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Anyone using it? Do you like it? I installed it and I couldn't get any sound to play so I uninstalled it. Other than that it looked good. I'm planning on installing it one more time to see if I can get it to work.

I've been using Karafun at home to practice and it keeps crashing my computer so I am on the hunt for a replacement. I tried to install PCDJ on my desktop today and every time I try to play a song it crashes, I haven't even installed the Karaoke plugin yet. I had similar problems a few months ago when I installed PCDJ on my laptop. Finally had to go to their office to get it fixed. What a pain.

I tried autokj/winamp a while ago but didn't care for it.

I'm looking for a rock solid Karaoke player that won't crash or crash my computer.

I also don't want to pay a bunch of money since I've already paid for PCDJ+Karaoke plugin. I know MTU and Compuhost are good but right now they are out of my price range.

Give "Just Karaoke" a try. Cost about $30.00.

I did a Yahoo search for Just Karaoke but didn't find it. Do you have a link or more info on this program?

Been going back and forth with PCDJ tech support trying to get the program to run. That would be nice.

I can't understand how they can have such a huge installed base when they have this kind of technical problems with their software?

I wish I would have never heard of PCDJ.

http://www.tricerasoft.com/karaoke_soft ... raoke.html

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Ok, thank you. Are you using this program or have you used it in the past? How is it? Can you describe your experience? Thanks

I used it for about a month before switching to Compuhost.  It's not bad for a show that is straight karaoke.  Not sure it plays well with outside programs as I had it crash a few times when switching from winamp to JustKaraoke.  It pretty much is song selction is like the old Sax & Dotty's  and the rotation is like Compuhost.

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KaraokeBuddy http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?30500000036644 recently downgraded to freeware.  Not a hoster but would be good for practice.

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Ok, I decided to give winamp/autokj another try. So far it seems fine. I'm going to continue to try to get PCDJ KJ to work. Karaoke buddy thumbs down. I'm going to continue to try to get the Tricerasoft free player to work.

Keep the suggestions and recommendations coming. Lot's of people read this board and can benefit from your suggestions and knowledge.

Last night I installed autokj/winamp and it works fine, so far no crashes.

Today I got the Tricerasoft free player working and it seems to work just fine. So far it hasn't caused my computer to crash like Karafun. It has everything except tempo control which I can live without, I'd like to have it though.

Both will take a bit of time to use and learn.

The winamp skin is very busy and complicated looking. Lots of file windows. I'm going to look for some other less busy looking skins to try. The sound quality seems to be ok on both.

Hey, I went down to PCDJ's offices a couple of weeks ago and they helped me get everything running right on it, and even threw in a free copy of PCDJ Blue. What problems are you running into with KJ specifically maybe I can help?

Also, I can help with the Winamp skin issue, you can remove alot of the extra visual fluff by messing with the options. I'll post a pic of what my winamp looks like.

I'll be surprised if you can help me, but here goes. I installed PCDJ Blue first. The program starts up and looks fine. Then I loaded a music folder. As soon as I try to load a music file into one of the players the Microsoft message box to send an error message to MS opens and when you click ok to send the error message to MS PCDJ closes. After doiung this over and over I finally deleted PCDJ. Then I tried to install the KJ program as a stand alone. It seemed to install fine . It looks fine, but it does EXACTLY the same thing PCDJ Blue was doing. I am planning on going to their offices sometime this week, probably Wednesday. If it can't be resolved then I am through with PCDJ for good.

I got the Tricerasoft Free Karaoke player working on one of my desktops and I like it, but it does the same thing as PCDJ on the other desktop. As soon as you try to load a song it quits.

The only program that has been working consistently is autokj/winamp. The advantage of autokj/winamp is that it has both key change and tempo adjustment. At this point I'm going to be using it until I can find something better.

hmm, that's really weird about PCDJ crashing like that. What version of windows are you using? Did you download all of the patches/updates from the PCDJ site?

Are you trying to play from a karaoke cd or a file?

Yeah you should definitely go down to PCDJ's office anyway. You may get a free copy of something for your trouble. In fact, when you go there ask for David, he's the guy that helped me and he's really nice.

I suspect you have other issues... stogie, pcdj blue is crashing and karafun is crashing???? Sounds like you need to have a clean copy of windows and try again!

Everything else is working fine so I'm not going to reinstall windows because PCDJ and Karafun are crashing. Better to find stable programs that work and get rid of the ones that don't IMO.

the point is, I and many others have used Karafun, and no reports yet of crashing. Now I HAVE heard what a resource hog pcdj is, from the blue to the red, to kj, to FX... so that may be your problem, but with you crashing on karafun, and NO other reports of people having problems with it... I suspect that your laptop/desktop is the culprit there.

Not saying it will crash with other programs. But I can tell you from experience with an audio program I used, I had to reinstall windows, apply the security patches, and gee whiz, suddenly I no longer had the problems with a fresh install of the program I was using.

The programs are NOT the issue, it's something in your system!  Are you using a new computer and if yes, have you tried updating your bios lately?  I once owned a Dell desktop that was crashing every time I was trying to use my karaoke software.  Just make sure you have installed the latest Microsoft updates and DO NOT install ANY audio or video driver from the Microsoft update site, audio & video updates should always be installed from the manufacture site.  You are having a driver conflict that needs to be addressed instead of searching another software...

 I agree, but in this case the unstable program is most likely Windows.

To explain: PCDJ and Karafun are not technically "Programs" they are "Applications."  Although the two terms have come to mean about the same thing over the years, in this case the difference is important.  A "Program" is self booting and addresses the hardware directly.  As programs and hardware got bigger this approach became impractical and so the "Operating System." was born and with it the "Application" which is only part of a program and is "Applied" to the operating system which makes it complete.

The problem would seem to be that PCDJ and Karafun are both depending on the same part of the Operating System (Windows) in order to function and that small part is not working.  Windows isn't one big unit.  It's a lot of little parts working together so even though it seems to be running fine, it really isn't.

I hope that makes sense....

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Yes, and this explains why it's so important to do all your Windows and driver updates!  I know for a fact that Karafun is a very stable "application" and should work on all healthy pc.

I REALLY, REALLY don't want to reinstall windows. There is a lot of stuff on this computer and other than the problems with PCDJ not working and Karafun crashing there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the way it's running.

HOWEVER, I am concerned and I'm considering reinstalling windows. I just got this computer a couple of months ago. It had a fresh windows XP Pro install and it supposedly came with a certificate of authenticity, but I don't know where I would look to find that? I guess I need to contact the company I got it from and find out. I didn't pay any attention to it when I got it, I didn't anticipate any problems with windows, my mistake. I guess I'll look through my disks tomorrow.

What a pain in the arse.