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The DVD that comes with Talent Challenge features 12 performances for you to sing along to, including Paris Bennet’s "Fever," Chris Daughtry’s "I Walk the Line," Kelly Clarkson’s "Respect," Bo Bice’s "Satisfaction," and eight other hits. Four additional DVDs in the genres of country, pop, love songs, and classic hits feature another 12 songs each and are available separately should you want to expand your repertoire. Plus, a great feature that the game doesn’t really promote, is that the vocal mixer allows you to talk and/or sing along with other DVDs. So you can pop in a concert DVD to sing backup with your favorite band, or slide in a Disney musical to sing along with the characters. There won’t be the Karaoke option to help you out with lyrics, but it does mean hours of additional entertainment value. Four AA batteries are required, but not included.
Have a look at the DVD which came with the item. Is it a normal DVD with menu (as pictured on Amazon) and two audio tracks (voiceless and full) plus optional subtitles?
If it is you'll need a DVD creation program like say Nero Burning ROM (the full package)
or Easy DVD Creator where you can take music videos and add subtitles timed to the songs (lyrics) or download both voice and voiceless MP3 versions/rip them from CD's
then download lyrics and create a full DVD that way.
I don't know of any western CDs which have voiceless tracks for Kaoraoke on them though. Since I'm a big Jpop/Anime music fan and import Japanese CDs they almost always have
voiceless tracks in addition to full voice tracks for Karaoke, maybe some western CDs exist like those too. You could search Amazon.
The short answer is, you'll have to obtain a DVD creation package like Macintosh (IMovie or IDVD), or for the PC Roxio's EZ DVD Creator or Nero or any number of other packages,
they usually cost about R300-600 in a shop. You could be able to find one for free
(opensource not pirated) if you look at the links on VideoHelp.com - the tools section is
helpful. You'll need the version which doesn't just create data DVDs but actually masters the DVD Video. Check on the box. Usually the full version of NERO (ultimate or platinum or ?) does that.
Basically you'll need to make a DVD with or without video. If you can find MP3s of songs you like, you could find a program to remove the voice for you with varying results in quality, most built in sound cards do this - you could record this too, look at the utils which came with your sound - there is usually a graphic equaliser, audio effects thing and a VOICE REMOVAL option. Clicking that will remove the voice (sort of) - you
could run SndRec32.exe while playing back the song and record that music or something like TotalRecorder,
anyway look for audio tools on VideoHelp.com. You may also find a Voice remover
which could just read your MP3/WAV files and create new ones without voice.
Anyway once you have a voiceless Mp3 and the original one, download the lyrics for
the song. Googling will often find those. Sometimes they are present on the jacket
of the disk.
Then open up your DVD creation package, you will need to create a DVD with a subtitle stream and time that to your audio streams, you know so that the subtitles appear in time with the audio. I think NERO may be able to do that for you.
A program like URUSoft's Subtitle Workshop can also time lyrics with the video
/audio being played back. I actually used it to subtitle a foreign movie DVD
for myself with downloaded subtitles (I purchased the DVD and downloaded the subs)
then burned the DVD with the subs.
Two audio streams will be needed or one
if you just want voiceless. For visuals you could add any video file you want,
or just leave the screen blank or show a slideshow of photos.
Then burn to DVD.
It should work with your mixer thingy.
So to summarise you need to master a DVD with at least one voice audio track
and a subtitle track with the lyrics of the song, timed to the voice/music obviously.
It may be just cheaper to buy a Karaoke DVD though. I know Pioneer LDC/Geneon did those in the past.
PS: An opensource program like Audacity (google for download site) may be able to remove voice for you and save as MP3 or WAV the resulting song.
Those will usually be in zip format (mp3 + cdg file...you need both)Just search your song as usual but check those from karaoke newsgroups.Or just browse the karaoke groups for them.