Building The Database

[Wrahn]

I need help understanding the process of building the database. I have two external hard drives which have karaoke tracks on them. The first drive is my working drive for karaoke files and had been used with my Compaq laptop and Acer laptop for home use. When my Compaq computer went bad, I bought my current Lenovo laptop and also bought another external drive mainly for use as an auto backup drive. At that time I included a copy of Karaoke files that were on my working karaoke external drive. So then I had two external hard drives one for karaoke and the other new one to use as an auto backup for all information on my Lenovo laptop, but not on my working hard drive.

Since then, I've added karaoke tracks to my working drive and then decided to to edit my working drive to correct spelling and other errors, to delete duplicate songs and sort through my tracks and indicate which one is the best. I have some dupes that are mux, and non-mux, so I keep both. The mux is used to learn the song, and the other is used to sing the song if the mux is not the best track.

I've put a lot of hours into editing my database only to learn that half way through the three days of editing I ended up with the wrong drive being used to rebuild my database. I can access both drives and I now know I added the files to my working drive and by looking at the date of some of the files I could tell I started editing on that drive. Somehow I was switched to the back-up drive and then I spent the last few days editing those files rather than the working drive. I was able to copy most of tracks I edited to a temp file, but now need to figure out how to replace them for the ones on the working drive. I think I'm in a mess and will just have to go back to the working drive and start editing it all over again.

So to clarify my understanding in simple terms, when I build the database, I need to select the folder where the working drive files are stored and exclude the folder in the back-up drive. When the database is built, then Hoster will look for the tracks in the working drive and not in the backup drive. When I want to edit Hoster will only open the working drive tracks and they can then be edited. The songbook is based on what is in the database so any change requires a change in the songbook. Is my understanding correct, or am I missing something?

Thanks for any feedback you can provide, and if you know a way I can save three days worth of editing, please share it with me.