There are a few different ways for a software program to instruct a drive to read or write the CD+G sub codes. These different methods are not compatible with each other. To further complicate matters, some of the older methods to access this sub code data are no longer supported by newly manufactured drives, including Plextor (which have traditionally been compatible with the older CD+G access methods). Free Download Program Antenna Book By Kd Prasad Pdf Editor more. There are still newer software programs that access CD+G using the original methods which can lead to a lot of confusion. If you are not presently 'tied' to a particular software program, then this is not important because our drives are designed to work with the Karaoke software we support.

If you are using a software program other than the software we support, you may have to change software. Although both regular audio CDs and Karaoke CD+G discs are similar technology there are some very important differences. When the CD audio format was originally designed, it was not designed with karaoke in mind.

In order to make karaoke possible and display on-screen lyrics, the CD+G format was created to exploit special areas of the CD known as the 'sub channels'. These 'extra' storage locations are where the graphics are stored that make up the lyrics on a karaoke CD+G disc. Regular audio software is not programmed to read these sub-channels and will completely ignore them. If you have tried to rip a CD+G disc with Windows Media Player, you have probably noticed that only the music ripped and not the lyrics.

Furthermore, most CD/DVD drives on the market are also NOT programmed or designed to read these special sub-channels. For this reason, you will need a special program like to rip or burn karaoke CD+G discs. You will also likely need a special drive such as. Power CD+G Burner will only recognize standard CD+G based discs (the most common karaoke format). There are a few other new DVD based karaoke disc formats (such as Super CD+G) that for which Power CD+G Burner is not designed. Standard CD+G is CD based technology that has been around for many years. The newer DVD based technology has the benefit of holding potentially hundreds of songs on a single disc, but the formats are proprietary (not a universal standard) and are engineered to be difficult or impossible to copy.