Mp 3 + G

[dlessnau]

I understand you can add MP 3 + G songs to the playlist with Version 3.0. Does this mean you can temporarily add them from the singers disc only? Or does it mean you can import them to the hard drive just as you do a CDG disc, and play them as KMA Files?

What if you have and external hard drive loaded with MP 3 + G songs? Can you play from that, just as you would an external hard drive loaded with KMA songs?

[mindonstrike]

"I understand you can add MP 3 + G songs to the playlist with Version 3.0. Does this mean you can temporarily add them from the singers disc only? Or does it mean you can import them to the hard drive just as you do a CDG disc, and play them as KMA Files? "

Not sure if you can play directly from cd, I imagine you could but I don't know how well it would work. It would be better(in my opinion) to transfer it to your harddrive (just like you'd copy/paste any file from cd) however since it could cause an audio drop you'd probably want to do it between songs.
And its not temporary.

" What if you have and external hard drive loaded with MP 3 + G songs? Can you play from that, just as you would an external hard drive loaded with KMA songs?"

Yes, except you cant call them up by song #. You have to navigate to the file and click on the actual file to select it and add it to your playlist.
MP3G is totally different from kma. While hoster will now play this format, it doesn't have the ease of use that kma's do.

Sam

[Digital Party]

OK Then....Let Me Add A Question To This......


I have MP3+G's on Disk.......Can I import them into Hoster as KMA files?


Thanks,
Chris,
AWare Entertainment

[jdavia]

Not without a lot of know how. I think the only way you can make a KMA file is with a long process.
First by saving it as a Wav file in MicroStudio, you will lose the words. Then import the Wav in KHP, with the text. you will have to do the the whole song over again. Save it as a GDG. Finally in Hoster save as KMA. All from the hard drive. You can do MP3 that way, but you wouldn't want to do many.

I have my MP3's and Wav's set to open in Microsofts Media player. This way I get a random visual ization on the screen. Hoster will by-pass the Media player if I open it in Hoster.

[mindonstrike]

Actually you'll need to convert them back to decompressed cdg (there is software that will do that) and burn them to a disk and THEN import as kma.

Keep in mind that there was some quality loss when first compressed to mp3g and then more when compressed to kma. I don't know if it's enough to matter or not.

[admin]

Hoster 3.0 was just to get you playing your MP3+G songs. The whipped cream comes later.

Hoster 3.1 coming first quarter next year will allow importing MP3+G and ZIP songs into the Songs Database, without changing the format to KMA. You'll have to do something to tell Hoster what the Brand, DiscID, Songname and Artist Name are, and have Hoster assign a BookID to it. Otherwise you can't find it by those items in the BookID, Brand/DiscID and Search "Add Track" options.

These songs will then also appear in your Hoster Song Book.

This should end the speculation.

It is generally accepted in engineering circles that when a file is compressed and decompressed, then compressed with another compression means, the loss is only from the worst of the two, there is no "compounding". Thus, your MP3 songs will sound the same after decompressing and recompressing with WMA. WMA is accepted as the superior quality.

[Digital Party]

Originally Posted by admin

Hoster 3.0 was just to get you playing your MP3+G songs. The whipped cream comes later.

Hoster 3.1 coming first quarter next year will allow importing MP3+G and ZIP songs into the Songs Database, without changing the format to KMA. You'll have to do something to tell Hoster what the Brand, DiscID, Songname and Artist Name are, and have Hoster assign a BookID to it. Otherwise you can't find it by those items in the BookID, Brand/DiscID and Search "Add Track" options.

These songs will then also appear in your Hoster Song Book.

This should end the speculation.

It is generally accepted in engineering circles that when a file is compressed and decompressed, then compressed with another compression means, the loss is only from the worst of the two, there is no "compounding". Thus, your MP3 songs will sound the same after decompressing and recompressing with WMA. WMA is accepted as the superior quality.

Thanks.....that helps alot

Chris
AWare Entertainment

[mlepine]

Originally Posted by admin

Hoster 3.0 was just to get you playing your MP3+G songs. The whipped cream comes later.

Hoster 3.1 coming first quarter next year will allow importing MP3+G and ZIP songs into the Songs Database, without changing the format to KMA. You'll have to do something to tell Hoster what the Brand, DiscID, Songname and Artist Name are, and have Hoster assign a BookID to it. Otherwise you can't find it by those items in the BookID, Brand/DiscID and Search "Add Track" options.

These songs will then also appear in your Hoster Song Book.

This should end the speculation.

It is generally accepted in engineering circles that when a file is compressed and decompressed, then compressed with another compression means, the loss is only from the worst of the two, there is no "compounding". Thus, your MP3 songs will sound the same after decompressing and recompressing with WMA. WMA is accepted as the superior quality.

If compressed initialy using a commercial encoder, you will of course loose some quality when decompressed, but if you used a Lame encoder for compression you will get NO loss when decompressed to Wave

Impossible to get a good sound when the mp3 was created using a commercial encoder, the Lame 3.96 encoder will give you excellent result!