Hoster 4.6a PlayList Error Dilemma

[Joe Nieves]

Can this be fixed?

I’ve been working on my song files deleting and re-importing some and I discovered a problem in the way Hoster just errors out and close the program when a file BookID is not in the database.

Why can’t a message come up to say (file number not in database do you want me to skip this song.) or (you want me to search for it)

So you don't have to suffer the humiliation of restarting Hoster in the middle of a show.

The only thing you have to work with is the BookID and the song title in the PlayList, so if you have 5 versions or more of the same song the BookID does you no good because it can’t reference that file version so the only thing you have left is the song title. (Not a Good Recovery Plan in the middle of a show)

Now you have another dilemma which one of these 5 songs is the one that was in the PlayList?

If the DiskID was on the PlayList then it would be no problem, just pick DiskID out of the five titles versions available and you’re done. (Good recovery Plan)

Another thing that is wrong and needs to be fixed is if a song errors out in the PlayList and your running in Auto you press ok on the error message and the program will move on to the next song in the PlayList the next song does starts ok, but if you press the skip button to advance to the next song the program will highlight the song below the error song and not advance the highlight to the playing song the way it's suppose to.

You can’t even delete the error song from the PlayList you have to shut down Hoster and restart Hoster and then you can delete the problem song from you’re PlayList (Not A Good Recovery Plan) and, it’s a big time nuisance to operate this way if you run into a problem file.


Thanks
Joe…