Blending DJ music and karaoke

[tiggallen]

you can do it either way but if u do it off your computer you gonna need a sound card with to outputs so you can assign on to hoster and one to which ever prog. you dj from

[S. Parks]

I use Hoster and Windows Media player side by side with no ill effects. soon Hoster is supposed to support WMA files, and we'll be able to load up tracks in Hoster (I think) and just do it all from one program. I'm not sure how hoster will interface with the WMA data base if at all, but back to your question, the two programs play well together on my system. As for the sound card thing, you can get away with it on a normal sound card by just minumizing the program not in use. You can toggle between the two app's without any sound loss that I have noticed. hope this helps.

[tymzend]

I was looking at more of a blend. With a single sound card, I obviously wouldn't be able to leave WMP playing music while trying to use Hoster. With the dual sound card, I would be able to do that.

Maybe for now, I'd be best just queuing up a CD and letting it play in my player.

Thanks folks.

[Wallymeister]

JJ,
If you just want filler I would just use WMP(Windows Media Player). If you have all your DJ stuff on your computer this is the way to go. If not I would cue up a CD in player and do it that way. Just open both Hoster and WMP and alternate back and forth between the two. Just dont be playing both at the same time.

You can use WMP with a CD also if you want but if you want to play 3 songs on 3 discs, you'll have unload and reload dead space time.

Check it out!
Hope this helps
Wally

[George]

If you don't mind a bit of work up front, and want the end result to be all in one program, simply import your .wav files from disc to the hard drive as CDG's(not audio) with Microstudio. They then can be burned back to a disc as cdg's and imported into Hoster and saved as kma's. Use Unknown Brand and give them id's that won't interfere with the regular cdg tracks. You can then work them into the playlist as you desire, saving work at the show.

George

[jsmith]

tymzend, are you using a laptop?

[Nitecat]

George.....don't they show up in your song books, if you do that? Nitecat Karaoke

[CochrellGary]

I use ITunes with Hoster. ITunes has it's own volume control. I can fade out ITunes when I have started a karaoke track. You can also just leave ITunes running, with the volume turned down, and when the karaoke track has finished just bring up the volume on ITunes. It works great for bumper (filler) music and DJ tunes. The ITunes library is seperate from the karaoke library. Both programs run simultaniously and use the same sound card.

Gary

[S. Parks]

Yes itunes works great too, I use it when there's songs that I can get anywhere else. Windows media player (version 10) has it's own volume control well and can be faded in and out without effect to Hoster. Both programs have there own search engine, so if you don't want to mix your WMA's with your KMA's, and have them show up in your book, then you can just install them in either program and use their very efficient seach engine. I'm curious to know how the next release of Hoster will address these issues, looking up existing WMA's etc. I wonder if we'll have the option to tell it what folder to look in, and build a WMA data base based on what it finds there, then also have Hosters seach cpabilities. Anyone know and want to weigh in on this one? Actually I have ran all three programs simultaneaously without any negative effect to any of the programs, all from one sound card. Come to think of it, it would be really cool if Hoster had it's own volume fader in the program. (Just thinking out loud)!

[gduns - with the Lord]

windows media player has a volume control on the bottom of the screen. You can leave a song playing on media player when you start your karaoke file, and it will keep playing with only one sound card. then fade it out with the volume control on media player. I have been using it for a year. I have bpm studio that uses a different sound card. and it is good for strictly dj, but for a mix media player works great.