BJtheDJ

I do what I can - on usenet I call it sharing the wealth, although I can't currently get there (will be sorted soon) - with torrents I'm not so sure id that's the correct phrase since there are those websites which delight in taking torrents posted freely and then removing the tags so that they can charge people for downloading them Those people pirating us pirates are the reason that the tags on my cover and disc pictures have become larger and more difficult to remove recently; they're even removing the info^h^h^h^h Comments tags from pics, which most people don't even know about and many gfx prgs can't get to.

Hi Rusty, I'm a little late replying to this - please forgive me. I don't get to these forums nearly as much as I should. If there's a 10-second gap then that almost certainly means that whichever program that you're using to play is chopping off the silence at the start of the music. With CD+G (karaoke) discs there is an approx 10-second period of silence at the start of the music during which the title screen is displayed, if you're using a music player which jumps past any silence then that is your problem. That 10-second silence is carried over to all current non-DVD karaoke; I riop a lot of karaoke from disc and post it here - it's what you willl find. Personally when working I use VirtualDJ which will play almost anything that I can throw at it (including music and graphics files inside ZIP or RAR archives); you can get it for free from their website, I paid $399 so that I'm legal when I'm working; at my home computer I use WinAmp with two accessories which: 1. Let me play CDG files which have exactly the same name as the mp3 file, in sync with that mp3 >>> in_cdda.dll (I think) 2. Play ZIP files which contain an mp3 and a cdg file with exactly the same name >>> in_zip.dll If you have a further question for me here please let me know by PM so that I can get here and sort your amswer. Cheers, BJ Edited for spelling / punctuation