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First I would like to say GREAT FORUM!
I am thinking about switching from a CAVS to a PC. I am not like most of the people here because my system gets used once in a while at home. I am not a KJ but I do like to entertain and have fun. My first thoughts were to use the CAVS because the SCDG had so many songs and to carry all the disks just seem wrong.
After reading a few posts I saw some pretty nice things I can do with a PC like dual monitors (one for the picking the song and one for the lyrics) and a playlist that interests me. I have a great laptop or a desktop that I could use maybe with roxbox or something else. My question is now that I have all these SCDGs will they load, save and play from a hard drive or do they have to be a standard CDG. I know this has been covered somewhere but I just can't seem to find it.
Any help would be appreciated.  :)

There may be a way to do this but the last I knew scdg's only played in cavs players. They generally were one block of data the couldn't be split in anyway for use with pc karaoke software.

I know there is a player to play them on pc, but it nothing like some of the more advanced karaoke software out there.

You could rip your cd+g's use the player of your choice and use the cavs scdg software to play songs you own on scdg.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no program available that will split apart a CAVS SCDG batch file into individual MP3+MCG files.  So you can forget about running SCDG songs off of a hard drive.  CAVS is under agreement from the various manufacturers which have supported this format to NEVER release such a program.

CAVS has a program available to play SCDG on a PC and there are some commercially pressed SCDG discs that actually have a program on the disc that enables it to be played on a PC.

This makes sense. Cavs does not want people to make illeagal copies. So unless this CAVS software is something different than it sounds there are no way to do PLAYLISTS nor a way to store the SCDG on a drive. So as I understand it... there is a way to convert the CDG files to SCDG but not a way to convert back. I notice most people do not like the CAVS but it has never given me a problem. The thing I do not like about it is having to find a disk in a song book and then locate the disk. It seems like Karaoke could be more fun to the person operating the player if you had a PC to do playlists and a good way to search.
If I go this way I guess direction I guess me SCDG's are no good to me unless I play them in the directly in the PC. Correct??

How about the JB-99 or the JB-199? Will either of these units rip the SCDG to the hard drive? Thanks for any info....  :D
John.