Hoster 4.11 & Songverter

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Originally Posted by nfountai

I am not sure if I have the correct thread for these questions.
I am trying to use Hoster 4.11 with Windows 7. I am confused about the use as I have all my songs in a zip format on an external hard drive. They play just fine. My laptop hard drive will not accommodate all the files from my external hard drive to be imported. I would like to keep my external hard drive as my source.

When I imported some files to the laptop to see what happens, the file names were changed and stored on my laptop. Now this is ok as now I can do a search in Hoster and find songs from the ones I imported. I can see how that works. But still all the files on the external hard drive will not fit on the laptop.

So, is it to my advantage to buy the Songverter to change all the ZIP files on the external hard drive to KMA so that the I can use Hoster to search for a song when needed? Does anyone have a clue about this?

Songverter does not help, because it does not add any BookID, so Hoster doesn't know what to do with them.
In Hoster on the Import from hard drive utility, set the "Save to" folder to a location on your external drive.
If you do not have more free space on that drive as you have used for the zip files then you need a second external to do this. Hoster actually extracts the MP3 and cdg files to put them in the KMA file, so they take a slight amount more of space than the zips.