4.11 to 4.22- import zips

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Originally Posted by Deeter

First off, I apologize if this has been covered before, but I cannot find it in the recent threads.
I upgraded yesterday from 4.11 to 4.22. Since I went 2 weeks over my year, that cost me the $69.99. That's ok, I wasn't paying attention.
Last night I went to add a few zip file songs to the database. Found them, imported them and they function fine. No out of sync problems as previously experienced.
But in the previous versions of Hoster, the zip was converted to a kma file which was then deposited in my KMA files directory.
Now the original zip is left in it's current location and a kmh file is created in the same folder, doubling the number of files.
I learned that there is no "moving" these files, Hoster will not find them. So you must move them back, delete them within Hoster, then re-import them from another location where apparently they should reside forever.
So when loading new zips, is the suggested way to create a new folder each time in the KMA files directory?
And I am just asking- what was the reason for the change in file handling procedures between the older versions of Hoster and the latest?
Thanks

Several reasons why this was done.
1. Hoster does not recompress any file that is already compressed by another format, such as ZIP, MP3, WMA, etc. So rather than creating a second full copy of the zip adding the Hoster header to it and rendering it useless for any other program.
MTU decided to create just the Header file (KMH) and added to where ever the muzic file is located. If you haven't noticed the KMH file is very small where a KMA would have been slightly larger than the original file. So actually you are saving space on your drives by not having two large files (KMA and original ZIP) and only have one KMH (256 Bytes) and one large file (ZIP). Also if you noticed Import was extremely fast.
2. This leaves the original file as it is allowing it to be used in other programs which was a request by users.

The KMH was needed basically for Video files because Hoster had no way to import these and this proved the easiest way to set that up to allow us to import Video Karaoke files and add them to our Song Database.

I do not currently use any ZIP, MP3+G, or Videos, but I do use some MP3 audio music files. I found the easiest way to do this was to create a separate folder in the same area where my KMAs or stored to put all my Music files in. This keeps the number of folders down for the Rebuild to search to build the Songs database.
If I had MP3+G or ZIP or Videos I would do the same thing for each of them.