New Hoster issues

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by dclark

There is no option for KMA + ZIP in the Import CD Tracks screen. There is only ".kma", ".wma+g", ".zip (wma+g)", ".mp3+g", and ".zip (mp3+g)". The last two are only available if you have the libmp3lame.dll present on your system.

Are you Importing tracks from CDs or are you Indexing song files from a hard drive?

If it's the latter, then the recommended method is to use "KMH" when possible.

Is this really necessary? When I purchase a single song on-line, I download it to a thumb drive, then import it to Hoster as a KMA, and the original zip file remains on the thumb drive as a backup. I don't carry it with me. I have been doing it this way for several years. Are you saying that now we HAVE TO start carrying those files with us & use KMH ONLY?

[RIKKI TIKKI]

SKYBIRD
Jeri,
You still have the choice of Importing as KMA or KMH, Read Dave's explanation of Why, that you would maybe wish to change to the KMH format... Mostly to save hard drive space... KMA being proprietary to Hoster, will not work if you wanted to change (Why would we want to right?) hosting programs... whereas the KMH file is usable in any other application you may need or want to test out or change to... I think with the low cost of today's larger capacity Hard Drives , the saving of memory, between the KMA and KMH file size is a moot point... just transfer to a larger capacity hard drive when needed! I'm using a 2TB External Hard Drive at the moment, and you can't believe how many memory hogging videos I have stored, right along side my 30,000 karaoke files of mixed KMA & KMH files...

[dclark]

KMH is recommended, not required.

Since KMH does not contain the audio and graphics, there is no need to "unpack" the KMH format. Hence, you get time savings, in addition to space savings.

But the way you are doing it is fine. There is nothing wrong with your method or Rikki's. It's all good.

[jeffand3js]

Haven't been on here in a while but am still experiencing the same problems I had before when importing new discs. It changes the Book ID number of the new disc to an old disc that has already been imported and erases the old disc. Very frustrating. This last time it won't let me correct it's mistake. I can't be the only one this is happening to. Maybe people just aren't realizing it is happening. Come on Hoster/MTU. I've been a loyal customer for over a decade and am thinking of switching to another program. This is total bullshit.

[Roy Dennis]

You didn't reply to my post #10 with example file name and define field order.
We need to try and duplicate what you are doing to try and see where the problem is.
Also there has been an updated version 5.41.04 since you started this thread, are you now using this latest version ?

I think it could be to do with the define field order picking out something in your file name, if you can post the examples we may be able to help.
When you purchase downloads from online they normally have some id numbers either at the start or end of file name, I'm wondering if this is contributing to your problem.

[MTUSUPPORT]

jeffand3js,
Can you email me at "support at mtu.com" so that I can get you an alpha version that we think fixes this issue.

[jeffand3js]

MTU Support, I just sent an email.