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[RandyMcCharles]

Mostly I was getting tracks by UK artists that may never show up in North America, like "She's Madonna" by Robbie Williams. Yes, you can listen before buying. I always do and if I don't like what I hear I don't buy the track. Many tracks are available from multiple manufacturers so you can compare and pick the one you like the best. That said the main point of my posting was that Sound Choice is doing some odd things. It will be interesting to see where the balls stops and what SC may do or say through KIAA regarding the industry (and SC's competitors) when they finish repositioning themselves.

[ddouglass]

SC licensed (sold?) the rights to there library to Stellar for sales of downloads. SC is not going to directly sell the downloads. I guess they didn't want the hassle of keeping track of all that.

[RandyMcCharles]

Which makes me think they may be planning on saying downloads are illegal (though KIAA). But we are talking custom CDGs here, not downloads. The Australia site was shipping Custom CDGs.

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

SC licensed (sold?) the rights to there library to Stellar for sales of downloads. SC is not going to directly sell the downloads. I guess they didn't want the hassle of keeping track of all that.

They didn't sell to Steller (PHM), they sold to Stingray.

[RandyMcCharles]

Has Stingray started offering dowloads yet?
Sound Choice shut down their custom CDG site months ago and then recently reopened it offering Abraxa tracks and no SC tracks. I have no idea what they are doing.

http://www.mykaraokecdg.com.au

On another thread it was suggested that SC may be running into cash flow problems. Stopping customers from buying their own products doesn't help.

[ddouglass]

Stingray is selling Karaoke Downloads (video versions MP4 and WMV) through their Karaoke Channel Download Store -
http://www.thekaraokechannel.com/sto...001/c-3979.htm

There downloads are $1.49 each. None of their downloads have the Sound Choice logo on them any more. In fact they don't have any logo information in the videos.

[Musicman51]

I cain't keep track of whom sold what to whom to download where to sell to what company to be a legal site to sell to which download site in what country under what name for who...but this ole hillbilly will tell ya'all one thing..i shore as st. pete ain't gonna worry about it anty more. If you pro's cain't keep this stuff straight how'd ya speck a weekend warrior like me to? yur honor...not guilty by reason of insanity. Brought on by legal pressure paranoia by mass confusion in my part time non profit profession. Here is a list of the sites i downloaded from yur honor, my harddrive, my original disc, when you git this mess straighten out judge, please tell everone else, they don't really have a clue either. Perhaps if it please the court, those fine upstanding never tiring karaoke crusaders from the RIAA can hep ya. I rest my case yur honor, and throw myself at the mercy of a poorly recorded sound choice version of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" downloaded at Illegal karaoke downloads.com......

[RandyMcCharles]

The thing about WMV and MP4 is that they are intended for home use. And individuals cannot buy a song to take to a pub to sing. I don't beleive their condition of sale includes KJs playing the video karaoke as part of their song book. For this reason I have not bought and have no intention to buy any video karaoke. It is lost sales as far as I'm concerned.