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Recent "discussions" on why don't KJ's play customer discs have me asking this.....

#1) Can a laptop cd drive hold up to the task of playing custoner cdgs every show?

#2) Is there an affordable program that will play cdgs from a standard laptop drive?
(not a hosting program I have one of those but a seperate program just to play cdgs)

Will WINAMP with all the pluggins be able to do the trick on the fly at a show ???

I don't know if i'd want to dedicate the internal built into a laptop to playing discs at a show, but the external drives are pretty cheap these days that would be up to the job - especially if you only get them on occasion.
I thought Winamp had a cdg player that would allow cdg files.
Only other programs I know of that play actual discs are from MTU & Powerkaraoke.

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I'm trying to think OPEN MINDED about the playing customer disc thing

It's all good.

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I checked out the siglos player from powerkaraoke and its only $49
which would seem to do the trick of playing custome discs from my laptop.
I realy don't get any singers who bring in their discs so for those times when someone actually does I guess I can use the laptop drive. If the landscape of the show changes and more and more singers bring in their own disc I guess I could look at an external drive of sorts.

1. Some cd and most DVD drives have the capability to read CD+G format. Nero's freely downloadable "info tool" can tell you for sure. I'd get a dedicated external for more than the occasional customer disc tho.

2.) Yes. Karafun for one. That's what I use for the rare CDG customer I get.

3) It used to.Good luck finding a way to register the cdg disc plugin now, though. The author and his website seemed to haved dropped from the face of the Earth.

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The cdg plugin for Winamp has to have a "true" cdg capable drive to work (such as one of the older Plextor drives) I also found it to not be 100% reliable (the plugin that is)

As mentioned "Karafun" is free, works extremely well with almost any cd drive and is what I use along with an external liteon dvd drive picked up at Wally World for about $50

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If you are thinking of using Siglos, download the demo and play with it first. I found that it kept freezing up on me. The problem was my anti-virus software and had to turn it off.

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Kevin

cool THANKS!!

I second that. My internal CD/DVD drive happens to be compatible and able to play CD+G disks. So I use Karafun for the occasional disk from a custi. Works out fine.

Highly recommend that you DO NOT use the PC's internal drive. Definitely not up for nightly work. Go external or player.

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