Songbooks

[Doug Bracey]

I like the hoster songbook program because of the book id feature i just type in the book id and viola the song is there.
I also still use the big old pioneer laser disc but only because some of the versions are good.
So what i do is keep a separate laser disc songbook in my booth for the people who i know sing the laser disc versions.
Yes its a little more trouble but the customers are the reason i'm there
without them there wouldn't be any need for me.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

I like the hoster songbook program because of the book id feature i just type in the book id and viola the song is there.

Another reason I can't use the Hoster maker, I do prefer the disc ID (and not just an added line in the title line). Right now Hoster can't list the Disc ID instead of the Book ID (at least give the option to choose). Hopefully in the next release. And (well at least I can't find it) an easy way to delete selected duplicates out of the book but leave them in the searchable database.

[Doug Bracey]

Lonman do you know of anybody who has converted the old big pioneer laser disc into cdg's and then was able to import them into hoster?
At one time they offered the pioneer laser disc versions as cdg's but they didn't last very long and now i can't find them at all.

[Lonman]

No but I know someone that did transfer them down to DVD or VCD I believe. I have no clue as to how that works or how to do convert them to make them work in Hoster.

[Singsation]

Originally Posted by Lonman

No but I know someone that did transfer them down to DVD or VCD I believe. I have no clue as to how that works or how to do convert them to make them work in Hoster.

I transfered my laser discs to mpeg 2 by recording off my laser player onto a recordable dvd player using dvdrw. I used rw's so you can the edit the disc putting chapters where the tracks would start. By now you have backed up the laser disc onto dvd. Next i used a sony vaio and DV gate software ,(DV gate free on vaio)to import them to a hard drive, I tried a lot of software to do this but the sony DV Gate reads VOB files and automaticly creates a mpeg file at each chapter point and will allow atomatic numbering eg. 301-A-01, 02,03 etc The only problem i had was in the uk we can only get (at the time) pal region recorders. Now the pause screen on the laser disc player is pal60 and the playback is ntsc so the disc recorder wold not record the two formats together. I tried several dvd recorders to do this as pal 60 is not true pal and alot of recorders would just record a rolling picture. I used a phillips dvd recorder in the end, as it was the most reliable. This may not be a problem in America as it's all ntsc. Takes along time though but three or four discs a night whilst doing something else soon goes by. The other thing to considure is file size 2500 lazer tracks Mpeg 2 good quality is 400 gig. Hoster 4.10 will allow you to import the tracks, but its just as easy to search using the current player. Tried to convert to divx just takes too long. Hope this helps.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Doug Bracey

Lonman do you know of anybody who has converted the old big pioneer laser disc into cdg's and then was able to import them into hoster?
At one time they offered the pioneer laser disc versions as cdg's but they didn't last very long and now i can't find them at all.

The only way I'm aware of is to use a TV capture card in your computer and then physicly connect your laser player to the inputs on the card. I've had to use this method for a few DVD music videos that refused to let me rip them.

My card (a cheap crappy one I wouldn't recomend) saves it as an mpeg file which you can use as is or convert to something smaller like wmv or avi.

At this point in time video cannot be imported into Hoster however they can be added to the playlist and played using the video tab at the top of the playlist.

[Beavis]

hoster songbook is the only way to go !