Hoster 4.05 - The Factory Status - Released 9/29/08

[admin]

We expect to release Hoster 4.03 on Wednesday.

The lyrics are back in sync just as MTU has always provded... now for XP and Vista, and Vista 64.

The crashing bugs some users experienced are fixed.

We have temporarily suspended the "request" to convert your KMA HDZIP files to HDMP3G. You can again play KMA HDZIPs in the Playlist. Importing new ones will still convert to HDMP3G. You still cannot add ZIP files directly to the Playlist with the K-oke button.

We know how to fix the "bad" ZIP files some of you are seeing, but it will take more time than we have now. It is critical that we restore Lyrics Sync for everyone... and 4.03 does that and retains all the new Show Display features.

Look for the 4.03 announcement on the web site, and we will be sending out and email notice to all Hoster owners.

[admin]

Hoster 4.04 just released. It is a free upgrade for all Hoster 4.0x users.

Download it from the Hoster Upgrades & Downloads page.

There are 22 new features, upgrades, changes and bug fixes total. This fixes all problems that we are aware of. Hoster 4 should now perform up to MTU standards, on both XP and Vista.

We HIGHLY RECOMMEND all 4.0x users download and install it immediately.

Hoster 3.40 is still being included, and will through 4.05 to give everyone a safety blanket.

Version 4.05 will provide our new Sound Manager (required for a number of new features), Video Multiplex and any bugs reported in 4.04... although none are expected. We are "targeting" to release 4.05 by the end of October.

After 4.05, we will work on 4.10 which will have mostly NEW features that we had to postpone to get Hoster running on Vista. Depending on how many New Features we add, we are hoping to release 4.10 by December 31, 2008.

[admin]

Hoster 4.05 released on Monday. It is a free upgrade for all Hoster 4.0x users.

Download it from the Hoster Upgrades & Downloads page.

There are 3 bug fixes that make Hoster 4 run as stable as 3.321a... we think, but I'm sure someone will report another bug.

This fixes all problems that we are aware of. Hoster 4 should now perform up to MTU standards, on both XP and Vista.

We HIGHLY RECOMMEND all 4.0x users download and install it immediately.

Hoster 3.40 is still being included, and will through 4.05 to give everyone a safety blanket.

Version 4.05 does NOT include our new Sound Manager (required for a number of new features), and Video Multiplex is still not available. We tried 3 ways to get Windows to give us the audio stream while playing a video with Windows Media Player. NO GO! We are writing very difficult code now to snatch the audio stream from Windows so we can perform MUX on it.

We are again working on Hoster 4.10 which will have mostly NEW features that we had to postpone to get Hoster running on Vista. We expect to release 4.10 in early 2009.