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[blizzardboy]

Disc ID - Track - Artist - Title. They are perfectly matched. Also when you don't have the parameters correct you will get an error stating that the parameters are not correct. This is telling me I need to select a brand name when I have already put one in there. But every time I hit add files the brand name I have selected disappears and the error message saying select brand name appears. We are certainly talking about 2 different things.

[ddouglass]

The question then is do you have only one brand in the folder? And keep in mind that there are multple Chart Buster types like Essential 450, Essential Plus 452, etc. Each of these are classified as a Brand name. So you will have to put in the brand name for each one of the discs, that is why it asks multiple times.
The best way I can see to do this is to copy each discs files to an "import" folder, import them and then delete them from that folder and copy the next discs files in.
Another option would be to create a folder for each disc.
Maybe someone else can come up with a better way, but this late at night I can't think of any other way to do it.

[blizzardboy]

I again worked around the problem. Here's the thing, I was choosing custom assembly and hoster was taking that out of the selection and asking me to select a brand. Custom assembly is one of the choices. It has worked in the past even when I had three different manufactures. But all of a sudden now it was not working. As for creating a folder for each disc. That would work great if Hoster had the ability (like any other kj/dj program out there) to search sub folders. I have spent a great deal of time taking all of these files out of folders and sub folders. Dale I appreciate your efforts and the efforts of other users to help me but it bothers me that MTU support does not answer any of these posts. On a forum for a program called OTS which is music and not Karaoke so does not compete with MTU works much differently. There support team monitors and is very much a part of the forums. When there is a technical problem they are right there. I have read many posts on this forum and it seems to me that importing files has quite a few problems. It is quite frustrating.

[ddouglass]

If you use custom assembly then you need to "Ignore" the discid in your names and assign your own. Also you cannot do a custom assembly with more than 99 tracks and the track # cannot be a duplicate one, so you may need to "Ignore" that too. This is why it is asking the questions.
As far as MTU answering these forum posts, they do, just look around at the many posts by Admin and MTUSupport, but they are stepping in when the rest of us can't figure out the answer. Most of the time problems are solved by other users who have had experience with your problem. MTU is not a giant corporation that has a large support section.

[blizzardboy]

Dale you are saying that you can't do custom assembly with more than 99 tracks and that the track number can't be a duplicate one. Well I just did it with 1507 files with out any messages coming up. As far as MTU not being a large Corporation with a large support section. I can understand that but the company I mentioned before is probably smaller than MTU.

But I than post to you the ultimate question: I have 60,000 zip files. They are all in the format of Disc ID - Track Number - Artist - Title. 15 different manufactures. I want to retain the Artist, Title, and manufactures name and disc ID i.e SC8800-13, MH1011-12, CBEP464-1-07 What do I put in SELECT BRAND? What do I put in DISC ID? What do I put in BOOT ID ROOT?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by blizzardboy

Dale you are saying that you can't do custom assembly with more than 99 tracks and that the track number can't be a duplicate one. Well I just did it with 1507 files with out any messages coming up. As far as MTU not being a large Corporation with a large support section. I can understand that but the company I mentioned before is probably smaller than MTU.

If that corporation is less than 3 people then yes it is smaller.

What I was trying to say and may not have made clear is there can only be 99 per BookID. Did those 1507 files have Brand name in the title as well?

Originally Posted by blizzardboy

But I than post to you the ultimate question: I have 60,000 zip files. They are all in the format of Disc ID - Track Number - Artist - Title. 15 different manufactures. I want to retain the Artist, Title, and manufactures name and disc ID i.e SC8800-13, MH1011-12, CBEP464-1-07 What do I put in SELECT BRAND? What do I put in DISC ID? What do I put in BOOT ID ROOT?

This is not a custom assembly then. I would still not try to do 60,000 at once. It could be that your DiscID for some may not match exactly what MTU has in their database. If the DiscID is not recognized then it won't know the brand name either. Which would be why it is asking.
Don't assume that all won't work. It may only be a few that aren't in the database. That is why I say try working in smaller groups of say 1 - 2 hundred to start.

[blizzardboy]

None of these files had Brand Name in the title. I used a great program called KJ Manager to clean up any disc id irregularities. It checks for extra spaces, makes sure that all files are in the same format etc. Dale if I have to work in smaller groups I would be dissapointed. I have read similar posts on this forum where people have had the same problem. Just like those people I was under the impression that you can batch import any number of files into Hoster. It says right in the manual that you can. As I said before I appreciate your efforts but it is frustrating that I can't contact support. When I first bought this program I spoke to someone at MTU named Doug. I had many technical questions that he answered. This was because at this time I was helping make purchase decisions not just for myself but for 2 of my brother - in -laws and two friends including 2 licenses for myself. At that time had I known that there was no phone suport or this much difficulty we would have not made the purchase. All of the people I mentioned are having the same problems importing in Hoster. They have not the time nor the patience to sit for days or weeks to get a problem solved. Some of them have abandoned the program and moved on. They tried to solve the problems by reading the manual but have been unsuccessful. 2 of these guys are computer guys for a living and understand what they are reading. The final conclusion here in my humble opinion is that hoster has flaws in it's importing process. One of the other posts I was talking about was with a user named kevinkennedy back in December. His problem sounds pretty much like mine. The threads on that post ended after a week with semingly no resolution. You were involved in that. Was there a resolution?