timlofts
I've spent a long time looking for answers to my question unsuccessfully, but apologies if this has been covered already.
I'm quite new to running karaoke nights and fell in to doing them by accident really (by day I'm a dubbing/audio mixer in the tv/radio industry and DJ'd in the past) but got asked to run a few karaoke nights at small festival last year as it was deemed I'd probably know what I was doing (crazy fools), which I did on on loaned equipment. After the festival I got asked to run some more karaoke nights so went and bought a stack of CD+G cd's and ripped them using Tricerasoft into basically one big folder as MP3+G files. Everything worked well, apart from the files being displayed incorrectly in the VDJ library, but I think that's due to me replacing album names in the ripping process with file names which are too long for the mp3 format (professionally I don't go anywhere near mp3 files, it's always .wav or .bwav files). Anyway, I was recently looking at somebody elses drive containing thousands of tracks, but this was properly laid out in a proper tree structure, as in publisher/disc number/song and all as zipped MP3+G files.
So, my questions are...
1/ Is there a commonly preferred format for ripping files from CD+G discs
2/ Is there a commonly used file tree structure when creating the library
3/ I used Tricerasoft CDG2 softwareto rip my CD's, but are there any other preferred options
4/ Was it me giving over long file names that caused these anomalies in the VDJ library listing)?
Thanks all.
I'm quite new to running karaoke nights and fell in to doing them by accident really (by day I'm a dubbing/audio mixer in the tv/radio industry and DJ'd in the past) but got asked to run a few karaoke nights at small festival last year as it was deemed I'd probably know what I was doing (crazy fools), which I did on on loaned equipment. After the festival I got asked to run some more karaoke nights so went and bought a stack of CD+G cd's and ripped them using Tricerasoft into basically one big folder as MP3+G files. Everything worked well, apart from the files being displayed incorrectly in the VDJ library, but I think that's due to me replacing album names in the ripping process with file names which are too long for the mp3 format (professionally I don't go anywhere near mp3 files, it's always .wav or .bwav files). Anyway, I was recently looking at somebody elses drive containing thousands of tracks, but this was properly laid out in a proper tree structure, as in publisher/disc number/song and all as zipped MP3+G files.
So, my questions are...
1/ Is there a commonly preferred format for ripping files from CD+G discs
2/ Is there a commonly used file tree structure when creating the library
3/ I used Tricerasoft CDG2 softwareto rip my CD's, but are there any other preferred options
4/ Was it me giving over long file names that caused these anomalies in the VDJ library listing)?
Thanks all.
geposted Mon 13 Oct 14 @ 9:46 am