Microstudios vs Hoster

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Originally Posted by kbhale

Please tell me how to get Hoster and Microstudio to use the same CD stored on the Hard Drive.

Microstudio 2.613, which is the current release version, imports ALL tracks from Karaoke CDG discs and stores them as .CDG format files. These take about 30MB to 100MB of disc space.

Hoster's Import Tracks menu Import Hard Drive Tracks command allows converting .CDG format files from Microstudio and storing them as .KMA files. Using the 96Kb "ratio" selection, the 30-100MB files above will take about 3-10MB disc space (10:1 compression). They clearly are different formats for different purposes.

As seen at http://mtu.com/support/news.htm, our Microstudio 3.0 version under development, will allow creating a list of different file types and writing them as either a Karaoke CD+G format disc, or as a CDDA Audio disc. The list can contain these file types:
.CDG
.KMA
.BIN
.MP3 (+G for karaoke lyrics)
.ZIP
.MP3 (audio only)
.WAV (audio only)
.WMA (audio only)