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Don't ask me why I but I found myself on the VOCOPRO website and came across a new player they were offering that plays DIV-X ?.
It looks like a way to Rip your CDGS to a PC and then back as compressed files putting as they say a 300 disc library on 24 discs?

Is this something new ?

Sounds like another form of the Super CDG, but they have the way to rip it. Still wouldn't do it - it's Voc........ah.......never mind!

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Believe me Lon, I agree with you about Vocopro. If there products were priced more like Behringer instead of Peavey they might be worth the look. It seems that the ability to take 300 cds and condense them to 24 cd/dvds is worth a further look... (excluding the legality issues )

I'm not that PC knowledgeable to know about any loss of SOUND QUALITY when condensing audio files etc. but I would think some loss would be present.

Div-x is a form of video compression. It gives you very good quality and very small file sizes. This would be similar to converting cd-gs to video cds, only you would get better quality and smaller files. Sounds like it might be a good idea but I'll wait untill I can get one that wont break in a month. If you want to know more about the compression you can goto their website it's just divx dot com. I actually use it to archive my favorite tv shows on cd.

That's my main issue with them as a company, they are too overpriced for the quality they offer.

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There are DVD players out there that play DIVX encoded discs but you have to hunt for them (and they're NOT made by VocoPro). This would require ripping your CDG's, converting to MPG, and then to DIVX. You could fit many more tracks onto a DVD than on a CDG, but because of the format and compression scheme.

I'll wait for something a little more mainstream before dropping a lot of time into the conversion process. I'll likely move to computer based products long before I go back to just changing the format of the discs I'm using.

I recently purchased the Acesonic DGX-500 and have been doing precisely this in order to compress my collection of CD-G discs onto a single DVD of DivX files. I've been extremely satisfied with the results so far.

The most important difference between Super CDG and DivX is that Super CDG is a proprietary format, which has it's own irritating limiations and problems. A disc of DivX files, however, is simply that- a disc of files. Meaning it's easy to move, copy, rename, or whatever you want with them on any computer with no special software installed.

Anyway, I use Audiograbber to rip the CD-Gs into cdg + wav files and then I use Powerkaraoke CDG to AVI converter (registered, so I can batch convert) with DivX video and MP3 audio compression to convert these into AVI files, which are typically between 10 and 15 megabytes in size.