Crashing on multisession import

[UPNext]

I've tried the workaround using Microstudio and the results are not good. Granted you do get the file imported but the quality of the graphics are poor.

[S. Parks]

I've never had problems with poor graphics. Perhaps it is your choice of recording media or your burner.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Microstudio will give you clean graphics. If you are getting bad graphics, this is probably the brand of Blank CD's that you are using or the drive is breaking the graphics up. If Hoster is working with Clean graphics then it has to be the brand of discs that you are using for Microstudio.

[UPNext]

My experience has been the following:

I used Microstudio to import the last track on the multisession CD's to the hard drive. Microstudio hangs and the program has to be aborted but the file does get created. When that file is imported into Hoster it works but the graphics are consistently poor quality. I tried an entire set of new Chartbuster CD's and got identical results. I changed the CD Rom drive and got the same results.
When I used Disc Juggler to create a custom CD of just the last track of all the Chartbuster CD's it created an image on the hard drive of just those tracks. I then used Disc Juggler to write that image to a CD. I then imported all the tracks into Hoster without a problem and the graphics were perfect.

It seems to me the Microstudio and Hoster are probably using very similar code to read in the CD+G tracks and the multisession discs are not being handled correctly yet. Microstudio sort of works but still has a problem or it wouldn't hang when reading the last track. I'm sure this will get corrected by MTU but in the meantime what I have described is a way I have found to successfully import the last track on multisession CD's with excellent results.

Maybe the graphics problem I experienced is because I have a slower CPU running Microstudio and Hoster (750MHZ), I don't know. I guess that if the workaround works for you, thats great, if not here is another potential way of getting around it until 3.2 comes out. At any rate I am thrilled with Hoster and the whole suite of MTU products. Keep up the good work MTU!!

[Island Extreme]

Using Microstutio and not selecting the extra track at the end works. If there are 15 songs on the CD there will be an extra track. Select all but the last track (it is uncessessary)- I backed up my multisession discs with Microstudio and used the backups to import in to Hoster and it worked PERFECT! Microstudio would freeze the computer on the last track but it was recorded perfect.

I never experienced the bad graphics problem. Perfect everytime!

[G-Force]

MTUSUPPORT,
This is not the first issue/problem regarding multisession discs and 3.110. see here...I think you missed this thread. We are still waiting for a resolution. http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?t=6216