Adding CD's to the show

[sherita]

I want to add some original artists songs to my show at times when I need to spark the audience up a bit with dance music and such. How do I do this and print my own personal songbook for my own reference when I want to do this. I tried and it seemed to make a kma file also (dont need lyrics for dance music just for audience) and merges it into my songbook and I do not want this. I appreciate your input and help.

[muzicman144]

I have a folder of MP3 dance music with original artist singing on my hard drive. I use the Hoster Menu to add an audio track to a playlist of only original dance music and save it. I use it every show, continually adding dance music to the playlist. Saves time to make a playlist, just bring it up as you would a karaoke playlist.
muzicman

[sherita]

does it add to the karaoke playlist like mine did? How do I keep it from doing that?

[madjim- with the Lord]

Sherita,
I use a second program to run my mp3's but you can do this. Put all of the MP3's you use for your show into a folder (you can put folders in this folder if you want to make catagories for your MP3's) and load them into Hoster using the "Audio" button in "Add Track" section of the program at the top left of the program. This will add the MP3 to your present playlist.

I think musicman makes a playlist all of his mp3's only then saves it as a Playlist. Playlists are .hst files. When he wants to play MP3's he opens this playlist (.hts file). When he's ready to go back to Karaoke he opens his working playlist. (Hoster saves your working playlist as the def001.hst. Of course you can name your playlist anything you want. )

I hope this helps!

Jim

[muzicman144]

Originally Posted by madjim

Sherita,
I think musicman makes a playlist all of his mp3's only then saves it as a Playlist. Playlists are .hst files. When he wants to play MP3's he opens this playlist (.hts file). When he's ready to go back to Karaoke he opens his working playlist. (Hoster saves your working playlist as the def001.hst. Of course you can name your playlist anything you want. )

I hope this helps!

Jim

Jim, Thanks for explaining it a little better than i did. I don't mix the mp3 with other hoster files and save it as "BreakMusic" for my own identity.
Hope this helps.
muzicman

[sherita]

ok let me see if I have this correct. I put the cd into the external drive and go to audio and make a folder called breakmusic and save it there? Then print myself a songbook for my own use for breakmusic and when I want to play it I just hit audio and put the id in and music starts? This hoster is a little confusing to me because I do not know about wav,kma and blaah blaah. I appreciate the lenghthy details from you pro's, you have made this easier for me- I dont know If I could do it without you.... No I know I couldn't do it without this support.