Best Home Karaoke Player

jc800-2008 · Post by **jc800-2008** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:32 pm

Hi Karaoke experts, I am looking to buy a Karaoke Player that is reliable and can do the following:

1. Plays everything - Midi 40,000 songs, CD+G VCD MPEG4 Divx AVI MP3 MP4 DVD DVD-RW etc
2. USB for playing CD+G MPEG4 AVI JPEG MP3 MP4 Divx from harddisk easily.
3. Allow songs reservation and saving of favourite songlist to play from.
4. Has full karaoke function.
5. Good sound quality.
6. Upscailing to 1080p HDMI (If possible)
7. Can last, some component I bought simply die after 1 year.

Thank you in advance
Jimmy

DanG2006 · Post by **DanG2006** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:44 pm

finding a player that is going to last now is like finding a needle in the haystack. They stopped making reliable players when Pioneer's twin tray cd+g player (which only played cd's and CD+G's). I had one that lasted almost ten years. The advantage with today's players is that they are priced to be replaced easily.

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:33 am

For my money I would buy a computer and programs to rip everything down to the hard drive. You will never have to worry about disc scratches or the foil on the discs disintegrating as many disc of mine have. I buy a new disc and it goes right to the computer to be ripped and then it goes in to a drawer for safe keeping. That is no guarantee that the foil will not degrade even in a drawer. Make a back up hard drive and you're set. Discs and players are for cavemen.

jc800-2008 · Post by **jc800-2008** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:39 am

So far I have come across the following players but they do not have all the requirements:

RJ Tech RJ-1000KII about $260 USD

CAVS 203G USB Super CDG CD+G Karaoke Player about $250 but it has no MIDI support for 40,000 songs

Any helpful comments are most welcomed.

Jimmy

jc800-2008 · Post by **jc800-2008** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:51 am

Bigdog wrote:For my money I would buy a computer and programs to rip everything down to the hard drive. You will never have to worry about disc scratches or the foil on the discs disintegrating as many disc of mine have. I buy a new disc and it goes right to the computer to be ripped and then it goes in to a drawer for safe keeping. That is no guarantee that the foil will not degrade even in a drawer. Make a back up hard drive and you're set. Discs and players are for cavemen.

What computer program would you recomend and which ripper is good? I have a laptop and a home theather sound system.

Question. Do I use the laptop microphone jack or should I buy an echo mixer for the microphone to plug into?

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:03 am

I have literally spent about $20,000 on players in the last 16 years. Laser players were $1,000 each and I have 10 of them. And spent $400 each to repair everyone one of them more than once. Plus all of the CDG machines I had after that and I'm telling you I would never spend another nickel of my money an any player ever again. I bought 8-$175 players to "throw away" if they quit working. If the computer technology was available at the beginning of this I could have saved thousands. A computer & a few programs may seem like a big investment now but in a few months you'll be glad you did it. I will never go backwards again.

Switching from machines and discs to computer cost me over $8,000. But I have a backup for everything. You could do it for (depending on the comuter you buy) $1000 and a few programs and whatever your time is worth to rip them down. If you buy a quality machine it will cost at least $500 and you still have the discs to worry about. I predict that players will not be made in a few years.

I'll give you a perfect example of the technology switch going on right now.

Several years ago I bought a $3000 Xerox copier. It has very low milage on it and it needs a $250 part. Xerox no longer supports that copier so it is junk. I had to buy a whole new copier. Now Xerox only makes a very small amount of copiers. The demand for stand alone copiers is rapidly dieing. Everyone wants a multifunction machine. Printer, copier, fax all in one. So the major market and manufacturing is for MFPs.

Disc players are going to become extinct. Just like plastic records, 8 track tapes, cassett tapes, beta & VCR machines. So join the 21st century and go computing.

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:11 am

Being a somewhat limited computer person I'm not sure if one program can do all of the formats you want to do. It might take several to get it done (music ripped). And it also may take different programs (to host) to play back the songs once they are ripped. There are many different program makers. Serach the internet for them. Ripper programs. I have one that cost $5. Called "KJ Rip N Zip." I don't think it supports all you need it to do.

Something else you will need is a songbook program to name the songs that you rip. This will depend on the ripping program you select. There are many of them also. It sounds like a major project and it could very well be. But look at it as a one time major pain and then it goes away. Like having the flu, you know it only lasts a week or two and it's over.

jc800-2008 · Post by **jc800-2008** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 4:05 am

So what software do you use to play with mostly? I come across a computer software called KaraFun. I'll check to see if I can rip my Karaoke VCD to that format for playing with KaraFun.

Bigdog · Post by **Bigdog** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:44 pm

I use Sax & Dottys to host the songs. The ripper I use isn't in that program. It's a seperate program. You may need to get several programs to do everything you need to do.

Look at Power Kararoke's program.