How to keep your karaoke songs database in Siglos healthy

As months and even years go by, your songs database used for running a karaoke show grows. You purchase new songs, rip CD+G discs, or create your own. Siglos Karaoke Professional hosting software does great job to manage this collection of karaoke songs for you, providing ultra-fast searches, but from time to time it is good to make a housekeeping and make sure that everything is in place.

One of the tools designed to do maintenance job is Validate songs. You can access it from Tools button in the bottom right of Songs database window.

It offers two options that you may choose before running.

• Check for missing files

If this option is enabled, Siglos Karaoke Professional will scan all the songs in your database and check, if the files actually exist on hard drive. It it will detect that any of the files are missing, you will be presented with choice of actions:

1. Remove the file from the database

   Song will be removed from the database and will not be available anymore

2. Keep the file

   Nothing will change. Use this option if for example the song is on the removable disc that you will connect later

3. Search for the file on different volumes

   Siglos will search all volumes on your computer using the same path. If your file was C:\Karaoke\MySong.MP4, Siglos will look for D:\Karaoke\MySong.MP4, E:\Karaoke\MySong.MP4, etc. (providing you have these drives in your computer.) You may point Siglos to the particular drive using Use this volume checkbox (this comes handy if you changed the drive letter)

You may choose to use the same choice for all the missing files in the future.

• Update playing time for current songs

When songs are initially added to the database it is possible to simply add the songs by filenames without opening them and checking their playing time. Playing time will be calculated when you place the songs in the rotation (playing time will be then saved in the database for later). If you use this option Siglos will open every one of your songs that do not have playing time saved and will update it. Please note that using this option may take a while.