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mnementh
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KjPro closing down!

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Imagine my shock at finding a notice on KjPro's home page indicating the imminent closure of their business.

If I'm not the first to log this sad event, I apologise for bringing it up, if it has already been posted but I would like to wish all those involved with the site my very best wishes.

You WILL be missed. :cry:

Sandy.


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Post by Bigdog »

Is it the crappy economy which has no hope of survival in the next 500 years....or is it because karaoke is dying....???

Will this mean the death of printed songbooks?
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KJ Pro is a software application that catalogs karaoke discs. The bulk of their profit comes from selling updated databases. Since karaoke discs are practically a thing of the past so is their software.
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Post by Bigdog »

What about all the download songs?

So it looks like the next best thing will be a program that makes a songbook from reading the files on your illegally format shifted hard drive?

Does anyone think the actions of Sound Chice could be killing karaoke..and related businesses?
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Bigdog wrote:What about all the download songs?

So it looks like the next best thing will be a program that makes a songbook from reading the files on your illegally format shifted hard drive?

Does anyone think the actions of Sound Chice could be killing karaoke..and related businesses?
There are a good number of programs that will already do this, i.e. freeware directory/folder readers that produce a text file of your folder contents.

You can then use a spreadsheet, i.e. Excel or Open Office to generate a list.

If you want to be fancy, you could make a PDF using CutePDF or the freeware PDF995 and then print it as a booklet, getting 4 pages per A4 sheet.

O.K., it means you need to do some work but you can certainly get it done.

My main hope is that KjPro can find some way of keeping up an online database. Even if they can't update it, it's still a magnificent reference facility.

If not, might they perhaps make a downloadable file with all their data in some standard format, i.e. Excel, PDF, Word or even text.

At the end of the day, the only people Sound Choice will hurt is themselves.

I've already started boycotting their product and will actively encourage others to do the same.

Sandy.
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Post by Bigdog »

They were a good info source for songs...how will we ever know if a song has been made into a karaoke song now...??
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Bigdog wrote:They were a good info source for songs...how will we ever know if a song has been made into a karaoke song now...??
http://www.musicbookdeluxe.com/dealersearch/search.asp
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Bigdog wrote:They were a good info source for songs...how will we ever know if a song has been made into a karaoke song now...??
That's a good point.

However, even a cursory web search found this site;

http://www.unlimitedjams.com/homepage.html

They claim to have >180,000 songs. Obviously with many repeats and different cover versions.

However, I immediately got an epic fail searching for "These foolish things" that should have come up with at least Bryan Ferry AND Rod Stewart but only Stewart came up.

Searching for Elvis came up with 27 pages of tracks.

However, unlike KjPro, there is no disc ID with the info, so not all that great, I'm afraid.

Sandy.
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Post by mnementh »

This one's not too bad but still failed on "These foolish things";

http://m.cooljkaraoke.com/

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You can search music book for free: http://www.musicbookdeluxe.com/dealerse ... sp?id=1111

Ooops, just noticed wiseguy already posted this one.
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Post by mnementh »

Ah well! That's it gone altogether, now.

Just tried to get to KjPro but it seems to have disappeared, finally.

Sandy.
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Try this out. http://www.icroons.com/
It doesn't have everything, but it's pretty good.
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Lshiny wrote:Try this out. http://www.icroons.com/
It doesn't have everything, but it's pretty good.
Just tried it and it's pretty well up to date, certainly on Sunfly discs.

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Lshiny wrote:Try this out. http://www.icroons.com/
It doesn't have everything, but it's pretty good.
Actually it's very good. Thanks for posting it.
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