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View Poll Results: If in emergency, would you use your CDG's and cdg player in place of using Hoster? | |||
No, I would not host w/o Hoster and would cancel the show. | 21 | 30.88% | |
I would revert back to using discs for that night. | 47 | 69.12% | |
Voters: 68. You may not vote on this poll |
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I carried out conversion simply for my own convenience as it really has not made that much difference for the singers who sing with me. They still get to sing more times during the night than at the average show, and that is apparently what keeps them coming back week after week!
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Hosting With Out Hoster
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Now WHO could be mad at THAT face????
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So which came first, the chicken or the egg??/
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Well if its a question of religion or politics. We may need to look into this...maybe setup a committee. No just kidding....
Well let me put my 10 cents...I have been using Hoster for three years, prior to Hoster I used a competitor software, and found it wanting, before that I handled 500 disks and two karaoke players a JVC three tray and A DVD kararoke disk that played the competitors disks and CDG's. Slows down a show. I would handle about 15 singers in an hour, I just cut down the mickey mouse to a minimum and be ready to move on to the next singer. With Hoster, not only can I turn out 8-10 singers more an hour, I carry around a lot less equipment and no disks in the process. Hoster is quality and efficiency at the right price, and I dare say blows away the competition by leaps and bounds. I can carry my whole CD library on a WD external drive, plug it into my laptop, connect my laptop to my mixer and TV and away I go!
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Not to get off track, just curious, how? Do you limit songs timewise? Most songs avg about 4 minutes & with absolutely no down time in between would yield 15 singers maximum per hour @ 4 minutes per song?
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I was thinking the same thing Lon.
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Host without Hoster
Kinda like the 60 man rotation. In a five hour show, Using Lonman's math, the first 15 may sing twice, the rest only once. Not many karaoke faithful will sit four hours knowing they will not sing again that night.
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We still are questioning how capnvic defies our logic.
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edit: Sorry, I was on a rant there. What was the question again? |
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You are right on the money. Bryant
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WOW! LMAO!! Actually, one of the group I was referring to is actually named Liz Does she hang out with Mike? Not actually her husband, but some dude that is just her "friend".
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kowboys karaoke........Dan |
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I used to have a show on a Saturday night where I would have 30 singers already signed up when systems are go. As the night would go on, the rotation may end up at 45 or 50 singers. Using disks and a disk changer, one singer would be lucky if they sang more than twice in an evening.
With Hoster, I was able to improve the wait time, which would mean someone would be able to sing three or maybe if time permitted, four times in a night. My shows would run from 9pm to 2am back then. Now I have smaller venues, therefore, my rotations are much smaller. maybe 12 to 15 singers in the rotation. My crowds are older, so some of their song selections are less than 4 minutes. Remember prior to the late 60's, songs longer than three minutes were more the exception rather than rule. I did not mean to imply that this was always the case in my rotations. Not everyone sings American Pie or Stairway to Heaven either. Just a little info. Vic
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I voted no. But that is sorta unrealistic. With my backup laptop it hopefully keeps that out of the picture. I started back when Hoster 2.0 came out. My first laptop was actually from MTU. And if I remember at the time my laptop was the first one they ever sold where some requested dual drives in it. After a few years I put it to pasture and got another on. But then shortly afterward bought a second laptop for back up.
Proud to say in many years I've never had to use my backup. Only once a few weeks back with 4.02. But as normal, I smooooth sailing again. Being older and not having to do this for a living I would probably opt to cancel the show. Been at the same place now for almost 7 years. Like Mad Jim said, most of my 1,000 discs have only been played one time. Don't take away my Hoster. Kelly |
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Some host have stated that they would just use a backup laptop to run the show, I do not have a backup laptop at this point in time to use one. I would revert back to CDs until I could get HOSTER running again. Already had to do that when my new Dell took a digger after only 3 months (video went out) as I was setting up to do show.(Took Dell 2 months to fix this problem) All new CD's that were added to my collection were not indexed in any way, was not easy (or impossible) to find some songs that were added after HOSTER. Show went on, People were very understanding. Also CDG player is always set up in my rack and is ready to run at any time. The show went on. People don't come to karaoke to watch HOSTER run, they come to sing. And that they did. I would not run with any other software besides HOSTER, I have tried others, don't like them.
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