Host without Hoster?

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

Just curious, How many songs can you do per hour with disc as compared to using Hoster? This is for everyone one. I'm really curious what the difference is, if any. Without researching or timing it, i would say there is no difference. Hoster just makes the job so much easier as everyone knows.
Muzicman

The only reason it's a little quicker & I explained this before. I used multiple players. I would always have the next couple songs cued up - just to the point of the music starting or if a song has an unncesarily long intro that doesn't really need to be play (example Screaming in the night - Krokus has :45 seconds of a SLOW fade in musical build, so I start it when the music actually kicks in, NIB - Black Sabbath has 1:00 of a bass solo, I start the song at 1 minute, Holy Diver - Dio, another one that has an intro fade in type, can't remember the time stamp on this one - these are just some exaples).
When an outro is playing, I ask for applause & call the next singer using the outro as the fill music. We get alot of singers on avg so have to be pretty speedy so the singers know to get up when called. Outro gets faded as the new song starts - like a dj mix. So on average I can get about 2-3 extra songs (depending on length) in per hour by not having to sit through all the intro screens & listening to long outros and even waiting for the outro screens to appear. It may not be appealing to some hosts or even some singers, but the crowds we have appreciate it & continue to return because we try to get as many as we can in per night.
How many songs is really dependant on the songs lengths, there is no set answer to how many an hour. On average - 12-15 per hours without rushing a night. 2-3 more with the short cuts.
Don't get me wrong I love Hoster, and was very happy to get it back up & running.

If a disc user is only using 1 player, then yes Hoster will be much faster as the disc has to get unloaded, put the new disc in, cue it up, wait, then play through all the intro screens. Hoster eliminates the unloading & loading of discs & soon will have the time stamp points that can be added to each song & crossfading that will be alot closer to the way I used to run with discs.