I Have Hoster/Laptop Questions and Hope You Have Answers

[capnvic]

Well let me answer some of your questions. The Compaq Presario laptop will handle Hoster just fine, try to limit the programs running in the background to very little. Disable some of the Anti virus and firewall programs if you know how to do so... Suggest that you load the Karaoke songs on the external hard disk drive so that you don't run out of space, or get a bigger external hard drive. I use a 160 GB external and I have over 500 disks and have yet to use up the disk space.

I would not recommend copying the excel spreadsheet to your Hoster Access datbase file. Yes it will take time to load the CDG's to the hard drive, but once you get the hang of it, the time will pass quickly. Don't forget that Hoster will allow you to generate a new songlist and port it to Word or to Excel. You will also find Hoster's editing features work well in version 4 than in V3.

This is a start, so good luck....

[KaraokeJohn25]

You can also Load all your songs Or the ones you want in Microstudio and then import them into Hoster using the import from Hard Drive feature. Did you use Micro Studio to make your compilation disks? If you did you possibly have the songs on the Hard drive already! Then it is just a matter of finding them in the Microstudio songlist, and following the import instructions. I used to have to do that to get the last song on Multi session disks before using Hoster 4.0! Micro studio and Hoster do work well together
Hope that Helps!
John

[KaraokeJohn25]

I forgot to mention that Hoster works great at home. You can have all your songs at your fingertips and make practice lists You just have to check the box in the tools section keep songs after being played. I use my laptop to practice at home all the time. I have a practice list that has songs from many different disks that way I don't have to continually swap disks and risk getting them scratched, and I can start at any song on the list. It is great, makes practicing a lot more fun and less time consuming. I highly suggest Hoster for home use.
I would also suggest that you just import all your songs from your original disks and then make up playlists of the songs you want to sing, and not worry with your compilation disks. You never know mabe one of your freinds and family would want to sing a song that you did'nt put on you compilation disk, and then you would have it right at your fingertips with just a few keystrokes.

John