No! Don't renumber my BookIDs!

[alanross]

Originally Posted by admin

One advantage is that we will provide one or more means to manually or automatically renumber duplicate BookIDs. Hoster would automatically update the KMA file header if its BookID changed.

I'm looking for feedback on our renumbering the BookID.

If we can keep our existing book numbers and simply add new ones and have the ability to renumber duplicate bookids, I see this as a great tool.

You get to keep existing song books,
add all your MP3Gs to your song books by printing out the New Release pages,
Change accidentally duplicated Book IDs
merge your files for a reprint of your whole songbook.

I reprint all my song books once a year to merge the new releases into the books. If I can merge the old and new song numbers in the songbook database, I can print out a songbook that contains all my old song numbers (pleasing the people with their own little lists) and all the new songs I was able to add to our inventory will now show up in the main body of the song books.

If I've deciphered the concept correctly, this is a win-win situation.

- Alan