I have lost some Karaoke songs

[Ramblin]

I have a desk top computer in my office that I have an older version of Hoster on. I use it to rip my CDG's into Hoster. Then I take them and copy them to an external hard drive, like I always have, and use it with my laptop to do my show. My laptop has the updated version of Hoster. When I put them in my external hard drive for my laptop and updated my data base, I lost a huge amount of songs. About 500 songs came up missing. And just recently, I ripped new CDG's and I can't even get my laptop to find them.
Is this caused by having 2 different versions of Hoster? Will it find them and fix the problem if I update my desktop Hoster?
Also, when I update Hoster on my laptop, will I lose the songs that go with my singers in the lists? Or will the new version just pick them up and keep them? I'm nervous about that. It has taken a long time to get my lists where I need them.

[Roy Dennis]

The newer version has changed the way it adds songs to the database.

Goto Tools/Songs Database from the window that opens choose Build database.
In the next window, in the bottom left panel you should see a list of folders containing your music, if you can't see the one that matches what you are looking for use the ADD Folder button and navigate to it, make sure you see all the files listed then press select.

If it is already listed, click on it to highlight it and you should see all the files appear in the right hand panel then press "Rescan folder" This should add any new files in that folder to your database.
I think this will find your lost songs.

I think in this version the Rebuild database doesn't add the new files to the list unless they were added on the same computer.

You may find that these files are not then backward compatible with your old version, meaning you can copy older version files to the updated version but not the other way around.

What version is your older one ?

[Ramblin]

My old one is Version 4.09d.

I use my own file numbers. The CD's are numbered 1 through over 2000. I am missing a group of those in the new version now. I am missing CD numbers 1092 through 1101. And now the ones I just ripped last week aren't being found by the newer version. I am planning to update my desktop to the newer Hoster version since it is my second computer with Hoster. However, will it find all those CD's and will the lost ones transfer to my laptop then?

[Roy Dennis]

4.09 should not present you with any problems updating it.
Follow my instructions above first then report back if you still can't list these missing songs.
Your singers database should still show with the upgrade if they were on that computer previously.
If they were not on this particular computer, then you will have to copy the Singers.mdb file from the other computer and paste it in the C/MTU/Hoster folder on the new computer.

[Ramblin]

I just upgraded Hoster on my office desktop computer. Now, I will not recognize any of the karaoke songs. I rebuilt my database as I always do, but it only found about 300 of my 20,000 songs. I know they are there and not lost, but how do I make Hoster find them. This is getting to be a huge problem for me.

[Roy Dennis]

Did you follow my instructions in post #2 ?

Rebuilding will not find your files if they are not showing in the list of folders.