Upgrade to Hoster 5.08

[Telecaster]

Hello fellow Hosters
I have Hoster 5.07 which expired September 1st 2012.Can I upgrade to 5.08 ?Do I install over 5.07.Will I be able to keep my names and key changes?

The other question I have if I may is ........ SOME songs I change the key to will what I call (wobble) if the key is set higher or lower.This is annoying at best.It was suggested this was because some songs the way they are recorded will do this.I have asked about this a few years ago and was wondering if anyone has come accross this and if there are any fixes.
Thanks

"I Love Hoster"

[Roy Dennis]

As I read it, you can install if yours expired after May 7th 2012 so Sept 2012 should be OK.
It will let you know when you try to upgrade if you would need to pay anything so just try it. If you change your mind after reading any message that you need to pay just cancel and your existing will not have altered.
You install over your existing version you don't need to un-install. Your names and key changes will be preserved if you have the full version.
If you had the lite version that is discontinued and now gives you 1 install of the full version, one person reported losing their singers data, read posts #6 in this thread and Support answer #8: http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?p=114767#post114767
I don't know about the key change problem you refer to perhaps others can answer that.

[Telecaster]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

As I read it, you can install if yours expired after May 7th 2012 so Sept 2012 should be OK.
It will let you know when you try to upgrade if you would need to pay anything so just try it. If you change your mind after reading any message that you need to pay just cancel and your existing will not have altered.
You install over your existing version you don't need to un-install. Your names and key changes will be preserved if you have the full version.
If you had the lite version that is discontinued and now gives you 1 install of the full version, one person reported losing their singers data, read posts #6 in this thread and Support answer #8: http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?p=114767#post114767
I don't know about the key change problem you refer to perhaps others can answer that.

Thanks Roy
I am still waiting for my Alienware laptop so I can install 5.08 and try it.

As far as the key change causing a wobble in some songs this has been ongoing on the netbook I use since I bought it.It has 2 gigs of ram and im wondering when using the key change feature that the ram is not enough to keep some songs stable.The computer I am waiting for has 6 gigs of ram and I am hoping it will be enough to help in this situation..........
Thanks again

[william burditt]

I have upgraded my Hoster Lite to Hoster One. I don't understand exactly how the indexing works. Is there a way to automatically include the song title and Artist with the book-ID? I have an EXCEL file with all this information, and I use this file to find the book-ID, but it doesn't have the song title and
artist.

[william burditt]

I didn't make myself clear in my first post. I have all the information in the EXCEL file, but I want to get the title and artist to automatically come up with the BK-ID when I select the song to play. I don't want to have enter that information manually. What am I doing wrong?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by william burditt

I didn't make myself clear in my first post. I have all the information in the EXCEL file, but I want to get the title and artist to automatically come up with the BK-ID when I select the song to play. I don't want to have enter that information manually. What am I doing wrong?

I don't quite understand what you are getting at.
If you already had the songs imported correctly all you need to do is point Hoster to your Music files folders.
When you open Hoster select Tools/SongsDatabase then from the next dialog select Build Database.
The next Dialog shows various types of file imports and below that Add Folder button and Add Folder/Subfolders, Selecting the Add Folder button starts explorer window and you Brows to one of your music folders, when you get to the right folder you should see all your files listed, press select and that should then index all those files into your database, if you have more than one folder containing your music files repeat the above untill all the folders are added to your list of folders.
You don't need to do anything with an XL file. Providing you had them listing by BookID before they still should.

I never had the lite version so not sure how that was different.
With Hoster Lite, when you open your C|MTU folder did you have a folder named Hoster ? or was it named something else like Hoster_lite? if it was I should think you could open that folder and copy the contents to the new Hoster folder then when you start Hoster it should automatically fill in the list of folders and build the database so you would be ready to go when you first start Hoster.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Here is a FAQ I just wrote on this, this was an area that I missed when we did this upgrade! So I am sorry for making it harder than it should have been.

http://www.mtu.com/kb/kb/index.php?a...d=122&relid=10

[william burditt]

I probably did not do my original setup for Hoster Lite correctly. I converted my cdg files on computer to KMA files. I set up my spreadsheet with the book ID in these files. My spreadsheet and the BK-ID's are in sink. However, the files generated from my cdg files only show the cdg information. That is, brand and tract#. This is what shows up on my screen when I put in the BK-ID. It appears that I may not have set up a Song Database. Before I make any changes, I would appreciate any suggestions. I can update my spreadsheet to include all the information that I want on the screen. Mainly, I want song title and artist, and of course, I will have to enter singers if desired.

Bill