After Upgrade 4.04 Program Won't Start

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by sleflar

I always set a restore point before installing new software or upgrading for saftey reasons. I did a restore after installing 4.04. I've tried 7 different times going back to 9/12/08 settings as well. Manually removed regesitry entries and MTU Folder as well as Hoster under Program files in windows explorer. Then ran a registry cleaner.
After reinstalling Hoster it asks me to reboot. After that I start the Hoster program and it goes through building the database. After that the same thing happens ( check on line for a solution or close program) Looking at details: It says Hoster exe crashed.

Thanks

Hey Sleflar,
I'm sorry 4.04 isn't working for you.

If Hoster 3.40 (C:\Program File\Micro Technologies Umlimited\Hoster\Hoster34.exe) is not working as well, I would advise you go back to using the last version of Hoster that worked best for you.

I hope this helps.

Jim

[sleflar]

None of the 4 series will work for me now. However 34 is working.

[Skybird74]

Jim or Dale, I have a question, before upgrading my Vista.
I put 4.04 on my backup XP, so far so good, but of course it went through the conversion process of changing zips to mp3g's, which means I will need to re-add these particular files to my playlists.

Now that my files have all been converted to the 4.04 format, can these files still be read by 3.321 that I still have on my Vista? I still want to play around with the program a while.

[marklwood]

Yes, all KMA files are still backwards compatible.

[Skybird74]

I know they are supposed to be, but have you tried this yourself? My biggest concern is because of all the Playlists I have & still use constantly.

[madjim- with the Lord]

Hey Sky,
Before you do anything, save a copy of all your playlists to a seperate folder. This way if any changes happen that you dont like, you can always go back to square one.

3.321 is 3.40 (3.40 is a version of 3.321a) which is located here:

C:\Program files\Micro Techologies Unlimited\Hoster34.exe

If your playlists show HDMP3G files (converted HDZIP's), you should be in the clear. Your playlist should run in 3.321 and 3.40.

I hope this helps.

Jim

[marklwood]

Originally Posted by Skybird74

I know they are supposed to be, but have you tried this yourself? My biggest concern is because of all the Playlists I have & still use constantly.

Yes, I have tried the KMA files on a Vista machine. I didn't know you were asking about playlists. I have not tried these on Vista yet. Like Jim said, if they are not listed in your playlist as zip files, they should be fine. If they are, then I suspect they won't work.

[Skybird74]

Thanks Jim. I made a backup of all my Playlists. And, from everyone's advice, I can see that I will need to be careful with zips in the playlist, and re-add them before I do a show.

Thanks, everyone.