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Thanks in advance for any help, this has been very frustrating.

So, I've been experimenting with Audiograbber and Winamp with the CDG plug-in.  I'm glad I did this before I bought a new laptop and ran cables to my projector.  

I'm getting jumbled text when I play through Winamp.  It looks like some of the previous screen is left behind when a new one fills.  Not all songs are bad, and the problem is not necessarily throughout a given song.  

I even tried very conservative ripping/encoding at 1x speed in Audiograbber, both with and without creating temporary wav files.  The CD+Gs are all clean and scratchless and play flawlessly on my stand-alone player (I compared specific songs that were giving the graphics issues on the PC).

I'm ripping to a desktop PC, burning the mp3 and cdg files to CD, then uploading to a borrowed laptop (the laptop's disc drive won't rip the graphics with Audiograbber).  I also get the same graphics issues when I play with Winamp using the desktop PC.

I don't know if the problem is in the ripping/encoding or playback.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

The problem is in your CD drive.  PowerKaraoke makes a program that will clean up the mess (unless it's really messy.)

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Okay, who took my pants?

the problem could also be ripping at too high a speed!

didnt sound choice have some kind of encryption to prevent ripping on some discs? is it just specific brand files that you are having probs with?

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"Be who you are and say what you feel... Because those that matter... Don't mind...And those that mind... Don't matter."

I agree with weed here. give PowerKaraoke's CD+G burner a shot. Well worth the $40 to own it.

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The Line Array Experiment is over. Nothing to see here. Move along.

for a while, SC and CB used Mediacloq, but they abandoned that a year after they started with it... and their current discs have a 16th track "datatrack" that will pop up a message on your computer. CDRWin won't copy it on their standard setup. Audiograbber laughs at the datatrack.

thanks for that Matt, was beginning to think that this proxy server was making me invisible ... I personally havent had any probs with audiograbber except of course having to install the lame codec

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"Be who you are and say what you feel... Because those that matter... Don't mind...And those that mind... Don't matter."

I've been having random problems with multiple brands.

Thanks to all for the Powerkaraoke CDG burner tips.  Actually, I had already downloaded the trial version that allows you to rip 1 minute of 5 tracks.  I've done a little experimenting with a track that was giving me graphic problems.  The first time I ripped with Powerkaraoke, I got some graphic issues, but they were not as severe and in slightly different places on the screen.  I ripped it 2 more times, once at 2x and once at 4x (max for my drive) and the graphics were perfect on the 2nd and 3rd rips.  I need to try a couple more tracks to verify that Powerkaraoke will do it for me.

By the way, I'm ripping with a dinosaur Pentium 3 running Windows 98 (not SE) with a Sony CD drive/burner (with no other programs running).  Not sure if this is part of the issue. The current laptop I'm borrowing is only a couple years old, but the DVD driver/burner would not allow me to rip the graphics with Audiograbber (ASPI error).  Is it possible that Powerkaraoke would enable the laptop to rip graphics?  This would be a heck of a lot more convenient than ripping on one PC then uploading on another via CD.

Funny thing you said caught my eye, I have to do the same thing. My brand new bad to the bone Toshiba Sattelite doesnt have a cd drive that rips BIN files, but my old crusty compaq does! So I rip with the old one then transfer to the new. What a pain, but something so so simple is enough to drive me banannas trying to figure it out. I thought it was a proggie problem the whole time. Ended up being the drive!!!

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Jerry Carver
Fat Katz Entertainment
Columbus,Ohio

You can also consider MP3G-toolz.

Well, I bought the Powerkaraoke CD+G burner and have ripped about 12 CD+Gs.  It’s a somewhat laborious task, but so far, so good, based on some random graphics checks.  I also bought a Rocketfish wireless laser mouse (good to 30 ft).  It is pretty neat to have Winamp projected on a 100” screen, then pick songs or create a playlist from the couch with the wireless mouse, then just double click on the graphics box to fill the screen with the graphics.  I had a short VGA cable hanging down temporarily for testing, but ordered a long one from monoprice.com to run in the ceiling/walls.

Does anyone know if there is a good way to create/print a song list from what you put in Winamp’s media library?

Thanks again for the input.