Pinned KARAOKE ENTHUSIAST CHAT

[marti61]

Go to my profile at

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to see all of my recent MP3 releases.

 

I put up MutzNutz, MP3 New Releaese, MP3 New Albums and the BAR's (when I can get

them) and all of them are wll seeded.

 

Due to certain problems in RL I'm not putting up new commercial karaoke right now.

Thanks so much for the info BJ, also thanks to Chris F and wilkinp4 for their help.

[sacot1]

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[sacot1]

If nobody has it zoom do have it £2

Also looks like sttw didn't make Didja ever

I have over 5,000 STTW tracks and i don't have it either.

[wilkinp4]

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The full funbox collection as requested.

[wilkinp4]

While I'm typing about MP3s, lemme point you to some of the stuff that Wilkinp4 is

putting up right now,

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will take you to a collection of a particular year's Top 100's all conglomerated into an

alphabetical list for each year.

 

So far he's done 23 of them (2000 to 2022, no idea if he'll go to earlier years) and they're

a great asset if you're doing disco as well as karaoke.

Thanks BJ, I have the torrents all ready to upload going back to 1890s, although after the 50's are uploaded they will be by decade.

[DaveyDee]

Not sure how it was explained, but I open the folder, copy the address and then paste it into a browser. It opens a list that can be coppied and pasted into a doc or possibly even excel to remove the columns you don't need.

Call me old school. bit if you are a Win user, I find the easiest way is to open a command window - Winkey+R. type cmd press Enter - to call up a command prompt, then navigate to the drive and folder you need using the CD command, i.e.

 

C:\Users\System User>cd F:

F:\>cd SUNFLY

F:\SUNFLY>cd SFG

F:\SUNFLY\SFG>cd SFG045

F:\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045>

 

...at this point I type the command:

 

F;\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045>dir /a-d /b > "C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

 

this will give you a list of that specific folders' files called List.txt on your Desktop.

 

If you want to list out the entire contents of the main folder, i.e. F:\SUNFLY and all it's sub-folders then you would add '/s' in the filters:

 

F:\SUNFLY>dir /a-d /b /s > "C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

 

This will give you a list of every file in the sub-folders of the Main Folder. You will need to trim the leading folder data using either a text editor or opening the List.txt file in Excel as a Delimited file, using the '/' as the Delimiter. This will make it possible to just choose the column with the Filenames for each folder, and save that as a Txt file, or copy the column into another WP app like Word.

Edited July 19, 2023 by DaveyDee

[DaveyDee]

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What karaokenerds don't tell you is that they trawl the suppliers websites, but then miss the fact that the link for that track on Sing to the World is actually a Zoom track, just being cross-marketed!

 

EDIT: I stand corrected, I did a trawl through my collection, and found that STTW-8556 was a SIng To The World version of the track, although to be honest it sounds like a re eq'd version of the Zoom track, the backing vocals are very autotuned, and the whole thing sounds very thin.

Personally I prefer to offer singers the MMVE version, the backing vocals are just more authentic sounding.

 

However, if you really want the STTW version,

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Edited July 19, 2023 by DaveyDee

[DaveyDee]

Thanks BJ, I have the torrents all ready to upload going back to 1890s, although after the 50's are uploaded they will be by decade.

I hope you meant the 1980's, not sure there is much call for Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley type 'Music Hall' type tracks at a disco! lol

 

Having said that, I do quite enjoy Christoper Green's re-imagination of Ida Barr (1882-1967) bringing her up to date for a new generation with her 'Artificial Hip-Hop' stylings.

Edited July 19, 2023 by DaveyDee

[wilkinp4]

I hope you meant the 1980's, not sure there is much call for Marie Lloyd, Vesta Tilley type 'Music Hall' type tracks at a disco! lol

 

Having said that, I do quite enjoy Christoper Green's re-imagination of Ida Barr (1882-1967) bringing her up to date for a new generation with her 'Artificial Hip-Hop' stylings.

No, I genuinely meant 1890. I will be posting the 1980's as well, but the 1890's is as far back as I have managed to get. Crackly and brilliant, and mainly orchestra's and bands. lol

[Hazz]

What karaokenerds don't tell you is that they trawl the suppliers websites, but then miss the fact that the link for that track on Sing to the World is actually a Zoom track, just being cross-marketed!

 

EDIT: I stand corrected, I did a trawl through my collection, and found that STTW-8556 was a SIng To The World version of the track, although to be honest it sounds like a re eq'd version of the Zoom track, the backing vocals are very autotuned, and the whole thing sounds very thin.

Personally I prefer to offer singers the MMVE version, the backing vocals are just more authentic sounding.

 

However, if you really want the STTW version,

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Thank you very much, i totally agree with you but some singers are stuck in their ways and prefer bad backing tracks,just cos thats what they are used to & comfortable with. I know there are some tracks that i sing that are not the best but you become oblivious to the faults as the years go by.

[Hazz]

thought i would share my creation, as cant find a karaoke version of this 80's gem anywhere.

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[Bobby]

Missed DCK 690 - 692. Could anyone repost ? Pretty, pretty please ?

[IbizaBri]

I need to replace my old laptop any suggestions for a good one to run dj and karaoke.

I also had to replace and old laptop.

I bought a Dell Precision 7530 with i7 processor, 15.5'' 1920x1080 screen, 512gb SSD, 32gb RAM, Nvidia Quadro 6Gb graphics card, 64bit Windows 11 Pro

I run karaoke using PCDJ Dex3 and also show 720p music videos on 6 external screens using a Gefen Toolbox 8x8 HDMI matrix, the PC is great and more than handles everything in it's stride

[DaveyDee]

I also had to replace and old laptop.

I bought a Dell Precision 7530 with i7 processor, 15.5'' 1920x1080 screen, 512gb SSD, 32gb RAM, Nvidia Quadro 6Gb graphics card, 64bit Windows 11 Pro

I run karaoke using PCDJ Dex3 and also show 720p music videos on 6 external screens using a Gefen Toolbox 8x8 HDMI matrix, the PC is great and more than handles everything in it's stride

Sounds like Laptop failures are both a rare and a frequent occurrence!

When you find a laptop that works for you, you tend to stick with it until something goes bang!

I had a similar experience a few years ago, when my goto Toshiba died a painful death. I needed a lappy unrgently and the nearest one I could get that day, anywhere near the spec I was used to was an ACER E5-771G. It came with limited RAM, unimpressive HDD but it did have a couple of things going for it, it had Dual graphics, (Intel and NVIDIA) and an i7 processor 5th Gen (at the time a great processor, and still pretty good today!)

Needless to say, it didn't stay that way long, I bumped the RAM to 16Gb, took out the old mechanical HDD and fitted a 2Gb SSD in it's place. I also ripped out the DVD and put another 2Gb SSD in a caddy in it's place. I also discovered while I had the cover off that it could take an M2, so in went a 2Gb stick.

The power supply was not great (the original was only 4.7A) so I got hold of a 6.5A brick, you don't want the power draining on long gigs!

Lo and behold I had found my dream machine.

Not long after everything went sort of tits up. COVID hit and all of a sudden my income dried up. The only work allowed was outdoor, and socially distanced. How the hell can you do karaoke in that situation?

Well, with a couple of heavy duty Leisure batteries, a pair of Solar panels, a power management system, a 6KVA pure sine inverter and a bit of drilling in my van, I had the ideal setup, I mounted two studs on the roof that would take Chauvet Gig bars, my mini DJ stand that fitted perfectly between the open back doors of my Transit Connect, I had the ability to run a full show anywhere in the open that was accessible for my little van... I could even sit on the tailgate!

Running off an inverter, even a really good pure sine one, I knew could be a bit risky for the dear old Acer. I started trawling Ebay, and in the period of a couple of months I had 6 'parts only' E5-771's. 4 of the 6 only required a re-flashing of the BIOS'es, two needed new motherboards (well 2nd hand!).

Being our local 'Inspector Gadget', I had loads of spare SSD's (don't ask why, I really can't remember, I think I had by that time upgraded my 2TB's to 4TB in the original, and bought two spare - just in case! - and of course the original 2TB's.

One thing I was not happy with were the displays. they were 1600x1440 resolution with those horrible glossy screens that are absoultely useless outdoors. I found a supplier (online of course) willing to give me a really great discount and I bought 7, matte coated, 1920x1080 HD displays that had the right connectors.

I guess I did 25 gigs on village green type locations and large gardens, and in between I finished making my nest of Acers.

I had spent a maximum of £45 each for the partsers. £35 per HD screen, RAM I had in abundance anyway, and I paid maybe £50 for the drive caddys.

I mirrored my working Laptop onto two of them, keeping them as backups, the other 4 I sold to fellow KJ's, pretty much covering my total outlay for all of the parts and a bit of a bump for my time.

Last I heard, all of them are still going strong, the only limitation is that they are not Win 11 compatible, but I know at least three of them have been back-graded to Win 7 anyway (God knows why!!!)

I still get the odd DJ or KJ coming up to me at gigs asking where my external drives are, and they are quite suprised when I tell them I have my Karaoke tracks on a 2TB M2, my music on a 4TB SSD, and my Video on another 4TB SSD, and they are all inside my little Acer!

There is a drawback though.... It is a sod of a job sync'ing the buggers each month!!!

Edited July 19, 2023 by DaveyDee

[BJtheDJ]

Call me old school. bit if you are a Win user, I find the easiest way is to open a command window - Winkey+R. type cmd press Enter - to call up a command prompt, then navigate to the drive and folder you need using the CD command, i.e.

 

C:\Users\System User>cd F:

F:\>cd SUNFLY

F:\SUNFLY>cd SFG

F:\SUNFLY\SFG>cd SFG045

F:\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045>

 

To save a lot of keyboard work in the DOS box, the easiest way is to type :

F: ............... to change to the F drive

Then type

cd sunfly/sfg/sfg045 ............ all in one line

++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Alternately stay in drive C: and type:

CD desktop

and then type

DIR/b F:\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045> C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

That'll do the job for you.

 

Alternately open File Explorer at the directory that you want to list,

and copy n paste the path from the address box at he top, and paste

that into the DOSbox.

 

...at this point I type the command:

 

F;\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045>dir /a-d /b > "C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

 

this will give you a list of that specific folders' files called List.txt on your Desktop.

 

If you want to list out the entire contents of the main folder, i.e. F:\SUNFLY and all it's sub-folders then you would add '/s' in the filters:

 

F:\SUNFLY>dir /a-d /b /s > "C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

 

This will give you a list of every file in the sub-folders of the Main Folder. You will need to trim the leading folder data using either a text editor or opening the List.txt file in Excel as a Delimited file, using the '/' as the Delimiter. This will make it possible to just choose the column with the Filenames for each folder, and save that as a Txt file, or copy the column into another WP app like Word.