Archive for February, 2008

Happy Hearts Day!

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Today is Hearts Day, and one great idea is to plug in your Magic Sing and sing those love songs! Here’s a list of famous love songs, just find their codes and sing your way this Valentines day!

• All I Want to Do is Make Love to You - Heart
• All Out Of Love - Air Supply
• And I Love Her - The Beatles
• And You Don’t Remember - Mariah Carey
• Angels - Robbie Williams
• As Long As You Love Me - Backstreet Boys
• Baby I Love You - Jennifer Lopez
• Because I Love You - Jewel
• Because You Loved Me - Celine Dion
• Blessed - Christina Aguilera
• Breaks My Heart - Monica
• Breathless - The Corrs
• But I Do Love You - Michelle Branch
• Can’t Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley
• Change The World - Eric Clapton
• Crazy For You - Madonna
• Dangerously In Love - Destiny’s Child
• Escape - Enrique Iglesias
• Everything I Do, I Do It For You - Bryan Adams
• Feel Like Making Love - George Benson
• Give Me Your Heart - Backstreet Boys
• Have You Ever Been In Love? - Celine Dion
• How Did I Fall In Love With You? - Backstreet Boys
• I Could Fall In Love - Selena
• I Just Fall In Love Again - Carpenters
• I’ll Never Stop Loving You - Britney Spears
• I’ll Still Love You More - Trisha Yearwood
• I Love You - Celine Dion
• I Need Your Love Tonight - Elvis Presley
• I’ve Been Thinking About You - Mariah Carey
• I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
• I Will Still Love You - Britney Spears
• Let’s Talk About Love - Celine Dion
• Love For All Seasons - Christina Aguilera
• Love Is All We Need - Celine Dion
• Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
• Love Takes Time - Mariah Carey
• Love Will Find a Way - Christina Aguilera
• Make You Happy - Celine Dion
• Making Love For Fun - Enrique Iglesias
• My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
• My Love Is Your Love - Whitney Houston
• Never Forget You - Mariah Carey
• Nobody Loves Me Like You Do - Whitney Houston and Jermaine Jackson
• Open Off My Love - Jennifer Lopez
• Please Don’t Stop Loving Me - Elvis Presley
• Power Of Love - Celine Dion
• Remember Me - Marc Anthony
• Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
• Shower Me With Your Love - Surface
• Somebody Loves You - Crystal Gayle
• Sometimes - Britney Spears
• Still In Love - Brian McKnight
• Straight From The Heart - Bryan Adams
• Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley
• Thank You For Loving Me - Bon Jovi
• That’s The Way I Like It - Backstreet Boys
• That’s When I’ll Stop Loving You - N Sync
• The One - Backstreet Boys
• The One - Jennifer Lopez
• The Way You Love Me - Faith Hill
• The Woman He Loves - Alabama
• Underneath Your Clothes - Shakira
• Until You Come Back - Whitney Houston
• Valentine - Martina McBride
• Waiting For Tonight - Jennifer Lopez
• What A Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera
• We Can’t Love Like This - Alabama
• Whenever, Wherever - Shakira
• When I Dream At Night - Marc Anthony
• When I Fall In Love - Celine Dion
• When You Love Someone - Bryan Adams
• Where Do Broken Hearts Go? - Whitney Houston
• Where Does My Heart Beat Now - Celine Dion
• Who Do You Love? - Whitney Houston
• Without You - Mariah Carey
• You Belong To Me - Jennifer Lopez
• You Belong To My Heart - Elvis Presley
• You Drive Me Crazy - Britney Spears
• You Give Me Love - Faith Hill
• You Need Me - Mariah Carey
• You’re A Heartbreaker - Elvis Presley
• You’re So Cold - Mariah Carey
• You’re Still My Man - Whitney Houston
• You’ll See - Madonna
• Your Song - Elton John
• You Remind Me - Mandy Moore
• You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith
• You Were Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
• You Will Be Mine - Faith Hill

From http://www.everythingvalentinesday.com

What’s Karaoke CDG?

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Whenever I surf the net about karaoke, there’s always a CDG I see everywhere. ‘What does that mean?’ I often asked myself. And to answer the puzzle once and for all, I checked Wikipedia about this so-called CDG.
 
CDG actually means Compact Disc Graphics (also known as CD+Graphics) which is a special audio compact disc that contains graphics data in addition to the audio data on the disc. The disc can be played on a regular audio CD player, but when played on a special CD+G player, can output a graphics signal (typically, the CD+G player is connected to a television set or a computer monitor); these graphics are almost exclusively used to display lyrics on a television set for karaoke performers to sing along with.

Each of the 96 subchannel data bytes can be thought of as being divided into 8 bits. Each of these bits corresponds to a separate stream of information. These streams are called “channels”, and are labeled starting with the letter P, and so on.

Both the P and Q channels on a regular audio CD are used for timing information. They assist the CD player in tracking the current location on the disc, and to provide the timing information for the time display on the CD player. Note that same space is used for CD-Text as well.

Channel Q is used for control purposes of more sophisticated players. It contains position information the Media Catalog Number (MCN), and International Standard Recording Code (ISRC). The ISRC is used by the media industry, and contains information about the country of origin, the year of publication, owner of the rights, as well as a serial number, and some additional tags.

In the CD+G system, 16-color (4-bit) graphics are displayed on a raster field which is 300×216 pixels in size.

Among the consumer devices that play CD+G format CDs are the NEC TurboGrafx CD (a CD-ROM peripheral for the TurboGrafx 16) and Turbo Duo, the Philips CD-i, the Sega Saturn and Mega-CD (Sega CD in North America), the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, the Commodore Amiga CD32 and CDTV, and the Atari Jaguar CD (which was an attachment for the Atari Jaguar).

CD+G has had a resurgence of late, and is being used for CDs for karaoke systems, with the graphics used to display song lyrics.

That’s pretty technical, but it well answered my CDG question. (: Thanks Wikipedia!