Disc ID question

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Lonman

I doubt I will ever go paperless. Glad that it works for you, I like to have the slips turned in - not an old habit, but a preference.

lonman,
I'm not saying that everybosy should do as I do, there is more than one way to skin a cat. I've been paperless for three years now. I believe this has helped my show be successful. I was recently dubbed The Karaoke Guru of Valdosta Ga. by a local nightlife magazine. http://www.madjim.com/madjim/eleventhour2007.html

You will stop bringing your disc to a show for back-up soon. I have a second hard drive in my machine with a full system backup. If the main hard drive fails (this has never happened but better safe than sorry!) I open the machine, make the back up drive the main drive and carry on. (I understand that a second internal hard drive is not possible for laptop users, YET!)

Hoster never looses it's playlist so there is no need for back-up, paper copies of the songs requested. In the three years that I have been using Hoster (four to six nights a week) it has only crashed once and I believe it was due some changes I made in my system NOT HOSTER. When it happened I made an anoucement, (tip your bartenders...) restarted the program and carried on. Most folks didn't even realize it happened.

I try to buy the best version of each song I can get (I find that Sound Choice is not always the best) so I only have one copy of each song in my collection (just went over 10,000). I find that folks who prefer a particular version of a song bring their own discs and I just load their copy into Hoster for them to sing. If I like their version I will buy it and take my old version out of the collection. In the rare cases that I have two versions of the same song (I'm not against this!), I will make a note of it in the Title so it shows up in the book and in the Singer Name Display for everybody to see.

Example:
All That Jazz - Movie.......................Chicago
All That Jazz - Broadway..................Chicago

You could use system like this:

SC = Sound Choice
CB = Chartbusters
ST = Star
etc...

Crazy - SC.....................Cline, Patsy
Crazy - CB.....................Cline, Patsy
Crazy - ST.....................Cline, Patsy
etc....

I'm not trying to change your system, just letting everybody know what works for me.

Jim