This instruction explains how to make your own Super CD+G disc from karaoke songs It is strongly recommended to make a backup copy of all files in your PC. 2.2 …
How to make Super CDG disc
This instruction explains how to make your own Super CDG disc from karaoke songs downloaded from CAVS website wwwcavsusacom/cdgdownload/ or extracted from other CDG discs For the instruction on how to download karaoke songs from CAVS website, see PDF For the instruction on how to extract karaoke songs from CDG discs, see PDF
The karaoke song, when downloaded or extracted, will have two files, mcg and mp3 The mcg file will contain the graphic data and the mp3 file will contain the audio data We begin with these two files as our starting point of making a Super CDG disc Super CDG discs can be played in CAVS DVD players, such as DVD-103G, DVD-105G, DVD105G USB, DVD-202G, DVD-203G, DVD-203G USB, DVD-303G, DVD-305G USB, etc The Super CDG discs can also be played in PC by karaoke programs, such as PlayCDG SP or PlayCDG KJ Deluxe Please visit wwwcavsusacom for more details on the Super CDG players Note: Super CDG disc made following the instruction here is for your own personal use only To make a Super CDG disc for a commercial purpose of sales or distribution, please see Commercial Super CDG
REQUIREMENT:
Karaoke song files paired files, mcg and mp3, for
each song Disc writer o Super CDG is normally made with a DVD-R disc, which has a larger capacity than a regular CD-R disc We therefore recommend a DVD writer that can be used to write both the DVD-R and CD-R discs o In order to combine the making a Super CDG disc with the task of making a CDG disc or extracting of karaoke song files from CDG discs, it is also recommended that the DVD writer be CDG compatible The possible DVD-R writers are then Plextor DVDR PX 708, 712, 716, or 760 excluding SA models o Contact CAVS Tech Support at techsupport@cavsusanet for the latest list of CDG compatible DVD writers Blank CD-R or DVD-R DVD-R, DVDR, DVD-R DL, DVDR DL media
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTION
Step 1 Preparing MCG and MP3 files 11 Go to the folder in your PC containing the karaoke songs files mcg and mp3 Rename
the mcg and mp3 files with 5 digit numbers sequentially as shown below If you already have the songs in 5 digit numbers, you may skip this part Note: For assistance in renaming a large number of files, download MCG Manager program
Note: Your Windows Explorer may not show the file extensions mcg and mp3 Here is how you can fix it:
A Click on Tools and select Folder Options on your
Windows Explorer
B 1 In Folder Options window, click on View tab 2 UNCHECK Hide extensions for known file types option 3Click on OK
12 Create a new text d
ocument and name it as SCDGCFG:
1 Place your mouse in an empty space in your folder of files, right click to display a menu, and click on New 2 Click on Text Document 3 Type in SCDGCFG 4 Confirm that the icon changes as below
Next, a confirmation window will pop up Click on YES
13 Double click on SCDGCFG to open You will see a window like as below pop up:
Select the second option and click OK
14 In the next window, follow the steps shown as below
1 Select Notepad 2 Check mark on Always use the selected program to open this kind of file 3 Click OK
15 SCDGCFG file is opened with Notepad Type in the song number same as the file name, title, and artist separated by sign as shown below and save the file Note: Do not leave an empty lines below the last song in the list This will result in a failure to create Super CDG data dat file
WARNING: For the names of title and artist, use only alphanumeric characters Special
symbols such as ,@,,,,,,,_,-,,,[, are NOT allowed
Step 2 Making a Super CDG data file dat 21 Create a directory
named C:\SCDG\ in PC Copy all mcg and mp3 files prepared in Step
1 into the directory Also copy the SCDGCFG file into the directory Note: It is strongly recommended to make a backup copy of all files in your PC
22 Download the SCDG encoder program scdg_encoderexe into your PC and copy it into the directory C:\SCDG\ Double click on scdg_encoderexe to unzip following four files in the directory:
23 Double click on SCDGBAT The batch process will begin to make a dat file from the mcg and mp3 files
When the process is completed, a subdirectory C:\SCDG\CAVS_MCG will be created as shwon:
Inside this subdirectory, CAVS_MCG, you will find one or more dat files as shown:
Note: The dat files will be created in file sizes of 900MB For example, if your project is 12GB total size of songs, two dat files, cvmd0001dat and cvmd0002dat, will be created in CAVS_MCG folder
Step 3 Burning the dat files onto a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disc 31 Depending on the size of the dat files, you can write the files onto a CD-R or DVD-R disc
to make a Super CDG disc To write onto a DVD-R disc, it will require a DVD disc writer, such as mentioned in REQUIREMENT above Using the disc writer and its bundled
authoring software then, write the whole CAVS_MCG directory not only dat files created in Step 2 onto a disc
32 This completes the procedure of making a Super CDG disc Insert the disc into CAVS DVD
players or PC karaoke programs and play
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