Is Hoster Pro enough?

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Originally Posted by RandyMcCharles

That's not a bad idea. I have no specific plans for burning my own CDGs for personal use, but things like that always come up. And it would be nice to create some CDGs of personal favorites.

Randy, CDG format discs are far more sensitive than Audio CD or CDROM discs. The Lyrics data is NOT redundantly stored with error correction. THus, if you get a scratch through a lyrics data area, those lyrics will be damaged.

CDG Disc Producers are ALWAYS discontinuing past made discs. Thus, many of your discs are irreplaceable. YOU NEED to make a backup copy BEFORE they get damaged. Microstudio has the best error correction in the industry. With a good drive, it can do a remarkable job of even cleaning up scratched discs, but if the damage is bad enough, it can't be fixed.

You may want to consider either Hoster Lite, or the Hoster Suite 4 package if you wanted to go for the whole deal.

As to 4.0, we are hot and heavy on it. Lots of new stuff coming. If you buy 3.321 now, you will only have the differential to pay if you want 4.0. The 4.0 price for the FULL Ripper-Hoster-SongBook will be about $50 higher. We will offer an upgrade (as we do now), which would install over top of and replace the 3.321 installed version.

We were targeting April 30 , but decided to not release until we had more of the MAJOR features added (we will have a 4.1 and 4.2 that we already know of that will be free upgrades). We are making excellent progress, and 4.0 will be a beautiful package. I think we've out done ourselves on this one.

When will 4.0 release? It's software, so that is always a vaporous answer. May 30 - June 30 is the best I can say right now. I'm pushing very hard to get it out May 30, and so far that is not unreasonable with what we want to include in it.