mp3-g and hoster

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Originally Posted by MrMark

should I take the mtu file converter and convert all these zips and mp3 g files into .kma files first? if so..lets say I had chartbusterxxx and that disc was in a zip file....do I take tha folder and those songs all at once and add a disc ID to it? and then repeat the same with all the other discs that were converted to zip files? I caling them zip files becasue when I open the folder on the disc title I get folders with zippers on themand when I open them then I get two different files.....I dont mean to be sounding incompetent but all this zip and mp3g is all new to me......please help the helpless I have yet to upgrade to 4.03 from the last 3x version....does 4.03 convert the zipfiles?

1. Run Hoster

2. Read the manual on the Import Songs > Import Hard Drive Files screen

3. Click the Import Songs menu item on the Menu Bar

4. Click the "Import hard drive files" command

5. Marklwood is recommending you use SINGLE not BATCH, and continue from there. As you make selections in this screen, extensive instructions appear for each phase. However, you should read the manual first. This is a HIGHLY FLEXIBLE screen, which means there are lots of choices you can make. That's not a bad thing, but you MUST know what you are doing before you try to make those selections. Thousands of users have found the manual helps them use this screen.

Basically, I agree with Marklwood. If you have 115,000 MP3G files, forgive me if I'm wrong, but you probably didn't import them from CDG discs you own, and probably have a WHOLE BUNCH that you have no idea where they came from, or what FIELDS their filenames contain.

What Marklwood is saying, is IN your fiilenames that Hoster WILL USE to identify the fields we need (DiscID, Track, Artist, Title), if the filename data is wrong, your Songbook and your Songs Database will have this wrong data. However, as he also indicated, you can use Hoster's Tools menu > Edit Songs command and correct the imported files... when you find the wrong data.

If you think about this, any program that will try to "categorize" your 115,000 files will also need correct data. Garbage in, garbage out. Your choice: clean up while importing, or clean up later.

Edit Songs has a powerful SEARCH capability that can find all your songs in the Songs Database based on individual fields and order them by Artist, Title, DiscID, etc. so that may help you find "misspelled" fields faster. Edit Songs "Play Next" button automatically saves any changes you made to the prior song.

Also, it has "Select Single" and "Select Multiple" buttons, so if you have a number of files that need the same correction, you can do that too. It's very flexible.

At some time, you've got to pay the piper to get your files into shape to index, find and use them.