Hoster 5.09 Has been released May 28, 2013

[MTUSUPPORT]

You can read all about Hoster 5.09 from here http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster.htm#V509

Let us know if you run into any issues with it.

[Beavis]

it gave me an error installing it directly from the download. said no valid product found, but then kept installing

[Beavis]

it say error 1706. no valid source could be found for product hoster.the window installer could not continue.

[Roy Dennis]

There is a warning about that as it installs telling you to ignore it.
Would yours not let you carry on ?

[Beavis]

yes, but when i open hoster (windows8) it goes to my back ground screen and no controls are present, i cant even shut it down to restart the program.

[Beavis]

nevermind, i fixed it by double clicking the snd and the main board came up, i dont have a singers display hooked up to the computer yet.

[Roy Dennis]

When you say your background screen, are you saying your singers screen is showing full screen so covering up the controls screen ?
If so can't you double click the screen to send it back to normal ?

[nfountai]

I just downloaded and installed 5.09 today on Windows 8 system. I was pleased to see it built my database for me, but it left out a song.

This brings up a new question as how many more songs did the program not bring into the database.

Should I manually remove the KMH files and text file and import those in the folders that I am aware of?

[Roy Dennis]

Did you get any message that some songs were not imported ?
It may be that they are in the quarantine folder.
Open Hoster go to Tools/Hoster Data folder and look in the quarantine folder. Files that error now go into here.

[nfountai]

No messages other than "Hoster had a problem and has to close"

[nfountai]

The message seemed like at the end of the build though

[Roy Dennis]

Did the Hoster must close message appear while the database was building ?
Have you looked in the quarantine folder like I asked ?
If your songs are on an external drive, was it connected while it was rebuilding ?

[nfountai]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

Did the Hoster must close message appear while the database was building ?
Have you looked in the quarantine folder like I asked ?
If your songs are on an external drive, was it connected while it was rebuilding ?

The message did appear and Hoster did close down when building the Database.

There are no songs, KMH, KMA or Zip songs in Quarantine folder.

[nfountai]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

Did you get any message that some songs were not imported ?
It may be that they are in the quarantine folder.
Open Hoster go to Tools/Hoster Data folder and look in the quarantine folder. Files that error now go into here.

Thanks Roy
My database is great now with this program. I fretted for years with the old ones.

[MackieRocks]

What about disc indexing? What should it be set to and could that be a problem?

[MackieRocks]

1) First time using 5.09. Sporadically, during a song, I hear a buzz that lasts for about 1 second. After that, the music and lyrics go out of sync. I set the sync to -.75 and all is well. If the buzz occurs during the same song, I have to set the sync to -1.5 and it's fine.
2) When doing a search while a song is playing, both displays (mine & the singers') flash. This again is sporadic. I've done all the updates. These conditions are very annoying to my customers and myself. Any ideas?

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by MackieRocks

1) First time using 5.09. Sporadically, during a song, I hear a buzz that lasts for about 1 second. After that, the music and lyrics go out of sync. I set the sync to -.75 and all is well. If the buzz occurs during the same song, I have to set the sync to -1.5 and it's fine.
2) When doing a search while a song is playing, both displays (mine & the singers') flash. This again is sporadic. I've done all the updates. These conditions are very annoying to my customers and myself. Any ideas?

Have you played around with the Tools/Audio controls, There are 2 lots of settings there, a prevent audio drops, that I believe the default is 10 but I have mine at 6 and below that a setting for Audio and Display
I have mine set to normal for both display and audio but play around with these settings see if it helps.

[MackieRocks]

I set the Audio Dropouts setting from 2 to 6. The audio and display settings were set to above normal and I reset them to normal. The screen flashing only happens when a song is playing and I do a search. I will let you know if there were any buzzing/out of sync problems after tonight.

[MackieRocks]

Although I didn't have any crashing problems, I am still experiencing screen flashing during a search, and that sporadic buzzing during a song that throws my sync out of wack.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by MackieRocks

Although I didn't have any crashing problems, I am still experiencing screen flashing during a search, and that sporadic buzzing during a song that throws my sync out of wack.

Have these 2 problems only started with this 5.09 version ?
Which version did you upgrade from ?

Just to see if it makes a difference, see if you get the same problem if you switch tempo mode Off. Tools/Tempo Mode choose normal mode. Tempo will no longer function but just let us know if that helps.