for all the help and for all the help I got already.... jimmy

Let's see if I can explain this. The drives will test good if Hoster (or Microstudio) can talk to the drive controller and the controller shows the drive has the capability of reading and/or writing in CDG format. Some times this is not true but the company uses only one controller for all their drives so Hoster is fooled into thinking it will.
A second possibility is that the drive is capable but due to age, dust, or bad CDs they can't read it. You can try a drive cleaner and/or a Disk cleaner to see if this helps.

Originally Posted by Jimmy Crosby

Oh yea there is 1 more little thing.. my desktop works well with the Hoster demo, but I have to add an external plextor for microstudio 4.00 to import tracks. .................hum.....go figure

You don't need a Plextor drive and they have stopped producing drives that specifically list CDG as a compatible format. I would suggest that you spend a little bit more and get a drive from MTU. They test all the drives they buy to make sure they can read and write correctly. They have Internal (if you have space for one) and External ones. Most of today's DVD drives can read and write CDG, but sometimes one is produced that won't work for it and you have no guarantee from them that it will, so it is a gamble.