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MicroStudio 3.004. My laptop won't recognize working folder contents correctly
MicroStudio 3.004. My Toshiba 1955 S-805 laptop won't recognize default working folder contents correctly, after I copy files from my home computer to my laptop. The .kma and .bin files are displayed in Windows XP explorer on the laptop, but 3.004 doesn't show them as being present. On my home computer, MicroStudio 3.004 reads default working folder contents correctly. Using VISTA on home computer and XP on laptop.
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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On my home computer, MicroStudio 3.004 reads default working folder contents correctly
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3.004 was so far back I can't remember. Just as a wild stab, what size are the individual files on the laptop after you copy them there? Do they show a size of 3 - 6 Mb for KMA files and 30 - 40 MB for the BIN files?
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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Yes; and, the files are the EXACT same size in both locations. No problem with the home computer recognizing them and playing them perfectly.
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BIN and KMA came into being in Microstudio with version 3.000...
This is strange...usually this could be expected with Vista, not XP. You don't have Internet Explorer 7 do you? I and others have encountered similar problems with it and went back to IE6. |
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I have IE-7, but I use FireFox. Anyway, what would an internet browser's presence have to do with 3.004's operation? Also, IE-7 is present (and used occasionally) on the home desktop computer, but it doesn't affect that computer. Thanks.
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When I saw you missing files, the possibility of it being related to the problem I had (program being denied access to folders) popped into mind with IE7. Vista proper is being blamed for a degree of stuff that's being caused by IE7, which is bundled with Vista. Take care |
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The only other outside thing I can think of is your laptop current with the Microsoft Updates from the Custom updates? Also how were the files imported and did you use Songverter to convert them to those formats? Reason I ask is there was a minor problem where Microstudio would not read some of the conversions but that was fixed in next version.
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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I didn't use songverter - I don't own it. I did, however, create these files with KHP 4.107. Again, my VISTA desktop has no problems. I always download the windows updates for the laptop whenever I get the notice that updates are available. Are there special non-routine updates that I should look for?.
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Be sure and keep going back to the Update page until there is nothing left, because patches and updates for some programs like .Net Framework will not show until the basic is loaded.
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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Well ... I feel pretty embarrassed. I assumed that the software read the folder contents all by itself. NOPE !!! I wasn't heeding the "Refresh My Songs" button.
And of course, it adds every audio file that I happen to have in the same folder to the list, so now I have to sort through that mess to determine which are karaoke files and which aren't (I often name the karaoke track the SAME as the backing track, as a bookkeeping convenience to me). My heartfelt thanks to you people who reached out to support me through this idiotic situation. Is it too much to expect, that the software would accomplish this, all by itself? Is there ever a situation where you wouldn't want the the folder's content to be up-to-date? So why, when the software starts, doesn't it look for; and LIST, the current karaoke-type files ONLY? What are those people doing at MTU to make the product perform like a "mainstream" Windows product? |
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I wasn't sure when they added the refresh button to the screen, so I didn't mention it....sorry. If you import a cd song then it adds it to the list. Also, if it is the first time you have gone to a folder with Microstudio then it creates the list.
The purpose behind making it a "manual" refresh was to prevent Microstudio from having to rebuild the list every time you go into a folder. This was included when Microstudio was given the capability to play and use KMA files to burn back to CDs. Most of us using Hoster have many thousands of KMA files in one folder. To rebuild that list every time takes far to long. If you were to update to the latest version those files (karaoke and audio) show in separate lists depending on the button you use. It also has amazing error correction for bad CDs. I have seen for myself a badly scratched CD import all of the files with little to no glitches in the graphics.
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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Thanks, again, for all your troubles. I would definitely upgrade, but they have a caveat on their site that says it won't run on laptops. I seem to be able to run the the newest version's demo OK, but I want to be sure everything is under control before I make a major leap into "breaking my fixed situation."
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I am not sure that this is true for 3.004. I actually UN-INSTALLED it (3.004) from my laptop with Control Panel, and re-installed it from the website and it still gave me the IDENTICAL old troubling "cached" folder result.
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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I got this from the 4.006 specs page: Computer Requirements
1. A Windows/PC computer with at least 2GB of free hard drive space. NOTE: Microstudio 4.001 and higher requires Windows 2000+SR4, or XP Home/Pro/Media Center+SR2, or Vista with .NET Framework v1.1 or higher. 2. Graphics video card with 32MB or more of RAM that supports Direct-X 9.0 or higher (cards with less than 32MB RAM usually don't support 9.0 - MTU recommends ATI Radeon cards). Video cards with S3 chips {sic !!} [[ or in laptop computers ]] don't support Direct-X 9.0. ....... I can say that the demo APPEARS to be functioning correctly in my Toshiba laptop. |
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Dale Douglass 2nd Generation Karaoke I am not a member of the MTU Staff.
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My Toshiba is a 2003. I can hardly qualify it as a "today's laptops", but I am optimistic. I will try to delve deeper into the video hierarchy of the Toshiba to see if it utilizes S3 chips. Also, is there a way to tell if I can utilize DirectX 9 on my laptop?
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