harddrive space used per cdg disc

[bubba1453]

Have 4600 cdg songs. How much harddrive will I need? 379 Discs.

Thanks

[jaddams]

Congratulations, you have a great collection.

You'll need about 210GB, minus or plus a few, if every CDG is between 3 and 4 minutes long.

Jon

[bubba1453]

Thanks Jon! A fellow in Ca told me he has 30,000 cdgs on a 120gig harddrive, but it is the cavs player. Does he compress them or is that a different format. I think they are a different type file like mcg or something like that. Thanks again Jon!!


Bob Stevens
Toledo, Ohio

Sorry Jon, It is 30,000 songs, not Discs.

Thanks Again
Bob

[jaddams]

Bob,

Your question was about CD+G.

A CDG song take about the same hard drive space as WAV file. That’s 10.6MB per minute. For a 3:30 minute song, that’s is 37.1MB.

True, you can compress songs but they will no longer be playable on a regular Karaoke machine.

To give you a compression example, MTU has a program called "Hoster" that's designed to run a complete Karaoke show right off your hard drive.

Using a 96KB WMA compression, you can have over 8,500 songs on a 40GB hard drive.

Here is a link if you want to read more about Hoster:

http://www.mtu.com/basics/karaoke-hoster.htm

Regards,

Jon

P.S. 30,000 CDG's? You are talking more than 300,000 songs! I didn't know there were that many out there. That's enough songs to sing around the clock for more than 600 days.