Karaoke Forums

I find Hoster to be like democracy -- it is the worst system except for all the others. I find its awful user interface choices to be maddening, and am amazed that they haven't gotten a rotation system together by now, but it works. All the rest seem to rely on Winamp, and that and Pacemaker are flaky enough to make hosting a much harder experience than it has to be.

Whoever makes the software design decisions at MTU is terrible at it -- they have no consistency at all in their software. I have used now three versions of Microstudio, and each one did things differently (and not logically). They totally ignore all Windows convention, and things which have been standard in Windows software for over a decade (right click context menus, drag and drop, tabs) are completely ignored. It is infuriating, but I use it because the rest are even worse.

Overall, I find the available karaoke software to really suck. I have written my own which is better from a hosting/rotation standpoint,  but since I am not going to have the time to develop CDG/key changer stuff I am going to have to rely on Winamp, which is building on a house of cards.

Danny, that mulitplex thing seems to be a large issue with you.   Is there reason to keep the multiplexing or do you just lack the software to change it to mono on the music side?