Opening Files & Playback

Opening Files

You can open three kinds of files with Karaoke Sing-n-Burn -- standard MIDI files (.MID files), standard karaoke files (.KAR files), and performance files (.PFC files) created in Karaoke Sing-n-Burn (see Introduction to Performance to learn more about recording and saving performances). To open a file for playback or modification, simply choose Open from the File menu or hit Control-O. In the window that appears, select the type of file you wish to view (optional), navigate to the file you wish to open and click Open.

As a shortcut, you can also bring up the Open File window by clicking on the folder button in the playback panel. The button looks like this:

Karaoke Sing-n-Burn will not play MP3 files, CD+G Karaoke disks, or Wave files -- only .MID, .KAR, and .PFC files are supported, But you can save the open Midi or kar file to Wave or Mp3 format.

Playback

Once you have opened a file, you use the standard playback buttons to listen to your song:

These buttons -- Rewind, Fast-Forward, Play, Pause, and Stop (in the order that they appear in Karoke Sing-n-Burn, from top to bottom and left to right) -- function in exactly the same way that they do on a standard tape player or VCR. Use the Play button to commence playback and the Stop button to stop playback and return to the beginning of the song. Pause may be used to temporarily halt playback during the song; to resume playback press the Pause button a second time, or the Play button. Use the Rewind and Fast-Forward buttons to move rapidly through the song. Each press of one of these buttons will move you approximately 20 seconds forward or backward in the song. Note that the song must be playing for these buttons to function. Also note that these buttons will not function if you 'hold them down', as you might with a VCR remote control.