Hoster 4.2 and windows 7 disaster - FIXED in V4.22

[ThomasN]

I feel your pain guys. I have had to adjust my video offset frequently to keep lyrics in sync. Just when you think you got it, it goes off. It also appears to happen everytime I get up to do a song. I just can't look at the monitor anymore or I get screwed up.

I have had a few singers complain about it, but not as many as you might think. Maybe they don't care or don't notice it.

FYI, I am trying another hosting application and it is fairly new to the market. I used it last night and had 0% sync issues with any of the songs that I played on it. I can even set in and out points in realtime for the karaoke song. Same computer that I run Hoster on as well.

I use Hoster 99% of the time though because it is what I am use to and it does OK for me most of the time. Last weekend I started getting the Hoster stopped working messages. It continued this weekend also. I will try the new version that was pushed out this week.

I am not going to bash MTU, because I am a programmer too and know all to well what its like to have an application not run correctly all the time.

I will use (hosting application) what suits me and what makes my shows easier on me. If it's MTU that's fine if it isn't then that is fine also.

[Ed Beram]

no, ifeel your pain. this is getting old to many of us.i also don't want bash hoster just to be mean. i have said that it has worked well in past versions. i still think it is very important if for no other reaso as a long time customer to keep the issue published on this forum. i don't really believe the mtu folks are sitting back on some sunny beach in mexico and laughing at this series of problems but the point to be made is that when customers invest money in their product it should work right.. end of story. if it hasn't been run through the wringer a thousand times to make sure there are no problems, then DON'T RELEASE IT FOR SALE!!! get it right and let us praaise the product and recommend it to fellow KJ's not tell everyone we know to stay away from the product. i personally am not going to download the "bug fix" until there is sufficient kudos from a lot of hoster users.

[Musicman51]

I don't have the lyric sync issues you guys are having, and sorry to hear you are. But speaking of "upgrades". I am using hoster lite, and on the version i have, it has all the bells and whistles, that hoster has....silence feature, the player, everything hoster has, the whole nine yards. But mtu saw in their wisdom to take all the features away from us hoster lite guys. So actually an "upgrade" for me, would be a downgrade in features. So, it wasn't like that when i purchased hoster lite, only main difference was the songbook feature. I don't run two rigs, just a small one man week-end warrior operation. But i think they should have kept the hoster lite features, like it originally was.

[admin]

Originally Posted by ThomasN

I feel your pain guys. I have had to adjust my video offset frequently to keep lyrics in sync. Just when you think you got it, it goes off. It also appears to happen everytime I get up to do a song. I just can't look at the monitor anymore or I get screwed up.
I am not going to bash MTU, because I am a programmer too and know all to well what its like to have an application not run correctly all the time.

How is 4.22 working for you ThomasN?