4.06 user observations...

[Harryoke]

Switched to 4.06 and have been using it on a Vista loaded laptop. I have not been pushing it too hard, meaning I do not load customers discs (I have a player and an A/B switch), or require any other heavy lifting of it.

I have been able to make it crash by trying to start a new song without finishing or stopping the first song... but then when I restart, it generally has the rotation still intact, maybe with the exception of the current song. No big whoop.

After using it, I noticed a lot of the SAV and Top Tunes discs that I had ripped had graphic errors. Thought it may have been because I ripped them on the old machine, so I reripped a few discs to see if a different drive would read them better, and alas, that did not work...so I have to accept that I am going to be surprised when playing a few of those discs that the lyrics may not show properly...then attempt to replace those songs with other versions.

Another pain has been some database errors caused by the auto naming feature. Most are accurate, but I am encountering discs that are not labeled correctly by the MTU program, and I have to manually go in and edit them...that and mispellings, such as looking for Goodbye Earl and not finding it, just to see it is listed as Goodby earl in the database by MTU...or not being able to find The Christmas Song because it is shown as Chestnuts Roasting, LOL! Doctor Music 104, the Kiss disc, was completely wrong from track 9-17. And on and on...overall no complaint, but it is the little things that aggravate, LOL...especially at the show when you KNOW you have a song, just are not able to find it quickly.

Perhaps a feature down the road would be to be able to search a partial term...like typing "lake segar" could turn up Fire Lake by Bob Segar.

As I encounter any other issues, I will add them in this thread, but just reporting in after using it for awhile. Overall, I do love it much better than the old version, BUT I am looking forward to new features bringing Hoster to the same level of another program I own but am not using at the moment. At least there are no major glitches!!!!

AS AN ASIDE...Mad Jim and his lovely wife made it out to one of my shows recently. That was cool...didnt recognize him at first without the hat, but he does not wear the hat without getting paid, LOL!