To Many of the same songs.

[mhollyts]

We spend the time to listen to each duplicate and only keep the "best" sounding song for the song book.

Create a second folder for you songs like "\kj_bad" that you do not want in the song book. Print a complete book out with Disk ID and Song ID. Listen to every dupilcate song in the list. (This will take DAYS/WEEKS/YEARS). When you have identified every song you do not want printed in your book you will need to open the folder containing you kma files and open in another window you kj_bad folder. Drag every song you do not want in your book to the kj_bad folder. Then you can build your song book with or without this folder. When you are going to print books build without the folder and you will not have any duplicates in you book. Then rebuild before your gig to have every song available in the show. If someone requests a different version you can search and find all versions you have not just the ones in the book.

I hope this helps.... I know our books do not have any duplicate songs and they do stand out from the other KJ hosts in the area.

[S. Parks]

Mindonstrike,
Let me get this right, you import your singers disc that they bring to your show permanently into your Hoster program. Am I misunderstanding this point? I make this assumption because that is the only way I know of that you could be perform a seach of zzzbob, songs as you put it?

[quaizywabbit]

The "flag" could simply be a Boolean(yes/no) field in Hoster's Songs.mdb
The songs themselves could also have this "Yes/No" somewhere in the tag, I wouldn't think it would take very much room in the KMA header

[mindonstrike]

"Mindonstrike,
Let me get this right, you import your singers disc that they bring to your show permanently into your Hoster program. Am I misunderstanding this point? I make this assumption because that is the only way I know of that you could be perform a seach of zzzbob, songs as you put it?"d

S. Parks
You are correct. I have a few singers that bring the same disks and sing the same songs off those disks week after week after week . So I'll tell them that if they don't want have to drag'em in all the time I can put import them permanantly.I promise them they won't show up in the songbook and nobody else will be singing from them. I just tell them they have to show up at least 15 minutes before show for me to do it.

Sam

[George]

Permanently importing another's cdg's is illegal. That's why Hoster creates a temporary file which deletes after the track has been played.

Remember, to be legal you must be able to produce the original CDG that you own for everything imported into Hoster, and you can't.

Good luck,

George

[mindonstrike]

I leave all my disks at home, so if I have to produce one, not having the singers disk on the premises will be the least of my worries.

Sam

[George]

But you can produce them.

I don't think the federal marshals would mind escorting a KJ home to see them since they were going to go there anyway to confiscate the equipment if the KJ were running illegal.

After all part of the purpose of a pc based show is to not have to lug the cd's around anyway.

I'm just speculating on that part, and it's purely an opinion, as I don't recall this ever coming up on the forums before, but it would seem as though as long as you do own the discs, you're clear. It's an interesting point, though.

Take care,

George