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| Author: | Tom Eaton [ Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Downloading CD+G files and burning them |
Sorry if this has already been addressed. I couldn't find it if it was. I'm getting to the point in my CDG collection where getting songs a la carte seems to be a viable option, because otherwise I pay for songs I either don't want or already have. I looked into ordering custom CDGs, but they're very expensive ($5 per song), and for some reason the selection of songs is rather limited. I therefore wondered if it would be cheaper and easier to download CD+G files and then burn them to CD. I found a couple of sites that supposedly offer downloadable CD+G files, but the process was needlessly complicated and in many cases they require you to buy some sort of membership before you can order anything, rather than offering songs a la carte at a given price. Also, there was no way to check the quality of what I'd be getting. If anybody could recommend anything, I'd really appreciate it. PM me if necessary. Thanks. |
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| Author: | Lonman [ Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Downloading CD+G files and burning them |
Top Hits Monthly I believe you can download on a pay per track basis. Otherwise I personally don't know of any other legal sites to do it from. Custom discs may SEEM expensive, but if you think about it, it really isn't. Say you want 5 songs that happen to be only available on 4 different discs costing $20 each. You really want THOSE 5 particular songs, but none of the others are appealing & would be just wasted space for you. So those 4 discs just cost you $80 for 5 songs. NOW, if you had a custom disc made, you only spent $30 for those same 5 songs. For that matter you could have had a 15 song disc of the songs that YOU wanted for the same price as those 4 discs with only 5 of the songs you wanted plus alot of filler that you'd never use. When you think about it that way, it really isn't THAT expensive. |
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| Author: | knightshow [ Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:17 pm ] |
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exactly! There are precious few spotlights, or compilation discs that give you everything you want... mostly it's a few hits here and there. My rule of thumb on spotlight or cdg purchases: If I have over two songs on a disc and don't have tons of repeats, then it's worth buying. Otherwise, i go the custom route and get the tracks that way. I've stopped buying a lot of the spotlights because of the sheer amount of repeats. I have eleven customs!!! And will continue to get them that way if SC continues with their current releases the way they are! |
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| Author: | Tom Eaton [ Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:45 pm ] |
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Thanks for the tip on Top Hits Monthly. I'll check that out. Good point on the pricing issues, but for me paying $20 for a disc is really expensive even if it has a couple of songs I really like. That's why I mostly have lesser brands like Sweet Georgia Brown. I don't have any Sound Choice at all, completely because of the price. In terms of quality they're great. Custom CDGs are looking like a more attractive option just because most songs I want, I already have. So I probably would be willing to pay $50 or so for ten songs I want at this point. But as I said in my initial post, the selection options on the custom CDG sites are disappointing. I don't understand why, if Sound Choice has, say, the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" on one of their regular CDGs, it isn't available on a custom basis as well. It's very frustrating. Just as an exercise, I put together a ten-song custom CDG. Several of the selections were ones I really wanted, but about half of them were just songs that I didn't already have and that I more or less remembered. It would be nice if I could get all ten (there was a minimum ten songs required at the place I did this) to be ones I really wanted. If I'm going to pay that much, I figure I should at least get the songs I want. I don't mean to turn this into a debate about the merits of custom CDGs. I really just wanted to find out the other options. |
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