Unable to continue playlist while adding track from singers disc

[cartunesdj]

Searching the posts here, I found the following...

"Across top you have CDG, MP3, Video etc. buttons. Use the CDG button. Fill in which track #, Singers Name and Title of the song. Then click OK button and the track will be imported, added to the playlist, and only saved until they sing it, then it is erased.
This can be done while another singer is singing without interfering with the current singer."

I have done this many times before at my shows. However, the last show went a bit differently.

When I've added disc tracks before, they always finished prior to the end of the current singers song. Until last night.

Although, true to the statement above, it did not interfere with the "current singer", it did interfere with the show being able to continue.

The playlist (which was almost at a 2 hour rotation!) stopped after the current singer and would not continue until the file had finished writing.

That was way unacceptable for such a large show with a lot of people waiting to sing.

The next time I added a track from CDG, I watched the countdown timer of the current song and noticed it stopped counting down when the process started. Although the song played and lyrics showed fine, everything else halted in Hoster.

Seeing that the process wouldn't finish in time I pressed 'cancel'. But, the process didn't stop. It continued until it finished, even though I pressed cancel. Another BIG pause in the program.

Please tell me Hoster should not be acting this way.

What must I do to correct this behavior?

By the way, I really love using Hoster and tell all the other local KJ's about it. Even demo'd it for a couple of them. They're considering it for their shows.

Keep up the great work!

[hwheeler43]

I have noticed something similar. I figured it is because I am using Vista and only have 1 gb of RAM. I usually only get about one of these per night and it is no real issue for me. I just import between songs. I will test this tonight using my XP machine and see if it does it there as well.

[Lonman]

Have a separate cdg player for such cases as customer discs.

[billyo]

that happened to me a while back, i think the reason was from singers custom disc, that why i quit importing custom disc..

[cartunesdj]

Thanks for your responses so far.

hwheeler: So I'm not the only one to experience this. Thanks for chiming in.
My gig machine is a real monster (core 2 duo w/ 4 gig of RAM, XP Pro SP2) so resources shouldn't be an issue. Reading from the disc was fairly fast...it was during the creation of the kma file that took a long time causing me to believe it is something within Hoster [see MTU below].

Lonman: I don't think having seperate hardware should be the answer.
Isn't that why we're using Hoster..to not have to deal with that.
Why would MTU have added that feature otherwise?

billyo: The two times it happened at the last show, one disc was a custom disc the singer had burned, the other was an original.

MTU: Somehow the focus (within Hoster) should stay with the playlist while adding a track, allowing it to continue while the track is added in the background.

Can someone from MTU say if this is possible?

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by cartunesdj

Lonman: I don't think having seperate hardware should be the answer.
Isn't that why we're using Hoster..to not have to deal with that.
Why would MTU have added that feature otherwise?

Actually no being able to import customer cdg's is not the reason I am using Hoster, I am using Hoster to have all of my company cdg's I own on hard drive for ease of use. I have a separate player for my customer discs. Matter of fact, I don't even have a cd rom in my work tower at all anymore, took it out & brought it home, if I need one for software updates or what not, I bring in an external & connect it USB.
I ran into several discs that wouldn't play via the temp import - most were mediacloq'd, however, this will still mess up an import, so I don't use that feature personally, my player sits right next to the mixer.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by cartunesdj

Thanks for your responses so far.

hwheeler: So I'm not the only one to experience this. Thanks for chiming in.
My gig machine is a real monster (core 2 duo w/ 4 gig of RAM, XP Pro SP2) so resources shouldn't be an issue. Reading from the disc was fairly fast...it was during the creation of the kma file that took a long time causing me to believe it is something within Hoster [see MTU below].

Lonman: I don't think having seperate hardware should be the answer.
Isn't that why we're using Hoster..to not have to deal with that.
Why would MTU have added that feature otherwise?

billyo: The two times it happened at the last show, one disc wa disc the singer had burned, the other was an original.

s a customMTU: Somehow the focus (within Hoster) should stay with the playlist while adding a track, allowing it to continue while the track is added in the background.

Can someone from MTU say if this is possible?

i havent had any problem importing original singers disc for a while now , not unless they are badly scratched,