Music VCD's (kareoke) Transfer to Music CD's....?

[beer monkey]

I want to get the music from VCD's onto a standard music CD ....the VCD's won't play on a CD player, but ok in a DVD player for the TV.....the Mrs just wants to play them on her CD player, can i just copy the music onto my Lap top then transfer on a standard CD...that will play on a run of the mill CD Player...?
I read Bumpers thread but thought this may be a bit differant.
Thanks.

[BobHelm]

Can be done BM....but (from memory) I used one of the free ripper programs that you can download, rather than Microsoft. Download the CD to your pc...from memory I think you get 3 different file 'types' (extension names). If the CD player can play MP3 recordings then this is undoubtedly the best format to go for as you can fit HEAPS on a CD. Then just google "free (whatever the VCD extension is (maybe WAV) to MP3 converter" & it should come up with more than a few.
p.s. I normally ask the search to EXCLUDE the word TRIAL - a lot of the programs are not actually free but very limited trials which you go to the trouble of downloading only to find you cannot use....

[beer monkey]

Ok ta.....but i know the portable CD player is fairly old (10 years) and has not got MP3 playback....pretty sure its not anyway.

[jackspratt]

google is your friend BM.

There are a few different formats for karaoke VCDs - the first thing to do is have a look in windows explorer to see what sort of files are on the VCD. Then do a google search (convert xxx files to cd format etc) for the best ripper/converter. Windows Media Player is not going to do the job.

You may have to look in a torrent search engine such as Mininova to find a "reasonably priced" version of the software.

[IanH]

The best software I have found for this is Cucusoft.

You can download it free at the link below
http://www.cucusoft.com/ultimate-dvd-vi ... -suite.asp

The output format you want to choose for your older CD player is .wma

Although it is a trail version, it never expires and does not affect audio file conversion from video. Only if you are going from video to video does it place a text message over the converted files.

[jackspratt]

I have just found (and used) a great little program to split off and convert (to MP3 format) the music files from .dat format video files that you often find on the local karaoke VCDs.

Best news it is free.

The only limitation is that you can only do one file at a time, but it is very quick, and I have done an 18 track VCD in about 5 minutes.

http://www.dvd-mp3.org/

[virginprune]

I have a problem with this...I want to convert some music from a VCD and I know there are programs out there to do this. However, when I put the VCD into my laptop it is just ignored as if nothing is there. I have a decent spec Dell Inspirion just over a year old. How can I get my laptop to read the VCD or even acknowledge its presence?

[jackspratt]

vp, is it only an issue with VCDs - ie does the lappy recognise music CDs and DVDs?

Have you tried googling something like <computer won't recognise vcd>?

First response I came up with was this http://forums.techguy.org/hardware/5247 ... drive.html

[virginprune]

Hi Jack, it's just VCD..will see what I can find through our web friend, cheers!