Dvd Karaoke Disc

[Divina Milliken]

Whatyou say is what I had thought - however this DVD has 260 Elvis karaoke songs on it, but if I try to play any

of the VOB files on my computerl all that happens is that the (presumably) first song in that VOB plays and

there's no access to the others.

Depending on how this karaoke DVD is authored, it could be a standard DVD Video or a DVD Audio. If it's a DVD Audio, then the audio is contained in the menus, so you can't effectively extract it. You can save the VOB's but there's no navigating VOB's files directly except from beginning to end or randomly jumping into points in the file.

If it's a DVD Video, you could potentially use a piece of free but old software called DVDShrink to save each title to an extracted VOB with IFO. Freemake should then be able to load the .IFO's, but it's been many years since I last used Freemake Video Converter. I prefer to use ConvertXToDVD to convert various VOB/IFO extracts to DVD. I believe Handbrake would also load these VOB/IFO's and offer to save each individual Title to a container like MP4. IF each song is a Title unto itself, Handbrake can then batch convert the VIDEO_TS contents to individual containers. However, I believe the maximum number of Titles a DVD can have is 99, so if you have 260 songs on a single DVD, they probably are not individual titles but contained in the menus, which would indicate it's a DVD Audio disc.

Choose your favourites from our huge catalogue of songs and build your own karaoke disc. We have all the classics and some of the best new tunes to kickstart your home karaoke party, whether your looking for professional backing tracks, or sing-along family fun.

With our personalised CD+G karaoke discs, you can choose exactly the right songs for the occasion. Our karaoke discs come in a standard jewel case, with thousands of songs to choose from.

You can either search for a specific song or artist or browse through our handpicked karaoke playlists to find the perfect tracks for your event. And if you can't find what you're looking for, just let us know and we'll see if we can source it for you.

We aim to dispatch your discs to you the same day if ordered before 3pm. So if you're looking for a fun and affordable way to entertain your guests, look no further than our personalised karaoke CD+G discs!

CD+G or CDG stands for Compact Disc + Graphics and is the standard format for karaoke CDs. These discs will show lyrics on-screen syncronised with the music when played on a karaoke machine that supports CD+G. The music can also be played in a normal CD player without the lyrics showing on a screen.

Karaoke music may not sound exactly like the original version because the song has been re-recorded without the lead vocals. We try to match the sound as best we can using the very best musicians and singers. We list a track with an artists name to help identify different versions of the same song.

Karaoke is the perfect way to get the party started, but make sure you've got plenty of tracks that everyone knows at the ready. Take a look at our range of karaoke CDs and discs, featuring a mix of chart hits and famous songs from throughout the decades.

Most karaoke machines that don't have a CD player, usually play songs using either a USB or SD card. All our songs are available to be downloaded in MP3+G format, which you can transfer to a removable storage device using your PC or laptop. Plug the device into your karaoke machine and the songs will play with lyrics on-screen.

Some karaoke machines (or wireless speakers) use a bluetooth connection, which allows music to be streamed from a connected smart device. This involves pairing a smart device, such as your mobile phone, laptop, or TV. Once your set up you can use our online karaoke streaming software, or play karaoke YouTube videos.

Thanks Limnos; I've been all over the Web searching with no favourable results. Friends who have a PC, say the Power CD+G Burner works great for them. I've even tried a Mac product called Kjams, but had no luck with it.

been searching myself to create my own cdg for use in universal karaoke players. Kjams appears to offer the most hope for all I want to do. although there's something new now called Aria which promises to do a bunch of stuff for 79 $. Otherwise, all that I want to do as listed by the original poster, would cost me Kjams lite, plus the burn plug in is extra, plus I'd need the kjams producer as I would be building a cdg by adding the synced lyrics to something I've removed the vocal from, on Audacity program. if I go with Kjams, those 3 softwares, it will cost me 150, while I'm so jealous all those PC karaoke singers have free software for karaoke they can download.

I've been buying my cdg discs at 1.99 a pop, but they don't have special songs I want to perform. Aria for Mac might just do it all but I don't need the "scratch" sound they are pushing. that makes me steer away from the software.

experimenting with the Imac 10.6 idvd movie quicktime might work. I made a few cdg but have not tried them in the club karaoke machine yet. I added the lyrics to tuneprompter which is a free software that lets you add and sync the lyrics to the music with the spacebar. thats fun. but it's all in experimental thing so far. I know Kjams does not let you add lyrics and sync them yourself. you are supposed to import cdg to kjams that are already available and pay for them. in this case I want to find my own special tunes. good luck to you. there's one other thing but it's expensive. buying software which turns your mac into a windows platform by partiioning it and you start up in one or the other. that's also about 100-150 software.

Laffinrain2, I know I'm late in getting back to your response. Sorry. You seem to have been doing your homework, and I hope they come up with the software PC users can use; that would be great! I'm into another set of problems to do with "burning" issues. Good luck. Kiddo

VMware? will work on Mac 10.6 ? thankx will check it out. just discovered another prob. air borne dirt seems to have gotten into the disk portal entrance, so have to get a cleaning disk to put in there and see if that works.

It ails me to have to use Parallels on my Mac to burn CDs, but honestly, it works extremely well, and is about a THIRD of the price of trying to go the Mac OS X route. Plus, it is a single program, and no monkeying around with burring drivers (which cost extra, etc.).

Certainly, Laserdiscs had the capacity to be perfect for karaoke, but the challenge was the sheer size of the library the technology had to support. A 1991 review of a LaserKaraoke machine in Popular Electronics should sound familiar to anyone in the U.S. who has performed karaoke in the last 25 years:

First up was CD+G, a variation of the traditional CD format that took advantage of unused portions of the traditional CD to offer a visual layer. Some musical acts, like the synth-pop band Information Society, actually used CD+G for their records, and the format was supported by video game consoles like the Sega CD and Philips CD-i but it quickly became the domain of karaoke. The format, which could only display low-resolution graphics was much more limited, of course, than LaserDisc, but it was probably a fair tradeoff.

Eventually, a couple of stronger competitors showed themselves: The Video CD, a less-expensive variation on the LaserDisc, appeared in 1993. And in the Japanese market, the videogame developer Taito (previously best-known for Arkanoid) had created a method for distributing karaoke songs through an ISDN phone line, making it possible to have larger libraries than ever before.

Now, the weird thing is that karaoke may not have the level of buzz it did during its 1980s and 1990s peak (Carpool Karaoke aside), it is still generating innovations in the business world.

"The development of mini-KTV meets the demands of young people in current society, who live fast and fun lives and are eager to make good use of their spare time," business analyst Liu Dingding told the Global Times last month.

For ripping, you can just stick in *any* audio CD (does not have to be a CD+G disc) and try to play it in kJams. If it works, then you know you can at least PLAY CD+G discs -- kJams attempts to read the disc in a mode where CD+G data can beread properly; if the drive hardware won't permit this, kJams will tell you so. All CD discs have +G data on them, it's just that on regular audio-only CDs, that data is all zeroes.

The burn test: make a playlist with two songs, burn the disc. Did you get "DRStatusStateFailed" ? If it seemed to work, take it to a real hardware karaoke player and play it. If that works too, you're good to go! (If you don't have a hardware CDG player available, as many don't, you can always eject it, put it back into kJams, and attempt to play the tracks you burned.)

Find the *original spec sheet* for your drive. Google the manufacturer part number, they're almost always out there somewhere in a PDF or something. Looks something like this:

Failing that, try this BIG list.

I have gone the extra mile and with help from Apple and a secret third party I have written a low level disc reader that has access to the drive in the same way that Windows has. Unfortunately I have discovered that it is still incompatible with Matshita drives. Matshita the most important drive to gain compatibility with, given that that is the drive manufacturer for the vast majority of mac laptops. However if you find a drive that says it should be CD+G compatible, but isn't, please let me know. To see if your drive will work, just put in a disc and try to rip it with kJams, kJams will honestly inform you if it *should* work but doesn't, or if it should NOT work but you can try anyway (and many drives DO work even when not advertised to!) or it will inform you that it is in fact not compatible.

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