Report Hoster 5.02 Problems - CLOSED - See 5.03

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by tonysjungle

Not sure I chose the most efficient way to do this...but when I've imported various cd's or zips (always to kma), I've often put them into separate folders to be able to easily print a songbook JUST for the songs within that folder (for example: I made a large digital purchase from a manufacturer and wanted all of those songs to remain in one folder...wanted them in my database quickly, but also wanted to be able to print a songbook of JUST those songs so I could edit the various mistakes)....

I don't quite understand how you are printing a songbook by selecting a folder
Are you using Hosters Songbook to do this ?

Normally if I where doing this and only wanted a selection of songs to be printed I would use "Select Book ID Range" and if you loaded that folder originally all in one go the book id should run consecutively for all that folder.

Originally Posted by tonysjungle

Anyway, what keeps happening....over and over...is that when I go to "Add Folder" within the Build Songs Database (after already having a database with most of my songs), Hoster crashes after indexing for about 10 seconds and without adding any songs. It's not folder specific. For example, If I start with no database...then add folder 1, then 2, then 3, (and this usually happens after I've added 2 or 3 folders), while importing folder 4 it will crash. But again, it's not specific to folder 4. I can add folder 1, then 4, then 2, then it'll crash while adding folder 3.

Didn't have this problem in version 4, but am consistently having it with version 5.

ALL folders contain kma's only.

Once they have been imported with the wrong Disc ID or Book ID that information is already in the file headers and the only way to put it right is to delete them first providing you have the original backup files not in the KMA format.

I would remove all folders from the list, then also check the excluded folders and remove the same folders from there.
Now just to make sure your database is empty press the rebuild Button to make it build an empty data base.

If you have all your original .kma files that you copied from disc I would not delet these but re load those in first via the Build Database Add Folder button.

Now regarding your large digital collection, you may have files in this collection with identical Disc Ids as already in your collection, are they in the form of MP3+G ? if so why not re import them as KMH files, which will just add a small file with the same name as matching imported file and imports much quicker and uses very little extra drive space.
If you still prefer to import them as Kma the rest of the procedure is the same.
I would do this using the "Index Hard Drive Files" dialog although it will take longer than using the Add folder method you will get all the Artist and Titles in the right columns and it should pick up any duplicate disc ids while importing.
If you still want these duplicates imported after wards you can select to ignore the Disc Id in the Define fields order and either let Hoster allocate it's own or providing you make one up yourself that is not a duplicated do that.

Importing them as KMH files will also keep them in their seperate folders if you still need this for your printing purposes.