Hello there!
I hope you don't mind that I am emailing you out of the
blue, but I found your blog when I was trying to figure out if my dvd
player would show lyrics from a karaoke cd. I am not very
technically knowledgeable but from what I've read it seems that this is
not possible. I was wondering if there was a machine specifically made
for just playing karaoke cds, but not for microphones, etc... a karaoke
dvd player if you will. My boyfriend has a number of speakers and
microphones from a former music career and we are starting karaoke
nights with some of his friends. We have microphones and numerous
speakers so we don't need that, I just need something to show the lyrics
on the tv screen. I read somewhere in your blog that they make ipod
adaptions. Would this allow me to download karaoke music onto my ipod
and then use this to take the lyrics and music from my ipod to the tv
and stereo system? Again, I apologize for my lack of technological
knowledge.
Thank you for your time!
Sarah
Answer:
Hi Sarah,
No problem at all. I get these questions periodically.
First question: Can you do it with a DVD player? When I bought my first karaoke CD, I plugged it into my DVD player, and it actually worked. :) It played the music and the words showed up on my TV. Because it worked, I bought another CD and another and another. All of a sudden, I was a karaoke DJ. A modern day success story.
I got another DVD player and it did not play karaoke. :( There was no indication when I bought either one as to whether it would play karaoke. So... try the karaoke CDs with whatever DVD player you can find. Maybe you'll get lucky?
Second question: Can you run karaoke on your iPod. I currently have several hundred of the songs that I do on my iPod. All I need is a powered speaker and the iPod and I can sing for my supper. Your iPod can also drive a TV set, BTW. I don't know if you found my post on that, but it's a cheap cable and a setting on the iPod. (To read more, look at the tail end of this post.)
The movie files are not all that much bigger than an mp3 file. I just checked... I looked at 89 files that I had converted. The total disk space is 775 MB, or roughly 9 MB per song. If your iPhone has 8 GB, then it might hold close to 1,000 songs? If you have a 160 Gb iPod, then can fit about half a zillion songs.
But... it's gonna take some work to move them from a karaoke CD to the iPod. First, you need to rip them from the CD to files. Each track will have a .mp3 file, just like those that we know and love, and also a .cdg file which has the lyrics. Second, you need to combine the music (.mp3) and the lyrics (,cdg) into a video file. Normally this would be a mp4 file, since this is a format supported by the iPod. (If you donwload a movie through iTunes store, it is stored in mp4 format.) Then you just load them to the iPod with iTunes or some other program.
Ripping... You can't use the normal ripping programs like iTunes or Winamp, since they don't support the lyrics part. I use a program called Siglos Power CD+G burner. There may be a free add-on to WinAmp, but I haven't tried it.
Combining into mp4 file... I use another program from Siglos called Power CD+G to iPod Converter.
Another option... if you haven't already invested in a big pile of karaoke CDs... is to buy the karaoke songs in the iPod (mp4) format. Karaoke.com has a number of songs available in this format. When I last looked, the selection wasn't huge. That may have changed. I don't know if anyone else sells karaoke songs in mp4 format.
I think this might be enough to get you there? Feel free to ask more questions.
John
No problem at all. I get these questions periodically.
First question: Can you do it with a DVD player? When I bought my first karaoke CD, I plugged it into my DVD player, and it actually worked. :) It played the music and the words showed up on my TV. Because it worked, I bought another CD and another and another. All of a sudden, I was a karaoke DJ. A modern day success story.
I got another DVD player and it did not play karaoke. :( There was no indication when I bought either one as to whether it would play karaoke. So... try the karaoke CDs with whatever DVD player you can find. Maybe you'll get lucky?
Second question: Can you run karaoke on your iPod. I currently have several hundred of the songs that I do on my iPod. All I need is a powered speaker and the iPod and I can sing for my supper. Your iPod can also drive a TV set, BTW. I don't know if you found my post on that, but it's a cheap cable and a setting on the iPod. (To read more, look at the tail end of this post.)
The movie files are not all that much bigger than an mp3 file. I just checked... I looked at 89 files that I had converted. The total disk space is 775 MB, or roughly 9 MB per song. If your iPhone has 8 GB, then it might hold close to 1,000 songs? If you have a 160 Gb iPod, then can fit about half a zillion songs.
But... it's gonna take some work to move them from a karaoke CD to the iPod. First, you need to rip them from the CD to files. Each track will have a .mp3 file, just like those that we know and love, and also a .cdg file which has the lyrics. Second, you need to combine the music (.mp3) and the lyrics (,cdg) into a video file. Normally this would be a mp4 file, since this is a format supported by the iPod. (If you donwload a movie through iTunes store, it is stored in mp4 format.) Then you just load them to the iPod with iTunes or some other program.
Ripping... You can't use the normal ripping programs like iTunes or Winamp, since they don't support the lyrics part. I use a program called Siglos Power CD+G burner. There may be a free add-on to WinAmp, but I haven't tried it.
Combining into mp4 file... I use another program from Siglos called Power CD+G to iPod Converter.
Another option... if you haven't already invested in a big pile of karaoke CDs... is to buy the karaoke songs in the iPod (mp4) format. Karaoke.com has a number of songs available in this format. When I last looked, the selection wasn't huge. That may have changed. I don't know if anyone else sells karaoke songs in mp4 format.
I think this might be enough to get you there? Feel free to ask more questions.
John
4 comments:
I found with a lot of the DVD player the ability to play MP3 Wav and other file extension has been removed through the firmware of the DVD player. My old sanyo could play almost all types of extension including karaoke cds but the firmware had disabled them. I you search work Unlock Code for your dvd player something this has unlock all these disabled features
I am having trouble with several custom cgs I have written, certain tracks play the audio on my karaoke machine but not the graphics, however, when played through my pc, the cd plays perfectly using Karafun player! I use a bluelaser machine at work and other custom discs I have written work fine! Two though do not and they happen to be the songs most people have been asking for! I use alcohol 120% to write the discs and mp3+g toolz to encode from audio g to bin!
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Rory,
First... I admit to not having much experience with writing karaoke CDs. I have used a couple of programs that read karaoke CDs. I found that AudioGrabber (freeware) did a lousy job of reading the video. Audio was fine.
I don't know the inner workings, but it sounds like the there are issues with the reliability of the +G part of CD+G.
I switched over to using "Power CD+G Burner" from Siglos to rip karaoke CDs. I have never had a failure.
I have on;y used this program to burn CDs a few times, but I would guess that Power CD+G might solve the problem. It sells for $39.
http://www.powerkaraoke.com/src/prod_powercdgburner.php
One other suggestion... post your question to http://karaokescene.com/forums/. They get a bunch of traffic from karaoke-philes, so there is a good chance someone will have an answer.
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