Rebuild Songs Database

[FRadspinner]

I just have a general question on how Hoster works. I just want to get a grip on what I'm doing when I switch out harddrives that contain all the actual KMA files.

Does the KMA file have the music, graphics, name of song, artist, ID no all in it? I'm just wondering because when my hard drive went bad and I hooked up the backup hard drive, I had a hard time pullin in the songs from the new hard drive, even though it had the same drive letter (E as the previous hard drive. After several tries, I ended up losing the Access database with the names and artists of the songs.

So then, I did "Rebuild" (I think) and all the karaoke files intact with names and artitsts came up. I thought you had to pull up the titles and artist names separately. That is the reason for my question. Just trying to get a grip on how the files are set up so I don't accidentally lose something I don't want to lose.

[Roy Dennis]

All the info is in the kma headers, when you rebuild the database the headers are read and a new Songs.mdb is built from that information.
Before it rebuilds it makes a backup of the existing named Songs_backup.mdb so that if you had a problem you would have to rename that to Songs.mdb to restore the original database.

[FRadspinner]

Thanks for straightening that out.

I did notice that Songs_backup.mdb file. I tried to open it to copy it to insert it in the Songs.mdb file. It asked me for a password!?

Will it let you rename it to Songs.mdb without a password?

[Roy Dennis]

You can rename it. Are you thinking of the Bucket.mdb which you can't open without a password.

[FRadspinner]

Oh, yes. It is the Bucket.mdb. I was trying to use the wrong file! Thanks for all your help! Really appreciate your time!