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Long story short... I had my collection of Karaoke CD's for my business stolen (about $5000 worth). It cut like a knife. It is not my livelyhood but my love to be able to put on a fun professional show. I have been sent copies of Karaoke discs so as to be able to at least use my equipment for private parties and get togethers.

The discs have as many as 200 songs on each dics with there being about 250 discs. A lot of songs. I want to be bale to put them on my PC and do a show that way. I don't wnat any one to bebale to steal them again. They are copied by a program called Golden Hawk? How do I get them to play in my PC. Do I need to get the same program? I heard that this program was only a copy program and not a play program. The songs are 2 file format. I can get the somg to play but not get the words on the screen.
I am by no means a compuetr person and any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is the way I recomed doing it.....

First you need to RIP the songs to your PC into Mp3+G format.  The mp3+g format is actually 2 files.  One is a MP3 file, just like any other mp3 file.  It contains the music portion of the karaoke track.  THe 2nd file is the .CDG file which contains the lyric portion of the song.

AudioGrabber  is a FREEWARE program that can RIP the karaoke tracks to your PC.   If you use that program, make sure to rip at a high bitrate, 192 or above, if you plan on using your music at a professional show.

Now to PLAY the karaoke tracks once you have them ripped to your PC you can use WINAMP.  The FREE one will work fine.  You will also need the Mp3+G plugin for winamp.  THe plugin is what interperts the .CDG file to display the lyrics.

Now if you want to go a step further there are several "Hosting" programs out there that will handle song searching, rotations, and other things.  But that is a whole nother thread.

BTW....The GOLDENHAWK product you speak of is callded CDRWIN, and it does RIP karaoke tracks to your PC to BIN files.  But you will need to further process the BIN file to the MP3+G format using MP3+G TOOLZS, and CDRWIN cost like $25.  SO stick with the free AUDIOGRABBER.

Oh yeah, all this is assuming you have a CD drive in your PC that can read the CDG subcode (karaoke lyrics)  If your CD drive can't read that subcode, you will need to get one that does.  I, and many others, recomend Plextor CD drives, as thay are considered the "standard" for PC karaoke.


Hope that all makes sense.  If not just ask more questions.

Actualy the best free ripper out there is KJrip N Zip as it does everything from ripping, naming, encoding and zipping. With Audiograbber you basically need two more programs to complete the process.   CDGAutoname, a copy of KJPRO and MP3+G ToolZ to zip the files.  That is what I used for my files when I was using AUdioGrabber, still use it for DJ songs.   You can get KJrip N Zip at www.kjamp.com for free.  For $39 you can get their SuperCDG convertor as well.

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