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Song Database Issue
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???
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when did you upgrade to 3.321 and what did you upgrade from?
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Because of Vista, MTU moved the location of your database. You probably have 2 copies.
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Song Database Issue
I beleive it was 3.118 but I am not certain. I have searched my entire laptop but have not found a second database, with the exception of the bucket database, and I do not have access to that database. Is it possible Hoster is working directly with the bucket database now and the songs database is bypassed??
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Funny thing is
the funny thing is I went to import a few extra songs as a test. They imported fine, hoster picks them up and they work fine. I go into the songs database and they are NOT there. Hoster is currently NOT using the songs database it was using prior to the upgrade.
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Look in here.
C:\MTU\Hoster It used to be stored in C:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster in the older 3.1xx versions, but they had to change that for Vista around the time (or after) 3.118 was released. They are using the songs.mdb currently.
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edit: Thanks, Lonman. You beat me to it. |
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access
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.
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Please read the manual Songs Database topic to solve your "misunderstanding" problem. As others have stated, Hoster still uses the Songs.mdb database it builds, but it is now stored in a new location required by Microsoft!
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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 |
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Loneman
Loneman, you are the man! Hard to understand how or why a database would be replicated. It looks like I have about 10-15 discs to go back and backfill data on. Now that I think about it, I might just import the few new files from the new database to the old database, then move the old database to the new spot. Either way I now know I am not going insane. Two thumbs up Loneman
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replication
It seems as though it replicated the old songs database, and the reason I believe this is I had added a few columns in that old database, (quality, date song was added, Vocals, Comments) and all these columns were in the new database. No worries, I am in the process of squaring one of them up and making sure it goes to the correct folder
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