Problem New 3.0

[George]

Kelly,

Having difficulty believing there is a track limitation.

There is no mention of a track limitation in the manual, and the example shown under the HOW TO WRITE CUSTOM DISCS section shows the write screen with 21 tracks.

Certainly hope there's not such a low track limitation as 18, considering the number of discs out there that have 20 tracks; 10 demos and 10 Karaoke tracks. Would make it impossible to re-do a badly swept track in KHP and write a new disc.

Take care,

George

[kedmison]

I wouldn't think so either George, but today I repeatedly tried different discs that contained at least 20 songs. It failed on 20; failed on 19; but would begin writing if the song count was lowered to 18. So,... for the time being I have deleted 3.0 and went back to 2.613.

Kelly

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by kedmison

I wouldn't think so either George, but today I repeatedly tried different discs that contained at least 20 songs. It failed on 20; failed on 19; but would begin writing if the song count was lowered to 18. So,... for the time being I have deleted 3.0 and went back to 2.613.

Kelly

After reading your problem with 18 songs limit on version 3.0 Itried it myself and had the same problem when copying from a cd+g but managed to copy 20 songs by loading in kma files plus it copied quicker.

Roy.

[dclark]

Originally Posted by Roy Dennis

After reading your problem with 18 songs limit on version 3.0 Itried it myself and had the same problem when copying from a cd+g but managed to copy 20 songs by loading in kma files plus it copied quicker.

Roy,

What do you mean by "cd+g"? Are these *.bin files? The old *.cdg files (which are just another name for *.bin files)? Or something else?

I have written a disc successfully with 25 songs (some of them only 1:30 in length), so I know it is not a count limitation, at least not for the combinations of files that I used. I added *.bin, *.wav, and *.kma files. By the way, if you add a *.wav file to a Karaoke (CD+G) disc, Microstudio™ will write blank graphics to the CD.

We'll keep investigating this issue, but any further information you can provide to us regarding this will be greatly appreciated.

[Roy Dennis]

Hi Dclark
What I mean by CD+G is Karaoke CD. I tried loading a Karaoke CD by going to Import Tracks, then press the Karaoke CD button and read disc button, it loaded the full 20 songs from the disc. I then press the add Songs to write list button which it does and shows 3 min remaining on disc. I then press test cd button and it starts by saying preparing disc, then after a time it comes up with failed. Now if I knock the list down to 18 tracks it works alright.

I had no problems with previous versions.

I have a dell inspiron 5150 laptop. The internal cd/dvd writer works alright with the HWEC turned off. and I have an external Plexwriter premium-U CD-RW drive which works fine with HWEC turned on.

As I said if I load 20 or more songs in from my library off kma files it writes fine.

Hope this makes things clearer.

Roy

[kedmison]

Okay guys. Got caught up on my work reverting back to my older version. Going to remove it now;and re-download the 3.0 and try again. Maybe it will work this time.

YES! Ok. Update. Do not assume, that when you tell version 3.0 to remove 2.613 that it will completely remove the old one. THIS time after telling it to remove I went back into Explorer and noticed that it had NOT removed everything listed under "Microstudio." I manually then deleted the folder and went back to the 3.0 setup.

I took a disk that had 23 songs on it. Copied it; then turned around and had it write a disc using "21" songs. IT WORKED!

So, as always I appreciate the help. I knew between MTU and the people who make up this forum that the solution would surface.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have a stack of "MediaCloQ" discs that I am anxious to try.

Well, my excitement is now over; it doesn't do my mediaCloq discs.

I'll revert back to 2.613. It does everything I need, and much faster. Anxiously as always awaiting the "next version."

Kelly

[ddouglass]

Kelly are you saying that version 2.613 would read the mediacloq disks?

SInce I only have one I guess it is no big loss, so I'll stick to version 3.000 because there is so much more it can do over the old versions.