just upgraded to 4.11

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

First thing is if you import songs with Hoster you do not have to do either Rebuild or Add to get them in the database. They are already added in during the import.
Are you sure the right buttons are on in the search and the Duet and Mux off?
My guess is she had some duplicate BookIDs and by using the Add this changed one of the duplicates to a new BookID. Which would be why the titles seem to be changed.
I don't know of anyway to get them back to what she had once they have been changed. My guess is none of them are missing but just have a different BookID than what they had. If she searches by title for the missing songs I bet you'll find them with a different BookID.

i did searched for the title, and diff. name came up, so i search for the did title and it comes up the same name ( title ), i just removed 4.11 and re-installed 4.06. i get the same result, diff. title, missing files etc. i thought that you had to rebuilt/add your songdata base everytime you import new songs? and also why would the files shows up if using the add, and not when using the rebuilt button?

[billyo]

would changing the ext. hhd. with another drive ( back-up )and changing the destination folder from F: to E: and not rebuilding it ,would solve the problem?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by billyo

i did searched for the title, and diff. name came up, so i search for the did title and it comes up the same name ( title ), i just removed 4.11 and re-installed 4.06. i get the same result, diff. title, missing files etc. i thought that you had to rebuilt/add your songdata base everytime you import new songs? and also why would the files shows up if using the add, and not when using the rebuilt button?

No you do not have to do anything to the database when you import songs. Only if you copy KMA files imported on one computer to another computer. Then you have to Add or Rebuild.
Re-installing 4.06 is not going to change anything dealing with the database. The damage is done. I am not sure what exactly has happened but I still think she had duplicate BookIDs.
The only other thing I can think of is to delete the database files and rebuild the database from new. I would re-install 4.11 first as it did not cause this problem.

Originally Posted by Billyo

would changing the ext. hhd. with another drive ( back-up )and changing the destination folder from F: to E: and not rebuilding it ,would solve the problem?

If you do this and don't rebuild then it will still be looking on F: for the files not E:. If you change out the drive to the back-up drive she will have to re-import the new files unless they have already been put on the back up.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

No you do not have to do anything to the database when you import songs. Only if you copy KMA files imported on one computer to another computer. Then you have to Add or Rebuild.
Re-installing 4.06 is not going to change anything dealing with the database. The damage is done. I am not sure what exactly has happened but I still think she had duplicate BookIDs.
The only other thing I can think of is to delete the database files and rebuild the database from new. I would re-install 4.11 first as it did not cause this problem.

If you do this and don't rebuild then it will still be looking on F: for the files not E:. If you change out the drive to the back-up drive she will have to re-import the new files unless they have already been put on the back up.

that's what i did , she brought me her back-up drive, and i deleted the songs from her show drive and then copied the songs from her back-up , and rebuilt ,that did the trick, just in time for their show at 9pm thanks for your help/suggestions.

[billyo]

did all the work on her laptop yesterday,solved all the missing files and name changes,i played a few songs and everything was perfect, but last night at her show i got a call and she said that in the second hr. of her show the audio started skipping, she ended up using her back-up laptop with v4.06, don't know what else to do..

[ddouglass]

Version 4.11 has a lot more going on and requires more resources. This is probably building up to the point that the skipping starts.
Now it may be time to go to BlackViper and turn off some of the background processes.
You might also try the clean-up program SystemCare to help get the computer up to speed.
She may not be able to use the Background Audio or the Visualizations as those add more load.

[billyo]

she didnt have any of the skipping problem when she was using v.4.10, which she uses for 4 hrs. at one of her shows ,the only thing she couldn't use( still can't use ) was the BA since all her dj tunes are all aac's, she started having problems when she imported some songs , and i fixed that by deleting the songs from her show ext. drive and copying the same songs from her back-up back to her show drive..

[ddouglass]

Then for the time being I would stop her at 4.10 and leave it at that as long as she was not having the crashing problem with it. And if she was seeing that then go back to 4.09d. The only changes 4.11 made were to fix the crashing some were experiencing, fix some Edit tool problems and the BA volume control so it should not be any different than 4.10 outside of those items.
Is she playing any of her DJ tunes during her shows? If so then that would mean she was running another program along with Hoster 4.11 or 4.10. I know there are conversion programs out there for AAC that she could convert them to MP3 so she would only have one program open.