4 In the next step, click the Browse button, then find and select version 1's Songs.mdb file (default location: MediaShout\Songs\Songs.mdb). Click Open to return to the wizard, then click Next.
5 Choose how you want duplicate songs to be treated. Version 2.0 contains all the classic hymns included in version 1. To prevent duplicates of these hymns, choose Skip duplicates. Under the second set of choices, choose Identical Song Title. (Version 1 songs don't have Song IDs, so the other choice will result in the importing of all duplicates.)
6 Click Import. All non-duplicate songs will be imported, and a dialog will appear to tell you how many.
Note that if you modified the lyrics of any song that we included in MediaShout 1, but didn't modify its title, the song will be skipped during the import process, so your changes won't make it into version 2.0. There are two ways to get it in there anyway:
– Choose Import all songs in the Import Songs wizard, then delete the duplicates you don't want. Or ...
– Open SongWriter in MediaShout 1 and use its Export feature to export the modified hymns to a text file. Then use ShoutSinger's Import Songs wizard to import the text file, choosing Import all songs. You'll still wind up with duplicates, but in this case they'll be limited to the modified songs, whose older versions can then be deleted.
For more on ShoutSinger's importing feature, see Import Songs.