Song Database Issue

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by lrn4569

Help! I upgraded to 3.321 and now I am having problems. I am used to being able to go into the songs database and edit song names, artist, etc. I have been in the process of rating the quality of each song and inputing the ranking in a new column in the songs database. When I upgraded everything seemed fine. But then I realized that the hoster software is no longer using the songs database. I had to reload a couple songs, and they show up in hoster, but do not show up in the songs database. I tried changing the names of a few songs (as was able to doin the previous version) and went back into hoster and the changes I made did not show up. It seems as though hoster is now using a hidden database or something. A databse that has all the songs from the original database I was able to make changes to and have those changes reflect in hoster. What is going on???

Thanks in advance for advice

Are you using Access or some other database program to do this editing??

[lrn4569]

I am using the microsoft Access songs database Hoster originally set up. In the past (before the upgrade) I could correct song names, artist, etc. Before the upgrade I could go into the songs database and make changes, then go into hoster and see the changes. Example: in Hoster I would search by id for "All Summer Long", I would notice the song name would be Aal summer long, a typo was apparant. I would go into the songs database and find the song, correct the typo, then search in hoster and find the record and see it as corrected. Now no new records are importing to the songs database, and If I make any corrections to any records in the songs database, those corrections do not show up in the hoster software. When I added a couple extra songs, they did not even show up in the songs database, however Hoster did find and play them just fine.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by lrn4569

I am using the microsoft Access songs database Hoster originally set up. In the past (before the upgrade) I could correct song names, artist, etc. Before the upgrade I could go into the songs database and make changes, then go into hoster and see the changes. Example: in Hoster I would search by id for "All Summer Long", I would notice the song name would be Aal summer long, a typo was apparant. I would go into the songs database and find the song, correct the typo, then search in hoster and find the record and see it as corrected. Now no new records are importing to the songs database, and If I make any corrections to any records in the songs database, those corrections do not show up in the hoster software. When I added a couple extra songs, they did not even show up in the songs database, however Hoster did find and play them just fine.

Any changes you make to songs.mdb are not permanant (not written to the kma file) until the song is pulled up in Hoster's edit song screen and have the changes "applied". I don't know enough about these to know if an added column would also be saved to the kma header.

The 3.318-3.321 period was when MTU was looking for a more Vista tolerant location for some of the files including songs.mdb. When it did this I don't think it copied the old one. I think it re-reread all the KMA's header info and created a new one . That may be why all your changes gone.

Sam