Loading Hoster Twice???

[ddouglass]

Version 3.4 was never intended to be a permanent addition, but was included because of all the Vista problems when 4.0 was released. Now that it is stable 3.4 has been removed from the installer. Sounds to me like you need to spend some time moving all that information from playlists to the Singer's Database.

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Version 3.4 was never intended to be a permanent addition, but was included because of all the Vista problems when 4.0 was released. Now that it is stable 3.4 has been removed from the installer. Sounds to me like you need to spend some time moving all that information from playlists to the Singer's Database.

Little by little, I'm getting there! I only recently started working again, after my husband being in & out of the hospital so much this year. And now so much time is needed to puchase & import new music & add new song lists to my books, besides a little testing.

[OneEskalera]

This is the reason why I still used 3.4 (3.321). I could open as many playlist I want to up to 6 with out affecting the singer display. Haven't really tried on 4.09 because on too much resources needed plus some gltches on audio. But my back-up computer was capable of doing this with 3 playlists open, but just haven't tried it on actual show. Like I said before show computer stll working perfectly fine.

[Skybird74]

Originally Posted by OneEskalera

This is the reason why I still used 3.4 (3.321). I could open as many playlist I want to up to 6 with out affecting the singer display. Haven't really tried on 4.09 because on too much resources needed plus some gltches on audio. But my back-up computer was capable of doing this with 3 playlists open, but just haven't tried it on actual show. Like I said before show computer stll working perfectly fine.

As suggested by Dale, I opened a 2nd Hoster using 4.1B28 - and resized the singers display to make it very small and sit on the desktop out of the way. So, it does work! However, just practicing caused it to crash several times, which may or may not happen through a whole Show using 3.4. I agree with you, that it's probably because 3.4 doesn't need as many resourses to run along side of 4.xx as having another 4.xx open.

[OneEskalera]

Hang on there, I could do 4.09 to behave like 3.4 with as many as 6 playlist open but you have to turned off everything on 4.09 just plain playing of playlist songs and musics and really could not do song searching with out audio glitches, but with powerful deskstop computer running faster cpu and big memory and good video card with at least 1gb video ram will do the trick but maybe 4.10 will not need this. For now just keep practicing on runnning 3.4 with as many 6 playlist opened for almost no-interruption show.

[billyo]

why would you have so many playlist open ? is this just to have a break in between singers ?

[muzicman144]

Originally Posted by billyo

why would you have so many playlist open ? is this just to have a break in between singers ?

I keep as many as 5-6 playlist open as i do a one man show. One list may be a counry show, another 50 R&R, 70-80s, an Elvis set, etc.. The list could be longer, depending on where i play.
An average KJ show i could see where the KJ would use only Hoster for Break music, karaoke list, personal song list, and maybe a couple of specialty things, easily reaching up to 5-6. IMHO I personally have never seen the need to use any other program besides Hoster to run a show when you run it this way, but, to each his own.
Seems a lot of Hoster users were not even aware you could run multiple Hoster screens at once. I have always wondered why some use Winamp, etc. after seeing a lot of problems reported using Hoster in conjunction with other players simply for break music.
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