Can't play any CD+G?

[sigma]

I tried the 2.400 and 2.517 demo and found that while the software works great with the ASPI layers on a variety of computers, I can't get it to play any CD+G titles on any of them, tried 3 with different hardware and software. These machines are properly maintained, I scoured the forums and tried turning of hardware acceleration but got pretty much no where.

When I play the CD+G I get basically hash of the original score.
I get garbage on the karaoke screen as well.
Left to it's own demise the software eventually abends.
I bought the software thinking it was probably a demo problem
but it fixed nothing.
I even wiped out a Compaq, reinstalled from scratch and could
not get it to work.
Was successfully able to test my Yamaha 6416 though.

A hint would be appreciated.

[danny_g]

ho wnew is your Yamaha writer- the new models do not do cd+g at all from my understanding and I believe the newer versionds of Microstudio does not work withthe older Yamahas and HP writers, although it does work with my external usb hp unit.

go to this link to read more.

http://www.mtu.com/basics/karaoke.htm

[sigma]

I have writen ASPI drivers.
That drive supports CD+G, I'm quite sure.
I have made it work with My own stuff for testing purposes.
I bought this software for usability reasons.
My ASPI work is quite old and I want to stop using My old
computers.

Okay, I could understand the CDR being a problem if I was
writing the disc.
I can't play the tracks even when I don't write the disc.
Since I can't play the tracks at all, even with NO drive selected
I fail to see how the CDR relates to this problem.
It is almost like the play commands to DirectX and DirectSound
are corrupt, I can't play any CD+G from the HDD or the CD at
all.
I have DirectX9 installed.
I have sound and video acceration off on 3 entirely different
computers.

Am I missing something? Shouldn't I be able to play a CD+G
from the HDD with this software even if there are NO CDROMs
or CDRs?

Thanx

[sigma]

For whatever reason the CD+G professionally created master I was reading was bad?
Seems to play from PlayCDG and my karaoke box, but it is apparently causing issues in the CDROM drives.

The files I have are actually MP3+G.
Hence when MicroStudio opens them it does what it thinks is CD+G and ends up decoding bad data.

Got MP3+G Toolz from a search on Google, the one I got from
E-Mail was ActiveX and broken, and ran a conversion on about
20 zipped songs from Usenet.
Everything was converted to BIN, then simply renamed to CDG.
Files are much closer to the size they should be and now play
great.

Used my SCSI Yamaha 6416 CDR and Adaptec AHA1520 SCSI card
to burn a CD+G track from a stock Compaq Deskpro 4000 using
Windows 98SE clean install all worked great.

Played the Memorex media in a Panasonic and RCA DVD player
and it worked great. My 16x and 24 xToshiba CD-ROMs don't
read the CD+G format as expected.

Thanx for the help to all.
I expect many good things for this software, it does what I need
at a reasonable price.

Just a suggestion though, perhaps a little pop up warning that
the file is the wrong karaoke type would be helpful or a note
in the manual. I played with this for 8 hours before MTU
figured it out.

Thanx again, happy studio work......

[mlepine]

sigma,

I believe the Micro 2.4 is able to read your Yamaha drive. Microstudio & CDRWin will not be able to read or extract good graphics with the Yamaha burners if the DMA is enable (my experience). If you disable both Hard drive & Burner I'm almost certain you'll get good graphics.

I believe it's got to do with the driver that both software are using, I'm able to keep the DMA enable with my Yamaha 3200E using another CDG extractor that uses the MMC deinterleaves mode and the graphic is has good as my Plextor 4824.

My understanding is that MTU is working at trying to have drivers that are capable of handling more drives?

I would only suggest to MTU that they offer a link for this DMA solution on the Yamaha burners, I see this problem quite often in the forum & it might be helpfull!!

Let us know if it helps
regards

[sigma]

Yamaha 6416 works just fine in the newest version.
No broken graphics, no problems reading.
The disc that is not working doesn't work on any drive not
just the Yamaha one, I also have a Plextor right off the
compatability list.

My problem was soley that I trusted that the disc did work
and when I saw nothing else working I assumed too much.
After converting the MP3+Gs I got all My hard disk files to
work.
I went to a local music store and bought another CD+G
commerical disc and it works great.

Sometimes, you can be your own worst enemy.
Thanx all for the help, everything is working great.