Pinned KARAOKE ENTHUSIAST CHAT

[stickyvikki]

Well, if you consider a lot of hosts I've met call it Sux and Stutters...

I can understand why. But then I'm a time-served IT engineer and keep all four laptops in tip-top condition. No unnecessary software and locked down, as tight as a ducks ... x

[BJtheDJ]

Davey Dee still has SC up post on page 254

Thank you for that

[DaedalusWren]

It is even more frightening when you consider that the bulk of it was ripped from my DJ Collection manually! (I started DJ'ing in 1980 on vinyl, moving to CD in 1986, around the same time I got into Karaoke hosting. My first machine was a tape based system, and we used Lyrics Books for the singers. Then I got into the era of lugging around huge Laserdisc players, into VCD and CDG's until in 2002 I finally went digital with PCDJ KJ VRM in about 2002.

 

Ripping CDG's in the early days was no fun, I can tell you, especially with all the different 'Protection' systems around. For anyone who remembers those days, it was like trying to 'make' a working copy of your LOTUS 123 master Floppy Disk! (Anyone want a box of old Plextor drives?)

 

I don't remember when PCDJ licensed and released a product that they named 'Karaoki'; - not the current product of the same name - this was an early, buggy version of what we now know as 'Karma'. Anyway I bought into that, and have been using it ever since.

 

So you can see that, my collection has been building, both for music, video and Karaoke content for around 40 years. I have had equipment and disc thefts, (and made some very good friends in the industry who helped me out big time when my collection was stolen...), hard drive crashes, a roadie who decided to drop my laptop while setting up for a gig (nightmare!)... all those times when I could have lost everything, but thankfully through a lot of kindness, diligent backup procedures, and a vast amount of hard work, I have my collection intact, and I am very proud of it!

Karaoki is still a hosting software in PCDJ's lineup. It is actually the first hosting software I owned. Never knew their current version was a second incarnation. Since then I also moved onto Karma.

 

I too started with LPs and 45s in my teens, then dropped DJing when I went into the military. Flash forward 25 years and I decided to host karaoke, DJ was not a far cry once I had the equipment. I do remember the weeks spent digitizing all my CDs and ripping CDG's and scdg's. It seemed like my full time job for a while.

 

My biggest problem I have now, is I was careless with my karaoke collection at one time and just put everything in my folders, leaving me with the mess of dupes and low quality rips that I am slowly but surely discarding. Just takes a crazy amount of time and patience. Seems a few of us are in the same boat.

Edited September 29, 2023 by DaedalusWren

[BJtheDJ]

Hi again guys. Sorry to keep pestering, but, I have all the ZPCP that where kindly put up the other day. Only thing is a list to put in my catalogue. Does anyone know how to make a list of files and sub folders or better still does anyone have a copy please?

This is the way (hmm cyclamen, not tried this colour before) that I

do it:

open a DOS box by right-clicking on the Start button and clkicking on

Commend Prompt.

 

Navigate to your karaoke drive and then the Zoom folder - in my case

that would be by typing Y: (that's the letter y followed by a colon) and

then pressing [Return] to get to my Y: drive where my karaoke lives.

 

My Zoom PCP discs live in y:\zoom\pcp - so that's what I type in next -

the screen prompt now looks like this

 

Y:\zoom\pcp that's drive Y: directory zoom sub-directory pcp

 

I get a list of the directory content by typing dir which gives me a list

of the directories in zoom/pcp; it'll give you a lot of detail buy pytting

in the /b swicth (b for bare) like this dir/b gives you just the directory

names; to get a list of the content of all of the those directories use the

/s switch (s for sub) like this dir/s/b and if you get even braver

and specy the type of file that you want included in your fiectory search

you can specy it easily by typing that in like this

 

dir/b/s *.zip which selects just the zip files.

 

You'll now have an on-screen list of all of the zip files in all of zoom/pcp

it's sub-directories but there'll be so many that the list will shot off the

top of the screen - don't worry that can be sorted using the /p (page)

switch.

 

But that's not we're looking at, we want a list of the files don't we ??

 

So we can send that list of zip files by redirecting the output of that dir

command to a file rather than your computer's screen, if we want to

send it to a text called (say) PCPfiles you we do this by typing

 

dir/b/s > PCPfiles.txt (you could send it to another directory

if you want by putting a different directory path in front of the

filename).

 

 

You'll now have a text file named PCPfile,txt in you PCP directory, do

with that what you want - edit it, copy it into a word file or a

spreddsheet - whatever takes your fancy

 

[landan9]

This is the way (hmm cyclamen, not tried this colour before) that I

do it:

open a DOS box by right-clicking on the Start button and clkicking on

Commend Prompt.

 

Navigate to your karaoke drive and then the Zoom folder - in my case

that would be by typing Y: (that's the letter y followed by a colon) and

then pressing [Return] to get to my Y: drive where my karaoke lives.

 

My Zoom PCP discs live in y:\zoom\pcp - so that's what I type in next -

the screen prompt now looks like this

 

Y:\zoom\pcp that's drive Y: directory zoom sub-directory pcp

 

I get a list of the directory content by typing dir which gives me a list

of the directories in zoom/pcp; it'll give you a lot of detail buy pytting

in the /b swicth (b for bare) like this dir/b gives you just the directory

names; to get a list of the content of all of the those directories use the

/s switch (s for sub) like this dir/s/b and if you get even braver

and specy the type of file that you want included in your fiectory search

you can specy it easily by typing that in like this

 

dir/b/s *.zip which selects just the zip files.

 

You'll now have an on-screen list of all of the zip files in all of zoom/pcp

it's sub-directories but there'll be so many that the list will shot off the

top of the screen - don't worry that can be sorted using the /p (page)

switch.

 

But that's not we're looking at, we want a list of the files don't we ??

 

So we can send that list of zip files by redirecting the output of that dir

command to a file rather than your computer's screen, if we want to

send it to a text called (say) PCPfiles you we do this by typing

 

dir/b/s > PCPfiles.txt (you could send it to another directory

if you want by putting a different directory path in front of the

filename).

 

 

You'll now have a text file named PCPfile,txt in you PCP directory, do

with that what you want - edit it, copy it into a word file or a

spreddsheet - whatever takes your fancy

 

 

Thanks for that my friend. I will go learn to speak Japanese then I will understand it lol.

[stickyvikki]

Started out using Sax n Dotty on a 2012 Mac Pro with Windows 11 installed with bootcamp. Worked fine and it was a price I could afford. Went out and bought a new Lenovo laptop and Dell desktop having the new Intel chips with built in graphics as well as graphics on board as I remember it. Just before Covid.

Anyways, bought a second license for the desktop, but could not get the external monitors to work correctly for lyric readout on either laptop or desktop. Two totally different specs of computers except for how the graphics worked. Talked to Sax n Dotty tech over quite a few emails and went thru the issue but could not resolve it. At that time, Sax n Dotty would not work correctly regarding the external HDMI monitor with exactly the same problem on both computers.

Maybe they've updated the software. Hopefully.

Asked for my money back on the 2nd license, because it was obviously their software at fault, and they stopped responding to me.

The hell with that.

Not gonna fly to Britain so I can squeeze my $70 back out of them.

Switched to VirtualDJ.

No problems on any of my computers!

Never had a problem with it. But then, like I said, I lock the machines down and don't have unnecessary software on there; they also have the manufactuers drivers for graphics and not Microsoft ones that come with Windows. Once they're locked down, internet access is removed and all databases and folders are updated centrally (can you tell I spent a long time in Business IT?)

 

This WORKS. And I've never had a problem with Sax N Dotty's software; or any software for that matter.

 

My development and testing machines, however ...

[ksk778]

Never had a problem with it. But then, like I said, I lock the machines down and don't have unnecessary software on there; they also have the manufactuers drivers for graphics and not Microsoft ones that come with Windows. Once they're locked down, internet access is removed and all databases and folders are updated centrally (can you tell I spent a long time in Business IT?)

 

This WORKS. And I've never had a problem with Sax N Dotty's software; or any software for that matter.

 

My development and testing machines, however ...

I have used Sax N Dotty's for years. It's easy to learn and easy to use. It might be lacking bells and whistles, but I like it. I'm getting too old to change and learn how to use new software. Not to the work to load all of library into something new. Yup, I'm old school

[DaveyDee]

Hi again guys. Sorry to keep pestering, but, I have all the ZPCP that where kindly put up the other day. Only thing is a list to put in my catalogue. Does anyone know how to make a list of files and sub folders or better still does anyone have a copy please?

Here is an Alpha by Artist .csv file that can be imported into most things...

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[DaveyDee]

I have used Sax N Dotty's for years. It's easy to learn and easy to use. It might be lacking bells and whistles, but I like it. I'm getting too old to change and learn how to use new software. Not to the work to load all of library into something new. Yup, I'm old school

If you have kept your library in a reasonable format, moving to any other software isn't a big issue. The learining curve is getting to know the new application. I take the simple view, if I can't see everything I need to know on one screen or other windows need opening to do repetitive tasks, then it isn't for me...

 

Can't be hassled with new windows to search for things, new windows to select tracks, new windows to assign songs to singers, different windows to load filler music, having to create playlists to make life easy... phhhhfffftttt!!!!!

 

Mind you I do have one KJ friend who uses Compuhost, and for some unearthly reason goes in to File Manager and uses windows search to find filler music... That to me seems to be taking complexity a bit too far!

[billy1]

Never had a problem with it. But then, like I said, I lock the machines down and don't have unnecessary software on there; they also have the manufactuers drivers for graphics and not Microsoft ones that come with Windows. Once they're locked down, internet access is removed and all databases and folders are updated centrally (can you tell I spent a long time in Business IT?)

 

This WORKS. And I've never had a problem with Sax N Dotty's software; or any software for that matter.

 

My development and testing machines, however ...

I was using VirtualDJ to DJ between the last and the next karaoke singer while using Sax n Dotty so the transition was fairly easy.

[sacot1]

Odd, When I went into my MEGA account it was showing, but if I clicked on the link it wasn't there... I deleted the folder and re-uploaded it, and it now seems fine...

Cool Davey thought maybe you missed it and was going to send it to you.

[svenhoek66]

Hi,

 

I have a KV folder on MEGA, with about 4,900 files (random tracks I have collected) if you are interested

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Thanks much for the link!

[svenhoek66]

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Thanks much for the repost!

[DaedalusWren]

Can't remember who did monster hits @320 recently

But MH1021 - Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock is missing

Any chance of Uploading that please

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Edited September 30, 2023 by DaedalusWren

[DaveyDee]

Can't believe that I am not only still awake, but still reading comments!!!! 6:25am already!