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Me too.

I like having different audio signals on separate mixer channels, too.

I'll give you an example using the site "shockofgod.com", which is a source of amusing video.

First you download the free youtube downloader. called FreeYoutubeDownload, and launch it.

Then go to a youtube page with your browser, wherever there is a video to show. Copy the URL text with your mouse. Now I have "http://www.youtube.com/user/shockofgod" copied, and click pause on the video to shut up the crap that is playing. Actually, you can probably close the browser at this point.

Go back to the youtube downloader, and click the button on the left, which probably says "paste"...I'm not sure because my version is French and it says "coller".

The name of the Youtube feature appears in the big window in the top half of the screen. Mine now says "uploads by shockofgod". I click it, and at the bottom of the window, there are three buttons. The one on the right most likely says "videos" (mine says "vidéos"). click that. If there is only one video related to the URL that you put in, you might be able to skip this step.

Now I have a popup window full of religious Bravo Sierra , and I can put a check in the box of any item that I want to download, or, if they're all checked, I have to uncheck what I don't want. I select what I want, let's see, umm...I'm going to uncheck everything except "Why I like sport bikes", then click OK to close this selection window.

In the middle is a place, labeled "dossier de sortie", so the English version probably says "folder to save to", or something like that. I usually choose one that I can remember, so I can find the stupid thing after it's downloaded. Near the bottom of the window is a bar that lets me choose the format to save it in. Mpeg4 seems like a good choice.

At the bottom right, there is a button which is probably marked "download" (because mine says "télécharger"). Click that, and I don't remember exactly what appears on the screen next, nor am I going to continue, because I care even less about sport bikes than I do about religion, but it should download the video and place it in the "dossier de sortie" that you have chosen. If this doesn't work, let me know why, and I will try to help.

-denise

Thanks denise.
I had been using that but a while ago it stopped working.
Forums indicated they found a way of stopping it.
If you can still use it then I have some screwed software.

Thanks to Karen.
It won't download everything but I am getting some.

Think it is time to redo my hard drive.

Umm...before you redo your hard drive...

Do you have version 2.9.21.208 of FreeYouTubeDownload? If not, you should upgrade and that will probably fix it for you.

-denise

I also prefer using something like an Ipod for transition music. If there's ever any computer issue that requires a re-boot or something, I always have music to play while things get sorted out. Granted, that's very uncommon, but I like knowing there won't be dead air.

That's the single best reason for having a second audio source on site.

I too, use a small mp3 player that has nothing but "upbeat" songs to play in the background. I hook it to a channel on the mixer and turn it up and down when between singers, but rarely turn it up to higher than "ambiance" levels. The songs are all songs that probably "won't" get sung during the karaoke show, but DO give the singers ideas. Example:Green River by Creedence on the player might give someone the idea of, "Oh, I could sing Bad Moon Rising. Things like that happen all the time. Also, I carry a spare laptop and hard drive with me to every show. You just never know what might happen, (power surge, drunk idiots, hard drive failure, etc.)

The mp3 player I use, I've been using for about 2 years now, with no problems at all. Bought it at Wally World for 49 bucks and is a pretty good investment if you ask me.

Exactly, the in between singer music is never as loud as the karaoke music is running, but just something underlying while the hos can make an announcement or whatever (like almost every radio ad you've ever heard). I even hear news reports that sometimes have an underlying music running while the news is being read.
Plus like someone said, lots of times someone will hear a clip in the middle and it will remind them to look to sing it or never knew the name to look and will ask so they they can sing it.

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Well you do not have to use the 'fill music' function, the MTU Hoster I use also has fill music capability as well that will fade in/fade out with the karaoke as it goes, but I simply prefer to have my dj program running on a secondary program & completely have control of what is coming in/going out of the mixer so just turn that feature off.

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I use internet radio stations, shoutcast stuff mostly. XMPlay or Foobar2000 both have plugins for ASIO output. I just look at the crowd, figure out what kind of genre they like, and tune in the right radio station.

Instead of using 2 sound cards like letitrip does, I virtual sound cards and software mixing/crossfading with reaper. Reaper has a "reroute" driver that lets you set your dj application to a reroute channel if it supports ASIO.

I use Karma that also has a fill function. Just set up play lists of 10 to ? songs and is automatically fades in when you select the next singer and out when their song is done. House music can be set lower than karaoke songs. For voice-over, I have a sound interface with a volume wheel. I just spin it down when I want to talk.

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I've actually gone through and made sure that any music I use for "filler" are songs that I have on Karaoke. So many times people will come up and say "Do you have this one, I want to sing this one". Nice when you can say yes I do, will have you up in a bit.

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Beautiful! Going to revise my Ipod playlist right now.

I use winamp in the background of my karaoke software. It runs on it's own soundcard and has a fader channel on my mixer.

I hand pick all music inbetween singers reading my crowd.

I use me.
I talk utter crap in the background.
Have my own beer channel
and a soft floor I can fall onto.

OMG Did I type that?

It's not true. Honest it's not.

Compuhost DOES support TWO different sound cards, one for the regular karaoke and another for the fillertunes player! You can go into the setup of Compuhost and designate separate sound devices for each, simple as that!

tbreen