external HD

[scottccook]

I have a customer who is a fellow KJ that comes to my shows. With him, he brings about 15 - 20 people and his external HD. Prior to 4.03, everything was great with the MP3G button. Now with 4.03 i can't find the songs. All the files are there, just not the songs. Obviously, i cant add his music to my song book, it's his music. how can i make this work? He brings me a lot of business because he likes my shows. i would hate to lose that business because i can't play his music.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by scottccook

I have a customer who is a fellow KJ that comes to my shows. With him, he brings about 15 - 20 people and his external HD. Prior to 4.03, everything was great with the MP3G button. Now with 4.03 i can't find the songs. All the files are there, just not the songs. Obviously, i cant add his music to my song book, it's his music. how can i make this work? He brings me a lot of business because he likes my shows. i would hate to lose that business because i can't play his music.

Hey Scott,
If they are zip files the will not play directly off of a hard drive in 4.03. Use 3.40 for his songs.

Jim

[ddouglass]

Scott,
If they are MP3+Gs then the new button title for temporary import is called K-OKE. As Jim said if they are ZIP files then you are out of luck with version 4 and will need to use 3.4, at least for now.

[marklwood]

If he has room on the hard drive, ask if you can unzip them to a new directory on his drive. Or possibly ask him if he can bring it to you that way. How many songs are we talking about? It doesn't save THAT much room to compress an already compressed format (MP3) and it should only increase the size by about 20-25%. The only reason I used to use zip was to insure I kept the files together. Since 4.02 I abandoned zips and am ripping to MP3 + G now to do my normalize.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by marklwood

If he has room on the hard drive, ask if you can unzip them to a new directory on his drive. Or possibly ask him if he can bring it to you that way. How many songs are we talking about? It doesn't save THAT much room to compress an already compressed format (MP3) and it should only increase the size by about 20-25%. The only reason I used to use zip was to insure I kept the files together. Since 4.02 I abandoned zips and am ripping to MP3 + G now to do my normalize.

Good advice here, thanks Mark.

Jim

[scottccook]

Thanks guys, appreciate your help. I did end up having to revert back to 3.4 anyway, i was having a lot of split second audio drops, just enough for everyone to raise an eyebrow at me. So I have since updated my video drivers and my sound card drivers. hopefully that works. Since the updates though evertime I boot-up my computer I receive a message "TBIA This operation returned because the timeout period expired". I do not know what that means, I will be doing a test run tonight to see how things work.