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There is a saying that old airplane captains tell new co-pilots when they first step foot in the cockpit . . . If there is dust on the switch -DON'T TOUCH IT!.

This just means that the switch is in the correct position and will seldom, if ever, need to be moved.

I have many discs with lots of dust on them. Some have never been out of the jacket.

You can have 15000 turds, but sheer volume alone does not do anything to change the fact that you have 15000 turds.

I'd much rather pay for 200 discs or songs that I pick out myself than be yoked to the old "gotta buy the bad to get the good" sales model of the old days.

I just don't see how any company can be viable today sticking to that archaic sales model of having to pay for a bunch of turds just to get that one gem you are looking for..

ok so I've sorted out my problem files, and Chris has already verified that I am not losing what little bit of my sanity is left, that there are indeed duplicates in the GEM series, which was supposed to be one of it's best selling features.

Now i'm not going to quibble or ask for a refund over a 3 silly songs, I just thought that someone at PEP should know and I wanted to confirm before I sent them an email. Now that my question has been answered, I don't really think there needs to be any more discussion in this thread

thanks

Not saying anyone needs 15,000 tracks, a but a good solid core for ANY kj should be pretty standard. This is a great core for a relatively cheap price.
I'd much rather pay for 200 songs I need vs tracks - but i'd rather have a core selection to start with. Again a 'turd' to one kj may be a regularly requested song to others. And like I said before i've purchased going on over 6000 'singer requests' over the last few years on single downloads, some at $1.99, some as high as $5 per track. I'd say that probably out of those purchased singer requests that over 3/4 are now 'turds' because the singers want to sing them, sing them for a little while, then don't anymore and they were pretty obscure that chances are no one else will sing them regularly. But my old out of date SC library is still getting sung nightly, and no I don't have the GEM, but many to most of the songs on the GEM get done over the years that I do have on SC (or other brands).

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I pulled reports from two venues this past weekend.

One of these is my one "oldies" bar where most of the singers on Tues night are retired and they sing older standards and classics. On Saturdays a slightly younger crowd comes in and adds a little diversity. Of the top 103 songs performed since July 1st, 60 came from the SC GEM set.

The other bar runs 7 nights a week, has a very mixed and diverse crowd. We started at this venue the 2nd week of July so the time from is almost the same. Of the top 105 songs performed since July 11th, 71 of those came from the GEM set.

In both cases, if I go further into the lists, the GEM remains dominant.

I know some people think it is old, stale material that can be purchased through other vendors, but old and stale is what people like to sing anyway. The bulk of the music performed and most karaoke shows is music that is 5, 10, 15 years old and it has been that way since the beginning of karaoke!

I am still very happy with my GEM purchases!

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-Chris

I think I may have discovered another duplicate in the Gem i wasn't aware of.
10027-04 - Brian McKnight - Back at One
10116-26 - Brian McKnight - Back at One

can't tell if they are musically different or not. Can someone please confirm for me

-James

According to iCroons, the SC10116-26 track is the same title but the artist is listed as Mark Wills. I also took the time to search through the list on pep.rocks site and it also has the Artist listed as Mark Wills.

I know this is nit picky, but for the money that's being asked for this package, you'd think that someone would offer a solid listing system....



For 20 year old songs.... of which about 20% would get sung. At least with downloading, you know you're going to use the song in question.

I've yet to purchase one. I won't, because I won't support SC in their current business model, but I'm happy to hear that my assumptions about how much gets used is unfounded.

That said, even at 100% usability, I still don't see value. That might be the US to CAD exchange though

I'll have to double check, because I played both and the graphics were identical but i only did a cursory glance at the title screen..

edit: just double checked. Graphics are identical, music sounds identical to me. Guess the people who made the discs put the wrong version on.

I can tell you most of many of these tracks are still very used today.
Yes at least with downloading you might get it used once (if at all if they change their mind which happens). A good solid core should be the backbone of any selection.

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For the record, I am still perfectly happy with my purchase. There are 3,000 titles in my set that I personally could sing extremely well, especially the osbcure oldies and one hit wonders

-James