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Originally Posted by Vince Cravotta

Thanks for the "and by the Way". I asked the tech at Fry's about the rewritable disk's before I purchased them and he stated that they would work as well as the regular disks. So much for knowledgeable techs working in a reputable store such as Fry's.

I am sure they normally are but I doubt they deal with Karaoke Players very much.

Originally Posted by Vince Cravotta

I think that was a big part of my problems. I like the disks I was buying through MTU but the frieght was hurting my pocketbook. Do you feel that Memorex disks have enough quality in them to use with the MTU software?

I have used Music Quality Memorex disks before and never had any problems with them. I do use the MTU ones now because I know they are going to work.

Originally Posted by Vince Cravotta

I also read in the manual for "1st time users" that states, if you have any older files, that MTU would convert them to .bin files. Your saying that it converts them to .cda files, is that correct?.

I believe what it says is "for all but 1st time users," This is referring to the file extension used by Microstudio in previous versions which was CDG for the imported files. Now MS uses the BIN extension. These are the files stored on the hard drive after importing.
Now when you add these files to the Write Disc list either directly or via the Playlist. When you tell it to write the disc the BIN files are burned to the disc but now the track is named as Trackxx.CDA. This is the only extension recognized for audio tracks in disc format by the industry.

Originally Posted by Vince Cravotta

As a gift to my children, grandchildren and now, great grandchildren, my wife and I are recording our songs that we do at all the venues we perform at. Do you think that I should be using another software to record them with? I have been converting all those performances into mp3 files before we record them to cd's. Are you saying that MTU software is converting them back to .wav files during the recording to Disk or are they still mp3's?

Since I don't exactly know the procedure or what software you are using to do your recording it will be hard for me to answer this.
How are you recording these songs? Are they MP3's when you finish?
With Microstudio, regardless of what format your songs (in this case they would be recorded audio only as the video part of it doesn't record with it) when you burn the files to a CD they will be WAV format with the same names as before (Track XX.CDA). This is why you will only get 15 - 20 tracks on a CD with Microstudio because the compression is removed and the full length file is used.
Now if your recipents have cd players that can read MP3 files then you may want to use a burner program that will write MP3 files to the CD which means you can get a very large group of files on one CD as opposed to just 15 - 20. It will depend on the burner program whether they are name exactly the way the files are or not.

Originally Posted by Vince Cravotta

All the cd's I purchase show, on my player screen, the song, the Artist and the album number. That's what I'm trying to achieve. Am I trying to do something that is not available through the software I am using or am I looking for too much Blue Sky?

As I said before Commercially purchased CDs (CDGs too) all have a Discid encoded on the disc that tells the player what CD it is from either a built-in catalog or as Microstudio uses an on-line database to find the CD's contents. You home burned CDs do not have this, so there is no way for the player or Microstudio to determine what the tracks are.