Jukebox Jockey Forum

Is there a way to insert a Karaoke CD into the computer running the software and access the CD to play the Karaoke track off the CD or does the CD need to be ripped and the database updated before you can see the tracks?

Also, if I am having trouble finding a particular karaoke track but I know I ripped it into a folder for that particular CD, is there a way to access the hard drive and navigate to the folder where the karaoke track resides to play the track?

I have many of my karaoke CDs that I ripped that were not named and need to rename them but in the meantime I am unable to easily find them since they are generically named Track 01, Track 02 etc.....

if I could navigate to the hard drive within the software and go to the directory, I could easily find tracks until I get a chance to manually update the tags......

Thanks!

Hi Empire895,

I can't see the possibility of ever playing a CD+G CD in JJ but I having been thinking that it would be good to add the ability to play a track straight from the file system (eg an mp3 from a hard drive, USB etc). I just need to work out the best way to do this because JJ really is heavily dependant on its internal database and adding "random" tracks to it doesn't really make sense. So at the moment the answer to your question is that it can't be done and you need to scan them in.

There is definitely a need in regard to not only accessing files outside the database but playing a karaoke cd. If somoene has their own CD of karaoke songs that I don't have at a gig, I would have to shut down the program, rip the CD, restart the software and then rescan the drive.

By allowing the software to play files outside the database you would be adding diversity to your already great software. Same goes for the key change.

For working karaoke DJs it is imperative to be able to change key, as well as play off of a customers CD since MANY times they bring their own stuff.

without the ability to do this forces KJs to have a second software running which can be running at the same time that allows us to play off a CD or find a file that the software cannot find by name since it is generically named Track 01, Track 02 etc....

In a perfect word we would have everything in our database but being able to access files not in the database is a necessity.

thakns for your consideration in possibly adding these features.

I am sold on the software however, having these features would allow me to use your software exclusively rather than have to swap back and forth.

that would be great.

Hi Empire895,

I have been looking into supporting files chosen from disk and I have this working in my development version (so assuming it all tests OK you will see it in the next release). This includes playing AUDIO from Audio CDs, but not Karaoke graphics at the moment.

It turns out that BASS (our audio processing library) does support reading of the "SUBCHANNEL" data (CDG graphics data) from the CD in a RAW format, which is basically all that a CDG file is (all of this subchannel data lumped into a single file), so in theory playing CDG straight from disk is a possibility. At the moment this is all theory though and I can't promise anything but I guess I do have to withdraw my previous comment "I can't see the possibility of ever playing a CD+G CD in JJ" so I guess that's a start.

As for the pitch/key change thing, this is basically a no brainer and I will have that added for the next release also. The problem we're starting to have is what we refer to as "Screen Real Estate" in that there's not really that much room to add extra buttons and information, because everything already has to be large to make it touch screen friendly. We have discussed the possibility of adding a new view (something that shows up where the home screen and media browsing/selection stuff is) that includes a player and it's controls as well as additional controls that simply don't fit elsewhere. At the moment though no work has been done on this. In the mean time I suspect that I will simply add some pitch change controls up near the player. Up/Down/Reset with +/- semitone indicator.

This feature is now available in the new beta version and will be released in the next update.