Preview Play button flickers, program crashes

[George]

Can't help wonder, what was the source of the CDG files you're using ?

George

[Judge]

Hi George,

Most of the time I'm converting CAVS (or Charbuster, or Top Hits Monthly) songs that I've downloaded from www.cinet.com.

I thought at first that I was having success using a workaround of first burning the material to a CDG, ripping it back to a .CDG file and then converting the key then, but the last few times that I've tried that, it proved to be no better either.

Thanks - Gary

[MTUSUPPORT]

Judge,
Most likely your .cdg files that you are creating are not compatible with our software. The only .cdg extension that our software supports is what is created from Microstudio, which is MTU's Program not other programs such as Cavs.

[Judge]

Hi Bryan,

What I didn't mention in my original post is that MicroStudio handles all of the same files that KeyWrite can't.

Based on my experience (5 years as a digital audio engineer, and 15 years in software engineering), when one software product works fine with a file type, and another product from the same company crashes with the same file type, then something is amiss.

The workaround I just tried is to burn the CDG's to a CD, then import them back using MicroStudio. KeyRite then can work with the imported files. This works fine, except for all the extra steps and the wasted CD(s).

Cheers - Gary

[MTUSUPPORT]

Gary,
I would agree. But, how were the files created? Were they imported directly from the CD in Microstuido and then taken into Keyrite? If not, then Just try importing one file off of a CD in Microstudio, and then try it in Keyrite, just so that we have a control that we know how the file was created and that it should work.

Let me know what happens when you do this.

[George]

I've been wondering right along if the CDG's in question contain .bin files and not .wav, if Microstudio is version 2.609. That could account for the difference in programs playing or not playing.

George

[Judge]

Hi Bryan and George,

To answer your questions, I:
1. Download "mcg" files from CiNet.
2. Use the CAVS CDG Decoder to create bin files.
3. Rename the bin file to cdg.

I downloaded some songs this morning for a KJ in our organization. I noticed that Top Hits Monthly songs worked OK with KeyRite. Songs from Chartbuster and CAVS didn't (as per my report above).

I parsed the preamble in the mcg file header for both Top Hits and Chartbuster and didn't see anything that glaringly different (other than payload size).

In any event, if any of your other users experience this problem, the workaround that I wrote up above works great!

Cheers - Gary