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Make a Super CD+G disc from your old CD+G library.CAVS SCDG Encoder program enables you to make your own Super CD+G discs with your favoirite songs. Please read complete instruction below before starting. For commercial Super CD+G production, please see Commercial Super CD+G.
NOTE: Self made Super CD+G discs are now compatible with PlayCDG SP.
WARNING: 1. In order to extract song files from a CD+G disc, a CD+G compatible drive is required.
2. SCDG disc is normally made with a DVD media, so a DVD writer is required to make SCDG disc.
Step 1. Collecting CD+G songs in a CD+G disc
1.1 Open your EncoderMCG and hit "Source Drive"
1.2 Select source drive which you have the CD+G disc inserted. And hit OK.
1.3 The song list in the drive will be listed as shown in the picture.
1.4 Check mark on the songs you wish to encode to .MP3 and .MCG and hit Target.
1.5 Select the target folder where you wish to store encoded songs in.
1.6 Make sure the target folder is updated(1), check mark on "Send graphic file"(2), Type in song titles(3), and when everything is done as shown in the picture, hit "Encode"(4).
1.7 Encoding will begin and show you the status as shown in the picture.
1.8 When encoding is done, click OK to the dialog box in the picture below and close the EncoderMCG program.
1.9 Now your target folder should look like the picture below:
Note: Check your Windows Explorer to make it show file extensions. Here is how you do it:
A. Click "Tools" and select "Folder Options..." on your Windows Exploere.
B. In Folder Options window, click on "View" tab(1), UNCHECK "Hide extensions for known file types" option(2), and hit "OK"(3)
Step 2. Preparing .MCG and .MP3 files
2.1 Rename the .MCG and .MP3 files with 5 digit numbers (sequentially) as shown above. If you already have the songs in 5 digit numbers skip this. (Download RENAME2.ZIP, the file renaming tool and rename thousands of mp3 and mcg files to number sequence in seconds)
2.2 Create a new Text Documnet and rename it to "SCDG.CFG"
A confirmation window will pop up; hit YES.
2.3 Double click SCDG.CFG to open. You will see a window like this pop up:
select the second option and hit OK.
2.4 In the next window, follow the steps shown in the picture below:
1. Select Notepad
2. Check mark on "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"
3. Hit OK
2.5 SCDG.CFG file is opened with Notepad; type in the song number (same as the file name), title, and artist separated by # sign as shown and save the file. (Note: Do not leave empty lines below the song list. This will result in creating empty CAVS_MCG folder) To find out more about file names of MP3 and MCG files click here.
WARNING: For the names of title and artist, use only alphanumeric characters. Other symbols such as !,@,#,$,%,^,&,*,_,-,+,=,[,... are NOT allowed.
Step 3. Making a .DAT file from .MCG and .MP3 files
3.1 Create a directory in PC, such as C:\SCDG\. Copy all .MCG and .MP3 files prepared in Step 2 into the directory. Also copy the SCDG.CFG file into the directory.
Note: It is always recommended to make a backup copy of all . MCG, .MP3 files and scdg.cfg file in another directory of your PC.
3.2 Download the SCDG Encoder Program, scdg_encoder.exe(141KB: click to download), into your PC and copy it into the directory C:\SCDG\. Double click on scdg_encoder.exe to unzip following four programs in the directory:
3.3 Double click on SCDG.BAT. The batch process will begin to make a DAT file from the MCG/MP3 files.
When the process is completed, a subdirectory C:\SCDG\CAVS_MCG will be created as shwon:
Note: If you get an empty CAVS_MCG file, check the followings:
1. Make sure that there is scdg.cfg. Sometimes Windows will name the file scdg.cg.txt.
To check, press to Tools, Folder Options, View and uncheck the option for "Hide extension for unknown file types".
2. Make sure that the is no new line at the end of scdg.cfg file.
3. If the problem persists, go to Start, Run, type CMD, and at DOS prompt navigate to the folder where the songs and scdg.bat files are.
Then type scdg and press ENTER. From DOS prompt, the corresponding error message will be shown to you.
4. Everytime you re-run scdg.bat, make sure to delete the empty CAVS_MCG folder.
Inside this subdirectory, CAVS_MCG, you will find one or more .dat files as shown:
Note: The DAT files will be created in chunk of 900MB. For example, If your project is 1.2GB(total size of songs), two dat files, cvmd0001.dat and cvmd0002.dat, will be created in CAVS_MCG folder.
Step 4. How to add INX function to homemade Super CD+G disc
4.1 Click here for "What is INX?"
4.2 Click here for "How to add INX to SCD+G disc?"
Step 5. Burning the DAT file onto a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disc
5.1 Depending on the size of the .dat file(s), you can use a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM disc to make a Super CD+G disc. To write onto a DVD-ROM disc, it will require a DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) drive, such as Pioneer DVR-A06U, in PC. Using the recordable drive (and its bundled authoring software) then, be sure to write the whole CAVS_MCG directory (not only .dat file) created in Step 3 onto a disc.
5.2 This completes the procedure of makeing a Super CD+G disc. Insert the disc into CAVS DVD-101G II, DVD-202G, or DVD-103G karaoke players. Input a song number and press Play to begin playing a song.
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