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Is it better to have a separate hard drive just for karaoke or just an additional folder on my music drive?
Right now, I have my music as follows.
c:\my music\poprock50s
c:\my music\poprock60s
c:\my music\poprock70s
c\my music\disco
c\my music\funk
c:\my music\counrty50s
c:\my music\counrty60s
c:\my music\counrty70s
c:\my music\counrty80s
etc
Would it be better to add a folder such as c:\my music\karaoke or just c:\karaoke or just have all my karaoke on a separate hard drive?


thanks





What are some of the ways to keep your Karaoke folders on your hard drive?
 
Posté Sun 01 Mar 09 @ 5:02 pm
I think this would be your decision on how you choose to store files - both options would work.

the way i do it is i have everything on one hard drive - but have a back up with just karaoke on it.

so it looks something like this:
H:\Karaoke Database
H:\Video Database
H:\Audio Database

Then within in karaoke it is broken down like this:

H:\Karaoke Database\Sunfly\SF001...SF002 etc etc
H:\Karaoke Database\EZKaraoke\.......


Hope that helps
 
I keep my karaoke and MP3 files on the same external firewire drive, but in different directories. It has worked fine for me this way ;)

However, like Dan said, it's really up to you.
 
A word of advice get an external drive to store your music. You will be suprised how many people loose their music or any other data by having it on the same drive as the operating system .
 
Yeah what he said, I am one of them 30,000 karaoke tracks GONE!
 
I use an ehd, with three folders 1/ music dump, has mp3 and video files for show, 2/ karaoke files, 3/ mp3 files, this has 20,000 tunes in it, waiting to be sorted and transferred to music dump.

if i'm asked for a tune and doesn't show in music dump while i'm gigging a quick browse in the mp3 folder usually finds it, then i automatically transfer it to the m/d folder.
 
I used a program called "MP#+G Toolz I think, to zip the .cdg & .mp3 tracks that work together, whenever I play a Karaoke Track. Then at that point, the track is also temporarily shrunk, just like a regular zipped file is, & only quickly opens (with no waiting), when you go to play it in the program. Now, when you look up Karaoke, you will just type .zip in the search instead. After that, if you have too many non-karaoke files that already were zipped prior, you can get a file extension renaming program, & change all of your Karaoke files with the .zip extension, to a brand new one like ".kar" for example. Next you go into the codec section of the VDJ config menu, & add that extension, with the same description that the existing .zip codec has. Close VDJ, reopen it, & remake your database. Then your search will recognize the Karaoke files, by the new .kar extension you created. But beware, they will then only play in VDJ, if you make that new extension change (since it is the only program that let's you make that extension & rules). Or, skip all that, & just look up your Karaoke files, by taking out the music & video files, from the search criteria on the player skin, & look up whatever you want, while being confident that it is in fact, the Karaoke version. This is very long-winded, but it all works.
 
I do mine almost identical to djtouchdan does.

I just have a root media folder, then under it, music, videos, karaoke. Then under each is sub folders like rock, HH etc, or under karaoke by the creator like SC or sunfly etc. I use vista so i just select the root folder under the type that i'm looking for and search it using file indexing. The system works great for me
 
A small word of advice.

I once had a virus that attacks just a directory like C:\My Music\

since then ive never used 'My Music' on any of my systems, and i never keep my files on the same drive as windows...




Thanks :)
 


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