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Old August 14th, 2009, 06:28 PM
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Editing song.mdb

Seriously! We can't just edit the songs in access? Hoster does not read the update db?
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Old August 14th, 2009, 09:22 PM
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Seriously! We can't just edit the songs in access? Hoster does not read the update db?
Since it can be complicated and easily screwed up I think MTU officially frowns on it so you would do so at your own risk.
You can PM me if you have questions.

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Old August 15th, 2009, 02:36 AM
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Seriously! We can't just edit the songs in access? Hoster does not read the update db?
Just editing the database in Access does not make the changes permanent. When you rebuild the database it rebuilds from what is in the KMA header. If you rebuild the database without doing the step to put the change into the KMA, then all changes you made in Access will be gone.
The fact that this a complicated procedure is why it isn't recommended by MTU. The best way and most sure way to do any changes is with the Edit Songs utility within Hoster.
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Old August 15th, 2009, 11:19 AM
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Editing songs

Editing songs in hoster is tedious at best. No multiple edit so you are limited to editing one song at a time. By exporting to excel or working in access you can edit a whole column case and be done with the touch of one edit.

Just very frustrating!
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Old August 15th, 2009, 11:41 AM
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i agree with Dale, i do my editing on hoster , it's a long process doing it but it's safer,
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Old August 15th, 2009, 04:19 PM
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Editing songs in hoster is tedious at best. No multiple edit so you are limited to editing one song at a time. By exporting to excel or working in access you can edit a whole column case and be done with the touch of one edit.

Just very frustrating!
You are partially correct. There is a multiple selection, however it is currently limited to Language, Genre, Multiplex, etc., but not Title, Artist or Brand.
The next release will have the addition of those items plus possibly DiskID (still negotiating that with MTU) in the multiple selection.
You are correct that it can be a bit frustrating, however MTU tries to protect us from ourselves by not allowing us to make changes that can cause major problems and even crashes in Hoster.
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Old December 11th, 2009, 04:00 PM
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Editing songs in hoster is tedious at best. No multiple edit so you are limited to editing one song at a time. By exporting to excel or working in access you can edit a whole column case and be done with the touch of one edit.

Just very frustrating!
Hoster 4.11 (released earlier) allows changing Brand, Title and Artist in the Edit Songs "Select Multiple" view.

Try it... you'll like it.
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Old December 13th, 2009, 01:01 AM
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I like to know on the mutiple edit section does it still force you to write Language and Genre fields like in 4.6 or can these fields be bypassed if not needed?

The reason I'm asking is because, if you're editing a large amount of files and don't need to edit the Language and Genre fields it becomes very time consuming in grouping these fields to write the changes one group at a time.

If the option to bypass these fiels where available then you can process the entire batch with no additional work one shot.

Is this possible now?

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Old December 13th, 2009, 02:58 AM
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If you leave them blank then they won't be changed. That goes for the rest of the fields as well.
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