Songbook

[Skybird]

Yes, just like kickinkaraoke explained. The previous songbook by Artist, puts the version info (don't think you're supposed to name the companies) right behind the name of the song, and then the Book ID#, all on 1 line. In version 3.3, under the Artist, you now get the name of the song and book ID on one line and then the version (Disk ID) on a second line. In other words, if you have 3 versions of the same song, to show that info in the Artist Book, it will now use 6 lines instead of 3 lines to show the same information.
In the song book by title, the version information appears on the same line as the song followed by the Book ID, so everything appears on 1 line instead of 2 - which only happens when you show the same songs by Artist.

[lmcmains]

I see what you mean now. I used to print my books with it printing the company disc id. I quite doing that. I try to keep only SC and CB versions in when possable. Sometimes the song in on another brand and not one of those. I reason I quite doing it that way is the singer would sometimes write down the company name and number of the disc. Then some of them ask me which numbers do I use. So I just have artist, song name and hoster id number. I have very few dup. songs in my books. I have 20,250 KMA files. The only dups I keep is for people that have been doing karaoke with me for 7 or 8 years and they are used to another version. 85% of my songs are SC or CB

[Skybird]

I thought about editing out some duplicates, but I'm not sure which ones to get rid of except maybe some newer disks. Many of my singers are used to PI and DK which is what I started out with. I'm just so afraid if I take out the newer versions that that will be the one they have been used to from going somewhere else. I just moved to this area, so I have all new singers and I am new to them as well. Any thoughts would be helpful.

[songpony]

I did the same as lmcmains - pretty much got down to a single version of a song, unless there were significant differences (in which case I'd list the difference in the song title - ie. slow version, fast version, etc.). The only dups I kept other than that were if some of my regulars had a "favorite" they were already familiar with. I dont keep that version in my books so it doesn't confuse the new people looking, but the regulars have the song # (book ID) written down that they like best.