Importing KMA files

[TONYBERNARD]

Thank you, must of missed that on the changes. It appeared everthying went fine during installation and when it was finished I got 2 icons. Hoster (which opens 5.07) and 1 marked Hoster (Prior). Anytime we try opening Hoster Prior to use the older version, the computer acts like its thinking but nothing happens. Any suggestions to why the Hoster Prior will not open?

[Roy Dennis]

I think it depends on how old your prior version was as to whether it will work, some extra fields are added to song file headers in the later versions and that makes them incompatible to early versions.
What was your version ?

If you want to try this you may be able to start it but then 5.07 will no longer work untill it rebuilds it's own database again overwriting the old songs.mdb: Open your C/MTU/Hoster folder, find your songs.mdb and rename it songs2.mdb. just as a temporary measure.
Now see if your prior version opens, if it does you will probable have to rebuild the database to get it working properly this will build a new songs.mdb to run that version.
If the prior version still doesn't open just rename the tempory songs2.mdb back to songs.mdb to carry on using 5.07.

If you do get the old version working and then want to revert back to 5.07 delete or rename the last songs.mdb again to example songs3.mdb. then rename the previous one you named songs2.mdb back to songs.mdb and that should get 5.07 back working, if not just use the rebuild database function again or just start it and it should rebuild the database on it's own.

[TONYBERNARD]

Hi Roy, thank you for your help. Another problem has now occurred. My version is old, dont know it off hand at this moment. New issue, the Visual Screen to see the words is not opening in a separate window. It is in the corner (left and is only about 2"x2". Cant really see it. Is there a way to get it to be larger? Tried reading manual and cant locate issue.

[TONYBERNARD]

The graphics screen is missing from here. Only 2"x2" in main frame. Any assistance to get it to go larger to see the words?

[Roy Dennis]

You should have 2 screens showing the lyrics, 1 as you describe known as the preview screen shown in the top left, this can be detached from there if you wish by going to Tools/Show display then press the preview tab then tick the box to undock and resize, then press apply and close, then exit Hoster, after restarting Hoster you should be able to grab the screen and move it or grab a corner and resize it.

If you are saying you can only see this one screen and not the main singers lyrics screen then try this. Open Tools/options press the reset displays button, in the next dialog press yes and all displays will return to their default positions.

You may find it helpfully to watch my video on show display setup here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbavLnNdGc

Regarding the Hoster Prior, if your original version was very old I should forget about trying to use it.

[TONYBERNARD]

Thanks Roy, the graphics screen came up with your recomendation. Off to work now. Hoping no more issues but I will review your you tube. Thanks for the help. Will let you know how it goes. Tony

[TONYBERNARD]

Roy, I really want to thank you for all of your help. Its nice to know there are people out there like yourself to assist. I am a fellow musician who plays bass & guitar. I'm not a KJ, but I do use this system at my solo shows when Im not with my band. Again, thank you. Tony- I added the links to my website here for you to see.

www.tonybernardpromo.net

www.tonybernardentertainment.net

[Roy Dennis]

Always glad to help, looked at some of your promo video's, very impresive.

You may find the singers database in this version a handy option for you to quickly add songs to an existing playlist. It will list all your songs in Alpha order making it easy to find and add tracks quickly to the playlist.