luigi77047
November 1st, 2001, 07:53 PM
The following is my view's , opinions and my experiences:
I originally bought my microstudio program so I could Practice ALL of my cdg's on my computer. I additionally wanted to back up ALL of my cdg's with my computer. I have the latest version of this program. What I ran into: I have backed up several cdg's with my Microstudio program. It plays and backs up most cdg's, BUT! The program will NOT play some of my Nikkodo cdg's. The text is doubled on the screen and over laps.
At first MTU blamed my cdr drive. The "problem" disks work fine in my karaoke show cdg player and anyone elses, but will not work in microstudio environment. I purchased a new cdr drive (another one, model # reccomended by mtu), I tried these "problem" cdg's in a freinds microstudio system, with the same results. After about 6 months of searching, I seen a post with a reply from MTU, that said that some nikkodo disks, the timing was changed by the manufacturer and that they probabally would not ever be able to fix this bug.
I've noticed also that some of the newer Sound Choice cdg's can not be backed up with the microstudio program. Even if you select each track and record individually you will get a squeeling sound in the background. Is this some copyguard feature that mtu has built into the program to stop us from backing up sc disks? Admin Answer: Absolutely NOT! This is totally and completely a decision of Sound Choice to make it impossible to back up and even play their discs on a computer. An example of how manufactures stop you from backing up is vcr's. Older vcr's Prior to 1980 will back up macrovision copy protected movies, but the newer vcr's are designed not to. MTU, Did you do this with microstudio? NOTE: I know about multisession cd's and can/have backed up the sc cdg's with another program. Again this is not only on my machine, I have tried on several other microstudio environment systems with same result. MTU says that they have been asked by sound choice to not provide information on how to back up SC disks. Admin answer: We say this because it is the truth. We are tool makers providing tools to singers, hosts, and producers. Sound Choice is a producer and is thus a potential client of MTU. It is reasonable for us to try to comply with their wishes (they want us to remove all our products from the market but we refuse to do that), just as we try to comply with your wishes, but won't meet every wish you have either.
Additionally I ran into a few [new discs from] sound choice cdg's that a computer cdr drive will not read, due to a copy guard tecnique on the starting track. Again this is not only on my machine, I have tried on several other microstudio environment systems with same result.
So, finally my question is Will you new program support ALL ALL, of the cdg's? OR At least 99%,Or will I still have to lug around cdg's that "people ask you not to assist your customers in backing up?" Will I still have to lug around Nikkodo disks or any other cdg's that have "changed their timing?"
Will your new program fix these problems? In my opinion if the cdg will play in any normal karaoke player it should be able to play in your karaoke Hoster program or it is self defeating to have to lug both , hoster and old cdg player to the show. Will your new HOSTER program fix these problems?
P.S Will Hoster also support vcd's. A lot of karaoke disks are in the video disk format lately.
I originally bought my microstudio program so I could Practice ALL of my cdg's on my computer. I additionally wanted to back up ALL of my cdg's with my computer. I have the latest version of this program. What I ran into: I have backed up several cdg's with my Microstudio program. It plays and backs up most cdg's, BUT! The program will NOT play some of my Nikkodo cdg's. The text is doubled on the screen and over laps.
At first MTU blamed my cdr drive. The "problem" disks work fine in my karaoke show cdg player and anyone elses, but will not work in microstudio environment. I purchased a new cdr drive (another one, model # reccomended by mtu), I tried these "problem" cdg's in a freinds microstudio system, with the same results. After about 6 months of searching, I seen a post with a reply from MTU, that said that some nikkodo disks, the timing was changed by the manufacturer and that they probabally would not ever be able to fix this bug.
I've noticed also that some of the newer Sound Choice cdg's can not be backed up with the microstudio program. Even if you select each track and record individually you will get a squeeling sound in the background. Is this some copyguard feature that mtu has built into the program to stop us from backing up sc disks? Admin Answer: Absolutely NOT! This is totally and completely a decision of Sound Choice to make it impossible to back up and even play their discs on a computer. An example of how manufactures stop you from backing up is vcr's. Older vcr's Prior to 1980 will back up macrovision copy protected movies, but the newer vcr's are designed not to. MTU, Did you do this with microstudio? NOTE: I know about multisession cd's and can/have backed up the sc cdg's with another program. Again this is not only on my machine, I have tried on several other microstudio environment systems with same result. MTU says that they have been asked by sound choice to not provide information on how to back up SC disks. Admin answer: We say this because it is the truth. We are tool makers providing tools to singers, hosts, and producers. Sound Choice is a producer and is thus a potential client of MTU. It is reasonable for us to try to comply with their wishes (they want us to remove all our products from the market but we refuse to do that), just as we try to comply with your wishes, but won't meet every wish you have either.
Additionally I ran into a few [new discs from] sound choice cdg's that a computer cdr drive will not read, due to a copy guard tecnique on the starting track. Again this is not only on my machine, I have tried on several other microstudio environment systems with same result.
So, finally my question is Will you new program support ALL ALL, of the cdg's? OR At least 99%,Or will I still have to lug around cdg's that "people ask you not to assist your customers in backing up?" Will I still have to lug around Nikkodo disks or any other cdg's that have "changed their timing?"
Will your new program fix these problems? In my opinion if the cdg will play in any normal karaoke player it should be able to play in your karaoke Hoster program or it is self defeating to have to lug both , hoster and old cdg player to the show. Will your new HOSTER program fix these problems?
P.S Will Hoster also support vcd's. A lot of karaoke disks are in the video disk format lately.