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sorry weed tried to word it so as not to give it away. Now I see you have done so. So now that the cat is out of the bag so to speak,  not thinking as the developer, which to go with - the standalone alongside hoster which gives me the ability to  access the best software based keychanger and software based multiplexer on the market or the ability to just allow the singers put themselves in the rotation by buying your player? Same cost (actually Upgrading Hoster would end up costing me $9 more). but what's $9 anyway? . Actually saving the $9 sounds good right now as it means 9 more sodas (sorry weed I don't drink) that I can buy.

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After sleeping on it and doing a side by side comparison between three choices, Hoster, Sacksonuts, and KJamp(RoxBox) I have decided that I don't wish to reconvert to KMA and have my Song request station not be compatable with the player used to play my songs, nor have to give up on a keychanger that is on the way that equals the quality of Hoster's keychanger.  I lioken hoster's Keychanger to the hardware based ones they had built into the old pioneer amplifiers where the tempo was truly uneffecte and the change was instantanious.  Pace Maker doesn't come close with live keychanges and only works right when you set it when entering the song into the que before hitting play. There is really no live key change available for you if you need to change the key in the middle of the song to help the singer out if asked for it. Mind you once the key is found I will restart the song at that key so the person doesn't feel cheated out of a full song due to it not being in their key to begin with.
Also cost comes into play here as well.

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what did you think of clubdjpro's key adjuster? I found it to be miles above pacemaker

wasn't even in my consideration as what I am looking at getting into now would muck up clubdj pro anyway and we already know how you and tig feel about that, as the singer's station would require the elimination of one or more of the preview displays, not the simple fix I had in mind for the singers names- oh autodkj actually does with winamp what I was suggesting for club dj pro if you want to take a look at it. the interface for search fit within the search area of the media library and in the que instead of the original artist's name you would see the Karaoke singer's name. But I am now way beyond that now as I am working with programs that will allow me to totally go completely digital with my shows.

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danny you mentioned converting to kma. You know that you can now do this quite easily with hoster you do not have to reimport discs just convert files.

Anyway keep us posted on your progress. I will probably be have my songfinder in use by August as well. Primarily for private functions to begin with and then if it works well I will place it in my bar gigs.

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Scott

Does anyone know what KMA IS exactly.  I asked MTU but got no reply.  Is it a new compression format or encrypted WMA or what?

My undertanding of it is that Kma is a compression method that utilizises wma compression for the sound and the graphics.

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Five or six years ago we were using the Cavs pe player to play cd's or tracks off of the hard drive. They came out with the sp player which put sides behind the graphics which turned into a resource hog. It never did support 2 graphics screens so we shifted to winamp and then S & D which utilized zip files. In the process I have tried the demos of pcdj, hoster and compuhost and a few others. They all have their advantages. We use roxbox now but for playing cd's I have always used cavs pe player. It uses very little resources and the sound engine is more than adequate..

The discussion has turned to comparisons of sound engines. When I import a mp3 or wav into a Cakewalk product such as Home Studio or Sonar3 and use asio sound drivers the difference in sound quality is highly pronounced. The Kjamp alpha sound engine has the same effect... They blow away winamp or media player...

With a system that has properly applied fx and sound procs the difference between compression ratio and the difference between mp3 wav or Kma is moot.. My system is sensitive enough to differentiate the between all the above at normal volume and no crowd.. But with a full crowd and in the heat of the battle a good system improves all sound to a point to where I defy you to tell me what is used mp3 wav or whatever whether you have golden ears or not...

I'm a bit late coming to this thread, but here's my  :2cents: I do have a Plextor External USB drive and also use CAVS PlayCDG SP software. It will read .cdg, .mcg, cdg discs, super cdg discs...in other words absolutely everthing, including the sound choice discs. The software also has a graphic equalizer, tempo, pitch, speed, etc...I've been very impressed. I use MTU microstudio and have the keyrite and all the other stuff too. Yes I am a very addicted home user . Not sure if this will help any or if someone already covered this, but I'm happy with this set up.