First, MP3+G is a format designed for illegal copyright violation. If you are a professional using these files, you can loose all your equipment in a Court of Law
(not some KaraokeKop coming to your show and demanding your gear - throw the illegal bum out!). You MUST own the discs for the songs you are playing or have other legal proof of ownership of every song. That is the law.
Now, we do not support the MP3+G format for this reason, and do not care to encourage discussions of it or any MP3+G tools in our forums
because of its illegal nature. We try to guide Karaoke users toward the best answers for them.
MP3+G does split the lyrics from the music, and to my knowledge, once split they remain split. MTU's KMA file format used by Hoster is the only one we are aware of that keeps the music and lyrics/graphics combined as one file.
We are adding a Normalization function into Keyrite. It takes a CDG file, splits the lyrics/graphics from the music, key changes the music, then combines them back into a .cdg file. This file is identical to what is on your Karaoke CDG discs. Thus, we have the core platform code to process the file. We also have Normalization code in Hoster that can be ported into Keyrite. It will happen.
FYI: Microstudio and Vogone do NOT have the processing code to split a CDG file into lyrics/graphics and music. Microstudio can import a CDG disc track as a .wav file sans lyrics/graphics, but you only get the music. Keyrite is the logical choice to add this into. It already has the core platform to process CDG files and keep the lyrics in sync.
JAHERN, Vogone - by its nature of removing part of the song - is going to drop the amplitude. There is absolutely NO WAY that you can be absolutely sure you are restoring the processed file back to the original amplitude level. We could do RMS amplitude processing on the before and after files, and then adjust the after file to the same RMS level, but amplitude levels have been changed. It will not (from a perfectionist's viewpoint) be the same amplitude. Your idea was good, but technically flawed, which is why we have not moved on it. I thank you for realizing that we did listen to your idea, now you know why it was not accepted. Also, Vogone does not process CDG files, only WAV files.
I thank you for your post as we are right now upgrading Keyrite and to add this will be a small cost to us.
