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How to rip a Karaoke Disk (CD+G) There are many methods of ripping a karaoke CD+G, I prefer the zipped mp3+g format as it saves a lot of hard drive space. This tutorial will explain how to accomplish this using CDRWIN and MP3+g toolz

Contents 1 ! Before you Begin ! 2 Software Needed 3 Steps 4 Naming Conventions 5 Bibliography 6 See Also 7 Glossary

[edit]  ! Before you Begin !

• If you don't already have one, buy a Plextor CD-RW. Many CDRWs will not read or write a CD+G properly, all Plextor drives do.
• Make sure you have plenty of free hard drive space as the conversion process may need over a gig per CD+G

[edit] Software Needed

• CDRWIN by Golden Hawk Technologies
  • Version 3.9g is used in this tutorial
• MP3+g Toolz Active Asp Software
  • Version 2.0.9 is used in this tutorial

[edit] Steps

• Rip the CD+G to your hard drive using CDRWIN
  • Click the "Exctact Disc/Tracks/Sectors" icon See Fig 1.
    

    

    Fig 1. CDRWIN "Exctact Disc/Tracks/Sectors" Icon
    this brings up the "Exctact Disc/Tracks/Sectors" Dialog box see Fig 2.
    

    

    Fig 2. CDRWIN "Exctact Disc/Tracks/Sectors" Dialog Box
    

    

    Fig 3. Karaoke File Naming
  • Select the "Select Tracks" radio button
  • In the "Image Filename" text box type the path where you want the files to be saved
  • Select the tracks you want to extract
  • "Reading Options" section the make sure that CD+G is Checked
  • Then click the "START" button
    • This creates individual "bin" files for each song

• Manually rename each bin file to something which makes sense. Read the "Naming Conventions" section below, see fig 3.

• Convert the resulting bin to zip files using MPG+G Toolz
  • On the menu select File/"Bin to Zip"
  • Browse to folder conatining the bin files.
  • Click the "Options" button and make sure that the "Rename Files in Zip to Zip Filename" check box is selected
  • Close the Options Dialog box
  • Click the Start Button and wait

If everything worked out correctly you should have a folder with some zip files in it. Inside each individual zip file are two files am MP3 file and a CDG file. Most Karaoke players know how to play the zip.

To be continued

[edit] Naming Conventions

A good standard to follow when naming the zip files is as follows.

disk-track-artist-song.zip

where:

• disk is the disk number
• track is the track number
• artist is the artist name using last name first, comma seperated names and "The" placed after name
  • example: Stewart, Rod
  • example: Beatles, The
• song is the Song Title

Example:
Dk003-11-Sinatra, Frank-I've Got You Under My Skin.zip

If you follow this naming conventions for all your CD+G ripping then it will be a lot easier to import and catalog your songs into a database.

[edit] Bibliography

• ( ISBN 0741420015 ) Karaoke, Karaoke, Karaoke!
• ( ISBN 0743229029 ) Karaoke Nation: Or, How I Spent a Year in Search of Glamour, Fulfillment, and a Million Dollars

[edit] See Also

Burn a CD using windows media player

[edit] Glossary

• CD+G [1]
• CD-RW wp:CD-RW
• karaoke wp:Karaoke
• MP3 wp:MP3
• Plextor wp:Plextor
• rip wp:Ripping
• zip wp:ZIP_(file_format)