Importing Audio Files, Don't Need DiscID

[Joe Nieves]

I have a question concerning importing a large batch of audio backing track and don't want to go through the trouble of entering DiscID info to import them into Hoster....I just need them to have index numbers so they could be listed, Played and printed...

2nd question is, they are all m4a files 320bit, I ripped the CD's into iTunes and want them in Hoster, so I can work from one program...


I also copied them all into one folder in my external backup drive....

Thanks

[Roy Dennis]

Hoster does not recognize m4a files, they do not show in any of the folders, the only Audio types recognized by Hoster are wma, mp3 for importing I believe wav can be used in some dialogs like instabuttons.

So unless you can convert them to mp3 or wma first I see no way of importing them, you can check first before importing by trying to load them from the audio tab.

If you just want to bulk load mp3 or wma from a folder just use the add folder option from the build database dialog highlighting either the mp3 or wma button before adding folder. It reads MP3 and WMA id tags headers to fill in the KMH's Song Parameters for each song if the data is found.
Should you decide to do this what I would do before adding the folder is in the box where it shows next book Id, enter a number much higher than your last karaoke import, "Example 30000 " this will then keep the book id for audio well separated from your karaoke book id so allowing you to carry on with consecutive karaoke book ids of 5 digits (3 plus 2 for track)unless you are already up to 999.

[Roy Dennis]

After exsperimenting with an m4a audio file I have found that if I rename it mp4 then load it via the video tab to the playlist it plays.
It does import as In my previous post except it does not read the id tags so will only import as the file name. Also you have to import it as a video type mp4. this is the only way I can get it to import and play.

It may just need MTU to make m4a files show in the folders files of type box and in the import dialog. So I suppose this will be your next New features request.

[Joe Nieves]

Thank you for the reply Roy, I've already made that request long ago and they didn't express any interest in doing that at the time..

I used Mp3 Tag program to make sure all field information was correct in the tags, could you tell me what tag fields will Hoster be looking for in the scan just to double check before I convert them into mp3 format,.... and do I have to deal with this 99 tracks per disc limitation problem if I just want to batch process my entire folder of over 5000 files..?

Very much appreciate your effforts in helping me out,
Thank you Roy...

[Roy Dennis]

It uses the Artist, Title fields so you don't have to define a field order, I'm not sure about Genre & Disc Id, most of mine show a XYZ0xxx for disc id and the genre will be limited to the types allowed in Hoster at the moment.
It does import in disc ID of 99 tracks per disc Id.
Example: if you make as I suggested in earlier post your first Book Id before adding folder 30000 it will import as 3000001 to 3000099 then will automatically go to 30001 which will make the next book id 3000101 to 3000199 and so on.
The 30000 I suggested is just how I do mine, I at the moment am only up to 417 for my book id ie 41701 to 41718 was my last karaoke Book ID, so that I can carry on using 5 digit # in my printed books for karaoke that will give me some years grace, I chose to import my videos starting at 20000 and my audio only at 30000.
It's just a way of keeping them separated and as I don't print audio and video books for the punters the large numbers aren't a problem, you may think different.

I think the best thing for you is to try it with a small amount of imports first to see what suits you rather than go and import them all. Just make a folder up with about 200 files in and import that first to get a better understanding how it will handle the book ids.

[Joe Nieves]

First problem would be the BookID number with too many digits for it to work in line with what I already have in my books, because I need to include them in my Books, though I'm printing them separately because they are in a different language, but the amount of digits can cause a problem in the books..and with customers..

If that 99 track limitation problem was not there, then I could just for example put Hindi or Greek as a DiscID and let it rip all those numbers in a orderly fashion and done....

I went through this headache of a problem some years back with some Nutech, MagicTrack DVD's import delimma and it was not easy..so not looking forward to this again...