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The Best Karaoke Player Software is Video Hoster®
The Professional Choice to Run KJ/DJ/VJ Shows
Video Hoster CDG Karaoke Player Software on a Windows computer enables you to run professional shows so efficiently you'll have more time to joke with and encourage your singers.
Shipping since 2001 with numerous upgrades, Video Hoster was developed for Karaoke Hosts who want to go all digital with MTU's proven ease of use and reliability.
- Easiest to learn and use whether you are a tech guru or non-technical
- Save your back, hips and knees, no longer carry suitcases of discs to shows
- Run unlimited show rotations in one easy to use playlist... all weekend if needed
- More singers on stage per hour than ever possible
- Instantly add songs, even while someone is singing
- Reduced stress allows you to encourage and joke with your audience and singers
- Rip tracks with pristine quality lyrics, even scratched discs are cleaned better than CD+G Karaoke Players show
- Play from your computer hard drive keeping your master discs safe
- Import MP3+G, ZIP, WMA+G, and BIN files to play just like your imported CDG disc tracks
- Import tracks from singer's discs, returning their disc before they walk away. Imported tracks auto-delete after playing, yet safe until they play.
- Play Karaoke songs with Video and Audio intermixed VCD, DVD, MPG, AVI, WMV, MP3, WMA and more formats
- Find songs fast in the professional database, so fast many Hosts no longer use Songbooks
- Instantly change key pitch when singers request it before or while performing
- Save repeat singers songs with individual key changes to add instantly as they walk in the door
- Crash recovery quickly and safely with the current song ready to play automatically!
- So much more...
Video Hoster® 4.11 Models
| Feature Differences | Lite | Lite Duo | Hoster | Hoster Quad |
| Append Playlists | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Remove Leading/Trailing Silence | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Background Audio Player | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Talk over Background Audio | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Prepare Song Books | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Install on different computers | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Video Hoster 4.11 Models | $98.80  |
$178.80 |
$229.99 |
$429.99 |
| Add to ship software on CDROM | $12.00  |
$12.00 |
$12.00 |
on CDRom |
| Video Hoster® Suite 4 on CDROM | SAVE $110! $349.99 |
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| Ruggedized Laptop™ PC with current Video Hoster® | $1899.99 |
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Questions? Contact us and view our MTU.Community Hoster Forum.
Read On For More Details...
Click here to read all the changes from 4.09d to 4.11.
Stand Alone Software
Video Hoster does not require any other programs to import your karaoke discs, show your lyrics, run your shows, or change key. It does NOT use a USB security "hardware dongle". It has a true Database to automatically index and find your imported songs. All features are fully integrated; fully supported by MTU who has the highest rating in the industry for customer support. Unlike other software on the market, Video Hoster is completely self contained. No need for other converters, players, or vendors. All you need is Video Hoster! Video Hoster 4.xx recognizes most CD/DVD drives available today. However, to be certain your drive will work with Hoster, click here to download the Demo version, or buy a CDG Certified DVD Recorder from MTU.
Built-In CDG Disc Importing
Import your Karaoke CD+G disc tracks to your computer hard drive using most any CD/DVD drive. These files will appear better than files from any other importer. Amazingly, even scratched discs will clean up better than new. Impress your singers with the flat-out best quality lyrics available. Even those pesky last tracks on multi-session discs quickly import as compressed KMA files, storing twice as many as MP3+G at the same quality. A 120GB drive can hold 27,000+ songs, and a 250GB over 55,000. You can identify Artist, Title, Language, Genre, Duet and Multiplex parameters to instantly find the exact song you need, indexed in the provided Access database... able to store over a million songs.
The new Easy importing takes songs on your hard drive and converts them to KMA files without you doing anything. Just start it up and walk away or run it while you sleep. You can later edit any missing fields for the songs you play. It's a real time saver for those with many songs on a hard drive, so you can be playing much sooner than with Advanced importing Hoster that is still available.
Import Karaoke BIN, CDG, MP3G, WMAG, ZIP, and Audio MP3, WMA, WAV Files
You can convert these Karaoke and Audio file types on your hard drive to KMA files indexed in your Database and Songbooks. Import only a Brand-DiscID at a time, batch import up to 99 files at a time, or enable using sub-folders to batch convert tens of thousands at a time. Bad files are detected, logged into an errors file, and not imported to insure your shows remain professional.
Integrated Local Database & FreeDB Link
When importing your Karaoke CD+G discs, Hoster's local database automatically fills in the tracks Title and Artist. For discs not in the database, the FreeDB website is checked to fill in the track fields if the DiscID is in their database. If not found, you can quickly enter the names with the new auto-complete feature for Artist and Title. Typing a few characters scrolls the lists to the name you are looking for, or helps you enter a new name that appears from then on. The Local database is now being updated monthly, available on-line for monthly download, or by ordering an update CDROM. NOTE: User DiscID submissions are sent for MTU review and included with each new version. Music and lyrics are not included.
Rotation Playlists
Your open playlist shows the song rotation order of upcoming singers and their songs. You can add songs while a singer is performing, skip a missed song, play any selected song instantly, and move songs to change their place in the rotation. Create pre-loaded Playlists that you perform often, or add requests anytime singers submit them, which automatically delete after they finish. You can instantly load songs your regulars sing (for this show location) that skip over until they arrive. Unlike other complex software, Hoster has one playlist that can hold Karaoke, Audio and Video songs to play in any order. It doesn't get any easier. Version 4.11 allows appending playlists together to create super-shows or to add a dance mix routine to your Karaoke show (full Video Hoster only).
Play Karaoke Files
You can add KMA, MP3+G, WMA+G and ZIP karaoke file types directly from the hard drive into a Playlist, including KMA files imported from a USB Flash Drive. Key change them as needed. You can also import these and BIN, CDG and ZIP files as KMA compressed files that appear in your Song Book, and search and instantly add to the Playlist.
Play Audio Files
You can add MP3 and WMA audio file types to the Playlist in any order. Move and delete them while a Singer is performing to change your rotation, and key change them. You can also import these and WAV files as KMA compressed files that appear in your Song Book (or hide them), and search and instantly add to the Playlist. You can choose what appears in the background, including the Windows Media Player gyrating "visualization" images.
Remove Leading/Trailing Silence
Do you use two CDG players always cued up ready to start at the music to skip the time wasting silence? Now you can run a tight, high energy show by skipping the leading silence in Title page and the trailing silence during the Credit page, but done automatically on every song. You first process your KMA files to automatically set the Start point where the leading silence ends and audio begins, and the End points where audio ends and trailing silence begins. This normally takes between 2 to 10 seconds per KMA song, depending on your computer. You can interrupt this process at any time and files already processed do not need processing again. Along with the new Fades and Background Audio Player, this feature will really snazz up your shows (full Video Hoster only)!
Background Audio Player
Clicking Bkgnd Audio button displays the Background Audio Player screen where you can control music playing when Hoster is not playing any songs. This replaces a MP3/WMA Player for music you could fade up on your mix console when the Hoster song stopped playing. However, Hoster's BA Player is fully automated once you set it up, fading up and down for you as Playlist songs start or end. The Talkover button drops the background audio to your adjusted level so you can talk to your audience, then click it back off and the background fades back up in a quarter-second (both in full Video Hoster only).
Play Video Files
These Video file types can play from the hard drive: .dat (VCD), .wmv, .avi, .dvx, .qt, .mov, .mpg, .mpeg, .m1v and .m2v, using the normal play controls; Start, Pause/Resume, Stop, Restart, Skip. Live Key Change and Multiplex can change while songs play.
Play Singers Discs And USB Flash Drives
You can add and play tracks from CDG discs or USB Flash Drives your singers bring to your show. Video Hoster imports these songs to the hard drive so you can immediately give their disc or Flash Drive back. You can move the songs in the Playlist while a Singer is performing to change your rotation if needed, and change their key (and tempo in 4.20). These files automatically delete when played, or when you close Video Hoster, but if the computer crashes, they are safe and ready to play when Video Hoster comes back up.
Live Key Change
You can key change songs in half-steps for the Singer's voice. When a song rotates to play, it automatically sets the key you entered from their request, from their saved Song in the Singers Database, or you can click the Key column in the Playlist and change it. More often, singers don't know the key until the song starts. Then, clicking the live key change buttons instantly changes the key anywhere in the song. Key changes does not change the tempo speed.
Play Multiplex Songs
When CDG songs have the music on the left and music+vocals on the right channels, when you import the songs you can set the vocals to not play, or edit them at any time. When they play, the vocals are removed. While playing, if the singer is panicking and out of sync, you can enable the vocals, then silence them again when the singer is in sync again. Without this, they may bolt from the stage and never sing again. Instead, you will protect their dignity and they will return to your shows for more.
Play Your Own InstaButtons™
You can create instant playing buttons with audio or video files defined to play when the button is clicked. You can define the background color, the button title, the order from left to right as well as the file to play. This is a great way to excite your audience and Singers, bringing them back to your show.
Fast Song Search
Find any song your singers request... when they "won't" use your Song Books. Search on any database field or combination of fields. For example, if you select to search on Title and Artist, entering "Chapel" could show "Crying in the Chapel" "Chapel of Love" and "The Chapel Singers". Karaoke and Audio buttons narrow your search to only one type, or both. This dialog can remain up or minimized while running a show.
Singers Database
You only need to type a Singer's name once. All names are automatically saved so typing a few characters will scroll the list to any name. When you add a song under a Singer, you can save it to the Singers Database, including any Key change they want. Then, using the Singers dialog you can find a singer, see their songs and add one or more to the Playlist with a few mouse clicks. You can sort Singers and their Songs by date to see who is active, or to remove songs they no longer sing.
Beautiful Show Display
Hoster 4 defines a new standard for what your Singers and Audience see. It gives you tremendous flexibility to snazz up your shows. The new Show Display has four views; Intermission (shown), Lyrics, Audio DJ, and Video VJ. Views automatically change based on what is playing, or Intermission when silence would happen to provide a visual and aural environment. You can show/hide a scrolling Marquee with selected preset messages or type in new ones, and show/hide the list of Singer's Names to perform, showing fewer in the Lyrics and Video views, and more during Intermission or Audio Views. Show/hide the elapsed time or clock time so your Singers are ready when it is their turn.
Dual Displays
If your computer supports dual display, you see the Playlist with its Preview Display on the computer monitor, and the Karaoke lyrics for your singers on the TV. While singers perform, you can add new requests, skip over singers who are absent, or move them in the rotation. If you don't have two displays, Video Hoster shows your Playlist when not playing, and the Show Display Lyrics View while a song plays.
Show Next Singers Up
The Singer Names Display shows the Singer and their song title, and the next 1 to 15 Singers in your show rotation and their songs. Make it appear below or above the Lyrics Display during a performance, or appear between songs. Set it up and it runs automatically each show. When you add a singer to the Playlist, they automatically appear and rotate as Singers finish. You are truly free to interact with your audience and singers because your next singers automatically come to the stage.
Create Your Song Books
Video Hoster (not Lite models) includes one of the most advanced Karaoke Song Book programs available! Prepare your Song Book by; Artist or Title or identify your Inventory for new purchases; by Lastname or Firstname first; showing A/The at the start or end; show or hide these fields: Title, Artist, unique BookID, Brand, DiscID, Track, Language, Genre, Duet, and Mux. Create and add new release pages as you import new discs to keep your books current without reprinting. Create "special pages" by any group of Language, Genre, Duets, Multiplexed Vocals, or Karaoke or Audio file types. Pages export as Rich Text Format (RTF) files for Open Office, Word, Wordpad or other programs to format and print.
Crash Recovery
Just like your CDG Player, computers will eventually crash. The question is what happens to your show when it does? First, all Video Hoster playlist changes immediately save to the hard drive, ready when it restarts. Second, the Playlist that was playing automatically re-opens when Video Hoster is back running. Third, tracks from singers discs you imported are ready to play from the hard drive. Your show rotation continues! The most you lose is 3-5 seconds to restart Video Hoster, or the computer restart time. No other karaoke show software has auto-recovery; you loose everything when they crash. It just doesn't get any safer!
Manual
Click here to download the Video Hoster Demo with Manual onto your computer. Clicking Hoster Manual on the menu bar opens it in your Internet Browser. This includes "How To" sections for most often used features, and 193 images. Main images have "imagemaps" that jump you to the details of any feature you click, such as; buttons, fields, windows, and menu commands. We have tried to answer every question users have asked us over the years. It's in there!
Installation & Security
Video Hoster can install on your show computer AND a backup computer any number of times, for a total of TWO (2) computer installations, while the new QUAD product installs on 4 computers. Video Hoster Lite installs on ONE (1) computer, and the new DUO product installs on 2 computers. Your computer must be on-line to the Internet (even dial-up) to register, but this is not required to run. Click here to read our Privacy Policy.
Competitor programs that use USB dongle security will refuse to run if the dongle fails, breaks (it sticks out the back or side), or is stolen. If the dongle Manufacturer goes out of business (it happened in the 1990´s) and you need a replacement dongle, your software will NEVER run again! Many companies using the dongle security will go out of business (that too happened in the 1990´s). If your computer is running, Video Hoster is running.
Read about moving Video Hoster or Lite and installing it on a new computer... anytime.
Computer Requirements
- Video Hoster runs on Windows XP Home, Pro or Mediacenter with SP3, Vista (32 and 64-bits) with SR1, or Windows 7. XP and Vista require .NET free download, and the latest upgrades.
- An MTU or equivalent CD/DVD Recorder to import CDG Karaoke discs to the hard drive. MTU Certified CDG Recorders give the cleanest imported graphics.
- Graphics Video card with at least 128MB of RAM (or on-board graphics chip using at least 128MB system RAM - which can cause various problems) that supports Direct-X 9.0b or higher (cards with less than 32MB RAM usually don't support 9.0b). Dual-display requires an ATI Radeon 9000 or higher, or NVidia equivalent (not recommended). S3 video cards or chips in laptop computers do NOT support Direct-X 9.0.
- Processor running at least 1.3 GHz. Windows XP can run correctly with 1GB system RAM (2GB is recommended), while Vista requires at least 2GB RAM.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Windows Vista requires more processor power. Inexpensive Laptops with Vista and slower Celeron or AMD processors have been reported to not play video files correctly, and in some cases the lyrics are not in sync to the music. Run the Hoster Demo on your computer if you have any questions whether it will work. - The computer must be connected to the Internet to install Video Hoster, but not to run it.
Video Hoster and Lite versions are available as software only. Video Hoster can also be ordered already installed in a MTU Ruggedized Laptop™ that is certified to work for Karaoke-Audio-Video shows. We fully upgrade the Windows XP before we ship. You can be confident your MTU computer will meet your needs.
Since 1998, Karaoke singers and hosts helped us write our specifications. If you hosts shows, Video Hoster will make your job a dream!
Click here to read User Testimonials
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