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[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.

[billyo]

this is what i learned and i have posted this in another thread, i learned that , it is legal to play an original cd that you paid for in any places, you can do whatever you want to do with it, you can use it as a coaster if you want, for every cd that you buy, a portion of that money goes to the artist, producers or to anyone that help made that cd, producers and artist wanted you to go out there and play that cd in public so people can hear it and maybe they'll like it and buy it..

[RandyMcCharles]

But what about songs that you buy that are downloaded and then burned to CDG? I have examined the FAQs and emailed questions to all of the producers that offer downloads and have only seen vague and unclear responses that can be interpreted as anything from "you can only use the original download at home" to "you can convert to another media, such as CDG, but can only use it at home" to you can convert to CDG and use in public" (though I don't know any KJs who would play a homemcade CDG even if you have a receipt for the download). I did not ask or see any info about KJs purchasing and adding downloads to their play book as I am not a KJ. Karaoke downloads are a booming business in the UK and Canada. Chartbuster now has CDG downloads as well (in Beta).

Because of the lack of clarity, I (as a singer) have not purchased any downloads, but the market is certainly moving in this direction.

[billyo]

i don't download karaoke tunes, so i can't answer that question, but i do download my dj tunes from itunes, 6000 tunes to date,and paid .99 for the earlier tunes and $1.25 for the latest and i do use it in public