Importing songs problem.

[tkelley3]

Hello MTU . I am having a problem importing songs within Hoster 3.303. Hoster is not importing the graphics correctly (I think it's an import speed issue) and so they don't come out "clean". I have over 10,000 songs and I HAD imported them into hoster 3.2xx and they were perfect (graphics display and music). I mean really perfect. No spots or ticks or globs or anything. (Well, yes every once in awhile there would be a small spot but that was RARE.)

So what problem? After updating (yes you did make me purchase the update but that is another story) I decided to renumber all of my disks. I did not like the numbering scheme. So I updated and re-imported every last disk I have. Did I mention there are over 10,000 songs?

Hoster 3.303 did import all the disks but the quality of the import is very suspect. There is no disk speed control that I see and so Hoster just imported at its top speed. Well, Chartbusters (just to mention one company) uses cheaper disks and they need to be imported at a slower speed (this is a good idea with all KJ disks as the interleave and wobble is minimized at slower speeds). Many of the newly imported tracks (not just the last one) had so many spots that the song became unrecognizable as it played. This is a very disappointing update of Hoster in this ONE respect. I love the program and I did love the way it input the music and graphics. This really does need to be fixed.

What did I do? Well since I had already upgraded, I copied ALL 10,000 songs into Microstudio and imported them into Hoster and that cleaned up the problems. Of course Microstudio has an option to slow down the import process to fix wobble among other things. (Not all companies are using 48 or 52 speed disks…duh.) Please fix Hoster so that we can import disks (poor manufactures copies) at a slower speed if we want to.

While I am at it, I noticed that you must now insert the disk into the burner (mine is a Plextor PS-708UF and my other one is a Plextor PS-716UF) before you click on import. Very annoying as BEFORE the disk would slide in if the door was open and you clicked on import. Please fix that also and put it back the way it was. Remember, I absolutely LOVE Hoster and would not think of EVER doing a KJ show without it ever again. I know you have lots of programming experience and have been in this business for many years. I am guessing this just got lost in the shuffle of the new updates.

Thanks: tmk