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For whatever reason the CD+G professionally created master I was reading was bad?
Seems to play from PlayCDG and my karaoke box, but it is apparently causing issues in the CDROM drives.

The files I have are actually MP3+G.
Hence when MicroStudio opens them it does what it thinks is CD+G and ends up decoding bad data.

Got MP3+G Toolz from a search on Google, the one I got from
E-Mail was ActiveX and broken, and ran a conversion on about
20 zipped songs from Usenet.
Everything was converted to BIN, then simply renamed to CDG.
Files are much closer to the size they should be and now play
great.

Used my SCSI Yamaha 6416 CDR and Adaptec AHA1520 SCSI card
to burn a CD+G track from a stock Compaq Deskpro 4000 using
Windows 98SE clean install all worked great.

Played the Memorex media in a Panasonic and RCA DVD player
and it worked great. My 16x and 24 xToshiba CD-ROMs don't
read the CD+G format as expected.

Thanx for the help to all.
I expect many good things for this software, it does what I need
at a reasonable price.

Just a suggestion though, perhaps a little pop up warning that
the file is the wrong karaoke type would be helpful or a note
in the manual. I played with this for 8 hours before MTU
figured it out.

Thanx again, happy studio work......