Consolidating Music for a back up system & KMA Vs. KMH

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by DuetEntertainment

Good day -
My wife and I, KJ locally and use the Hoster program with the recommendation of a very good KJ Friend.

My problem is that in our first set up over a year ago, we did not pay too much attention to detail on where KMA/KMH were stored and now that I am getting ready to install Hoster on a back up Laptop, I am running into many inconstencies that are driving me batty.


In our first setup:

1. Disks that were originally imported into Hoster had been saved as KMA files in the C:/MTU/KMA directory.
2. All of the KMH files were imported from many different file folders from a User directory and reside along with the original HD/Zip files in those folders.

As you are probably aware, KMA files run in Hoster without the need of the MP3-CDG file. In contrast, KMH files are really only a short cut to the original HD/Zip file that must reside in the same folder as the KMH files for Hoster to find and play.


For space, but mostly simplicity, I would like to:

• Remove all of the original music files off Laptop A & B and store them only on our back up HD.
• Have all of our Hoster music saved a single folder in the C: directory and preferrably as KMA files to ease duplication from laptop A to laptop B.

Is there an "easy" fix for turning our current KMH files into KMA files??

Is there a reason that HD/Zip files can not be imported as KMA files without having to convert to a BIN file first?

Thanks in advance for your time to read and any assistance you may be able to offfer.

Sam
Duet Ent.

Currently MP3+G cannot be imported as KMA files. There was a request with lots of support back before version 4 was produced to keep from needing to keep two copies of of the music (KMA and the MP3+G) to cut down on space used on hard drive specially for laptops.
MTU set this up so that all of the previously compressed file types (MP3+G, WMA+G, ZIP, etc) would get a small header file (256 bytes) added (KMH) which would conserve space on the hard drive.
My method of setup is to create two folders. One is all my KMA files and the other contains all my MP3+G along with their associated KMH files. This way it isn't spread out all over the place , being contained in one of two locations.

[DuetEntertainment]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Currently MP3+G cannot be imported as KMA files. There was a request with lots of support back before version 4 was produced to keep from needing to keep two copies of of the music (KMA and the MP3+G) to cut down on space used on hard drive specially for laptops.
MTU set this up so that all of the previously compressed file types (MP3+G, WMA+G, ZIP, etc) would get a small header file (256 bytes) added (KMH) which would conserve space on the hard drive.
My method of setup is to create two folders. One is all my KMA files and the other contains all my MP3+G along with their associated KMH files. This way it isn't spread out all over the place , being contained in one of two locations.

Dale - Thank you for your comment.
Your set up is exactly what I had come up with as well when I realized that the KMH files would not play without it's original Music files (MP3+G or ZIP) in the same folder location.

I would still love to hear what others have done to see if something else may work for me...

Sam
Duet Ent.