.lst files

[JonPyle]

FYI...Once you move your song files to another hard drive you lose your lst.file saves. However, lst.files saved thereafter are fully saved. So, unless I missed it, that should be noted in the manual...Which surprised me because those files were in Microstudio, and not moved. Maybe the programmers can fix that for a later patch as I entend to move my songs to another hard drive in the future, and those are handy...

[Roy Dennis]

Yes, any files saved after your moving them are valid .lst files. It does not matter that the .lst file is on the C drive.
The .lst file is just a text file containing an index to where the song files were at the time of saving them. If after saving a .lst file you move the original song files to another folder or drive or rename them just slightly, the .lst file will not be able to find them again.
Renaming files in the Hoster edit dialog will not affect them as this only edits header information not the actual file names.
Maybe this point could be looked at in future editions or though to my knowledge you are the only person that has mentioned it.
You might get it noticed better if you start a thread for it in the Microstudio New Features Requests, were it is less likely to be forgotton.

[Joe Nieves]

There is a way to save your playlist, and I had this same exact problem years ago and solve it myself...., but don't know if it will be ok to post what I did in this thread, so if your interested, drop me a PM and I will reply with the info you need...

Good Luck,


Joe...

[Roy Dennis]

You could try this idea: find the .lst file you want to change using windows explora, probably in C:/MTU/Microstudio folder, now rename it to a .txt file example as in your case 1.lst rename to 1.txt

Now right click on it and select open and it should open in notepad if it doesn't right click again and select open with, then choose notepad. When it opens you should see something like this:
C:\Nicki Minaj & Rihanna - Fly (Clean version).bin
C:\Adele - One & Only.bin
C:\Nicole Scherzinger - Wet.bin

Then from the top menu select the edit tab then Replace, in the next dialog where it says find what type C:\
In the replace box enter the letter for your drive where you moved these files to, example G:\
Then press replace all, this shoud change all the directory leters as in this example:
G:\Nicki Minaj & Rihanna - Fly (Clean version).bin
G:\Adele - One & Only.bin
G:\Nicole Scherzinger - Wet.bin

Now from the file menu select Save.
Now rename the 1.txt file back to 1.lst

Now open microstudio navigate to the file and see if it now finds your files.

[JonPyle]

I found a quick way of highlighting from "my songs" and adding them to the "play list", then "add to write list" and then save as, and overwrite the exsisting...Its still a small pain, but it works. I'm just glad I didn't have hundreds of them to redo. Stll someone should look at fixing this...

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by JonPyle

I found a quick way of highlighting from "my songs" and adding them to the "play list", then "add to write list" and then save as, and overwrite the exsisting...Its still a small pain, but it works. I'm just glad I didn't have hundreds of them to redo. Stll someone should look at fixing this...

There isn't anything to fix. If you create a list and then move the files on that list then there isn't any program that is going to find those files. Simple as that. The list is nothing more than an index of where the files are located. As Roy said the only way to "fix" them is to edit them as a text file. By manually adding in the new path.

[JonPyle]

Ok, I think I got it... The next move for my files is to copy them to the hard drive I'm going to use for gigs, leaving the originals on the one at home. So just coping them over should leave my .lst files intact on my home hard drive right? I guess I'll test it...