4.08 Playlist issue.

[Roy Dennis]

I have found that if you open Hoster 4.08 And all your .kma files are on an external hard drive that is not plugged in,
the play list that you last opened does not come up. then as the play list shows blank it must update the folder to be blank.
Now you plug in your external drive and open Hoster again it still shows a blank play list.
The way it is functioning now you must have your external hard drive plugged in or you lose that play list.
It is doing this on both Vista & XP. version Hoster 34 does not do this, you can open version 34 without the external hard drive plugged in and it will still list the last opened play list.


Roy.

[ddouglass]

When this happens is the playlist name changing like to DEF002.hst instead of def001.hst? The list still exists as it has been saved (numerous times). If this is the case you should be able to go to Files/Open and get the other list back. This is all assuming you have set in the Options to keep songs in the playlist. I am not sure what folder you think is being update with this but I don't think that is happening.
I don't have an external to test this on, but I know I have deleted several songs, re-opened Hoster and had the playlist show those as unavailable.

[Roy Dennis]

No, the play list name is not changing, One thing as you pointed out, If you have it set in the Options to keep songs after played It is all right. It just shows status as Unavailable.
If you have the options/keep songs after played unchecked and you open a previously saved play list without the external hard drive connected it will wipe the contents of that previously saved file. And will wipe the contents of any play list you open.

This only happens if the drive with your .kma files on is not connected.

It never did this in Previous releases and it doesn't in 3.4


Roy

[ddouglass]

Then this is a side-effect of saving the playlist when anything is changed. The purpose is to be able to save as much of it as possible in case of a Hoster crash. As it is set-up now, if you have a crash even the ones you imported from a singer's disk are saved at least until they have been played through or you close Hoster normally.
I don't know if they can fix a way around this. The best I can say for now is don't forget to hook up the drive. Maybe if you can recreate it or have any others that you use frequently you might want to make a copy of them and put the copies some where else. Then if you do it again, then you will have a copy to copy back to the correct folder.