Merge Duplicates causing Hoster to not respond

[Roy Dennis]

First off I see nothing wrong with the way you added new songs providing they were new songs that had not been imported before, example on another computer.
If they were songs that already had a kmh header attached or a kma file imported using another computer this could cause conflict.

Are all your music files on an external drive ?
If they are first off I should exclude the C:\ drive, make sure there are no folders showing in the list of folders for the C: drive.

Have you at some time added songs using another computer ?
If so adding tracks this way can confuse Hosters Book Id or Disc ID numbering as one computer doesn't know what ids were used.

As there are no files listed in the "MergeSongDBLog.txt" file is probably because none have been merged.

You need to identify the folders the duplicated files are in. Open the "BuildSongErrors.txt" file and it should show something like: Book ID, Title, Artist, File Path, and and Type (Kma or KMH), note down the main file path excluding the title artist part, are most of them showing the same file path, in other words are the majority from the same folder ?
Hoping they are as this can make things easier.

Next note down a Book ID and type that book id into Hosters Book id field, does another song show for that same ID ? if so that is where the conflict is, add that song to playlist, right click on song in playlist and select edit from the dropdown.
This will show that song in the edit dialog, note the Disc Id, if it's a true disc Id copy it from the black disc id window at the bottom noting the track # then using Windows explorer paste that into the search box of the drive containing the song files and see if it finds that track, if it does note down the folder that the song is in.
If the disc Id is not a true disc Id like XYZ0xxx then you will have to just search on the title which can make it harder to identify if you have multiple choices but if you play the song from the playlist you should be able to recognise its brand thereby helping identify the track.
Now repeat the above with a couple more of the songs listed in the .txt file and see if the majority are in the same folder.
Hoping that they are exclude that folder for now from the rebuild list.

Now you say the files in your quarantine folder are all just numbers, I would assume in that case that they are kma types, if so open Hoster Tools Menu/Hoster Data Folder/Quarantine folder, do the files numbers correspond to any of the disc Id's in the .txt file?
If they do close Hoster but leave the quarantine folder open.

You need to copy these files back to their original folder, If they are kma types I would assume they are in one folder so this should be no problem.

Assuming things are as I stated and not masses of problem folders first rename the .txt file just in case we want to refer to it again for backup purposes, Hoster will ignore it if you rename it, start Hoster and rebuild the database making sure the problem folder or folders have been excluded, also make sure none of the "Song Types To Index" buttons are selected so that it will only index the previously indexed files. If there are still problem files it will re-create the .txt file.

See how you get on with that first then come back it may be you will get a few duplicated files but hopefully a lot less than previously.

If that goes alright I'll try and guide you through re-importing the problem folder.