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Video Hoster^® 5.09.02 Software Upgrades

We sincerely Thank You for being our customer!
Be sure to make these Performance changes for your version of:   Windows
How To Install the Latest Version at the left downloads that Hoster Installation file, or at the right for Hoster Lite. Save the file on your computer hard drive. Find the file and double click it to run it. Release Date shows when each Version was physically available. The Install Date for the version you are trying to install is compared to your Upgrade Expire Date from your Account: If the Install Date is EARLIER it will install normally. If the Install Date is LATER, your browser will display this page with your Registration Code already filled in to order the upgrade. When your credit card is approved (usually a few seconds), the latest and prior versions will install. Your Upgrade Expire Date extends by 12 months to allow installing future releases in the next year. Windows Versions shows what Windows version that version will run under. User Move - Follow these instructions to remove the installed version so you can install it on another computer (or before upgrading your computer) without needing MTU to free up your RegCode.
If your Hoster or Hoster Lite Registration Code will install the latest version (see above), order this to ship the latest versions of ALL MTU Full and Demo Software on CDROM (you can also instantly download via the Internet).		$12.00
If you need to order an upgrade to install the latest version (see above), click here to order an Upgrade. This extends your Install Date to install new releases over the 12 months.
Video Hoster® Upgrade from any prior version (Video Hoster® One, Video Hoster®, Video Hoster® Quad)	Starting at $39.99
Video Hoster® Lite to Video Hoster® One - (1 Install)	$49.99
Video Hoster® Lite to Video Hoster® - (2 Install's)	$129.99
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Version	Video Hoster® (One, Full, Quad)	Release Date	Install Date	Windows Versions	User Move	Video Hoster®Lite
509.02	11/2012 Import Database	June 06, 2013	Mar 28, 2013	XP, Vista, Win7, Win8 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued - Upgrade to Hoster One
509.01	11/2012 Import Database	May 28, 2013	Mar 28, 2013	XP, Vista, Win7, Win8 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued - Upgrade to Hoster One
508.11	11/2012 Import Database	November 19 2012	Mar 15 2012	XP, Vista, Win7, Win8 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued - Upgrade to Hoster One
507.05	5/2012 Import Database	May 7 2012	Mar 15 2012	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	5/2012 Import Database
506.03	3/2012 Import Database	Mar 15 2012	Mar 15 2012	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	3/2012 Import Database
506.09	9/2011 Import Database	Mar 15 2012	Sept 19 2011	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	9/2011 Import Database
505.02		Feb 14 2012	Feb 1 2012	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
505.12		Dec 12 2011	Sept 19 2011	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
504.10	Discontinued	Oct 1 2011	Sept 19 2011	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued
503.09	Discontinued	Sept 19 2011	Sept 19 2011	XP, Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued
502.09		Sept 1 2011	Sept 1 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
502.08	Discontinued	Aug 12 2011	Aug 1 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued
502.07		July 05 2011	July 1 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
502.06		June 30 2011	Apr 25 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
501.05	Discontinued	May 10 2011	Apr 25 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued
500.04	Discontinued	Apr 25 2011	Apr 25 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES	Discontinued
432.03		Feb 25 2011	Feb 25 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
432.01		Jan 6 2011	Jan 1 2011	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
432.12		Dec 1 2010	Dec 1 2010	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
432.11		Nov 8 2010	Nov 1 2010	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
432.10		Oct 20 2010	Oct 1 2010	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
431.09		Sep 27 2010	Sep 27 2010	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
430.09		Sep 3 2010	Sep 5 2010	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
422.08		Aug 3 2010	Aug 5 2010	XP (32-bit) Vista, Win7 (32/64bit)	YES
3321a		Mar 8 2007	Mar 8 2007	XP (32-bit) Vista(32bit)	YES

V5.09.02 - June 06, 2013

1. FIXED - Right Click Menu\Add to "Singers Name" Songs - This was not working correctly in 5.09.01. It is now working as it should.
2. FIXED - Edit Songs\Multiple - We found an issue in this dialog, that under certain cases if you pressed the Enter key, the song would start to play. You were then not able to get out of the program.
   
3. FIXED - Opening Hoster Splash Screen - On some systems, this Dialog would cover the Tempo, Volume, Sync Sliders, and leave remnants of the splash screen.
4. FIXED - Default Marquee not showing correctly in Preview Screen - The Trademark sign has been removed next to Video Hoster in the Marquee. It will now show correctly.
5. FIXED - Instabutton's Cutting Short - There were a few types of .wav files that would not play the correct duration. They will now play correctly.
6. NEW Installations - Audio Dropping or stuttering - We updated our Hoster Audio Player code in version 5.09.01, but defaulted to use the old code. This is now defaulted to use the Tempo Mode, which includes our new audio code. You should manually change this on your system, as this will only be changed on a Brand new Install. To change this you go to the Tools Menu\Tempo Mode\ Select Tempo Play Mode.
7. NEW Installaitions - Default Fonts - We have changed the default Fonts for Hoster to a larger point size. This will make it easier to read. This can be changed to anything under Tools\Set Fonts.
8. NEW Installations - Default Marquee to Always On - Marquee will always be defaulted to on for new Installations.

V5.09.01 - May 28, 2013 Note: After 22 Beta versions, it IS ROCK SOLID!

"This is a rock solid release with some great new features and a few tweaks and improvements to existing features" Roy Dennis

"This is a very mature, solid and reliable product and it shows in the amount of attention to detail that has gone into this release." MikeP

"Hoster keeps getting better and better. It is very stable and offers a multitude of features. Some features are not offered by others and if they are it is at an additional cost! Hoster makes running a karaoke show a breeze. I've been using Hoster along with other products offered by MTU since 2003 and I am amazed how this program has progressed over the years. It is a great program and in my opinion the best offered. Keep up the great work MTU!" WaltR

"The last 9 ratings for Hoster, as can be seen in CNET, gives the last version, 5.08, FIVE STARS! This new version, 5.09 and Tech Support should be rated with SIX STARS!." Ken Kelley

1. NEW - Background Audio Player  - This received a major update. You can now create/add/edit playlists in the Player. 
2. NEW - Much easier Installation - We have streamlined our install process to make it faster for the customer.
3. NEW - Updated Audio Code for Dropouts - We have changed the Thread Priorities for audio drops/stutters. There are 2 settings under Tools\Audio Controls
   at the bottom of this Dialog there is a Drop Down, the defaults are set to Above Normal for Audio and Display.
4. NEW - MTU Hoster Power Setting  - When you open Hoster, it will change your power settings to our new MTU Hoster power scheme. This only will occur while Hoster is running. This will minimize the risk for audio drops. If you wish to use your own Power Scheme, which we do not recommend, you can by going to Tools\Options and Uncheck "Use the MTU Hoster Power Scheme".
5. NEW - Dual Display - We made a change to make this more reliable. If your Video Card shows your primary monitor as number 2 and the TV as 1, prior versions would not go full screen on the correct monitor. It would jump back to your Desktop. You would then have to drag the screen to the Tv, and stretch it out to fill the screen. You now can double click and we will match the Primary screen so that we always find the intended singers monitor.
6. NEW - Marquee Scrolling - This now scrolls much more fluid like. There are three new files added to your C:\programdata\mtu.com\Hoster Folder. These files are gistfile1.js, jquery-1.9.1.min.js, and jquery-migrate-1.1.1.min.js. We also changed the text from "Amount" to "Speed" and got rid of "Delay" in the Marquee dialog.
7. NEW - Opening Hoster - When you have a large database, Hoster can take time to open, and would not let you know it was doing something. Now you will see a splash screen pop up as soon as you click the Icon. This will let you know that Hoster is doing something.
8. NEW - Drag and Drop  - You can now drag any file from the Search field and once dropped on the Playlist, it will be added to the bottom.
9. NEW - Open Search, Click on Show Fields, “Whats New?” - This will allow you to select a number of days, and anything you have imported within that time frame, it will search for. If you have a TON of songs it will take a while, as it does a * search when you click the selection in the drop down.
10. NEW - Open Edit Songs Dialog, "Whats New"?  - This will allow you to select a number of days, and anything you have imported within that time frame, it will search for. This is the same as we added on the Search Dialog. If you have a TON of songs it will take a while, as it does a * search when you click the selection in the drop down.
11. NEW - Search Speed - We have optimized our Search, which has made it much faster. If you have alot of songs and use * for a wildcard search, depending on the amount of songs you have will depend on how long it takes. Quick searches should be much faster. If you do the * search, results will show up quick, once the list is built you will see it sort the list. You can watch this, by moving your Scroll Bar from the bottom to the top, then you can watch it move up higher as more songs are listed.
12. NEW - New database Field "TimeStamp" added - This field will now let you do is sort by the Add Date in the following Dialogs: Search Dialog and Edit Singers Dialog. You can now sort the search by this column to show the latest songs added to your database. Should greatly help with finding those new downloads you have put in Hoster. I do not think this date will get populated until you have rebuilt the database or added any new files.
13. NEW - Programdata folder created to follow Microsoft Standards - We have had some problems of not being able to write to the C:\MTU\Hoster directory on some Windows 8 systems, this should clear it up.
    This version will MOVE your C:\MTU\Hoster Folder under Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 to the new location at C:\ProgramData\mtu.com\Hoster. Under Windows Xp it is MOVED to c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\mtu.com\Hoster
    
14. NEW - Tools Menu\Hoster Data Folder\ - This will take you directly to the New Hoster folder in My Computer
15. NEW - Help Menu\Performance Changes  - We removed the mandatory changes from the Installation of Hoster, so you no longer have to do this during install. This allow for streamlining the installtion. We moved this to the Help Menu, which then opens a webpage located at http://www.mtu.com/upgrades/hoster/hoster-changes.htm 
16. NEW - Weekly New Songs Dialog Box  - We receive a list of New Songs from All Star Karaoke on Tuesdays. We have a Webpage that shows the New Songs for that week. A dialog box will pop up to check this page, once a week, or you can ignore it so it does not ask you again. It will link you to this page to check for new songs. http://www.mtu.com/buysongs/new-songs-2013.htm
17. NEW - Singers Name Display Font - Fonts are now selectable in the Singers Name Field of the Display Options. (Tools Menu\Show Display Options)
18. NEW - Edit Singers Database\Export - Redesigned in what you can export for the Singer. All the information is now converted to a HTML instead of .rtf format. You can then do whatever with it. You can select which items are written to the file. You can change the Background Color/Font size and feel!
    
19. NEW - Ability to turn Columns On or Off - Under these three dialogs you can now do this. If you right click on the Column, such as BookID or anything on the Table for Search, Edit Singers Dialog, and Edit Songs, you will now see a list of the Items in this Table. You can uncheck each of these items to hide/show the Fields.
    
20. NEW - Hot Keys Added  - We have added two new Hot Keys. If you press CTRL + S+ Buttons, then the it will only add the Song to the Singers Database, not the playlist. So if you are in search and see a song you want to add to someone’s list, but do not want it to go in your playlist, you can now press CTRL to add it. If you Press CTRL in the Playlist, then Right Click, Mark As.. This will now set every song in the playlist to what you select.
21. NEW - Tool Tips - Added a Tool Tip to the "S+" button in the Playlist, and expanded text in the "S+" button on the Search dialog.
22. NEW - Right click Features - You can now Right Click on a selected song in Either the Search or Playlist Windows. 
23. NEW - Right Click Menu\Add to "Singers Name" Songs - This will only show up in the Playlist Window. If you have added a Singers Song, to the play list, then decide you meant to put this song in their database, you can now do so very quickly.
24. NEW - Playlist\Double click on the Menu Bar on Title/Artist - This will show or hide your Instabuttons. If you have multiple lines of Instabuttons, if you double click they will then shrink up, just as the Show/Hide Fields button does in the Search Dialog.
25. NEW - Importing .zip files  - Most .zip files now have more than just the audio and cdg file in the .zip, we were not able to open/use this type of .zip file. We now open and use these files, by ignoring any file inside the .zip, other than the audio and cdg files.
26. NEW - No Sound Card - We found that if you did not have sound card installed/attached, when Hoster opened it would show a Red Error on any song in the Playlist. We now will give you an error message when you open Hoster, there is No Sound card in the system, and exit out of Hoster.
27. NEW - Tools Menu\Audio Controls\ - Added a button "Manage Audio Cards" in black, which will bring up the dialog from Control Panel to Manage your Sound Card's
28. NEW - Help Menu\Ask the MTU Community\ - This will take you directly to the Forums, to ask any questions you may have.
29. NEW - Help Menu\Visut us on Facebook\ - This will take you directly to our Facebook page.
30. NEW - Playlist.csv File  - This now includes the artist, which caused us to change the format that the lines are written out in.  
     
    The new format is: 
    
    "Wed","2013/03/06","17:53:32","Bryan","Take A Little Ride","Jason Aldean"
    "Wed","2013/03/06","17:59:23","Zoe","Blown Away","Carrie Underwood"
    
    The Old Format was
    
    Wed, 2013/03/06, 10:19:50, John, Wagon Wheel-Vocal
    
    To add the Artist name in, we had to add the " " in case an artist showed up as Underwood, Carrie or Aldean, Jason.
 

31. FIXED - End of Song Crashes - We are confident this version does has fixed all known Crashes. This should be the most reliable version of our software in years.
32. FIXED - Audio Clipping before Song Ended -This could occur on any audio file in the playlist, background audio player or Instabuttons. These file types mp3+g, .zip, wma and.mp3 would cause the song to end early..
33. FIXED - Songs hanging at Played  - Some customers reported that a song in the playlist would get stuck at Play, instead of changing to Played.
34. FIXED - Sped Up Remove Silence  - We found some issues in the code that were causing this to go slow or hang at times. This should now be much faster
35. FIXED - Remove Silence  - Before Hoster could not handle 48khz files, now it does.
36. FIXED - Sped up Build Songs Database  - We optimized the Build Songs database code, it now runs about 4 times faster.
37. FIXED - Merge Dupes  - We optimized the code for merge duplicates, this is now much faster. Also files that were getting put into quarantine should now only be put there if they are actually damaged, bad or exact duplicate files..
38. FIXED - Skip Checkbox in Search Dialog  - This checkbox is now only persistent while the dialog is open. If you click the Checkbox, it will add a song with the status of Skip. Before this would stay set until you unchecked it. If you close the Search Dialog, it gets unchecked by default.
39. FIXED - Skip Bugs - 1)When you mark As Skip, and later use the skip feature to "unskip" it as you would have done and may still do to skipped songs, the status bar shows nothing(pure blue), but the song still plays as if marked as ready. 2). Also, referring to the above condition, although the song WILL play as if marked Ready it will NOT show up on the SND Display as "Next".
40. FIXED - Background Audio\Random - This will now play through all the songs in the list, before it repeats songs.

1. NEW - Buy Songs Menu Item - We have partnered with AllStarCustom to allow purchasing songs through our software. You can get all the latest songs from here!
2. NEW - Automatic Indexing - Hoster now provides a new "Auto Index" feature. This allows you to select a folder (and its subfolders) for automatically adding new Karaoke and Audio songs to your system. If you select a folder using the "Browse..." button, each time Hoster starts, it will look into that folder, and its subfolders, for any new songs to index into the Songs Database. The file types that are scanned are: .kma, .kmh, .mp3+g, .wma+g, .zip, .mp3 and .wma (the last two are purely audio, no Karaoke graphics .cdg files). If you are presented with a message box announcing this new feature, you have the option of running it or bypassing it until later. You can also check a box to say that you do not wish to be asked again.
3. NEW - Search and Singers Dialogs - When you open the Search window, it remembers if the Singer List window was open previously. If so, both open. If not, only the Search window opens. When you can click on the "folder" icon to open the Singers List window. You can minimize and restore each one separately. Then when you close the Search window, it will automatically close the Singers List window if it's open.
4. NEW - Background Audio Search - A search feature added to this dialog will search through the list and highlight the first song it finds. If you hit enter, it will go to the next song it finds, and so on. Ddouble click the song to start that song playing. Left click a song too drag and drop it to any location in the list.
5. NEW - Background Audio Features - Two features added in the Back Ground Audio Player, Random Play and countdown timer.
6. NEW - Background Audio Dialog - MP3/WMA tags show when a folder is selected to display the Title and Artist.
7. NEW - Added * back in for Wildcard search - Tthe * in the search to list all of the songs in your database. This does slow the search, so you will need to be patient if you have a large database.
8. NEW -Run Two Copies of Hoster - If you open two copies of Hoster, it will allow you to use them both simultaneously.
9. NEW - Tools Menu\Tempo Mode - Some customers computers computers were having issues with the Audio, when in Tempo Mode. The default for Tempo mode is now "disabled". You can enable it under the Tools Menu\Tempo Mode.
10. NEW - Tools Menu\Set Fonts\"Set Playlist Font" - Allows changing font in the Playlist window. This should help with touch screen monitors.
11. NEW - Tools Menu\Set Fonts\"Set Search & Singers font" - Allows changing font in the results list for Search and Singers dialogs. This should help with touch screen monitors.
12. NEW - Removed Hoster Prior - This was to save your prior version of Hoster.exe, this is no longer needed.
13. NEW - Review Song in Edit Screen - If you have a file that you had run Remove Silence on, you could only preview it in the Edit Screen when you were in Remove Silence Mode. You can now preview the song in either Normal Play mode or Remove Silence Mode.
14. NEW - Can't close Hoster while video instabuttons are playing - To prevent crashing, Hoster cannot close without first stopping the Video Instabutton first..
15. FIXED - Random Crashes - We fixed ALOT of random crash issues in this version.
16. FIXED - Reading of MP3 Header Tags - Import HDD files/ Indexing did not read the .mp3 tags correctly - We found that the Artist and Title tags were not being read correctly, so this has been fixed. This should make importing .mp3+g and .zip files much faster. (if they have the correct mp3 tags)
17. FIXED - Installshield was installing the incorrect version of Visual C++ 2005 redistributable - This only has to be installed on your computer one time, so brand new systems that did not have it would get an error message when trying to install our software. The error was Error: "Unhandled Exception OX80040702, Description failed to load DLL:_IsMtu"
18. FIXED - Remove Silence - Some customers had Audio drops, stutters when Keep Silence Before was set below 2. So we have changed new minimum is 2. We removed 0 and 1, to make sure this would not occur.
19. FIXED - Unzipping Program updated - On certain systems you could get an error message such as "Unexpected error processing the zip file 0x00000200 c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\MTU_Hoster\auout-x.zzz"
20. FIXED - Temp Folder not clearing correctly - The temp folder that Hoster uses when unzipping files, located at c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Temp\MTU_Hoster\ was not correctly being cleared. This is now emptied every time you close Hoster.
21. FIXED - Preview Screen Bug - The preview screen would turn White under certain circumstances.
22. FIXED - Crashes on Video - Some customers were seeing a crash, when playing two videos back to back with Background Audio turned on.
23. FIXED - Database issues - Some customers would see it take up to 2 minutes to start playing a song in Hoster. We were able to fix this, by changing the calls into the database. It also should have a bit faster search now.
24. FIXED - Background Audio Sliders Not showing - Under certain Background colors, such as Grey, the sliders would not show for Talkover and Vol in the Background Audio dialog. These should now show correctly under all background colors.
25. FIXED - MUX not working corectly - This was fixed and should now work correctly to play the audio on the selected channel.

V5.07 - Released May 7, 2012

1. NEW - Install Leaves Prior Version - If the 5.07 Installation program finds a Hoster.exe installed, it renames it to HosterPrior.exe, creates a new Desktop Icon for it and then installs the new Hoster.exe version using the current Desktop icon.
2. NEW - Added "Hawaiian" in the Genre List.
3. RESTORED - Search and Singers Buttons - Too many people requested we make them separate buttons again, so we did.
4. RESTORED - Search Dialog "Singers Open Folder Icon" - You can again select in the Search dialog to display the Singers Songs dialog. It now also can minimize, and clicking the "X" icon in the top right corner hides it. Your selection saves when Hoster closes, appearing the same when Hoster runs again.
5. CHANGED - Tools Menu - Options Dialog Reset Displays Button - All Screens & Dialogs now reset to appear on the Playlist Screen. Before, if you moved some to Display #2, then disconnected it they were stuck out there.
6. CHANGED - Prevent Clicking Controls With Fade Until "Second Fade" Ends - Clicking Stop, Skip, Restart or the yellow Play button all stop the playing song (even when done while it is fading out) and trigger a new Fade Out. If any of these are clicked, clicking another or the same one multiple times is prevented until the first "Stop" Fade Out is done.
7. CHANGED - Word Search Now Allows 1-Character and Multi-Character Searches - In the 5.06 Search Dialog a single character plus a multi-character string (2 or more word search) was ignored. This was because we had special code that only looked for a single character at the start of the selected fields (Title,Artist, Brand, DiscID, Genre, Language, etc.). Now, for example, searching on ;"lady g;" will find "Lady Gaga;".
8. FIXED - Volume No Longer Goes Silent - The cause of this was found and fixed.
9. FIXED - Fade In/Out Now Works Correctly - A conflict between Hoster and the Background Audio Player fading in/out was found and fixed.
10. FIXED - Background Audio Fades Could Take 10-30 Seconds - The volume could extend beyond 0% to 100%, causing long delays to eventually correct.
11. FIXED - Hoster No Longer Locks When Background Audio Closes - Stopping a Background Audio song and immediately closing Hoster would hide the Screen yet leave Hoster.exe running. We found and fixed the problem. A change now prevents clicking the "X" icon in the BA dialog top right until the OFF button is clicked. The X does now work when the BA is still playing a song (ON state).
12. FIXED - Starting Audio Garbled with Remove Silence & Key Change - This is a complex problem that seems to only involve CDG songs with animation in the Title page graphics, and when Remove Silence is enabled. Tempo and Key change applied to the song makes this worse. One work-around is to click the Restart button when you hear the garbled audio, or see the lyrics out of sync. This will disable Remove Silence for that song only, and it will play correctly. In addition, it has been proven that adding 2 seconds as a "starting delay" in Remove Silence solves the problem. Thus, 5.07 defaults to 2 seconds for this variable used only when Remove Silence is enabled.
13. FIXED - Tools Menu Audio Control "Prevent Audio Dropouts" Default - This now default to "10" when first installed. In 5.06 it could set to "0". Upgrading to 5.07 will NOT change your setting so you should make this change.
14. FIXED - Remove Silence Detects New Indexed Songs Again - We found and fixed the reason. Now newly indexed or imported songs are detected by the Remove Silence command and processed.
15. FIXED - Prevent Running Two Copies of Hoster - Hoster 5.07 now prevents running 2 copies at the same time because some actions on one can crash the other. You can still run a 5.07 and a prior version together, but this too can cause crashes and may damage your Songs and Singers Databases.
16. FIXED - Songbook "&" No Longer Causes Duplicate Phrases in Artists - The Songbook no longer generates a duplicate second name following an "&" in an Artist name. Thus, "Brooks & Dunn" becomes "Brooks & Dunn and Dunn", and "Marly, Bob & The Wailers" becomes "Marly, Bob & The Wailers & The Wailers".
17. REMOVED - Tools menu "Edit Singers Database" Command - This function is again run by clicking the Singers button.
18. REMOVED - Processor & RAM Check When Run - These checks have been removed as processors today are fast enough with sufficient memory to run Hoster.

V5.06 - Released March 15, 2012

Version 5.06 is a MASSIVE upgrade with many long asked for New features, Changes and bug fixes. It started out to only prevent dropping audio, but expanded to include TEMPO, instantaneous search results, a new "Words" search mode, and more. Many bugs were fixed, some in code written in 2000, but now showing up as crashes and lockups. This promises to be a very stable version! However, due to the massive changes, we are ready to fix any reported problems ASAP!

1. FIXED - Prevent Audio Dropouts - Microsoft Windows changes and Laptop "Power Management" settings caused audio dropouts while playing songs from the Playlist. Read the Tools menu Audio Controls Dialog Prevent Audio Dropouts. If you hear audio dropouts change the factory default from "10" that should work for all computers, to a higher selection (12, 14... 20).

Search & Singers Dialog and Edit Songs Dialog Changes

2. NEW - Archive Singers Database Made When 5.06 Installed - This is titled C:/MTU/Hoster/singersBackupPrior5.03.mdb before a singers.mdb (created before 5.03) is converted to the new indexed format. If anything damages your database you can rename singersBackupPrior5.03.mdb to singers.mdb and use it. However, it does not contain changes made since it was created.
3. NEW Active Singers Database Backup Maintained - This is titled C:/MTU/Hoster/singers2.mdb. It is automatically created, and updated while Hoster is running when 50 changes have been made to the singers.mdb. You can rename it to singers.mdb if the original is ever damaged, and a new singers2.mdb is automatically created.
4. CHANGE - Playlist "Search" and "Singers" Buttons - These are now combined as the new Search & Singers button. It displays the prior Search dialog that now also shows a redesigned Singer's Songs dialog that appeared in prior versions when you clicked an "Open Folder" icon. Operations between both dialogs are fully integrated, making it much faster and easier to search for songs, or select a Singer's Song, change Tempo and Key and add it/them to the Playlist.
5. NEW - String -vs- Words Search Mode - Prior Hoster versions only allowed "String" search. A new and extremely powerful "Words" search mode is now available in both these dialogs independently settable of the other. The last selection in each appears when Hoster runs again.
6. NEW - Instantaneous Searches - The search code used in both dialogs was totally rewritten to instantly find matching songs, displaying them in the Results window.
7. FIXED - White Screens - Due to the more efficient search code, dialogs no longer appear "whited out" when many search results are returned.
8. CHANGE - Search Fields Defaults - Whenever Hoster runs, the search Title and Artist fields are enabled, but the BookID and other fields are disabled, can be enabled while Hoster runs, but disables when closed.
9. FIXED - Triple Clicking to Add Song to Playlist - Now double-clicking adds a song to the Playlist from Search & Singers button.

Tempo Change

10. NEW - Adjust Range - Songs can now can adjust Tempo from 80% to 120% in ±5% steps by mouse or keyboard.
11. NEW - Search & Singers Dialog Tempo Slider - This allows adjusting to preset a Tempo change when adding a Song to the Playlist and/or to the Singers Database.
12. NEW - Edit Singers Database Dialog Tempo Slider - This allows adjusting to preset a Tempo change when adding a Song to the Playlist, and/or saved to the Singers Database.
13. NEW - Edit Playlist Tempo Field - Double-click and edit this new field to change Tempo on a Song before it plays. When play stops or ends, if the Song was added from the Singers Database, its record updates.
14. NEW - Change Hoster Screen Live Tempo Slider - This allows adjusting the Tempo change live while playing. When play stops or ends, if the Song was added from the Singers Database, its record updates.

Singers Button in Playlist is Now Edit Singers Database

15. CHANGE Renamed as Tools Menu Edit Singers Database... Command - This command dialog allows editing records in the Singers Database. It operates the same as before and can be open to edit Singer's records during a show, and add Singer's favorite Songs (example: the Host's favorite Songs) to the Playlist. However, the Search & Singers dialog upgrades make it much easier to add Singer's favorite Songs to the Playlist.
16. CHANGE Export and Refresh Buttons Disable - These operations now disable while Songs are playing to prevent audio dropouts and other problems.
17. CHANGE - Edit Singers Database - The Singers drop down list field does not allow entering a new Singer's name. It did before, but it would not allow adding a Singer with this field, which now only allows selecting existing Singers.
18. FIXED - Triple Clicking to Add Song to Playlist - Now double-clicking adds a song to the Playlist from Edit Singers Database button.
19. FIXED - Invalid Songs in Singers Database Don't Lock Hoster - Trying to add a Song to the Playlist that is not in the Songs Database now shows a message, then allows adding other Songs.

Songbook Changes

20. CHANGE - Removed Mux "Both" - When preparing Songbooks, if you enable the Mux field to appear, only Left or Right appear; no longer showing Both.
21. FIXED - Artist Names Like "10,000" - "10,000 Maniacs", which contains a "," that is used to separate Lastname, Firstname, would appear as "00 Maniacs 10". It now appears alphabetized and appears as "10,000 Maniacs".

Build Songs Database

22. FIXED - Damaged Indexed/Excluded Folders - The Indexed Folders list and Excluded Folders list were both stored in HosterInfo.ini file in version 5.05 and prior. This sometimes caused problems when rebuilding the Database. When Hoster 5.06 first runs, it converts HosterInfo.ini file into separate HosterInfoIndexed.ini and HosterInfoExcluded.ini files to be safe.
23. FIXED - Rebuilding Songs Database Halting - While songs were indexed into the Songs Database, if a bad file was found it halted rebuilding and wouldn't go further. Hoster now quarantines all bad files and continues indexing.

Remove Silence Operations

24. FIXED - Remove Silence Command Lock Up - In this dialog when scanning Karaoke files to set start-stop pointers, files with newly identified problems found while processing would lock Hoster. These are now added to the C:\MTU\Hoster\SetStartEndErrors.txt file and ignored, continuing to the next Song.
25. FIXED - Edit Songs Command Remove Silence Locked Hoster - This dialog also could cause Hoster to lock up when bad files were encountered. Bad files are logged, ignored now and in future, and processing continues to the next Song.

Miscellaneous Changes

26. NEW - #Times Fields in Singers.mdb Database - We added a Singer #Times field and a Song #Times field. These increment by one each time a Singer sings, or a Song is performed.
27. NEW - Report Shows Every Song Performed - Hoster now saves each Song name played from the Playlist (added from any source) into the C:\MTU\Hoster\PlaylistTracking.csv file including; date, time, Singer name, Song name.
28. NEW - Slider Tic Marks - These now appear in Tempo, Volume, and Lyrics Sync sliders.
29. CHANGE - Tools Menu Options Command "Keep Songs After Played" Checkbox - The default shipped state now is ENABLED (checked). In prior versions it defaulted to NOT Keep, which deleted each Song after it played to the end.
30. FIXED - CRASH In Auto Mode When Playing - Playing MP3 Audio or Karaoke Songs didn't report it was finished as WMA files do, and Hoster could lock up. This is fixed.
31. FIXED - Playlist Highlighting No Longer Erases - In the Playlist, if you clicked in the area below all songs, it would erase the current highlighted Song. Highlighting now remains.

V5.05 - Released December 12, 2011

The primary reason for 5.05 is to restore merging duplicate BookIDs, which was omitted in 5.00. Additional changes are listed below.

1. RESTORE - Merge Duplicate BookIDs Function - This is now in "Import Songs" menu - Import & Index Songs Database dialog, and the Build Songs Database dialog. If any duplicate BookIDs are found when using the Add Folder or Refresh Folder buttons, those songs are added to the BuildSongDBLog.txt file. Clicking either Merge Dupes buttons shows a dialog to select the starting BookID or let the next unused be assigned, and then the Merge Now button renumbers the BookIDs.
2. FIXED - Preview Display Wrong Size or Disappears when Floating - When the Preview Display is undocked in the Tools menu - Show Display command, Preview tab, it randomly would take on the size and location of the Show Display, which usually appears in the second monitor. This made it appear that the Preview Display disappeared. We found a bug causing this and the Preview Display should now keep its own size and location settings.
3. CHANGED - Import CD Tracks Screen - Whenever a CDG Disc is changed in the drive, Hoster now clears the Brand and DiscID fields. This insures users don't accidentally reuse the wrong Brand or DiscID for multiple discs.
4. REMOVED - Edit Songs Dialog Edit BookID - We no longer allow editing a BookID. The Singers Database uses BookIDs to add Songs under Singers. Thus, changing a BookID used in the Songs Database causes problems that are very hard to diagnose. Once you assign a bookID to a song, it is permanent.
5. NEW - Genre Additions: Reggaeton, Cumbia, Ranchera, Tejano, Norteno, Shotiz, Bachata, Romance.
6. NEW - Detect URL in a Message While Installing - Multiple messages can appear during installation to guide you. We can now include web page URLs that the Installation program now detects and launches your browser for more details to show how to fix this error.
7. NEW - Detect URL in Check Version Upgrades Message - If we include a web page address (URL) in an "Check for upgrade message", Hoster will launch your default Browser to show that page. This allows us to give you more information about upgrades, newsletters, etc.

V5.04 - Released October 1, 2011

1. NEW "Hard Drive Missing" Message - When Hoster runs, the last opened Playlist automatically opens. If any songs in the Playlist are on a drive(s) that is not found, a message now appears showing the missing drive letter(s) so you are aware of this. Hoster then opens and shows UNAVAIL status for songs in the Playlist from the missing drive(s). You can close Hoster and plug in the drive(s) or continue without the drive(s) available.
2. CHANGED Playlist "UNAVAIL" Songs Not Deleted - If an external hard drive wasn't plugged in with songs in the Songs Database and Playlist, AND your Tools menu > Options command > "Keep songs after played" was not checked (i.e. songs delete after they play), when Hoster opened it deleted all missing songs in the Playlist. In 5.04 UNVAIL status files are NOT deleted, ignoring the "Keep songs after played" selection.
3. FIXED Build Database Will Not Run - If there are no folders in the Build Database dialog's "Indexed Folders" list so no KMH or KMA files are indexed, an error message appears when you try to add KMH or KMA files stating "Incorrect Parameter". This was fixed so you can now add folders to the "Indexed Folders" list as expected.

V5.03

503.09 - Released September 19, 2011

1. NEW Songs Database Now Indexes Three Fields - Searches on the BookID, Title and Artist fields now run much faster. Running 5.03 requires allowing it to rebuild this Database, which does so at 20 to 30 songs/second as KMH and KMA files already exist.
2. NEW Singers Database Has 5 New Fields - Since the Singers button dialog shows Title, Artist, Brand, DiscID and Dur(ation), these fields are now saved in this Database. This significantly speeds up searches with a larger Singers Database.
3. NEW Singers Database Now Indexes Two Fields - The , Title and Artist fields are now indexed so searches for these will run much faster. Running 5.03 requires allowing it to rebuild this Database, which is so fast the progress bar usually doesn't appear.
4. NEW Singers Button Dialog "Refresh DB" Button - Now that Title and Artist fields are saved in the Singers Database, if you change these in the Edit Songs dialog, these Singers Database fields do not update. This new button will copy your Singers Database as a backup, then rebuild it with the current Title and Artist names.
5. NEW Search Button Dialog Layout - With indexing of the BookID, Title and Artist fields in the Songs Database, searching only for these is much faster. Using the other fields takes as long as before.
6. NEW Installs on Windows XP 64-bit Computers - Hoster now installs on XP 64-bit systems with Service Pack 1 or higher.
7. NEW Faster Performance on Windows 64-Bit - Hoster now follows Microsoft's recommendations to run on 64-bit XP, Vista and Windows 7.
8. NEW Singer Dialog Songs View "Duration" Field - A Dur column now appears at the far right that shows the Songs playing times.
9. NEW Instabuttons Allow More File Types - Audio and Video MP4 and Audio M4a file types are now selectable for Instabuttons.
10. RESTORED Singers Field Drop List in Playlist w/Auto Scrolling While Typing - We removed this field in a prior version to prevent editing that would crash Hoster. This field turned out to not cause the crash so we restored it.
11. CHANGED Search Dialog Search Field - Following a search, the text cursor now returns to this field, making it faster to change your search text when a prior search did not find the song you want.
12. CHANGED Search Button Dialog - The field selection buttons were moved and "Fast" and "Slow" added to make it clear selecting some fields will take longer to search the Songs Database. The Skip checkbox was moved to make room for a new slider control in an upcoming version.
13. FIXED Build Database Locked Up With MP3 Files on Win7 64-bit - Microsoft changed Windows 7 64-bit so it no longer worked as with prior versions. We replaced the failing code so MP3 files index as expected.
14. FIXED Remove Silence Command and Edit Songs Remove Silence - These changes were made: 1) Audio and Video files that were never processed are now excluded in the number of files to process, 2) The number of files to process and that have been processed now stay correct throughout processing so the estimated time to complete is more accurate, 3) it should no longer crash while processing.
15. FIXED Build Database Could Renumber BookIDs - This happened to one user. This operation is now prevented from renumbering BookIDs.
16. FIXED Instabuttons WAV Files - The new "compressed" .wav format files are now prevented from being added to an Instabutton as they do not play correctly. We are shocked that the QUALITY STANDARD .WAV format has been ruined by allowing compression, which is what MP3 and WMA provide.
17. FIXED Copying Songs Deleted "Remove Silence" Data - Run the Tools menu - Remove Silence command and any songs with bad Remove Silence data are repaired.
18. FIXED Filenames With 5-Digit or Higher Track Numbers - In the "Index Hard Drive Files" screen, if a file has a Track number with 5-digits or more, it would create a bad BookID. Hoster now logs these filenames in the "C:MTU/Hoster/ImportErrorLog.txt" file and does not index them in the Songs Database. Open this log file with Notepad, find the bad files path/filename, and manually change each file with Track numbers with more than 4-digits. Note: SCDG discs with 4-digit track numbers will be indexed in a future Hoster version.
19. FIXED Pause Button Could Fail With Audio and Karaoke Songs - In prior versions it was possible to click the Play button and then quickly click the Pause button before the lyrics drawing code was running. Clicking the Resume button then showed the lyrics ahead of the audio. The Pause button is now disabled until all play components are running.
20. FIXED Language Now Defaults to English - In 5.02 Dutch became the default selection.
21. FIXED Fade In/Out Durations Could Reset to "0" - This happened following a crash during Remove Silence processing. Fade durations now will restore to their prior values when reopening Hoster after a crash.
22. REMOVED Pop-Up When Search Dialog Returns No Match's - If no records are found, the text cursor is placed in the Search field and the entry is highlighted to edit or change, and a message appears in the Results window.

V5.02

502.09 - Released September 1, 2011

502.08 - Released August 12, 2011

502.07 - Released July 05, 2011

502.06 - Released June 30, 2011 this bug fix installs if you have 5.00; has the 5.00 Import Database.

1. NEW Language Additions - Italian, Dutch.
2. NEW Genre Additions - Opera, Musicals, Traditional, DooWop, TV, Disney, Country,Old.
3. CHANGED Undocked Preview Display "Always On Top" - We added a new checkbox in the Tools menu > Show Display dialog > Preview Display tab to allow those who want the Preview Display to always be on top to click it. When unclicked, the Display does not appear over other application screens.
4. CHANGED Search Dialog Default Focus - After doing a search, the focus is now set back to the search string, which is highlighted so you can quickly do a new search or modify the existing string.
5. FIXED - Random Crash in Auto Mode When Song Finishes Playing - This happens every 3-4 hours playing time in 5.01. It was caused by the "audio player" shutting down before the last buffer was played. This also caused the end of the audio to not play. It is fixed, and the audio seems to sound better.
6. FIXED Remove Silence Didn't Work When Song Added From Singers Dialogs - Adding songs to the Playlist from the Singer button dialog, or the Search button dialog using the Singer "Open Folder" icon to see the selected Singer's songs list, the song data added to the Playlist did not include the Remove Silence Start/Stop pointers. This is fixed.
7. FIXED ZIP Files Would Not Preview Play in Search Dialog - ZIP files will now play with Preview Play (when a second audio card is installed and linked to Preview Play).
8. FIXED Adding Multiple Files From Singers Dialog With Key Change - If there was a key change on the first selected song, when multiple songs are added to the Playlist they all received the same key change as the first song. Now each song is added with its own key change setting if changed.
9. FIXED DUR Field Counted -10 to -15 - This happened in Auto> mode with Remove Silence Mode enabled. Now the DUR field (showing the Auto Play Delay) counts down from the Auto Delay value to zero between songs.
10. FIXED Audio Files Would Not Play - We fixed a bug that caused indexed KMH Audio files to not play when Visualization was enabled in the Tools menu > Show Display > Intermission view.
11. FIXED Songs Added By Singers Button Close Hoster - Songs loaded to the playlist using the Singers button dialog would play, but closed Hoster when each finished. Also, they appeared with "Unavailable" Status the next time Hoster ran.
12. FIXED Consecutive Videos Failed to Play in Auto Mode - If you put 2 videos in the playlist to play one after the other it crashed when the second one started playing.

V5.01 - Released May 9, 2011

1. NEW Genre - Merengue, Soca, Chutney.
2. NEW Language - Hindi.
3. FIXED Random Crashes Due to Editing Playlist Fields - We discovered that the basic Windows "Fopen" command randomly failed when the Singer Display or Marquee Display control files were opened to rebuild them after Playlist changes. Our fix should prevent crashing in the future.

V5.00 - Released April 25, 2011

This release contains 17 New, 11 Changed, 10 Fixed, and 2 Removed features. Due to Microsoft changing the way Windows work, which has never happened before, your existing 4.32 or prior version may experience problems when you upgrade Windows. We have fixed all the problems that have been reported.

Hoster 5.00 is ready for use. Since November 3, 2010 we released 19 Beta Test versions for our international testing team, with a total of 232 changes made over the past 5 months. Bugs were reported and all were fixed. Features were added, polishing suggestions made, and the final "elegance" applauded. Our testers are now running their shows with it. However, because any major software release from any company can have bugs, we are including Version 4.32 (Full or Lite). If a bug should appear in 5.00 during a show, you can run 4.32 in seconds, then report the problem in the Video Hoster 5.00 Bugs and it will be fixed in V5.01.

Hoster Screen Changes

The screen has minimal changes from V4.32 to add new features you asked for.

1. NEW "Sync" Slider - While playing, adjusting this slider changes the lyrics sync with the music.
2. NEW Background Color - Choose any background color for all screens and dialogs used during a show.
3. NEW 99 Instabuttons - When the Instabutton line above the Playlist window is full, new rows are created and buttons move to them. Adjusting the screen width adjusts the button rows.
4. NEW Playlist Columns - BookID, Brand and DiscID columns were added.
5. CHANGED "Key Change" Buttons - The -5 to +5 buttons change the key with one mouse click.
6. CHANGED Preview Display - When docked into the Hoster screen other applications appear over it. When undocked and floating it is on top of other applications.
7. CHANGED "Disc" Button - Renamed to "Singers Disc" to better describe its function.
8. FIXED Crash Editing Playlist Singers Field - This field is now edit only with no drop-down "names list". Editing the field corrects the Playlist, but not the Singers Database. It no longer crashes Hoster.
9. FIXED Playlist Dur(ation) Field Counted Negative - This happened only in Remove Silence mode. It now counts down and ends at zero.
10. FIXED Enter & Tab Keys - These and other keys now work while a Video plays.
11. FIXED "Singers Disc" Dialog - When adding a track from a Singers Disc, if you selected a Key change, the Track and Title fields would clear. They now remain as you set them.
12. FIXED Crash On Startup with Windows XP - In the Show Display Intermission View, only in Windows XP with the latest Windows upgrades, if this was unchecked Hoster would crash. It is fixed.
13. FIXED Crash Randomly During Shows with Windows XP - We believe the "Always On" problem above was causing these random crashes during a show.

Songs Database Related Changes

1. CHANGED Import Songs Menu - Instead of showing its menu of 3 commands now shows the Tools menu Songs Database dialog with a button to run every function that changes the Songs Database.
2. CHANGED Index CD Tracks Screen - Folders in the Excluded Folders list in the Build Database dialog cannot be selected.
3. NEW Index Files as either KMH or KMA - In the Index HD Files Screen, you can now select to index files using the KMH or KMA format. Clicking either button activates the Type buttons below that they can index. Both can index MP3+G, WMA+G, ZIP, MP3 and WMA. KMH cannot index BIN, WAVG or WAV files, while KMA cannot index Video files.
4. CHANGED Table & Artist Drop Down Lists - These lists are used in the "Index HD Files", "Import CD Tracks", and "Edit Songs" dialogs. In prior versions they were created when the dialogs opened by merging your Songs database with the Import Database tables. This could take minutes with 20,000+ songs in the Songs Database. We now only use the Import Database tables. The dialogs now appear instantly while the tables open in background.
5. REMOVED Index Hard Drive Files Screen "Auto-Complete Lists" Checkbox - This enabled/disabled the Artist and Title fields drop down lists, which are now always enabled.
6. FIXED Crash in Import HD Files - In this screen, when the Import Files button was clicked it would show the "Hoster has encountered a problem..." error and shut down. We found and fixed the cause.

New Build Database Dialog

Some users were confused how to "index" their songs into the Songs Database, instead adding them with the K-oke, Audio, Video buttons. Others found it difficult to create a Backup Computer with a Songs Database identical to their Show Computer. This new dialog automates the indexing for you, while preserving existing assigned BookIDs in KMH and KMA files.

1. NEW Build Database Dialog - This allows you to select a folder and either index only its songs into the Songs Database, or index songs in it and all sub-folders below it (recursive scanning). It allows selecting what Karaoke, Audio and Video file types to index. For example, selecting E:/ drive indexes all folders that contain one or more selected song types (ignores other file types) and their sub-folders. When done, your Songs Database contains all selected song types on E: drive. You can index other whole drives, or only folders with your songs.
   
   It adds all indexed folders into the Indexed Folders list just like the prior "Build Songs Database list, and skips all folders in the Excluded Folders list.
   
   Indexing in this dialog creates a KMH file for each found selected type. These files hold the Title, Artist, Brand... song parameters as well as a unique BookID. For those with custom BookID number schemes, this dialog allows you to manually control the numbering range assignments.
2. NEW Excluded Folders List - Since the unattended Build Database operation can index folders that may include audio or video files you don't want (such as tada.wma, or other system sounds), after indexing you can select and "exclude" folders to skip over in the future. The Excluded Folders list and its controls appears by clicking the "Excluded Folders" button.
3. NEW Opens MP3 and WMA Headers - When these selected file types are indexed, their headers are opened to obtain Title, Artist and other fields. If the header Title field is blank, the filename is added into the Title field. You can index selected Karaoke (MP3+G, ZIP, WMA+G), Audio (MP3, WMA) and Video (13 types) files at the same time. To preserve BookIDs in existing KMA and KMH files they are indexed in a first pass, then all other file types are indexed and assigned new BookIDs in a second pass.

Edit Songs Dialog

1. NEW BookID Root and Track# Fields - You can change a songs BookID and Track number in Single view. Clicking "Apply Changes" verifies your entries and makes the change or warns to enter different values.
2. NEW Remove Silence On Selected Songs - Start and End points can be set only on selected songs, as well as adjusting existing points.
3. CHANGED Dialog Height - This now runs on Netbooks and Laptops with 600x800 display resolution.
4. CHANGED Title and Artist Instructions - "?" buttons beside the "Title" & "Artist" fields give formatting examples to follow.
5. CHANGED Type Field - The prior green on black Type field is now a column in the Results window.
6. FIXED Brand Field - Clicking the Apply Changes button once now changes the Brand, not twice as before.

Search Dialog

1. CHANGED Size and Appearance - The smaller size is easier to keep open beside the Playlist. You can resize it vertically and horizontally to see all the columns.
2. NEW Preview Play - You can now select and play a song when a second audio port is installed.
3. NEW Dur: Field - This field is now a column showing the song durations.
4. NEW Double-Click a Song - This new function adds the song to the Playlist.
5. CHANGED Match Field - Just enter some characters, then press the Tab or Enter keys or click outside the field to trigger the search.
6. CHANGED Key Change - The -5 to +5 buttons are back. After adding a song to the Playlist, the Key Change returns to "0".
7. FIXED Brand Field - The Brand field is now included when songs add to the Playlist.

New Singers Dialog Launched from Search Dialog

1. NEW Singer Songs Dialog - This appears when you click the new icon to the right of the Singers field in the Search dialog. It shows songs added for that Singer in the Singers Database. It can resize and move.
2. NEW Add Songs to Playlist - Double-clicking a song adds it to the Playlist, in addition to the Add button.

General Changes

1. NEW Windows DPI Resizes Dialogs - For those with challenged eye sight, changing the Windows Dots Per Inch (DPI) resolution changes the text size in all dialogs.
2. NEW Genre Additions - 2000's, Ambience, Background, Cha Cha, Classic Rock, Fox trot, Funeral, Gospel, Hymn, Inspirational, March, Mood, Party, Quickstep, Rock, Tango, and Modern Waltz.
3. NEW Unhide Messages Command - This resets dialogs and messages "Don't show this message again" checkbox so you see them again.
4. CHANGED "Add Track" Buttons - In all dialogs this is now "Add" allowing smaller dialogs.
5. CHANGED Audio & Video File Remove Silence - Trying to remove silence on these file Types now shows a message. Earlier it would not process these files nor tell you why.
6. REMOVED "Include Songs Database" Checkbox - This was removed from the; Import CD Tracks screen, Import Hard Drive Files screen, Edit Songs dialog, and the Tools menu Options dialog. The Import Database Artist and Title tables populate the drop down lists in these screens and dialogs.

V4.32 - First Released October 20, 2010

1. 432.03 UPGRADE 03/01/2011
2. 432.01 UPGRADE 01/06/2011
3. 432.12 UPGRADE 12/01/2010
   
   • FIXED Hoster On Windows 64-bit Systems Would NOT Upgrade - Versions 432.11 and prior had a problem with registering on Windows 64-bit versions that prevented upgrading. This was fixed in 4.32.12. If you run 4.32.11 or prior, and run Windows 64-bit OS, please submit a Support Ticket and include these two facts and we will correct the problem so you can upgrade. We apologize for this problem, but Microsoft gave us no warning they changed Windows operations!
4. 432.11 UPGRADE 11/08/2010
5. 432.10 UPGRADE 10/01/2010
   
   
   • CHANGED Search Dialog Play Controls - When a second audio card is not present (none selected for Search Play) the Search dialog play button and volume control are now hidden.
   • CHANGED Search Dialog Play Key Change - Playing a song in the Search dialog plays the file ignoring the Key Change setting. Before, if a song was playing from the Playlist, and you select a song in the Search dialog and click its Play button with a key change applied, it would change the Playlist key also. We expect to replace the Key Change code in Hoster 5.xx, and expect to have unique key changes playing in both players.
   • UPGRADED Search Dialog Audio Card/Port Recognition - Windows 7 (and Vista) can create "virtual" audio ports that it uses internally. However, because these are no longer identified as before, Hoster's code presented these virtual ports. Now it only presents and uses physical audio cards or ports (not virtual ports) for the Playlist and the Search dialog preview play feature.

V4.31 - Released September 27, 2010, upgraded October 5, 2010

1. UPGRADED October 5 - SATA Optical Drives Not found on New Computers - Some new computer users started reporting Hoster or Hoster Lite did not find their optical drives, even though Windows Explorer showed them. We quickly identified the problem and released a new 4.31 code that identifies and uses all optical drives. It's Help menu About Hoster... dialog shows 4.31. for the version.
2. NEW Audio, Karaoke, Video Buttons - These were added into the Edit Songs Dialog search switches at top. They allow limiting searches to these Song Types. They are enabled (orange) whenever the dialog appears.
3. NEW SKIP tracks in Search & Singers Dialogs - When checked, when you add one or more Songs to the Playlist, their Status is set to SKIP. The settings are independent, and appear the next time Hoster runs (persistent).
4. NEW Background Audio Player Double-click to Play - In prior versions double-click a song in the BA song list was not supported. If you did this the On button stayed gray and the Off button remained red. We upgraded the code to handle double-click.
5. CHANGED Search & Singers Dialogs - The controls were re-arranged in these dialogs to make room for SKIP tracks.
6. CHANGED Edit Songs Dialog - Now the dialog width is resizable by click and dragging the right edge to the right (or back to the left). This allows expanding the search results window to show all the field columns. Your changes are power-down persistent, remaining when you run Hoster again.
7. CHANGED Singers Dialog Export Report - We changed the exported file (C:\MTU\Hoster\SongList.rtf), expanding the header columns to include the following: BookID, Title, Artist, Key, Date, Brand, DiscID. We removed the Tempo column until Tempo is supported. The "'s Songs" was removed from the end of each Singer so the Singer's name appears as it is in the database, and the names are now bold. We added a View File button in the message box that appears after the export is finished.
8. CHANGED Singers Dialog - Song View - The songs are now displayed in alphabetic order to make them easy to find.
9. CHANGED Instabuttons Settings Dialog - We changed the text at the top and added a WARNING about Instabutton Video file's audio not playing if you select an audio card for the Playlist that is not the Windows default audio card.
10. CHANGED 99 Instabuttons - You can now have up to 99 Instabuttons, but only one line shows them on your Playlist screen. However, the screen can be resized (moe the bottom and right edges) to show more Instabuttons at the same time.
11. FIXED Remove Silence End Removal - Even if you set the End point on a song to not play silence beyond that point, when the song was played the silence played and the DUR field showed a negative number counting down. We found and fixed the problem.
12. FIXED Search Dialog Key Change - The Upgrade button now upgrades the Key change field for the selected song in the List window.
13. FIXED Singer's Dialog Songs Not Appearing - When you click the Singers button to display its dialog, the first Singer displayed does not show its Songs until you select another Singer, then click the first Singer again. Now the first Singer's Songs will appear the first time.

V4.30 - Released September 1, 2010, Updated September 3, 2010

1. UPGRADE Sept 3 Drives Now Recognized - There were various drives Hoster would not import from, including Matsushita brands. Hoster now recognizes these and other drives that use the same more demanding interface.
2. NEW - Automatic Check for Updates - When Keyrite first runs and the computer is on-line, it automatically checks to see if 7 days have passed since the last access to the MTU web site. If under 7 days, it won't check now. If more than 7 days, it checks for a new release. This does not delay the program running. The message box that appears has a "Hide this message for version NNN" checkbox where NNN is the new version number. If clicked, the message for the version being reported will not appear again. When a new version is released later than this one, the message appears with text explaining this new version's features.
3. UPGRADE Help Menu Check For Upgrades Command - When clicked, this launches your Browser and accesses a script that receives data about the version you are running so it can tell you the status.
4. CHANGED Disable Cancel button in Detect Drive Dialog - The Cancel button only appears when a Reader drive is selected and saved.
5. UPGRADE Move Dialogs & Screens to Default Location - If the Preview screen, Singers screen, Search dialog or Singers dialog are moved off of any Display "area" so they are no longer accessible, clicking the Tools menu Options command Reset Displays button will reset both screens and both dialogs back to the center of the computer display showing Hoster's Playlist screen.

V4.22 - Released June 24, 2010

1. NEW Added an Open Folder Field to Import HD Files Screen - Once you select the file Type button, and select the folder where your song files are, that field now appears at the top of the screen.
2. FIXED Lyrics Out-of-Sync - On some computers, the first song played with the lyrics in sync, but on the second and higher songs the lyrics were out-of-sync. We found and fixed the problem. Beta testers report the sync is now the best of the 4.xx series. We also rebuilt Hoster using the latest Microsoft Direct-X and Windows Media Player developers tools to further overcome sync problems caused by older versions of these tools.
3. FIXED Crash with Remove Silence - This was preventing unattended removing silence from the start/end of karaoke and audio files. We found and fixed the bug.
4. UPGRADED Random Crashing - Hoster on XP runs fine. However, on Vista and Windows 7, it was randomly crashing after hours of operation. Rebuilding Hoster using the latest Microsoft Direct-X and Windows Media Player tools solved these problems. You now need to upgrade your computer to the latest Direct-X and Windows Media Player versions to run Hoster 4.22.
5. UPGRADED DVD Drives Now Persistent On 64-Bit Vista or Windows 7 - When Hoster runs it no longer asks for the Default Drive selection that was already made when you first run Hoster.
6. FIXED Background Audio Player ">>" Play Next - When this button is clicked to stop the current audio song and play the next, the button now grays out until the playing song ends, including fade-out. In prior versions you could click this button repeatedly during the fade out time, which ignored the button click.

V4.21 - Released May 27, 2010

1. FIXED Random Crashing - We found and fixed a problem. We tested playing a Playlist with over 9 hours without crashing.
2. NEW Upgrade Needed Notification - When installing 4.21, if the RegCode being used was ordered or upgraded more than 12 months ago, your web browser will display a page to allow upgrading that RegCode. Orders and Upgrades allow their RegCode to install future versions for the next 12 months.

V4.20 - Released March 2, 2010

1. MASSIVE UPGRADE Almost New Import Hard Drive Files Screen - This has been massively upgraded to be much easier to use. The TYPE buttons determine whether you index your files with the new KMH format or duplicate them with the standard KMA format.
2. NEW Index Video Files - Many users have been waiting to index their video files in the Songs Database. Click the Video Type button, select the video format to import, select the folder (with sub-folders) and follow the on-screen instructions. Your large video files are not duplicated!
3. NEW KMH Indexing File Format - Instead of duplicating audio/lyrics/video files as the KMA format does, a new KMH format has been created that now indexes Karaoke ZIP, MP3+G, WMA+G, and Audio MP3, WMA, and Video files. KMH is a 256-byte header file, with the same name as the song file it indexes, and saves in the folder holding the song file. KMH files can be edited, played, searched for, deleted, indexed in the Songs Database, and can print or be excluded in your Song Books... just like KMA files.
4. NEW Easy / Advanced Import Methods - The New Easy Method allows you to quickly indexing a large number of ZIP, MP3+G, WMA+G, MP3 or WMA files at around 6 per second so you can find and play them quickly. See the KMH -vs- KMA differences.
5. NEW Added Guide Text in Each Screen - Now step-by-step instructions appear at the left in each screen for what to do next.
6. NEW Added "Type" Column to Search Dialog Window - Now you can see file Types in the Search dialog.
7. UPGRADE Preserve Custom BookID Root Numbers - Enter a custom BookID Root number when Importing CD/CDG Discs or Hard Drive files in Batch mode and your entered custom number is used to create the next higher numbers above your number for each disc or file imported.
8. UPGRADE Playback Offset - We changed the selections from 0.25 increments to 0.10 increments for finer adjustment.
9. UPGRADE Removed Check For HDZIP Files - When Hoster first ran or Build Song Database ran, it verified HDZIP files did not exist (they should have been converted to HDMP3G format in V4.11 and prior). V4.20 supports playing ZIP and HDZIP flies so these check were removed.
10. FIXED Custom BookID Overwrote Existing BookID - When files are assigned "Unknown" for DiscID, the KMA filename is saved as "unknown-tk#.kma", which will overwrite existing "unknown-tk#.kma" files, if you click the Sel check box beside one or more tracks. Hoster now assigns a unique DiscID so this no longer happens.
11. FIXED Locked Up: Error "509" Appeared When Batch Importing Sub-folders - We fixed this problem. The "509" could be a different number. We found that code portions were not being closed, causing a buildup that would consume all available RAM for this type of operation, and then lock up Hoster.
12. FIXED Visualization Dialog in Intermission View - This dialog would require multiple clicks to close. This was fixed.
13. FIXED Searching DiscID - Currently (for example) entering "1" matches DiscIDs with "1" anywhere in it. This has been changed.
14. FIXED Add Files to an Existing Song Database - Several rare bugs were fixed in this function.

V4.11 - Released October 5, 2009, #2 October 15, 2009

1. CHANGED (Version #2) Delete and Move Tracks In Playlist - You can now delete or move tracks in the Playlist while playing. Before, if you deleted or moved a track above the playing song, when the playing song finished, the second next track below would play instead of the next track. This is fixed.
2. FIXED Hoster Would Crash Within 30-40 Seconds - There was a bug. If the Show Display Intermission View checkbox for Always On was disabled, within 30-40 seconds the Time fields in the SND would try to be incremented for the next minute (during Intermission only). Since the Intermission was disabled, the Time fields were missing and the code would crash. This is fixed.
3. CHANGED Background Audio Player Volume - The range was changed from 50% to 100% to now be 20% to 100%.
4. CHANGED These Edit Song dialog changes have been made:
   
   
   1. NEW Edit Songs Select Multiple View - Brand, Title and Artist fields (same as in the Select Single View) now allow selecting multiple songs and applying the same Brand, Title or Artist name(s). All other parameters that were not changed remain the same.
   2. CHANGED Edit Songs Search Buttons - The BookID, Title, Artist... buttons that turn green are now on the top row and the "On/Off Switch" buttons on the bottom row that limit to the checkboxes they represent.
   3. FIXED "No S-E" Button - When clicked to Find only songs where the Start-End Remove Silence pointers were not set, this showed songs where the Start-End pointers had been edited. Now it shows those without Start-End pointers so you can edit them or go to the Tools menu Remove Silence... dialog and process them. This can occur after importing songs if you haven't process them to remove silence.
   4. CHANGED Results Window - Two new columns have been added to this window to show Hide SB (Hide in Songbook flag) and S-E Set (Start-End silence set for Remove Silence). These allow viewing the state of these flags.
   5. UPGRADED Edit Songs Select Multiple Screen - If you clicked into any field or changed a checkbox and even changed it back, internal flags were set to update all the selected songs with the changed fields/checkboxes current setting. It was not made known this would happen. Now, when you click the Apply Changes button, a dialog appears showing the names of the fields and/or checkboxes that will be used for updating, plus the number of selected songs that will be updated. If you don't agree with this, click the Cancel button, ALL CHANGES are discarded and the fields and checkboxes reset to blank. If you agree with the items that will update the quantity of selected files, click the Continue button. A second message will appear with the warning that you are about to permanently modify your KMA files and Songs Database with buttons to Continue or Cancel. Clicking Continue starts modifying all selected KMA files with the identical changes. Unmodified fields/checkboxes remain unchanged.
   6. CHANGED Select Multiple View Fields - In Select Multiple view if you selected ONE song, its parameters now appear in the blank fields below as it does in Select Single view.

V4.10 - Released September 23, 2009

1. NEW Remove Silence From Karaoke Songs - The Tools menu Remove Silence... command automatically scans and marks leading and trailing silence in your KMA (karaoke only) files and in your Songs Database. Once processed, you can select to play with or without the silence. The Edit Songs dialog allows adjusting or clearing the Start or End pointers on any song.
2. NEW Automated Background Audio Player - The Bkgnd Audio button displays the new BA Player where you can open a folder containing MP3 and WMA files audio files to play. Hoster automatically controls this Player, providing background audio whenever silence would happen. You no longer need to use other audio players like WinAmp, DJ programs, etc.
3. NEW Talkover Button - When Background Audio is playing, clicking this button drops the amplitude down so you can talk while the background continues playing.
4. NEW Intermission View Visualization Shows Background Audio - While Background Audio is playing, the Intermission View appears. If you have Visualization selected, the gyrating images respond to the Background Audio.
5. NEW Audio Fade In and Out - You can now set adjustable separate fade durations for Hoster and the Background Audio Player so the music comes up and fades away.
6. NEW Windows 7 Compliant - Version 4.10 can install and run on Windows 7. Those who tested on Windows 7 report faster performance. So far it appears to be function the same as with Vista, but more stable.
7. NEW Video Button Supports .MP4 Files - You can now open and add .MP4 file types using the Video button.
8. UPGRADED Import Database - There are now 278,000 Brand-DiscID-Track#-Artist-Title definitions, all cleaned through Google manual searches.
9. UPGRADED Rewritten And Reformatted Manual - The manual has been totally reorganized to make it easier to find what you are looking for. More images now have "image maps" that make each control in the image a hyperlink to the details about it; just click what you want to know about and read it.
10. UPGRADED Printer Friendly Version Links - The Printer Friendly Version link at the top of the Installation Manual, User Manual, and Import Songs Manual to print that manual section correctly without chopping off the right edge.
11. CHANGED Show Button is Now SND Button - This now is titled SND button. When clicked, it blanks the Singers Names Display when clicked (red) and un-blanks it when clicked again (green). This allows you to edit the SND order or names and they are not visible until you are finished.
12. CHANGED InstaButtons Stop Button - This now is gray when no InstaButtons are Playing, and red when one is playing. Clicking it stops the playing button.
13. UPGRADE Auto-Build Your Songs Database when Hoster 4.0 first runs, if it finds an existing Songs Database. Automatically rebuilding it insures you have the new database format required to use the new features.
14. UPGRADED Tools Menu Audio Controls... Command - We added new Fade in: and Fade out: fields so you can select how fast Hoster songs fade up when they start, and back down when they are finished.
15. UPGRADED Speed Up Performance - We modified our drive detection code that significantly speeds up Hoster starting up. Some users would see tens of seconds for Hoster to start, while others would have Hoster running in under 10 seconds. Now everyone should see faster performance.
16. UPGRADED Visualization Images - Selecting Visualization images to appear in the Intermission or Audio DJ views adds a major load on the computer processor and RAM. A warning message appears whenever you click the Visualization radio button to remind you of this.
17. MOVED Man-Auto Buttons - These were moved to directly above where they were.
18. UPGRADED Search Dialog Would Not Play Some Songs - Older KMA files created with Hoster 1.x series would not play in the Search dialog. This is fixed.
19. FIXED Audio InstaButtons Stopped Playing - Audio InstaButtons now keep playing when a new Playlist song starts.
20. FIXED Import CD Tracks Could Lock Hoster - We found and fixed the bug so Hoster no longer can lock up.
21. FIXED Crash When InstaButton Dialog Launched - The problem was found in Version 4.09D and fixed in 4.10. The crash only happened when the open Playlist was empty.
22. REMOVED X-Fade Button - The new Fade controls give more flexibility.
23. FIXED Title Page On SAV Tracks - Title page graphics now draw correctly for SAV and similar "artistic" drawing mode discs.
24. Tools Menu
    
    1. CHANGED Order - After 7 years of evolving, we changed the order of commands so the most often are easier to reach.
    2. NEW Show Display... controls the Show Display where you can select what appears in the; Lyrics, Intermission, Audio DJ, Video VJ views, and the Hoster Screen Preview window.
    3. NEW Songs Database... shows a dialog to choose the operation you want to perform on this database; Add songs to your existing database, rebuild the database or (coming in 4.2x) quickly repair it if files aren't found or folders moved.
    4. NEW InstaButtons... you create that instantly play Audio or Video files on clicked. You assign your own button title and color, and click-n-drag any time to change their order. When enabled they appear on a line above the Playlist Window.
    5. CHANGED Use Longer Filenames when adding KMA files, such as created in MTU Songverter.
    6. NEW Reset Displays Size/Location instantly forces all displays to appear in their factory default location if needed.
    7. NEW Automatic Start enables the Show Display to appear all the time, showing the Intermission view when no song is playing. It is best to disable this when using a single display instead of a dual display.
    8. REMOVED Playback Offset as it is no longer required. In past years, if your graphics display card driver was out dated the lyrics highlighting could be offset. Current graphic cards no longer have this problem. This was added back into the Tools Menu Options command in Hoster 4.10.
    9. REMOVED Preview Display as this is now the Song Display Preview section Unlock and Resize Display checkbox.
25. Import Hard Drive Files Screen
    
    1. NEW Add Auto-Complete Lists For Artist and Title Fields. When you type into these fields, they now instantly show lists build from the Local Database and your imported Songs Database, allowing you to quickly type a few characters to see and click the right name, already formatted to order correctly in your Songbook. If the name is missing, you can type the rest of it, which will never require typing again.
    2. NEW Audio Button allows importing Audio files as KMA files indexed in the Songs Database, and able to appear in your Songbook. Video Files (available in 4.1x) will also be added as KMA files in a new way so as not to duplicate the files. If a Video has lyrics, click the "Video with lyrics" checkbox before importing so these files play in the Lyrics view versus the Video VJ view.
    3. NEW Opens Sub-Folders if the selected folder has sub-folders. When enabled, they are also scanned and their files imported.
    4. NEW Auto-Remove Leading Spaces in Artist and Title names so they appear in the correct order in your Songbook.
    5. NEW Set Mux and Duet for one or multiple files being imported at the same time.
    6. NEW Allow Periods In Filenames - Filenames containing Artist and Title fields with periods "." now remain.
    7. ADDED Genre List Patriotic and Blues selections.
    8. ADDED Language List Hebrew and Greek selections.
    9. NEW HDWMAG Type - When importing WMA+CDG paired files or the same within a .ZIP file on the hard drive now import as HDWMAG instead of HDBIN Type files.
    10. RENAMED "***+G" Renamed to MP3G - Some users didn't know what "***+G" meant. After splitting the WMAG Type to a new button, we renamed "***+G" to MP3G to make it clearer which button to click for the two file types.
    11. REMOVED CDG Button In Import HD Files Screen - This supported the older MTU .CDG audio+lyrics format that was discontinued years ago due to conflicts with the MP3+CDG format that became popular. If you have any .CDG MTU style files remaining, rename them to .BIN and they will import.
    12. MOVED BIN Type - The BIN button was moved to where the CDG button was.
26. Import CD Tracks Screen
    
    1. NEW Auto-Complete Lists For Artist and Title Fields. When you type a few characters into the Artist or Title fields, they now have lists that auto-scroll to matching names to select one quickly. These are formatted to order correctly in your professional Songbook. You can enter new names if what you need is not in the list, and that name is added to the list to never enter again!
    2. NEW Auto-Remove Leading Spaces in Artist and Title names so they alphabetize correctly in the Songbook. This just happens without you doing anything.
    3. CHANGED WMA ratio: Buttons are now a single drop list box.
27. Edit Songs Dialog
    
    1. NEW Add Auto-Complete Lists For Artist and Title Fields. When you type into these fields, they now instantly show lists built from the Local Database and your imported Songs Database, allowing you to quickly type a few characters to see and click the right name, already formatted to order correctly in your Songbook. If the name is missing, you can type the rest of it, which will never require typing again.
    2. NEW Find Leading Spaces to locate existing files with a leading space in the Title or Artist name. Removing blanks orders the songs correctly in the Songbook.
    3. NEW Hide in Songbook Checkbox allows you to mark duplicate songs to not appear in your Songbook, but still appear in searches to add to the Playlist.
    4. NEW "Video with lyrics" Checkbox allows you to mark video songs that contain sweeping lyrics to play in the Lyrics view instead of the Video VJ view.
    5. Coming In 4.1x Language Button allows adding up to 128 custom Languages in addition to the build-in list.
    6. Coming In 4.1x Genre Button allows adding up to 128 custom Genres in addition to the build-in list.
28. Song Book Changes
    
    1. NEW Select 1, 2 or 3 Columns in your Songbook.
    2. NEW Select Last Field Contents, which was forced to BookID, now you can select "None, BookID or DiscID-Tk".
    3. NEW Automatically Strip Leading & Trailing Spaces from Title and Artist entries to insure correct alphabetic order.
    4. NEW Hide in Song Book Field that can now be set in the Edit Songs dialog can be used here to hide duplicate songs from printing.
29. Search Dialog
    
    1. NEW Add+Close Button closes the Search dialog when adding a song.
    2. CHANGED Smaller Default Size makes it easier to keep this open all the time, and is re-sizeable to make it larger if you want.
30. Installation & Registration
    
    1. NEW Requires New 4.0 Registration Code to install Hoster 4.x. You can buy a New Product to install on new computers, or buy the Upgrade Product to upgrade Hoster on existing computers to version 4.x.
    2. NEW Updates Prior Versions when found, automatically presenting an instruction page to guide you in moving your existing files. Windows Vista does not allow programs to move files, so you must manually do this (this is optional but recommended for Windows XP).
    3. NEW Detect VISTA On Installation since Vista requires files to be in different folders than Windows XP. The new created C:\MTU\Hoster folder now holds your Playlists, Songs, Local (Bucket), and Singers Databases, and Log files. The C:\MTU\KMA Files is created to store your imported KMA files. As Microsoft requires,the Hoster.exe program is forced to the C:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster folder, along with the \Manual folder and files.
    4. NEW Lower Cost Loyalty Upgrade Registration Codes allows existing customers to pay a lower cost to upgrade. Upgrade Registration Codes can only install over existing Hoster installations. Full Hoster Registration Codes can install on new computers, not requiring a prior version already be installed. Both require Internet connection to install, but not to run.
    5. NEW A CPU Name must be entered when installing Hoster. This is sent up to MTU.com and saved in your Registration Record. If you need to communicate with MTU staff about this computer, you can now reference this name. All MTU new software releases use this same name. The Tools menu View Registration Code dialog shows the assigned name.