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I'm in the market for a new karaoke machine, my old DGX-150 5 disc having been destroyed by an unseasonably rainy 4th of July.

All of my music has been converted into DivX-compressed .avi files.  I see that many of the new players have support for USB devices, so it seemed like a match made in heaven- just throw all my files on an external hard drive, hook it up, and no more changing discs at all.

However, I realized that the OS in every player has a limit to the number of files per folder it can handle.  Now, I have about 2400 songs, and I don't want my guests to have to navigate through folders- I just want them to be able to type a number and go.  However, I haven't seen any players with a capacity like this in my price range (around $300 or so).  Most of them are limited to a hundred or so songs per folder from what I've seen.

Any recommendations or suggested alternate courses of action?

Thanks!

make folders per manu, and maybe even further.

Mine is structured exactly that way, and then with say SC, I have the 2xxx series, 3xxx series, 8xxx series, and in their, I have it further broke down.

What's SC?  Sound Choice?  And what are those series you're mentioning?

Anyway, I realize you can divide stuff up among different folders, but that's precisely that I'm trying to avoid.  I want people do be able to use the machine with little or no guidance; I want it to be as quick and simple as possible, and I don't know if having to have people navigate through folders is a good solution for that.

SC is Sound Choice the series are 2000, 3000, 7000 and 8000. There are some other ones for Spanish and special disks, but the ones above are the most common.

I usually get the 8000 Spotlights, because you get 15 songs. The others all have 8 songs and 8 practice vocals (Except Foundations and Bricks which are 7000). there are other 7000 series disks that have vocals too tho.

Sound Choice
2000 = Star Series
3000 = Power Picks
8000 = Spotlights



Are you going to be renting this system & need it as easy as possible?  Or having your singers bypass you as a host & enter their own numbers - hope not!

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If all your music are in avi and divX, what you may want is to go computer; just bypass the player. Anyway usb may not be the best route for vid file, you need firewire.

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if you have your song listing by manufacturer, it's no big deal. The first two letters are the manu code, and you have folders with that.

Then either go regular numbers, or the regular disc number.

If your songbook is by number, why not have folders for every 100 discs?

001-100
101-200
etc.

That's the way I have mine set up.

um, which way... I mentioned TWO ways! !

001-100
101-200

etc....

Oops, thought I posted right behind you Knightshow.

That's a simple way to do it...works good for adding on.

No problem finding songs, format of books looks like a normal show book, etc...

My vocopro hard drive has 4600 files in 1 folder and they are numbered 0001 - 4600 and they play fine. All are Divx files and it's very simple.


http://www.acekaraoke.com/vocopro-40-gi ... ntrol.html
Vocopro 40 GB Hard Drive Media Player Pro With Key Control

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