Merge Duplicates causing Hoster to not respond

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by stefbeme

After doing my first show since we have done all the above work, I am sad to say that I am still missing multiple songs. I really feel like the best process for me would lbe to start from scratch for both computers. What would be the best process for this?
Computer #1 has Hoster 5.10 Windows 7
Computer #2 has Hoster 5.08 Windows 8

I have one file with KMA's, the remaining songs I have a zip file for these.

When I review my KMA files, there are some files marked with an extension of "pk". What does this mean and do I need to keep these files?

The pk extention I have never heard of or seen with a kma file.
I just googled the pk extension and it comes up with quote "The PK file type is primarily associated with 'Audition' by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe Systems Incorporated acquired the technology assets of Syntrillium Software in May 2003. On August 18th, 2003 Adobe released a rebranded version of Cool Edit Pro 2.1 as Adobe Audition software. Audition/Cool Edit creates .PK files which are known as Peak Files. Peak files store data associated with the graphical representation of audio data (i.e., Waveform diagram). Audition/Cool Edit has the option to disable the creation of these files, however this may slow loading, saving and re-drawing of graphical data. These files can safely be deleted and will not effect the original audio data in any way."

So have you at any time used any of those programs ?.
It does say it's safe to delete them if that's what they are.

When you re-imported them last time, did you set the field order to ignore disc id and track as I suggested ?

Are all your kma's, files that you imported directly from disc ?

Only in post #9 you stated: "When I import files on my second computer, they are a zip file on a flash drive, I copy the files onto an external hard drive, then import using KMA option."
What worries me here is if you imported them as kma files and you re scan that folder a second time with the kmh and zip buttons selected you are effectively importing the same song again as kmh file and it would register as being imported into the songs.mdb even though you might remove that drive from the computer afterwards, if it did this it would see the file as a duplicated file and remove the previous imported one as the duplicate thereby making it so that song no longer appeared.
Just speculation on my part but trying to understand whats happening in your case.


Truly starting from scratch would mean re importing them from CD so I don't suppose you want to go to that extreme.

What we did before was almost like starting from scratch apart from your existing kma files, you did say you had a load of duplicate with the (2)(3) numbers, you would need to manually delete these in Windows Explorer and any other files that are not kma files.

As you can't alter any info inside a kma file these need to be Added to the list of folders first as they have all their disc id and book id data inside them.


To start from scratch I would do the following assuming your still using version 5.10
Open the Tools Menu/Hoster Data Folder then close Hoster but leave data folder open, find the "HosterInfoIndexed.ini" file and delete it.
Now start Hoster and go to the rebuild database dialog, your list of folders to index should show a blank list, rebuild the database now and it will build a blank empty data base. If the list is not blank select whatever is showing in it and see if any files show in the right hand pane, you don't want any songs to show in it at this point.
Now assuming you have edited all the duplicated (2) &(3) copies from the kma folder and there are no other type of files except kma's in the folder, Add that folder to the list of folders making sure first none of the "Song types to index" buttons are selected.
Hoping this time it does not show too many duplcates.

If you do get any duplicated notices after adding those merge songs before continuing.
If you get loads like before report back before continuing as you need to get this folder right first.

For the KMH types:
As before open the kmh folders in Windows explorer and delete the "ImportedFiles.txt" file, important. You can also delete any other .txt files in these folders and all the .kmh files so you are only left with the original zip file or if they are mp3+g the mp3 and the cdg file.

Now use the index songs files button to open the Import Hard drive files dialog. I would set the field separators to ignore the Disc Id and track #, this should stop the problem if any of the files have identical id's to those in you kma folder or any other folders. Proceed to index as normal.

I can't think of any other tips if others can join in.