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I have all of my music on a hard drive and to find a song I have to click the drive and click search and put the title. Is there some type of editing program that I can get to make searching easier.
I've got the Siglos Karaoke Professional set-up, the computer that I use has 80gb hard drive. Not nearly enough room for all of my music.
My external hard drive is 320gb over half full.

I don't know how Siglos Player works but most players have some sort of search function built into them.

I'm using Karma and it will sort through 14,000 songs to find the title in less than a second.

Winamp with autokj also has a fairly good search function.


I just checked with Power Karaoke and Siglos has a search function built in, I just don't know how to access it as I don't use it.

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Thanks for your reply. The songs that I would put into the siglos program would use space from the hard drive of the computer. I used to work for Prosing for about 10 years and during that time I was able to buy everyting at company cost. As a result of that and picking up other music from KJ's that went out of business, 80gb is not enough space for me to put the music into Siglos. I tried to download Siglos directly into the hard drive , but that didn't work either.

I use Siglos and the search function works great. By the time you put in the first 2-3 letters it has found all potential matches. I am not sure what your problem might be.

could he be referring to filler music?

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No, my problem is I have at least 200gb of music, I want the singer to be able to sing the version that they are familiar with and the computer only has less than 80gb to store music. I have to be able to make a powewr type search within the hard drive.

Time for a new laptop IMO.

I see brand new Windows 7 laptops with 250gb, 320gb and even 500gb drives going for $500-$700 every week on Deals2buy.com.

You have to have the right tool to do the job properly and do it well.

An old laptop with an 80gb drive is marginally capable.

You can get a higher capacity HD to replace the 80gb and use Acronis to clone the internal drive, but you're looking at investing $100-$150 into an old laptop. Not a good investment IMO. Sell it for $200-$300 and put that towards a new laptop.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1720 (Vista) that I did this with, but I found a 500GB drive on ebay for $50 and bought Acronis for $20. I cloned the original 160GB drive that it came with, but my laptop is only a year old. It has a 17" screen, dual core processor and 2GBs of RAM. I suspect I can use it for several more years now. I can't see doing this with an old XP laptop, but do what is right for you. People get attached to their computers.

you said your external hard drive had all the music on it just tell Siglos to search that.
My laptop only has a 20gb hard drive and an external 320gb drive. I just tell my program where the music is and it looks it up.

No music is stored in the laptop hard drive only karaoke program and a playlist which tells the program where to go for the music.

Still think you need to play with Siglos to find out exactly what it does. I'm sure there is a way to make it read the external hard drive.

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Thanks Lone Wolf, I purchased the Siglos because of the price along with all that it's supposed to offer. I'm sure it does all as advertised, however I haven't found it ot be the most user friendly. I'll keep working with it and see if I can get it figured out.
If anyone can offer more insight, I would appreciate it.

I can't find anywhere in the Siglos program to do a search in the hard drive

I can't find anywhere in the Siglos program to do a search in the hard drive. Also can anyone tell me if it can be installed into the hard drive itself, that would probably be the best solution.

In Windows Vista the find/search has an "indexing" feature that makes searching in indexed directories very fast. I set it up to index my filler music after my iTunes database got corrupted once and I did not have time to wait for it to do its processing on all my songs.

I am not very familiar with Siglos but I do have the demo version on my computer here at home. I added 1500 songs to its "database," which is really just a playlist; and then upon pushing F3 I can search by the file name only. It does not include the name of the directory in the search, or any ID3 tag information. So if you had your songs named like Elton John - Rocket Man.cdg then it would find "Elton John." But if you had them just like C:\Karaoke\Elton John\Rocket Man.cdg it would not find it by artist.

I would not use Siglos for professional karaoke hosting. There are several programs that are more suitable. RoxBox is what I use (under $100) and there are other good programs that KJs on this forum use, such as CompuHost.

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