Duplicate Book Id Numbers

[admin]

Read this thread on BookIDs.

Hoster 3.108 shows you any duplicate BookIDs you have in your computer, when you run the Build Songs Database as any duplicates found for an already listed BookID are stored into the SongBookDBLog.txt file, saved in your [installed directory]\Hoster\Databases folder.

There are three ways duplicates can occur:

1. Importing on 2 Computers - As Mike has pointed out above, if you are not careful when importing on 2 different computers, each with their own Songs Database holding their used BookIDs, you can import songs with duplicate BookIDs.
   
   
2. RE-Importing Songs - In the Import screen, if you are importing a disc you have already imported a track from, the Status field shows IMPORTED. If you click the Sel check box beside that track, you will import it again. Now, here's where your duplicates may have come from. In Hoster versions prior to 3.108, if you CHANGED the Save To Folder for what you are now importing so it is different from where you earlier imported the same song, it would create a duplicate file in the currently selected Save To Folder.
   
   We fixed this in Hoster 3.108. When you re-import over an existing file, it AUTOMATICALLY uses the same path/folder to save the new file as was used for the existing file. Thus, it will now replace the prior file, no matter where you save it to before. The Save To Folder current setting is IGNORED.
   
   
3. Illegal Swapping KMA Files - This can also generate duplicate BookIDs on your system. This is illegal, and if you are caught you can loose all your equipment, and even your car/van for transporting stolen songs.

We realize that honest customers can end up with duplicate BookIDs from the first two means above, and need a simple way to fix this.

Hoster 3.2 will automatically renumber any duplicate BookIDs found when running the Build Songs Database command. Each duplicate will be numbered the next lowest available BookID Root with the Track# of the duplicate file appended at the end as is normally done to create the finished BookID.

[lmcmains]

Thanks
I never used 2 computers to import, so that won't be the problem. I have reimported some disc's that were bad and I have changed where my kma files are stored also. So that must be where they came from.

Thanks for the reply

[admin]

Sit tight on those duplicates until 3.2 comes out.

[Eric Whitehouse]

When is Hoster 3.200 planned to be released ?

[MTUSUPPORT]

When we know more of when it will be released, it will be posted on here: http://www.mtu.com/support/news.htm

[admin]

Originally Posted by Eric Whitehouse

When is Hoster 3.200 planned to be released ?

2005

[Eric Whitehouse]

I'm sorry I got the impression 3.109 was going to have those features. I must have misread it somewhere in another post.

[xxyzz]

With the new version of Hoster (3.108) I am to am getting duplicate BookIDs , when I run the Build Songs Database. Each time I run the build song database I get "the song DB log file could not be opened, after clicking ok I then get "509 duplicate book Id's." I assume this means I have 509 duplicates, they are listed in the log file. I know there is a fix on the way soon but in the meantime when I create a new songbooks is the songbook going to be accurate? What happens if I delete the database and re-run it?