Import Issue - DK Applause

[RIKKI TIKKI]

Originally Posted by BEECEE

Thanks for the advice Dale.

I tried both of your suggestions without success i.e. I attempted to play one of the problem tracks direct from the CDG disk via Microstudio 4.006 and also re-imported same into Hoster 4.03.

Sorry – no joy. Clearly some incompatibility with the old lyrics player. As originally reported 18 months ago by myself and several others - this symptom is peculiar to certain DK tracks with a diagonal song title swipe.

It's more of an annoyance than a cause of major concern

Beecee,

I have two versions of Carolyn (Merle Haggard) on DK072-15 and DK Applause DK3041-12. The DK072-15 that sweeps diagonally is garbled on lyrics, but DK3041-12 plays just fine! Also tried to reload ( import ) from original DK disc in Edit mode and also on show import that you would use for clients that bring in their own disc. Same result with garbled lyrics on the DK072-15 version.

Luckily I have second, or third versions of most of the affected DK song titles, so I'll be patient while MTU gets to fixing this problem for all!

Rick
Rikki Tikki Karaoke

[admin]

Originally Posted by BEECEE

Have just upgraded from Hoster 4.02 to 4.03.

Although a number of previous 4.02 issues have been fixed (and a BIG 'Thanks' for doing so), the problem originally highlighted in this thread has re-appeared under 4.03.

4.01 and 4.02 played the DK tracks concerned perfectly. The graphics issue was prevalent in 3.310 through to 3.21A (incl 3.4) ... and has come back again in 4.03.

Ten giant steps forward ... but alas one small step back

Yes, I can see this old DK problem has returned. It was serendipitous that it worked in our "new 4.00" player. However, NOTHING ELSE worked in that player and worst of all many users lost sync between the lyrics and music. That... is totally unacceptable to us.

So, after months of striving with Microsoft's Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer (both at the core of our "new" player), we thre them out! By returning to the older, tried and true player, ALL problems (17 fixed) are now gone.

We did have a problem with the Pioneer logo in our new player, and wasted a lot of time partly fixing that. It was incredibly complex, with shifting indices we had to keep track of all the time.

Originally Posted by RIKKI TIKKI

Beecee,

I have two versions of Carolyn (Merle Haggard) on DK072-15 and DK Applause DK3041-12. The DK072-15 that sweeps diagonally is garbled on lyrics, but DK3041-12 plays just fine! Also tried to reload ( import ) from original DK disc in Edit mode and also on show import that you would use for clients that bring in their own disc. Same result with garbled lyrics on the DK072-15 version.

Luckily I have second, or third versions of most of the affected DK song titles, so I'll be patient while MTU gets to fixing this problem for all!

Rick
Rikki Tikki Karaoke

We spent a LOT of time creating our new player, and fully expect to return to using it one day. It has some superior features we will want down the road.

Thus, we don't want to invest more time to fix the DK problem in the currently used, older player. I hope you all understand. This was something that DK did that is very abnormal, and won't be trivial to fix.

Since it works in our new player, we'd be further down the road working on getting that to work without Windows Media Player versus custom coding a DK fix.

[mindonstrike]

I posted a FIX (post #9) for this about a year ago. It's not a fix for Hoster, it's a fix for the individual tracks. It sounds more difficult than it really is. It requires Microstudio and/or Songverter and Editcdg (freeware).
Perhaps not practical if you have a lot of 'em but works well for those must have or often played songs.

Sam

[BEECEE]

Originally Posted by admin

We spent a LOT of time creating our new player, and fully expect to return to using it one day. It has some superior features we will want down the road.

Thus, we don't want to invest more time to fix the DK problem in the currently used, older player. I hope you all understand. This was something that DK did that is very abnormal, and won't be trivial to fix.

Since it works in our new player, we'd be further down the road working on getting that to work without Windows Media Player versus custom coding a DK fix.

Admin - Thanks for the feedback. I understand your rationale in terms of not spending more time to try and custom code a DK fix for the old player.

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

I posted a FIX (post #9) for this about a year ago. It's not a fix for Hoster, it's a fix for the individual tracks. It sounds more difficult than it really is. It requires Microstudio and/or Songverter and Editcdg (freeware).
Perhaps not practical if you have a lot of 'em but works well for those must have or often played songs.

Sam

Sam - I didn't try your workaround previously because on first glance it looked too difficult. However ... I've just this moment successfully followed your instructions to the letter and it really was easy . Thanks!

Brian

[mindonstrike]

Glad I could help

In writing that post it seemed pretty simple at the time probably because I had just done it. In re-reading it today I thought 'man this looks complicated'.

Creating a how-to video for this to put on youtube has been on my to-do list for some time as well as using editcdg to fix the reversed colors that many early Soundchoice tracks suffer, but I keep getting distracted.

Sam