Hoster 5.02.7 Songs Not Showing up in Search

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by pcgumshoe

I did this first when I noticed that a KMH file existed for the missing song.

At first I thought I had made a mistake because I selected "Build Database" and let the program get through 3000 songs before I cancelled it.

Then I went in and selected "Index HD Files" and selecting the proper format for importing.

The resulting import and attempts yielded 3000 extra songs, so I rebuilt the database and that came up with a more correct number of 25500.

Even after rebuilding the database, the song didn't show up, but the KMH file shows and the imported.txt file says that it was imported.

If you are getting all 25,500 files showing when you rebuilt the database then that means they all imported correctly. If some versions of the songs are not showing up when you search then the titles must not be correct or exactly the same as the other versions. Try searching by only one key word in the title or the search by the artists last name only. These would be a broader search and should yield all of the versions.
Also in the edit utility try doing a search with the "*" which will list all of the song files , then sort by title and if that doesn't show all versions together then the titles are not the same on all of them.
Some companies use the title in normal sentence format as in the word "A" or "The" at the front of the title and some put those as the last word with a comma. Also you will find that some use the artist name with Last name first and others put first name first. These can all cause search problems.