Problem Importing Customers Discs

[Beavis]

so your saying that just certain songs wont import while a singer is up singing ?? or all cd-g's wont ipmort while people are singing ??

you can play music files through hoster or just use the windows media player if you dont want to purchase DJ software.

[Harryoke]

It appears to be certain discs, but I am not seeing a rhyme or reason yet. I can understand if it is multisession or copy protected. I am not happy about it but I can understand, LOL! I am under the impression that should only affect the last track, but I am getting discs in the drawer and having them hang up on any track. And it can hang up the graphics on the person singing! That is frustrating.

Then there are times when all goes smooth...but not usually. My blood pressure goes up 10 points everytime I see a customers disc at one of my PC driven shows...just wondering what is gonna hang up.

Of course if I hang up Hoster and have to restart it, I loose all the other imported tracks in the queue.

I will need to set it up at the house and play with it to see what variable I can come up with, but I am 7 nights a week till August so any testing on my end wont happen till then...

Thanks Beavis.

[Beavis]

you will not lose all the songs in queue if hoster crashes.

i for one will not play burned cd's that customers bring in.

[Harryoke]

Originally Posted by Beavis

you will not lose all the songs in queue if hoster crashes.

Thats what I thought too, but it did happen last night. I had one track enqueued from a customers disc and about four others from the KMAs, had to kill hoster, restarted and had to re-rip the customers disc.

[Beavis]

oh you mean you had imported their disc's and lost them when you rebooted. that sounds right.


bryan,
is this the way it works ? anything you import at the time of a show from patrons will be deleted if you have to reboot the computer ?

[Harryoke]

Didnt have to reboot, just had to re-start Hoster to get out of the lockup.

[George]

Copied from the Hoster manual:

You can add songs directly into your open Playlist from CDG discs Singers bring to your show.

You can import as many CDG songs as you want. They are stored as a KMA format to reduce space. These are NOT added to the Songs Database, and do not appear in your next Song Book.

You follow Copyright Law. In the USA, you cannot legally keep songs on your hard drive from discs you do not own. This Hoster feature imports CDG songs to a temporary folder on the hard drive and automatically deletes them when any of these events happen:

1-The song finishes playing
2-You delete the song from the Playlist
3-You open another Playlist
4-You exit Hoster before the songs have played

The songs are NOT deleted if the computer crashes as part of our Crash Recovery security and will play in the order they were in when the Project re-opens to continue your show.

George