I've been away from this site for while now and the reason I wish to post this is to let people know that there is more than one company who makes CDG compatible drives on the market. Of course, the best you can buy would be a Plextor and ideally from MTU cause they test before shipping.
You would probably be amazed to know how many drives do read the graphic perfectly with out any broken letters, they can read by single tracks, extract by tracks or entire disk, they can also burn cdg with a compatible software. The problem is the driver used with the software, the standard driver would be the one MTU & CDRWin uses which will work perfectly with most Plextor drive but will not detect the others which are very often cdg compatible.
Now, don't get me wrong, the goal here is not to make a bad press on any of the MTU products, they make excellent software, good support but for a cost reason I beleive, limits them self to the old format which only works with the Plextor drives and some older models.
You can get an ASUS cd-rom only that reads cdg perfectly, lot's of the new DVD-RW drives on the market also reads the graphic even know it doesn't say on the packaging. My Pioneer DVR-108 is a good example, Microstudio says it's cdg compatible but it won't play, the Nero info tools says NOT cdg compatible but the reality is, it works perfectly which in fact even better than my Plextor 5224!
I just can't believe this issue hasn't been resolved yet at MTU, you folks are the leader in this Karaoke world, your software should be working with many many more drives
Regards