How do you create a medley of songs

[S. Parks]

Pro Tools, Cubase, Cakewalk and other programs of the like will allow you to edit wave files, stretch time, beat match, loop files, etc. to create song medleys to import into KPro. Goldwave will do it too, but it takes a bit more tinkering.

[SteveWalker]

Originally Posted by S. Parks

Pro Tools, Cubase, Cakewalk and other programs of the like will allow you to edit wave files, stretch time, beat match, loop files, etc. to create song medleys to import into KPro. Goldwave will do it too, but it takes a bit more tinkering.

I have ProTools, Sonar 3 Producer and a VS-2480 all can be used to edit audio wave files. But I need a way to get the lyrics data on a timeline with the audio.

Do you know if Karaoke Pro can read in a song from CDG? This seems to be the closest one for the job but does it only create from scatch?

Steve

[S. Parks]

It won't do what your asking. You still have to import the lyrics separately to your song and sync them to the music.

[BooBoo]

Here is a possible way. I haven't tried this but it should work. Now the kicker would be that you would have the full songs back to back and you couldn't "chop" anything out of them. Let's use the example of "merging" song1 and song2. What you would need to do is export both songs off the CDGs into BIN format. Then you would need to use the "MP3+G toolz" conversion tool that splits the BINs into MP3+G. You would then have 4 new files. song1.mp3 song1.cdg song2.mp3 song2.cdg.
At this point you would need to use the old dos copy command to merge the mp3s together and then merge the cdgs together. I think the syntax (at a command prompt and changed to the proper folder) is:
copy song1.mp3 + song2.mp3 song3.mp3 /b
copy song1.cdg + song2.cdg song3.cdg /b
This should create two new files. A song3.mp3 and a song3.cdg You can use the "MP3+G toolz" conversion tool to convert the the mp3+cdg back to BIN.

PS MTU's CDG files are the same as bin files. "MP3+G toolz" is a program used to convert bins to mp3+g and mp3+gs to bin. It is freeware.. Also, you can merge more than 2 files by using additional +'s on the copy line...

Good luck.. And hey, let me know if you try it and it works. ha!

[BooBoo]

Ok, I had a mental air bubble or something.. I just realized you wouldn't have to convert to mp3+g IF this would work. You could merge the bins. Ex:
copy song1.bin + song2.bin song3.bin /b

That should merge the two bins into a new song3.bin.. You could keep the CDG extension as well if that is what you use..
copy song1.cdg + song2.cdg song3.cdg /b

[George]

Wouldn't you have all the manufacturer's advertising, title pages, credit pages, etc popping up between each track ?

[BooBoo]

Yes you would.. It should just go from one song to the next, start to finish, credits and all. I played with a graphic editing program but it wasn't worth messing with. You could do pixel edits to fix garbled screens but it was easier to re-create the text. It would be easier just to edit the audio together and re-create the text as others have said, if you wanted to cut songs up, which would be really cool... I can think of a few songs I'd like to medley together into a 4 minute song.. I might just do that.. ha!

[SteveWalker]

Originally Posted by George

Wouldn't you have all the manufacturer's advertising, title pages, credit pages, etc popping up between each track ?

You are right and this is the problem. This is why I want a way to edit both the audio and graphics (synchronized) on a time line. Once on the timeline you should be able to cut off the head and tail of the song thus leaving only the song.

This would be like a video editor program which does both video and audio on a timeline. However, in this case the video is CDG graphics which is a format that may not be compatable with any of these video editor programs. Also, once you successfully edit out the head/tail you must be able to save the file back in into its original file format/extention (i.e., .bin,...).

With this explanation does anyone have some ideas?

Steve