Music Maestro copying into hoster a problem?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Dean-Anthony

So what you are saying is that because I use the storage unit for all my songs and copy all my songs in the storage unit, it is running slow waiting on storage unit information.
If I had a large enough hard drive on my computer (more that 90 gig), I would be able to copy faster.
When storage unit (500gig) was new, this did the copying very fast!

No that isn't what I am saying. I am saying that it slows down when the memory (RAM) gets hot (as Dell said) it shifts what normally would be in memory to a temporary location on your C: drive (internal). The computer can read data from the RAM 10 times faster than it can from a hard drive. That is the reason for the slowdown. A larger C: drive would not help. More memory might help, but I think the cooling fans would help more.

This has nothing to do with the external drive/storage unit. Not that it wouldn't hurt to defragment that storage unit sometime soon. That would speed up retrieval of song information when you play them.

[Dean-Anthony]

ok that is new infor on the defrag of storage, and I will try the base fan for laptop. Do you have one of the base fans for laptop yourself?
Thanks Dean

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Dean-Anthony

ok that is new infor on the defrag of storage, and I will try the base fan for laptop. Do you have one of the base fans for laptop yourself?
Thanks Dean

I don't use a laptop...don't trust them. I build my own systems because I can then get exactly what I want including extra, quiet fans.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

I don't use a laptop...don't trust them. I build my own systems because I can then get exactly what I want including extra, quiet fans.

Same here! Plus desktops are much more upgradeable.

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Same here To.
HP D530 sff and compaq EVO 510 sff small and very upgradeable.
I have Laptops For Backup i carry to shows, JUST IN CASE

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Dean-Anthony

ok that is new infor on the defrag of storage, and I will try the base fan for laptop. Do you have one of the base fans for laptop yourself?
Thanks Dean

Dean,
Check out the Vantec LPC-305. I think this one could helpful, isn't expensive, has a variable fan control (help with noise) and is AC powered where a lot of them are USB powered which sucks up battery.

[Dean-Anthony]

Just received a new lap for the show, has Vista, which takes a little while to get used to at first. Now that I am on third week, I am realizing Vista is better than XP for the video and the sound quality.
I love laptops, and now that I defraged the system and checked a little further keeping up with the database and songbase, all is working much better. Watch me on helloworld doing the newest of karaoke live on the internet and soon TV.

[WaltR]

I have not had a problem with Music Maestro and find their sound tracks to be pretty good. I think for awhile there was an issue importing the last track but I believe that has been fixed. I thinks Music Maestro had more Elvis Presley tracks than anyone. By the way, I have heard that Music Maestro is no longer in business. Has anyone else heard this?

[Lonman]

MM has been out of business for a little over a year or so. They were allegedly producing tracks without obtaining the proper licensing. Not a big loss to me, I found many of their tracks to be very midi sounding. Some songs were done quite well I do admit to SOME of their country discs were ok & anything that sounded like it was midi on the radio was done ok, otherwise..... .

[WaltR]

Originally Posted by Lonman

MM has been out of business for a little over a year or so. They were allegedly producing tracks without obtaining the proper licensing. Not a big loss to me, I found many of their tracks to be very midi sounding. Some songs were done quite well I do admit to SOME of their country discs were ok & anything that sounded like it was midi on the radio was done ok, otherwise..... .

Thanks for the info. As an Elvis freak, I was disappointed to hear they went under. I believe they have produced most of the Elvis songs that he recorded. I was hoping they would continue until they did all of them. Oh, well, maybe someone else will do it but I doubt it since this would not be beneificial to most karaoke shows.