Hoster 5.07 freezes then crashes

[bburton166]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

It sounds like your problems started with 5.06 with the files missing problem.
When you install an update, if your song files are on an external drive then that drive must be connected as you install the update else it will lose the file paths to your songs.
So my first question is was the K:/Drive connected when you first installed the 5.06 version and when upgrading to 5.07 ?
Another question, why is the external "K" do you have lots of other devices connected ?

The songs missing issue is probably due to the file paths missing in the Build Songs Database list of folders. These folders can either be added individually or use the "Add Folders/Sub-folders button".
I would think if you select the "Add Folders/Sub-folders button" with none of the song Types highlighted and select your K:/Drive as that is top of the tree order, it should search the whole drive for KMA & KMH files that are already on that drive putting them all in the database as it finds them.
One problem that may occur here as you say you have 280,000 files, if it finds duplicate disc id it will not load them and with that many files this could easily happen.
If after trying the above your files are still missing and Hoster crashing use the rebuild database button. Also look in the merge duplicates feature and check in the file "C:/MTU/Hoster/MergeSongDBLog.txt" file which will give you a list of duplicated DiscIDs.

Another problem that has probably occurred here is that when install this version it creates a "HosterPrior" Icon on your desktop that is a preserved version you had before installing 5.07 so that you could revert back to this whiteout re-installing if you had a problem along with the normal icon for Hoster 5.07. Now if you re-installed this version then it would have made the Prior version as just another 5.07 copy stopping you being able to revert back instantly.
Why it is closing as you press play I don't know but it may be your database is screwed so causing problems.


If after checking the database as above you are still having problems then
as a suggestion to get things back to how they were before these problems started, try System restore to the time before installing 5.06.

Get your previous good version running correct then install 5.07 which as I stated above will give you 2 executable versions, a 5.07 and whatever version you were previously using. Then don't try re-installing over that until you get both operating correct.

Thanks for responding Roy. To clarify, my "K" drive is an internal hard drive and I labled it "K" for Karaoke. So are you saying that I need to uninstall 5.07 or should I do a complete uninstall of hoster and start with a fresh slate?