microstudio 4.200

[mrmacjr]

i downloaded 4.200 and reuilt the database and it wouold only recognize about half of the songs i had in the database;. 4.006 would reuild all the database. is there a problem in the new updates??

[billyo]

Originally Posted by mrmacjr

i downloaded 4.200 and reuilt the database and it wouold only recognize about half of the songs i had in the database;. 4.006 would reuild all the database. is there a problem in the new updates??

you shouldn't have to rebuilt your database, i didnt when i got done upgrading , all i had to do was to re-start my pc and when i opend ms all the songs was there ( still )

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by mrmacjr

i downloaded 4.200 and reuilt the database and it wouold only recognize about half of the songs i had in the database;. 4.006 would reuild all the database. is there a problem in the new updates??

No problem that we know of. Actually you don't rebuild the database (that would be Hoster) but refresh the listing side of Microstudio (there is no database just a TXt listing). It is only going to show one folder at a time and only karaoke KMAs or audio KMAs depending on which you chose.

[mrmacjr]

i used the wrong word i refreshed the list after installing 4.200. only half of the songs were present in the list. to give an example AH8002 has only one song on the list. in 4.006 all were present. i have about 29,500 in there and about 14,000 are missing. i use this same computer as a back up for hoster to run shows. I am not sure what happened but on my computer 4.006 worked better.

[ddouglass]

Are all your 29,500 files in one folder or are they separated into sub-folders?
Are they all Karaoke KMA files or are some Audio KMA files?
When you start the refresh does it say processing _ of 29,500 or does it say processing _ of 14,000?
When it finished processing them did the pop up window saying Success or did it say there were some errors?
If there were errors look in the folder where your files are and there will be a file called FileErrors-Karaoke-List.txt that will list what songs files it couldn't read. Those may have a header problem that Microstudio can't read.

[mrmacjr]

yes while refreshing the file (all the songs are in one folder) it has a box show the progress while you are refreshing the folder. then a box will pop up showing how many were refreshed and how many had problems. for an an example disc AH8002 has one song that was refreshed but the other 14 had problem. I have had this disc in this folder for several years and all previous versions of microstudio had no problems with this disc. I may need to delete 4.200 and reload 4.006 because it had no problem and all my songs were in microstudio. thanks for any help

[ddouglass]

In that case I wouldn't rebuild your Hoster database because you may find the same thing. The problem is not with Microstudio 4.20 it is with the KMA files that have problems (corruption?) in the header part of the file.
Nothing was changed in the refresh function of this upgrade.

[cgentrytx12]

I just installed 4.20 and did a refresh because some of the songs I imported into Hoster yesterday didn't show up. When it refreshed it said that over 5000 out of 30,000 had errors. I have never had this problem until upgrade. Any Ideas? Thanks!

[ddouglass]

What I have found using a Hex Editor is that those files that Microstudio are rejecting apparently have errors in the header. It appears some information is missing. I will report this to Admin tomorrow morning and see what they can figure out.
I am afraid the solution is to re-import those files as that is the only way to correct them.
Faster solution is to edit the songs. On mine I fixed the genre (normally don't use or pay attention to this) and then applied the change. This resaves the file and header which fixes the problem.
There were some changes to the header added with the Hoster 4.0x versions and I think this is what Microstudio is looking for. As the ones I have this problem with were imported quite a while ago.

[cgentrytx12]

I have never had this problem until I upgraded to 4.20

[ddouglass]

MTU is looking into it. Part of the problem concerns the fact that they made some changes to the hearder for KMA files in Hoster after releasing this version of MS. Going back to a previous version isn't going to help that as you would have the same errors.
Rebuilding the Hoster database may show the same errors too as it appears the header files of those that error out are not right. The 19 that I had all had spaces in the header that should have had data instead. By editing the files in Hoster and changing the Genre, saving the change, then changing it back and saving agin I was able to quickly fix those files.
Are any of those 30,000 songs you have Audio only (DJ) files? If so they will not show in the "Karaoke Files" but will show in "Audio Files" instead.

[cgentrytx12]

They are all Karaoke files, no audio.