Rip a karaoke cd

How to rip a Karaoke Disk (CD+G)

There are many methods of ripping a karaoke CD+G I will list my prefered method.

I prefer the zipped mp3+g format as it saves a lot of hard drive space.

! Before you Begin !

• If you don't already have one, buy a Plextor CD-RW. Many CDRWs will not read or write a CD+G properly, all Plextor drives do.
• Make sure you have plenty of free hard drive space as the conversion process may need over a gig per CD+G

Steps

• Rip the CD+G to Your Hard Drive
• Convert the resulting mp3+g to zip files

To be continued

Naming Conventions

A good standard to follow when naming the zip files is as follows.

disk-track-artist-song.zip

where:

• disk is the disk number
• track is the track number
• artist is the artist name using last name first, comma seperated names and "The" placed after name
  • example: Stewart, Rod
  • example: Beatles, The
• song is the Song Title

Example:
Dk003-11-Sinatra, Frank-I've Got You Under My Skin.zip

If you follow this naming conventions for all your CD+G ripping then it will be a lot easier to import and catalog your songs into a database.

Glossary

• CD+G [1]
• CD-RW [2]
• karaoke [3]
• MP3 [4]
• Plextor [5]
• rip [6]
• zip [7]