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[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.
muzicman144

[OneEskalera]

Same as Muzicman stated, it is really depend on your preferences. hoster has it if you just explore more of it's capabilities. Now I used my back-up computer to show slideshow on my background screen, someime videos using instabuttons or ad video of other people willing to provide video of their company Ad. (Back-up or 2nd computer with 4.09, I have Quad and Duo license). background screen show what's going on on the stage and dance floor using video camera.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

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.
muzicman144

i had never had a problem running a diff. program in conjunction with hoster, i used either pcdj , itunes or my herculez mk2, when i'm doing a private show, most of the time i'm playing dj music in which i use my pcdj so as not to have gaps in between songs etc. for continous play, Hoster on the other hand is what i used in what i call in between breaks,when i do a private gigs i usually asked if they want just plain dance music or karaoke , i only do karaoke when i'm asked to..but like i said never had problems running other programs ( of course not at the same time )..just a question..can you open up a playlist window without having a video glitch while the other playlist is open/running ?

[OneEskalera]

I did not have a video or audio glitches when I used my deskstop computer but with laptop yes because of shared memories.

[Skybird74]

I have been running 2 Hosters at once for more than 2 years before there was a Singers' Database, because I have done a lot of one "girl" Shows, besides Karaoke. I created lists of all the songs I sing (my preferred version & key) and named them, Country, 50's/60's, BigBand/Show Tunes, Slow, Break music & Fun songs, as well as Videos. I sing for 4-hour dinner dances where I never know what kind of crowd I'll have & what they are in the mood for. I have not had the time needed to look up all these songs again to add them to the Singers' Database. I also use them at Karaoke if there is a small crowd or people ask me to sing something in particular. I also have Playlists of my Singers from different locations. I have also done SockHops & Luaus & have Playlists created for them also.

As long as you are looking at a different playlist than the one being used for the Show & don't try to play from both at the same time, I never have any audio or video glitches.

I ran my Shows this way on my 6 year old HP laptop with XP for a year or more before I got my new Vista laptop over a year ago & do the same on it. With the new BA Player, I have to remember to Turn it Off before playing a song from the 2nd (3.4) Hoster.

[ddouglass]

The BookID is shown in the playlist Gerri so all you would need is to have that list up in one copy and add the songs to Singers database with the catagory as the singer's name. Shouldn't take that long to do it and you can even inculde the key changes.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

The BookID is shown in the playlist Gerri so all you would need is to have that list up in one copy and add the songs to Singers database with the catagory as the singer's name. Shouldn't take that long to do it and you can even inculde the key changes.

Exactly, when the singers' database first came out I had over a hundred singers with many of them between 50 -100 songs and it really didn't take that long to add every single one in. I mean it was way less than a day.