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[DaveyDee]

I knew there would be a knowledgeable person on here thanks for clearing that up.

Got a bit bored this afternoon, so just for the anal-retentive, here are a couple of files they might like, DKK'ish CDG versions of the two Cocaine v2 files for DK1114 and DKMS905...

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Edited September 27, 2023 by DaveyDee

[DaedalusWren]

Thanks for the info, at least it will clear out a bit of space on my MEGA...

 

Now all I need to find is a decent Duplicate File FInder for the files I have on my home archive, I am sure there are tons of dupes on there, but going through half a million files is going to be a major task

I feel the pain, I too am in the process of cleaning up my folders and removing dupes. It is a very tedious process, and one that gets old, very fast. If you ever come across that Dupe Finder, please let me know. As it sits right now, I use the search program Everything from whatever folder I am working on and do a manual search, testing the dupes to find the highest quality file and discarding the rest. Still, as you no doubt know, it is daunting. Cheers

[DaveyDee]

Having looked i don't have any SHW apart from this one Davey are you willing to share what you've made?

Hi Sacot,

Showtime was a long-running joke with a couple of other KJ friends (one no longer with us, sadly) who were always trying to one-up the others. As you can imagine, the format was based on a well-known commercial producer - who got a bit ticked off when they were first made aware of it - but after a bit of negotiation they accepted it was an homage, not a copyright infringement.

 

Over the years, SHW tracks became my own way of creating tracks for non commercial purposes mainly for my own shows. They included parodies of well known songs, such as 'Softly as I Leave EU', 'My Guy's Lollipop' (one for the ladies!), '[Why would I Let] Someone Like You' ) after Adele withdrew rights to her songs for a while, etc.

 

More recently I have re-activated SHW to record my own versions of unavailable tracks, in my home studio (with me playing the instruments - you can imagine how some of those sound, although even if I say so myself they are far better than some of the MIDI creations out there!), or devocalisations made using DeMix Pro, UVR5, and Pro Tools.

 

I code all my CDG's using Karaoke CD+G Creator Pro as I find the GUI far easier to work with than KBS.

 

All this is by way of saying that, although I have created just over 200 tracks, there are very few of them that I would be happy with letting out into the wild, so to speak. If anyone ever asks for a track that I have already made, and that I am happy with the production levels, I am more than happy to share those, but I don't really see Showtime as more than a hobby, and certainly not a commercial quality label...

[DaveyDee]

I feel the pain, I too am in the process of cleaning up my folders and removing dupes. It is a very tedious process, and one that gets old, very fast. If you ever come across that Dupe Finder, please let me know. As it sits right now, I use the search program Everything from whatever folder I am working on and do a manual search, testing the dupes to find the highest quality file and discarding the rest. Still, as you no doubt know, it is daunting. Cheers

I made a mistake once of d/l'ing the Rigmar and CC collections, only to realise that I already had at least 95% of those tracks, as well as some of the other HM styled brands that had just lifted commercially available mp3's and put graphics to them.

 

During lockdown, I stripped all those sources to Archive, going through what was left and consolidating a workable folder of tracks on my working laptop. I dropped from over 500k tracks to my current 280k tracks and now have 700k free on my 2TB Karaoke drive.

 

Duplicate removal is a pain in the ass, but your karaoke databases will love you for it, especially if you use software that still relies on MS based search engines! I can now build a totally clean Search database on my PC in less time than it takes a reasonable length track to play out, while a friend of mine who uses software that sounds like an old ISP takes forever!

[BJtheDJ]

Thanks for the info, at least it will clear out a bit of space on my MEGA...

 

Now all I need to find is a decent Duplicate File FInder for the files I have on my home archive, I am sure there are tons of dupes on there, but going through half a million files is going to be a major task

That's just the half of it

 

You have to contend with the different naming schemes, where the slightest

change means that the names are dissimilar.

 

Putting [`] instead of [' ] (common with older files sourced from Mac users I've

found) or missing apostrophes out completely; putting that apostrophe at the

end of a verb (or even a gerund if we're going to be exact ) with a missing 'g'

at the end.

 

Those that insist on renaming any song title that begins with 'the' so that that

word is placed at the end of the title after a comma - same with song titles

starting with the letter A. C'mon people, what about The River being renamed

River, The Rose >> Rose, The Climb >> Climb ; Elvis 'A House is Not a Home'

 

Reversing first name and last name, damn don't get me on that - why can't

the people that do it do it consistently ?? I mean Ryan, Barry and Paul ??

 

Mann, Manfred ?? Bocelli, and Sarah Brightman Andrea ?? -- this next one is a

champion that I saw - Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich, Dave

 

And can't people understand that when they take 'The' of the front of a band's

name there is no need to add [. The] onto the end ??

 

And none of them appear to understand that The Weeknd is the name of an artiste

and not a band.

 

Dammit, rant over :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

[BJtheDJ]

whats your email?

Ask me in a PM giving your email and I'll let u have mine

Edited September 27, 2023 by BJtheDJ

[DaveyDee]

That's just the half of it

 

You have to contend with the different naming schemes, where the slightest

change means that the names are dissimilar.

 

Putting [`] instead of [' ] (common with older files sourced from Mac users I've

found) or missing apostrophes out completely; putting that apostrophe at the

end of a verb (or even a gerund if we're going to be exact ) with a missing 'g'

at the end.

 

Those that insist on renaming any song title that begins with 'the' so that that

word is placed at the end of the title after a comma - same with song titles

starting with the letter A. C'mon people, what about The River being renamed

River, The Rose >> Rose, The Climb >> Climb ; Elvis 'A House is Not a Home'

 

Reversing first name and last name, damn don't get me on that - why can't

the people that do it do it consistently ?? I mean Ryan, Barry and Paul ??

 

Mann, Manfred ?? Bocelli, and Sarah Brightman Andrea ?? -- this next one is a

champion that I saw - Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick And Tich, Dave

 

And can't people understand that when they take 'The' of the front of a band's

name there is no need to add [. The] onto the end ??

 

And none of them appear to understand that The Weeknd is the name of an artiste

and not a band.

 

Dammit, rant over :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

BJ. the errors that creep in to any re-naming are a bugbear of mine as well. I once saw a file listing the artists as Olivia Newton & Travolta, John, John.

I can only assume the original file had had Olivia;s name mis represented as John, Olivia Newton rather than Newton-John, Olivia, and they had just randomly applied the name swap routine. And not forgetting that some bands deliberately don't have a 'The' such as Foo Fighters, but we get files with The Foo Fighters, and Foo Fighters, The ...

 

I really love your commentary posts, you have a great personality, and remind me of someone I once met when they came to a gig of mine with a few friends who shared a common interest.

Edited September 27, 2023 by DaveyDee

[DaedalusWren]

I made a mistake once of d/l'ing the Rigmar and CC collections, only to realise that I already had at least 95% of those tracks, as well as some of the other HM styled brands that had just lifted commercially available mp3's and put graphics to them.

 

During lockdown, I stripped all those sources to Archive, going through what was left and consolidating a workable folder of tracks on my working laptop. I dropped from over 500k tracks to my current 280k tracks and now have 700k free on my 2TB Karaoke drive.

 

Duplicate removal is a pain in the ass, but your karaoke databases will love you for it, especially if you use software that still relies on MS based search engines! I can now build a totally clean Search database on my PC in less time than it takes a reasonable length track to play out, while a friend of mine who uses software that sounds like an old ISP takes forever!

So in your opinion, CC is about as useless as Rigmar? Actually I can't remember ever using any CC. Well that will help dump another 2800 files and 27gb of trash. Last year I topped 439,000 files, that was when I thought it would be easier to clean them up rather than invest in larger drives. Then I had my main workhorse glitch and actually wipe my main drive. So I have pieced together what I could salvage from other drives I had, but unfortunately those drives also had all the files I had already removed. Double the fun.

 

So, with the dupes removed and Rigmar, So far I have shaved of about 130K songs, and still going.

[DaveyDee]

So in your opinion, CC is about as useless as Rigmar? Actually I can't remember ever using any CC. Well that will help dump another 2800 files and 27gb of trash. Last year I topped 439,000 files, that was when I thought it would be easier to clean them up rather than invest in larger drives. Then I had my main workhorse glitch and actually wipe my main drive. So I have pieced together what I could salvage from other drives I had, but unfortunately those drives also had all the files I had already removed. Double the fun.

 

So, with the dupes removed and Rigmar, So far I have shaved of about 130K songs, and still going.

Doing well. I saw from your attachment the other day you are using the Dreaded Karma... Same here, it has been a great program as far as I am concerned if you ignore the lousy customer service!

 

What do you do for your tween music? I used to use Karma to do both, but I changed over to having Serato or Virtual DJ running in the background, and just fade up between tracks depending on the type of event. I found it made Karma a lot more friendly, not having all my DJ music and Videos loaded into it as well.

[DaveyDee]

So in your opinion, CC is about as useless as Rigmar? Actually I can't remember ever using any CC. Well that will help dump another 2800 files and 27gb of trash. Last year I topped 439,000 files, that was when I thought it would be easier to clean them up rather than invest in larger drives. Then I had my main workhorse glitch and actually wipe my main drive. So I have pieced together what I could salvage from other drives I had, but unfortunately those drives also had all the files I had already removed. Double the fun.

 

So, with the dupes removed and Rigmar, So far I have shaved of about 130K songs, and still going.

If you find any of your discs still missing after the rebuild, let me know, I may be able to help out if I have them!

[BJtheDJ]

I made a mistake once of d/l'ing the Rigmar and CC collections, only to realise that I already had at least 95% of those tracks, as well as some of the other HM styled brands that had just lifted commercially available mp3's and put graphics to them.

 

During lockdown, I stripped all those sources to Archive, going through what was left and consolidating a workable folder of tracks on my working laptop. I dropped from over 500k tracks to my current 280k tracks and now have 700k free on my 2TB Karaoke drive.

 

Duplicate removal is a pain in the ass, but your karaoke databases will love you for it, especially if you use software that still relies on MS based search engines! I can now build a totally clean Search database on my PC in less time than it takes a reasonable length track to play out, while a friend of mine who uses software that sounds like an old ISP takes forever!

Rigmar, please don't get me started on that waste of karaoke space.

 

He has some strange ideas, including his belief that he's the world's best

source of karaoke.

 

He once told me that it wwasn't possible to seed more then 50 torrents;

I'm currently seeding more than 400 !!

[DaveyDee]

Rigmar, please don't get me started on that waste of karaoke space.

 

He has some strange ideas, including his belief that he's the world's best

source of karaoke.

 

He once told me that it wwasn't possible to seed more then 50 torrents;

I'm currently seeding more than 400 !!

Perhaps he only had a 12/75 modem!!!

 

Nowadays with Synchronous rates up in the Gigabits (especially on seedboxes) you can seed any number of torrents, I have bonded channels here at home, and i am currently running 1.6Gb which gives me more capability to seed than I need, without affecting any of my streaming/downloading/media sharing capability.

[DaedalusWren]

Doing well. I saw from your attachment the other day you are using the Dreaded Karma... Same here, it has been a great program as far as I am concerned if you ignore the lousy customer service!

 

What do you do for your tween music? I used to use Karma to do both, but I changed over to having Serato or Virtual DJ running in the background, and just fade up between tracks depending on the type of event. I found it made Karma a lot more friendly, not having all my DJ music and Videos loaded into it as well.

I have not had any issues with having Karma filling both tasks. I have a folder with several sub-folders of tween music. One Classic rock, Country, Pop, one hit wonders and an instrumental music folder. Depending on the venue and crowd. I just drop them into Karma and usually set the Filler volume to 30-40%.

 

I have tried other software for hosting, but keep coming back to Karma. I actually have not had any trouble with customer service. As a matter of fact, I messaged a few times asking if they would implement the FLAC codec, as all my DJ music is in that format, and would rather use that then converting to MP3 for the Filler music, and he said he would implement it in the next release, which he did. So I have nothing negative to say about it. I have however read some horror stories from some, and had an associate that had nothing but problems with them, and had his license removed.

[DaveyDee]

I have not had any issues with having Karma filling both tasks. I have a folder with several sub-folders of tween music. One Classic rock, Country, Pop, one hit wonders and an instrumental music folder. Depending on the venue and crowd. I just drop them into Karma and usually set the Filler volume to 30-40%.

 

I have tried other software for hosting, but keep coming back to Karma. I actually have not had any trouble with customer service. As a matter of fact, I messaged a few times asking if they would implement the FLAC codec, as all my DJ music is in that format, and would rather use that then converting to MP3 for the Filler music, and he said he would implement it in the next release, which he did. So I have nothing negative to say about it. I have however read some horror stories from some, and had an associate that had nothing but problems with them, and had his license removed.

Bob did that with me at one time, after I had had a run in with him over 4 copies of Karma fail on me after an update (I always make sure I test Karma Updates now on a testbed machine!) and he told me it must be my machine, as it didn't happen on his computer. I asked why four different computers, with different levels of OS (a mix of Win 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 at that time) should all have the same problem. The fact that I had recommended Karma to several other hosts, who had told me they had had similar problems after the update did not go down well with him, and he told me if I wasn't happy with Karma, he would just remove my licences, (which he did, for about 12 hours.) When many others reported on Facebook the same problem, a strange thing happened, there was a very quick new update released, and when I checked my Members Area, the licences had mysteriously re-appeared...

 

I took the music and vids off Karma when I started noticing that some tracks would not terminate correctly stopping the filler music, etc from auto starting. Now I just have the fillers running in the background, and switch in the filler between tracks, as we used to in the disc days. The beauty of having the Midas mixer is that it acts as a multi-channel sound card so I can have both Karma and either Serato or VDJ running on their own channels to the mixer. The only issue I have ever found with that method is Serato occasionally hogs the CPU, which can be a problem, but as I only use Serato mainly when it is more of a DJ gig with only the occasional Karaoke singer (more wedding type gigs), I can live with it!

[BJtheDJ]

Looking for the KV version of

Diana Krall - "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)"

 

Two copies here, both with corrupted mp3 files within the zipfile.

 

Anybody got, can assist - if you can, please check zip before posting

Edited September 27, 2023 by BJtheDJ