harddrive space used per cdg disc
 

Have 4600 cdg songs. How much harddrive will I need? 379 Discs.

Thanks

Congratulations, you have a great collection. :g

You'll need about 210GB, minus or plus a few, if every CDG is between 3 and 4 minutes long. :g

Jon

Thanks Jon! A fellow in Ca told me he has 30,000 cdgs on a 120gig harddrive, but it is the cavs player. Does he compress them or is that a different format. I think they are a different type file like mcg or something like that. Thanks again Jon!!


Bob Stevens
Toledo, Ohio

Sorry Jon, It is 30,000 songs, not Discs.

Thanks Again
Bob

Bob,

Your question was about CD+G.

A CDG song take about the same hard drive space as WAV file. That’s 10.6MB per minute. For a 3:30 minute song, that’s is 37.1MB.

True, you can compress songs but they will no longer be playable on a regular Karaoke machine.

To give you a compression example, MTU has a program called "Hoster" that's designed to run a complete Karaoke show right off your hard drive.

Using a 96KB WMA compression, you can have over 8,500 songs on a 40GB hard drive.

Here is a link if you want to read more about Hoster:

http://www.mtu.com/basics/karaoke-hoster.htm

Regards,

Jon

P.S. 30,000 CDG's? You are talking more than 300,000 songs! I didn't know there were that many out there. That's enough songs to sing around the clock for more than 600 days. :g