Importing CDG to Hoster from Microstudio

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by cccolvin

I have about a terrabyte of Microstudio files that will not import to Hoster unless I rename them. Throughout the last 5 years or more, I have backed up with Microstudio to my harddrive, all of my original disks. In hoster, I tell it the Brand, ID and tracks but it refuses to import unless the tracks are named exactly right. You could have told me how to name my files 5 years ago! Please make a new radio button "Ignore - Tracks" for the import tracks command. Maybe I have missed something, but I have not seen anything like this in postings. Work around?

Don't need a button as you can change the parameters for the import to ignore the track once you have selected the information order from the left side.
Wow, that is a lot of hard drive space! The real question is if you have all of your originals, why would you want to import from five year old backups that even MTU's technology for importing wasn't the quality it is today?
Do yourself and your singers a favor. Import from the originals into Hoster (version 3.314) and you will have the cleanest possible graphics and the best sound quality around.

[gduns - with the Lord]

Dale,
It sounds like he has all of the .bin files uncompressed on the drive, that is why it would be so big, and the quality will be perfect, as it is uncompressed.

However, If converted to .kma files, does it actually compress the .bin files, or leave them fullsize? If it compresses them to full .kma files, then they would be very small less than 10% of the size they are now.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by gduns

Dale,
It sounds like he has all of the .bin files uncompressed on the drive, that is why it would be so big, and the quality will be perfect, as it is uncompressed.

However, If converted to .kma files, does it actually compress the .bin files, or leave them fullsize? If it compresses them to full .kma files, then they would be very small less than 10% of the size they are now.

Gary,
Do you really believe the quality of Microstudio's import from 5 years ago is as good as it is today? I know it isn't so I recommended to go back to the source. And Hoster does compress the full size BIN files when importing to compressed KMA.
Besides his saved files are CDG not BIN (I know they are the same)