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Spygirl

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm going to a big Karaoke party soon...soooooo....I've been trying out my new CD burner and all those nifty (and illegal) music sites..hehe...

What songs can this karaoke party not do without? I'm gonna make some CDs and lyrics sheets (since the words won't show up on the screen)

Gail

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Only You is a great song! You don't have to have a lot of range in your voice. I have a ton of really great songs - like close to 1,000 for computer karaoke.

A little know secret about me - before Big Brother 1 started, I was really into downloading songs from the karaoke newsgroups and trying them all out. As soon as BB started I totally forgot all about it.

Every once in a while I check out the newsgroups. These days, I have a hard time finding all the good karaoke sites - they all moved or something. I think they got caught up in the copyright thing.

Gail

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I also like Beautiful Sunday and In My Life and Looking out my backdoor. Oh, and Groovy Kind of Love and 1,2,3 Redlight.

Spygirl

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
HOLY COW, Gail!!! I just need to visit your computer for all my karaoke songs! LOL

Hook me up :)

Gail

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I am a little embarrassed - I just looked up how many songs I have and it is over 3500. Eek! About 200 megs worth - they are playable with RealOrchestra or WinKaraoke or some other computer karaoke program. YOu'd have to have a computer available at your party though.

Spygirl

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
3,500!!!!?????

<faints>

Well shoot -- so they aren't "burnable"???

Gail

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sure, they are burnable - for use on a computer I think - they are in .kar format - I have no idea if they would play on a mp3 player or not. Have you downloaded .kar files?

Spygirl

Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - 08:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Gail, that is a good question. I don't even know what kind of files the ones I have are!! Not even the normal songs I have. Goodness, maybe I shouldn't try to do this! LOL

Max

Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 08:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett
Guaranteed to get people be-bopping, even if you sing off-key. :)

Lostinthefog

Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 11:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay...don't anybody get ticked off by my next sentence without reading the rest of this post. I am only trying to help here.

Okay kar files are midi formatted karaoke files. Midi music sucks so of course kar files suck. I used to download kar files and play them on the VanBascoe Karaoke Player (freeware) on my computer...but...I accidentally found a tremendous improvement while looking for kar files in alt.binaries.karaoke...I accidentally clicked on the wrong newsgroup.

Now here is what I found. There is a newsgroup: alt.binaries.sounds.karaoke...don't confuse it with the newsgroup alt.binaries.karaoke. The diffence is staggering.

They post 100s of songs a day on the above newsgroup...from the 30s through today's most current music. They are in mpg format (sounds great) with the corresponding lyrics synchronized in cdg format (scrolls text on screen).

They post the songs from CDs used in professional karaoke setups (karoke bars, etc.).

When you download these files they play the background music and backup vocals as originally recorded...along with the sychronized text.

You can play these on your computer and sing along to the text on screen.

Also you can burn them to a CD in VCD (video CD) format and play them on any home DVD player. The lyrics will show up on the TV screen.

I found the above newsgroup while looking for kar files. The first day I didn't have a clue. By day 2 I had downloaded all the software and did a test burn of a CD. I was shocked when I put it in my computer, and it played, and the text was synchronized exactly to the music.

Then I ran into the living room and popped it into the DVD player. I turned on the TV expecting to see a black screen, but nope...the lyrics were scrolling along to the music.

They also post (once in awhile) the sing-along books containing the lyrics to the songs...for distribution at large events.

So basically these are the original CDs professionally recorded and ripped down to postable newsgroup file formats...then assembled back together after downloading...then burned to a CD...restoring them to their original format.

Caution!!! it didn't take very long to get addicted to this thing.

Now you are probably asking yourself why this person just posted all this gibberish without instructions? WRONG!!! Just go to the website below:

http://www.karaokeplayground.co.uk/toolz/toolz.htm

Try this out...you might enjoy it.

Spygirl

Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 03:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<SpyGirl faints>

Urgrace

Thursday, July 18, 2002 - 11:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, don't faint! I don't know why you are so astounded. There is always someone here who knows the answer!!

Hope this party turns out to be the best!

Spygirl

Friday, July 19, 2002 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
<Spygirl blinks...looks around...and gets up from the floor>

Grace, if i can follow Lost's excellent instructions, I'm sure it will be wonderful. And I was afraid I wouldn't have anything to do this weekend! LOL

Lost, thanks so much. I'll probably have a million questions when I get started. :)