okay, a friend of mine has 150 karaoke disks, and wants me to make a copy of them for a backup. he asked me as i am known as a bit of a computer geek!

unfortunately i am not a karaoke geek!

I have realised that i need a 'specisl' player and recorder to copy the disks (he also wants me to back them up as mp3+CDG files, so the job is to rip & burn).

I have found in a plie of old drives a DVD-ROM which is ripping with 99% accuracy (a few glitches in the graphics, but not too bad), but to burn them back to blank disks i (presume) i do need a specific drive.

I have an LG 4163B DVD-RW drive, but I am not sure if this will burn the files correctly. i know everyone says buy a plextor, but as i live in Spain and suppliers are a bit limited on what they stock, the only plextor drive i can find is a PLEXTOR DVD-R/+RW PX-716A - the manufacturers site says it does CG+G, but before i splash out twice what i paid for my current DVD-RW drive i'd like to know if anyone else uses this drive with success?

Thanke in advance!

I use a Plextor 712a and my Karaoke partner uses a 716a and they work great.

Thanks for the reply, one more question:


I have seen people saying ONLY copy at 4x, i don't know if this refers to the older drives or not, do these drives work at any speed, or do you reccomend sticking to a lower speed?

Thanks.

you should be able to copy them @ 12 speed correctly i would not copy any faster that that

I copy and write karaoke disc's at 48x all the time and never have a problem when using my Plextor. The graphics are always just as good on the copy as the orginal disc.

Hi,
I don't mean to intrude but I also have a Plextor DVDR P716A which copies the audio OK but I cant get the graphics. I'm using CloneCD Ver 4, can you tell me what SW you are using please ?

:bouncing: OK I went back to basics and copied a disk I new I had copied before and it copied fine. It must be a new copyright feature that CloneCD can't get through. I didn't think that the manufacturers were allowed to prevent you from making legal backup copy's?

:bouncing: OK I went back to basics and copied a disk I new I had copied before and it copied fine. It must be a new copyright feature that CloneCD can't get through. I didn't think that the manufacturers were allowed to prevent you from making legal backup copy's?
What brand name and disc number are you trying to copy?