Hoster 4.10 Release

[Musicman51]

Any of you Beta Testers heard when the next hoster upgrade might be off the drawing board? I have a stack of CDG's i need to git into hoster. Just curious...Thanks George

[ddouglass]

That information will have to come from Admin. Since it is still in testing, items still need to be added and tested it there is no way to determine when.

[Musicman51]

Thanks Dale, i got a very old trouble ticket reply that said "next week", that was last month.... was just wondering is all. I know it's up to mtu, but was just wondering...sitting patiently...Thanks George

[ddouglass]

I am not sure why it would have said next week as there is a lot of work going into the next release.

[admin]

There are features that MUST be added yet that will require at least 2 weeks of beta testing once they are coded.

Thus, we're probably looking like mid-September at the earliest... but I'm not making a commitment to any date yet.

Fades are in and working great, Background Audio Player is fully automated and incredible, and Remove Silence is working out far better than expected!

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by admin

There are features that MUST be added yet that will require at least 2 weeks of beta testing once they are coded.

Thus, we're probably looking like mid-September at the earliest... but I'm not making a commitment to any date yet.

Fades are in and working great, Background Audio Player is fully automated and incredible, and Remove Silence is working out far better than expected!

BillyO,
These are the features that Admin and MTU will divulge at this time, and will be a big step in the improvement of Hoster, and satisfying some of the new feature requests that have been asked for by the majority... Hopefully the SAV-Nikkodo garbled title page, and the dual video display issues can also be addressed in the near future...

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by Musicman51

Any of you Beta Testers heard when the next hoster upgrade might be off the drawing board? I have a stack of CDG's i need to git into hoster. Just curious...Thanks George

Have you been able to resolve your importing issue, to the extent that you believe the next upgrade will solve your dilemma with importing these new cdg's ? Just curious...

[billyo]

just wondering if the next upgrade will fix the gabled graphics on sav's and also the dual video( vcd ) display...

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

just wondering if the next upgrade will fix the gabled graphics on sav's and also the dual video( vcd ) display...

I don't think the SAV issue is on the specs for this one. I don't know about anyone else but my singers have gotten used to the SAV garbled splash page and nobody says anything about it any more. Mainly they comment on all the new features that have been added and they are positive comments.
As for the dual display of videos I think that is history for now. This is a very complicated function and getting it to display in 2 locations in sync is difficult at best. The feeling I get is MTU is trying to get all the new features that were requested and approved into Hoster first along with fixing any major bugs that pop up. Then work on the minor items.

[Musicman51]

Do you have Microstudio? You could import them in to there (BIN format) and then use the Import from Hard Drive in Hoster to get them into Hoster. Adds a bit more work, but if you are really wanting to get them done before the release then that would be the way to go. You would not have to keep the BIN files after importing into Hoster since you have the CDG disks.

Not on my show machine, nope. It's on the PC in my studio. I would have to download all songs, write the file, copy the files, transfer the files to my 3 externals, rewrite them, keep them, redirect to that file if i wanted to play a song from that file.. Much harder and time consuming said then done. ummm...nope not gonna happen.

[ddouglass]

Do you have Microstudio? You could import them in to there (BIN format) and then use the Import from Hard Drive in Hoster to get them into Hoster. Adds a bit more work, but if you are really wanting to get them done before the release then that would be the way to go. You would not have to keep the BIN files after importing into Hoster since you have the CDG disks.

Originally Posted by Musicman51

Not on my show machine, nope. It's on the PC in my studio. I would have to download all songs, write the file, copy the files, transfer the files to my 3 externals, rewrite them, keep them, redirect to that file if i wanted to play a song from that file.. Much harder and time consuming said then done. ummm...nope not gonna happen.

You can install Microstudio on 2 computers just like Hoster. So you can install it on your show machine and do everything from there.
Or you import them with Microstudio which creates BIN files on one of your externals. Take that external and attach it to your show machine, Import the files into Hoster which will create the KMA files. Delete the BIN files from the external, Then copy the KMA files to the other two externals. You are trying to make this harder than it really is George.
Or you wait until mid-September.

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by Musicman51

Do you have Microstudio? You could import them in to there (BIN format) and then use the Import from Hard Drive in Hoster to get them into Hoster. Adds a bit more work, but if you are really wanting to get them done before the release then that would be the way to go. You would not have to keep the BIN files after importing into Hoster since you have the CDG disks.

Not on my show machine, nope. It's on the PC in my studio. I would have to download all songs, write the file, copy the files, transfer the files to my 3 externals, rewrite them, keep them, redirect to that file if i wanted to play a song from that file.. Much harder and time consuming said then done. ummm...nope not gonna happen.

George,
I want to assure you that what Dale has proposed here as a work around, will be a simple fix for what you wish to do ( And that comes from me, who is also leary about adding anything else to my show machine, due to the lack of dedicated video memory on the video card ). and save you about 2 months of further waiting for the update to be released! You have already become efficient with the other MTU software, KH Pro, Microstudio... that you have used to compile your custom CDG's, so I would think you wouldn't have any problems going thru the process that Dale has suggested... I think most of the time consuming steps, that you previously mentioned, will be not that time consuming at all...( Plus you're going to have to do most of those steps, if you wait for the next upgrade, or if you try what Dale suggests now) You and I have spent more time writing on this thread, that what time it will take to try Dale's fix, and I know if it's the inability to overcome the anxiety of changing/adding something to your show machine, that by setting a restore point, and having the backup of your files on your external hardrives, that you can go back to where you are now... Plus you have all of us forum reader's that will help you along the way... None better that Dale when it comes to helping... and if you are wanting MTU to set up your computer like the Geeek Squad... then you are going to be taking time away from their further development of the new features that the other KJ's would like to see them working on... So you see, we have an ulterior motive to help you from this forum... and also because of your patience and tenacity, your further posts will be fruitful and educational to many new users of the MTU software, and also some of the ol' timers as well.