ripping CD+G

[sjkiss67]

Hi Everyone
I've just upgrade to DJpro for the use of the Karaoke playing. I did the testing of my CD ROM drive to check if it can read the cd+g files and it can. but once I start ripping them the drive would stop always about half way into the discs. does any one know what I may be doing wrong? thanks

[Darryl]

Certain discs give me trouble.  I'm using a Plextor Plexwriter Premium, which appears to be one of the best drives for the job, but some discs just give Ots Studio a problem.  Try audiograbber (from http://www.audiograbber.org/) using the rip karaoke + compressed file option.  If that works then you can import the mp3+cdg files into OtsStudio.

There are other CD+G rippers too:  CDRWin (from http://www.goldenhawk.com/cdrwin.htm) will rip the raw binary data to .bin files.  You can then use mp3gtoolz (from http://www.activeaspsoftware.net/default.aspx?p=Products%2fProduct&N_ProductID=3&N_IncNo=1) to convert to mp3 + cdg files.

The CDRWin + mp3gtoolz route is where I started.  I also think it is the most reliable - in CDRWin set the read speed to 4x for the good results (the faster you rip the more errors you get - there is no speed choice in Ots Studio).  However it is three steps - CDRWin, mp3gtoolz, then Ots Studio to get to an Ots Album file.  Audiograbber also has the speed setting, so I use that mostly for troublesome discs.

That said, however, I had a few (later EZ Hits discs) that would not rip cleanly even at 1x speed.  For those you need a CDG editor to manually edit the errors in the CDG file.  I wrote one of them - there's a link in my signature.

Let us know how you get on - if you need more info, just ask.

Have fun,
Darryl

[DJ M]

You may also get problems if the CD+G disks are orange book standard, not red book. There may well be some code ont he disk that causes ots a problem. Try ripping all but the last track and see if that helps. Sometimnes the last track also contains some additional data that OTS Studio has difficulty with.

[Darryl]

Oh yes - I forgot about mixed mode CDs...  CDRWin seems to cope with these quite happily.  You can tell if a CD is mixed mode - i.e. audio and data on the same disk - there is a visible gap in the recorded area of the underside of the disc (where you see the rainbow effect).