How about some facts here...
Are you only hearing the audio, or have you seen the lyrics on a CDG disc played from, or duplicated in this drive?
What other software is reading CDG discs in this CDR drive?
What are you using to verify that the CDR drive is reading the CDG codes? Do you see the lyrics?
Are you making a backup of a CDG disc and taking it to a Karaoke player and viewing the graphics and lyrics?
TDK buys their drive mechanism from other companies. In their past models, they have used a manufactured mechanism that would do CDG, and Microstudio work fine with them. To our current knowledge, this drive is not CDG capable.
When Microstudio 2.312 or 2.314 runs, it first detects all the CDR drives on your computer. It then sends each found drive a "query" as to what formats it supports. If the drive answers back "CDG" then it will appear in the Reading Drive and Writing Drive fields. If it does not, it is not added to these fields for Karaoke, but will appear for Audio work (select the Karaoke vs Audio, or CDG vs WAV buttons).
Most CDR drives support the RAW DAO 96 mode, which is what CloneCD uses to copy Karaoke CDG discs. However, most drives do not support the CDG mode.
The RAW DAO 96 mode can only make duplicate discs. It does not allow reading or writing individual tracks. Thus, you cannot use our Microstudio Custom Assembly, Import Tracks or Play Tabs which all access individual tracks from the Karaoke disc. Given that CloneCD is the same price, and can only make a duplicate disc, choose whether you want to use their program or MTU's with our full Karaoke CDG support.
FINAL ANSWER: If you are into Karaoke and your CDR can't do CDG mode, you are handicapped. You will also not be able to ever create your own CDG songs, or change the key of Karaoke songs and write them back to a CDG disc. That requires writing Track-At-Once, which DAO (Disc-At-Once) will NOT do.
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