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Offline julzqld

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Burning CD-G files
« on: August 19, 2006, 03:27:12 PM »
I recently bought off ebay a disc which hold 600 karaoke songs.  Unfortunately it was in dvd format and my karaoke machine only plays in cd-g format but the seller assured me the disc could be copied to cd.  So I went ahead and purchased the disc only to find that I need a CD-G burner to burn the discs onto cd.  So I purchased from the recommended dealer the cd-g programme but do you think I can copy these stupid things right.  The items burn on the disc but won't play on the karaoke machine.  I made the mistake of burning onto cd-rw discs and then found out I need cd-r discs but still not working.  Sometimes it will play of the demo model of the cd-g player I have on the computer.  Anyone can help me?

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Re: Burning CD-G files
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2006, 07:10:03 PM »
I don't know if these have the answer you're looking for Julz but here is a link that might help:

http://www.karaoke-tutor.com/mp3g.html

http://www.brothersoft.com/dvd_video/dvd_ripper/copy_dvd_to_cd-r_14130.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD+G

I not exactly sure and I've never done this for cd-g files but it sounds like you need to rip from the DVD the audio (extension .mp3, .wav) and graphics (.cdg) files relating to each song and then burn them onto a cd-r disc. Both files seem to have the same name but different extension - eg: iwillsurvive.mp3 and iwillsurvive.cdg.

I've ripped and converted DVDs to mpeg (videos) using DVD shrink and then YASA VOB to mpeg converter. VOB is a DVD file (extension .vob). I'd presume there's a converter to do the above to extract the .mp3 and .cdg files.
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