merging kma files

[rmryanjr]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

This thread was a bit confusing so this may or may not apply


In the past whenever an issue has occured at a specific KMA it ended being a corrupt file causing the problem. remove that KMA and try again. Possibly a too long artist or title name.

understood but, some of the folders that did merge did ok and if there was a problem with a file or files it would complete the remaining file merge and create a error file. I then looked at the errors and fixed acordingly. The other point is that if I'm merging kam's how do I know which file it is. All the kma's are designated by disc Id (win xp file name) so there is no indication that the title or artist name embedded in the kma is too long. If you know what the char limit for title and artist name please let me know..I then can rebuild my DB and adjust those long names. I'll try using MS to open the files and check for any extremly long title/artist naming.

I have been experimenting and have been succesfull in merging 12046 kma files I then created a songbook and looked at the bookid numbers assn'd the those kma's. I was surprised to see that the number scheme used a root id of "1" (101 bookid) then the next number used was "2" (201 bookid) for the second kma file resulting in the last number used 9999901. Based on the way it numbered the kmas Im at the limit of 1 million files. The boobkid numbering should have use "1" as the root for the first one. example, 101,102,103,104,105, ect then 2001,202,203,204,205,206, and so on. It's dropping all the availible numbers between 101 and 199 before using 201.

This all being said I have updated every hardware driver and firmware for all my hardware and software on my lptp. along with all win xphome updates and drivers ..even found an update to the "ntdll.dll" error i'm getting b4 Hoster shuts down. I don't experience any other problems with any other MTU product or any other process in hoster. Just this one thing.

Thanks for you're input
Bob