How many unique songs in your songbook.

[kilith]

Originally Posted by bryant

Kil, you're simply amazing. The math states that you have ppl questioning you about specific karaoke manufacturers 3 times a day, 7 days a week, year round for 10 years straight. maybe you only gig 2 or 3 times a week, then that becomes 10 times a gig every gig, WOW!! Unless you have ten new ppl every gig, asking that same question every time, that's hardly likely. I mean you must have some regular customers who must get sick of asking it over and over.

You're math is amazing, too.

Remember, experience cannot replace education.

Your math is horrible. You have 52 week in a year. Working 4 times a week you take 10,000/10 years you get 1000 then take 1000/52 you get 19.230/4 gigs a week and you get 4.807. Even at 3 gigs a week it is only 6 times a night. Now that I have listed in my books the brand behind I am asked very little.

I have new singers at every gig. My system is well known in the Minnesota and Nothern Wisconsin area. So I get 30-60+ crowds at almost every gig.

For you in your little Maine area where the gigs are not that big and you are unable to make very much money you just do not have the type of crowd I have. I know a few of the people that come back every week but I also have at least 10 or more new peple at every gig that next week. In Wisconsin which is a huge tourist area there are new people there ALL the time.

Also you have what you have said switched around as well. Education can not replace experience.

Not really sure what your problem is bryant and I have not once cut you down like you have in your last post torwards me. Only thing you have done is proved that you dont know math otherwise you could of figured out that 10,000/10=1000 and 1000/52 = 19.230 and 19.230/4 = 4.807 and that 4.807 does not equal 10.

[bryant]

rough estimation, no need to be precise here.
1000 a year divided by approx. 2 gigs x 50 (might miss a couple) = about 10 for 2/wk or 6-7 for 3/wk: you said six for three gigs/wk, pretty close actually.

Must look at significant figures too.

[bryant]

I agree, I was the first one to state that education cannot replace experience. Will stick to that, too.

Remember, It's all good.

[horseshoe]

I see no reason for personal insults.

I too have many singers who want only Sound Choice or Music Maestro music. One of them is a 'Boy Singer' for a big band and only sings certain versions of certain songs. He is absolutely great and I try to please him, since he is one of my most popular singers and people flock in to hear him. He wants the very best rendition he can find of the original, and listens to all of them before finally settling on a version he wants to sing from then on. I give him a few seconds of all my versions to listen to on headphones until he finds the best one for him. Then I keep a copy of his request, and also give him the song number and company to keep until the next time he sings.

Several singers have their own CDs and want that version only. Since I no longer use CDs or have any way to play them with my laptop, I try to have their version on my computer if they are regular customers. That means I buy a new CD that I don't really want quite often just to satisfy my customers. Then they request only that version once I have it.

I suppose some folks are just superior in their minds and want to show all of us how dumb the rest of us really are.

[kilith]

Originally Posted by horseshoe

I see no reason for personal insults.

I too have many singers who want only Sound Choice or Music Maestro music. One of them is a 'Boy Singer' for a big band and only sings certain versions of certain songs. He is absolutely great and I try to please him, since he is one of my most popular singers and people flock in to hear him. He wants the very best rendition he can find of the original, and listens to all of them before finally settling on a version he wants to sing from then on. I give him a few seconds of all my versions to listen to on headphones until he finds the best one for him. Then I keep a copy of his request, and also give him the song number and company to keep until the next time he sings.

Several singers have their own CDs and want that version only. Since I no longer use CDs or have any way to play them with my laptop, I try to have their version on my computer if they are regular customers. That means I buy a new CD that I don't really want quite often just to satisfy my customers. Then they request only that version once I have it.

I suppose some folks are just superior in their minds and want to show all of us how dumb the rest of us really are.

How are you unable to play their CD's off your laptop? If you are running Hoster you can do that and it is very easy. Also once you have their one song in Hoster ready to go you can give them their CD back. Once the song is played and they sing it the song is deleted from your computer.

The way you do this is right next to the video box or right under help there is add track. There are many buttons there. KMA CDG AUDIO MP3G and VIDEO. Click on CDG, imput the track number, and type in the song name (just so you know what song it is when it comes up) Hit add track and it will look like it is importing it but it is not. It is only making a temp file and then once it is played it goes bye bye. You do need to import between songs and it only takes about 15 seconds. This way you do not have to go out and spend money on CDG's you do not need to please that one person.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by horseshoe

I try to have their version on my computer if they are regular customers. That means I buy a new CD that I don't really want quite often just to satisfy my customers. Then they request only that version once I have it.

I do that as well for the regulars. And once in a while I put up a request sheet and guarantee to purchase any song available by request. It gets expensive but keeps
ppl coming back. I just gotta learn to charge more, I guess.

[horseshoe]

Killith, I don't use Hoster in my business. I use every other product MTU makes, but have has such good luck and service with a competitive product that I haven't changed.

I may someday change to Hoster because I read all the forums about it and feel it is a great product. However, I drive only Fords because I have had such great service from them, while I haven't experienced that degree of liability from other brands. This is the way I feel about my hosting program. As long as they supply what I want and need, I will not throw them under the train.

As much as I love Microstudio, I almost didn't buy it this time. I posted several times last year about the inability to use it on my AMD64 dual core computer. If you search the forum you will find those posts. I was told I would get a free upgrade when it came out to make up for the fact I purchased it and it would not work on my system. When the new version came out I never received anything telling me I would get the upgrade at no charge, so I decided to bite the bullet and buy Microstudio 4.0 anyway. It works great and I am happy with it. However, when I ran into a problem with my 'other brand' hosting system, they called me on the phone to try to resolve my problem and when they had fixed the problem in a new version, they send me a free upgrade along with a nice thank you letter. Those things are hard to forget.

I know this is off topic and am sorry for it. It is not a flame at MTU in any way. However, since you tried to help me, I though I should be honest with you. By the way, I can play CDs, but my karaoke ladies are kind of hard to train and get frustrated with something new, so I don't let them know all the things we can do.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by horseshoe

By the way, I can play CDs, but my karaoke ladies are kind of hard to train and get frustrated with something new, so I don't let them know all the things we can do.

Then they need to be trained better until they can do it! If my host can't do something, they don't work until they can.