Importing songs problem.

[ddouglass]

TKelley3,

I am a bit confused. When did Hoster ever have an import speed control? You can control the amount of compression Hoster uses to save the KMA files, but not the speed of reading the files from the CD. In fact those speeds you are talking about are the recording (write) speed not the read speed for the drives. I have used a Plextor 716 through all the updates and the only thing I have done is to use the lowest compression to help the Chartbuster cheapies to convert with less spots.

Have you tried cleaning your disks and the disk drive?

"I noticed that you must now insert the disk into the burner (mine is a Plextor PS-708UF and my other one is a Plextor PS-716UF) before you click on import."

Are you refering to the import from a singer's disk or the Import from CD for importing your CDs? If you are talking about from a singer's CD, I have never noticed this, but now that I think about it I always have put their disk in first and then selected CDG.

For your paying for the upgrade, Admin will have to tell you how to get credited for that, but when they say the upgrade is free then you need to check your account history for your previous purchase. If it doesn't show the upgraded version in the download link, then you need to contact them (through here) to get it fixed before paying for it.

[tkelley3]

I am a bit confused. When did Hoster ever have an import speed control? You are not confused as Hoster does not have an import speed control but something in the code must have changed during the import process with version 3.3xx. The upgrade has caused many spots and globs to the point that the song cannot be read on the screen. As for cleaning the disks, I can do that but these disks have NEVER been played and have only been used to convert to the Hoster format. With the old program 3.2 there was not a problem. Something has to have changed and as I said, I can import them into Microstudio at a slower read speed and then import them into Hoster with no problem spots? I did not have to do that before. I am using the 128 compression.

Yes I am referring to the import from a singer’s disk. I always put the CD into the drive and clicked on import and the CD would close and import. It was a quick way (OK, lazy) to save a step of pushing in the CD button to load the CD. I do like that connivance and I also used it (CD going in) to make sure the CD would read disks during the show. I put the CD into the CD drawer but do not close it. I select the track and type in the song and click on Add and in goes the CD, the track is read and I am done.

Something has changed with this update and I really need Hoster Tech to look at it. Of course I could be out of my mind and nothing has changed. I do wonder then, why I had so many CD’s that had spot problems with this version and NO problems with the 3.2 version. Same disks and same program?

No one else has noticed this problem??

tmk

[ddouglass]

I don't have an answer for you. I don't believe that part of the code for the main import was touched. One other thing I suggested above was to clean the drive. I have had case where the drive was causing the spotty problem and cleaning it did help.

I do know that part of the change in the last upgrade was to fix the singer's import because it was causing the program to crash. SO it is possible that in fixing that they caused it to not close and read the disk automatically.

[lmcmains]

I just imported CB60350 and 30057 which is the newest Chartbusters and they were fine. I didn't have any spots or (snow flakes). I am using a home built Shuttle computer with an AMD 2800 processer 1gig of memory and a Plextor 716A drive. Hoster 3.303.

[tkelley3]

Thanks for the reply's. Try importing Chartbuster E5 disks 28, 29, and 30. I had to slow down the read speed on these three disks to 2x so they would import into Microstudio and then into Hoster. Before I slowed them down I could not even get a good copy to use. (I used disks before Hoster and NEVER took the originals to the show. This was for scratch and steal safety on my part.) These are just three of the disks that I had problems with in Hoster AFTER my move up to 3.303. I have re-done all my CB disks but if I can recall any other disks I will post them. DDouglas was correct in saying that this is a READ problem and not a write problem. Hoster is reading the disks at too high a speed for these disks. (This is my opinion here!) tmk