several issues

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by no vocals

1 - bought the mtu certified disc drive (plextor 760) to import discs. some discs are almost unreadable via hoster, but they work perfectly in my jvc karaoke player..

Computer CD drives/ programs are more picky about condition of CDs than karaoke players, but once you get a good copy onto the hard drive, you no longer have to worry about deterioration like you would have with a CD and player. You sometimes need to play with the compression ratio and drive speed settings to get the cleanest copy. I have one CD that we had replaced because it consistently gave us bad imports. In testing the recent versions of HOster I found that even that bad CD imported much cleaner than it used to. Hoster is getting better.

Originally Posted by no vocals

2 - most tracks imported contain about 3-4 second of the next track once the selected track is finished. (by this i mean the selected track plays, the singer sings, the song ends and the whatever the next track on that disc was when it was imported starts to play for about 3 seconds making the audience think that is the next song to be sung. i do not mean that the next singer's song starts as with auto-play.).

This is a known bug and has been found and fixed. MTU should be releasing the update soon. (According to News page 30 November but could be a a couple days either way, depending on any other problems found.

Originally Posted by no vocals

3 - the graphics for some of the songs imported are off by a full measure when played through hoster, but when played through the jvc player they are fine...this includes some sound choice discs!)

Look under Tools/ playback Offset you can advance or retard the audio to sync the audio and graphics up. Could be a delay in your audio or video settings.