Questions 'bout this Program

[Roy Dennis]

Which view are you trying this, you cant sort columns in the main playlist view only from the search view or the edit view. If the book Id column isn't showing in those dialogs right clicking first on the header brings up a selection of columns to display then clicking on a header will sort it.

[Rockrz]

Originally Posted by bryant

Some times you have to click on it twice, maybe three.

That isn't working...

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

Which view are you trying this, you cant sort columns in the main playlist view only from the search view or the edit view. If the book Id column isn't showing in those dialogs right clicking first on the header brings up a selection of columns to display then clicking on a header will sort it.

All I know is that I'm importing songs and adding them by selecting the numbers in the drop down book ID and clicking the ADD button below that.

Each time I add a disc of songs, I add them to what appears to be a playlist that does not show the Artist just the song title.

At this point, it looks like Microstudio is the better option for hosting shows since it shows title and artist and I can easily sort by title or artist like you can do in a spreadsheet.

Hoster is better for importing since I can control song / artist titles

[kod]

Originally Posted by Rockrz

That isn't working...

All I know is that I'm importing songs and adding them by selecting the numbers in the drop down book ID and clicking the ADD button below that.

Each time I add a disc of songs, I add them to what appears to be a playlist that does not show the Artist just the song title.

At this point, it looks like Microstudio is the better option for hosting shows since it shows title and artist and I can easily sort by title or artist like you can do in a spreadsheet.

Hoster is better for importing since I can control song / artist titles

The Playlist is where the Singer's sing from, and as Roy pointed out, you cannot sort from there.

Also, although the Artist does not display in this view, MTU is working on it being displayed in a future version.

[Rockrz]

It's not really a problem... I think Microstudio is going to be what I'll have to use when hosting a show.

[Roy Dennis]

I don't think your grasping how Hoster works, you do not load all the songs into the playlist only the ones that a singer has asked to sing.
You can't enter any singers names into Microstudio or keep records of your singers songs and the search features of Hoster far exceed those of Microstudio.

I suggest you take a look at this video showing Hoster as used in a show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaesDiPdco

I should watch all the way through as it shows various ways of searching and adding to the playlist, if only watch the first few minutes you won't see any different than your doing now.

[Rockrz]

This is why I was wanting the song ID numbers to be lined up in numerical order so I could require singers to include the song ID number when signing up, that they would see next to the song in the songbook that I would print out and make available to them.

For singer convenience, I'd really rather prefer that they simply tell me their name and the artist and song they want to sing... and Microstudio provides this capability.

Don't know why Hoster cannot have the option to do what Microstudio can do as a feature since some like being able to simply see their entire songbook on the screen and be able to quickly sort by song or by artist

Either way, I can use Microstudio for shows and Hoster for importing music from CD+G discs which I'm doing in KMA format. I hope KMA files are better quality than MP3+G files are.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by Rockrz

For singer convenience, I'd really rather prefer that they simply tell me their name and the artist and song they want to sing... and Microstudio provides this capability.

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So does Hoster if you use it right, did you watch the video right through ?

I'm dumfounded by your statements

If you really want to use it like your explaining with all the songs listed in order for you to find then you could actually do that in the search dialog by entering a wild card "*" for the search string it would then list the whole database in the search dialog with the artist and sort by which column you double click on. Then double click the song in the list you want to play to send it to the playlist.
Not how I would want to work but that's up to you.