Any midi VCD support here? How to get the song list?

[pandaboy]

I've bought a midi VCD karaoke machine a while ago when I was in Vietnam. I didn't update myself to the DVD version, becuase it doesn't look very solid to me (my cousin bought one, and it broke after 1 year... my VCD still running after 5 years)

The problem with Vietnamese system (Tien Dat) is that they never give you the full song list. Althought they release many version of the song book, I found out that all the VCDs they sell are the same... they just print out different cover of the song book and add a few new one into it.

Now that's said, I want to have the full list of the song list. I know there must be a way to extract it from the CDs I have. I saw the method used for California Electronic (which I'm consider to buy, but I don't know where. I'm from Canada). I would like to know if anyone has the full song list for a midi VCD? or how do I extract it? I'll be honest, I don't know anything about hex decoding. I can only open it, but that's about it.

The biggest file I have in the VCD disk is this one: MULTAK.DAT
thanks in advance: [e-mail]

[bigboss97]

My brother bought one from ebay (Australia). I've seen it on ebay US as well and seen it in a VN shop in Sydney. Someone in Toronto should be able to help you
Be aware, CalElect's sound is low quality, see:
http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=15604937&framed=y

Unless they have improved in the latest model. Arirang has much more advanced sound.

To understand the hex-codes is not a big deal because the song list (TOC) is usually unscrambled. Problem would be... to adapt the existing C codes for your disk. I guess not that everyone has a C-compiler at home. Maybe you can ask one of your friends to help to get the C codes working on your PC first. The rest is just fine tuning to get it reading your disk correctly.

HTH
Phuoc

pandaboy wrote:

I saw the method used for California Electronic (which I'm consider to buy, but I don't know where. I'm from Canada). I would like to know if anyone has the full song list for a midi VCD? or how do I extract it? I'll be honest, I don't know anything about hex decoding. I can only open it, but that's about it.

The biggest file I have in the VCD disk is this one: MULTAK.DAT
thanks in advance: [e-mail]

[pandaboy]

the quality is no doubt the worst... but my voice will make up for it... thanks for the reply.
I want to buy a new system (I'm from montreal)... but don't know which one to choose. My cousin got one from Toronto and it's already broken after less than a year. So I'm kinda worry about those midi DVD. In this forum, most of the posts are for the California Electronic version right? I want something with "hack stuffs" so where can I get a version of it? Do you have the model number of the one you got at the moment?
Tony