Problem Importing Customers Discs

[Harryoke]

Originally Posted by Beavis

you will not lose all the songs in queue if hoster crashes.

Thats what I thought too, but it did happen last night. I had one track enqueued from a customers disc and about four others from the KMAs, had to kill hoster, restarted and had to re-rip the customers disc.

[Beavis]

oh you mean you had imported their disc's and lost them when you rebooted. that sounds right.


bryan,
is this the way it works ? anything you import at the time of a show from patrons will be deleted if you have to reboot the computer ?

[Harryoke]

Didnt have to reboot, just had to re-start Hoster to get out of the lockup.

[George]

Copied from the Hoster manual:

You can add songs directly into your open Playlist from CDG discs Singers bring to your show.

You can import as many CDG songs as you want. They are stored as a KMA format to reduce space. These are NOT added to the Songs Database, and do not appear in your next Song Book.

You follow Copyright Law. In the USA, you cannot legally keep songs on your hard drive from discs you do not own. This Hoster feature imports CDG songs to a temporary folder on the hard drive and automatically deletes them when any of these events happen:

1-The song finishes playing
2-You delete the song from the Playlist
3-You open another Playlist
4-You exit Hoster before the songs have played

The songs are NOT deleted if the computer crashes as part of our Crash Recovery security and will play in the order they were in when the Project re-opens to continue your show.

George

[Beavis]

thanks george,

i didnt have time to reference the manual at the time of posting.

[mindonstrike]

Giving Harry advice on copyright law does not help with the problem at hand.
I think he pretty well indicated it was an act of desparation so his regular singer could perform from his disk - even to the point of having to put his show on hold.

I imported several songs into the playlist while winamp was running in the back ground and didn't suffer the same maladies, however,taskmgr indicated my processor was running at 100% during the process so I may have been right on the verge.

Harry maybe you could post some computer specs for us.

As for disks that won't import: Except for a slightly warped disk one time, I've never had one not at least try(my player wouldn't recognize it either). I've had a few that were extremely slow (some burns/ some originals) to import, to the point that I had to eject them and crash Hoster to get the next song started.

Songs imported to the playlist are supposed to still be there when you recover from a crash even if you have to reboot.Often times I have imported songs hang around 2 or 3 days before they finally disapear.
I have no idea why yours would not still be there.

Sorry I can't offer any solid suggestions to help (except maybe turn off winamp while importing). Hopefully someone smarter than I can help.

Sam

[George]

Sam,

Instead of getting judgemental, if you'd take time to read the post quoting the manual, then you would see that it explains the protection given the temporary files in the event of a crash, and clearly defines under what conditions they would become deleted, and why. This addressed part of HARRYOKE'S concern.

Your opening sarcasm is uncalled for. He was not being given advice on copywrite law.

George