Preparing a USB memory device for
CAVS DVD USB players
(105G USB, 203G USB, 305G USB)
CAVS DVD USB player is compatible to any USB storage device, such as your iPod®, MP3 player with USB port, USB hard drive, USB memory stick, or USB card reader.
Here is the instruction for preparing a USB storage device for use with CAVS DVD USB players.
Table of contents
1. Format your USB storage device in FAT32 file system
• iPod®
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MP3 player with USB port, USB hard drive, USB memory stick, USB card reader
2. Create folders in your USB storage device
3. Prepare CD+G karaoke songs for your USB storage device.
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Download MP3 and MCG files
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Extract MP3 and MCG files from CD+G discs
4. Store CD+G karaoke songs in your USB storage device
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Smart Navi
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INX menu
1. Format your USB storage device in FAT32 file system.
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iPod® o If your iPod® is formatted for Windows PC, then it is all ready to go. o If your iPod® is formatted for Mac, then it must be restored with Windows operating system using iPod® Updater. Go to www.apple.com/support/ipod to download the iPod® Updater and follow the instruction to restore with Windows operating system.
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MP3 player with USB port, USB hard drive, USB memory stick, USB card reader o Connect your device to PC. If your device comes with a separate power switch, turn it on and let the device be recognized by the PC. If any pop-up window appears related to your device, close or cancel the pop-up window. o Go to My Computer in your PC. Your device should be listed as a hard disk drive or a removable storage device. Right click on the device and select Properties. o The window that appears (under General) will show the File system of your device. If it is FAT32, then your device is all ready to go. Click on Cancel to close the window of Properties. o If the current File system is not FAT32, but it is FAT, FAT16, NTFS, etc., then you need to format the device as FAT32. Click on Cancel to close the window of
Properties. o At My Computer, right click on your device again and select Format. o In the window that appears, select FAT32 as File system and click on Start.
Warning: Formatting your device will erase all files inside. If you wish to save them, copy the files to another disc drive before proceeding. o Follow the instruction to complete the formatting.
2. Create folders in your USB storage device
You can create multiple folders in your USB storage device and organize the karaoke songs according to types, genres, singers, etc.
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Go to My Computer and double click on your device to open.
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Click on File and then New Folder. A new folder will be created in the root directory of your device.
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Type in the folder’s name, for example KARAOKE, and press Enter.
5. CAVS DVD USB players can support up to 250 folders. Each folder can have 500 songs if stored under Smart Navi menu program, and 49,999 songs if stored under INX menu program. For more information on INX song list, please go to 4. Store CD+G karaoke songs in your USB storage device .
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To disconnect your device from PC, follow the Safely Remove Hardware procedure of
Windows®.
3. Prepare CD+G karaoke songs for your USB storage device.
The CD+G karaoke songs must be in MP3 and MCG file formats for use in your USB storage device. There are two ways to obtain CD+G karaoke songs in MP3 and MCG files:
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You can download the ready made MP3 and MCG files of CD+G songs from CAVS
Online Store . o Download . o For how to use MCG Manager, refer to visual tutorial.
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You can make the MP3 and MCG files from your old CD+G disc. o Go cavsusa/playcdg_home and purchase to download Encoder MCG program. o Follow the instruction in the website to install the Encoder MCG program in your
PC. o Insert your CD+G disc into the disc drive* of your PC. o Start the Encoder MCG program and follow the instruction to extract the MP3 and MCG files for each song.
*Disc drive – To extract songs from a CD+G disc, the disc drive in your PC must be
CD+G compatible. For a list of CD+G compatible disc drive, please contact [email protected]
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For more detail instruction on how to extract karaoke songs from CD+G discs, see
( PDF ).
4. Store karaoke songs in your USB storage device
For each karaoke song, the MP3 and MCG files must have the same name, for example
00001.mp3 and 00001.mcg, using up to 9 alphanumeric characters.
There are two ways to store the MP3 and MCG files into a folder of your USB storage device:
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Smart
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You can store the MP3 and MCG files, up to 500 songs per folder, and rely on Smart
Navi operating system of CAVS DVD USB player for the playing of songs. Smart Navi is basically a simple file menu, such as DOS, that will let you browse through folders and see the files inside. You can move your cursor with the directional buttons to a song and press Enter to begin playing. You can also input a song number, which is automatically assigned by Smart Navi, and press Enter to play. The song number is assigned according to the alphanumeric order of MP3 (or MCG) file names inside the folder. For example, a song with 00001.mp3 and 00001.mcg files will be ahead in song numbers than the song with 00002.mp3 and 00002.mcg files, when stored in a same folder.
The advantage of this method is that you simply copy the MP3 and MCG files of songs into a folder of your choice inside your USB device. For the detail instruction on how to play the songs using Smart Navi, see USB memory device operation / Basic operation in
User’s Manual .
The disadvantage of using Smart Navi is when the number of songs in each folder becomes large. The selecting of songs by cursor or by song number that is based on file names then becomes cumbersome and inconvenient.
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INX
To help organize large number of songs in each folder, you can alternatively use INX menu program to play the songs in your USB storage device. To do so, you need to create INX menu file called ENGLISH.inx for each folder. And during the process, the
MP3 and MCG files in the folder will be renamed. You will then store the renamed MP3 and MCG files along with the INX menu file inside the folder of your device.
When a folder contains INX menu file inside, the INX menu will automatically pop up in the TV screen each time you enter the folder using CAVS DVD USB player. You can then search for a song by title or singer, program up to 9 songs in queue, and store up to
49,999 songs, rather than 500, in each folder. For the instruction on how to operate INX menu, see Karaoke operations / INX, INX2 Operations in User’s Manual .
We now describe the details of creating INX menu file. First we look at the case when song files are downloaded from CAVS Online Store. Next we look at the case when song files are extracted from CD+G discs. o For song files downloaded from CAVS Online Store :
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Download and select OPEN to install it to your PC.
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For how to use MCG Manager, refer to visual tutorial.
o For song files extracted from CD+G discs
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Download and select OPEN to install it to your PC.
• For how to extract from CD+G Disc with MCG Manager, refer to visual tutorial.
*note: For more “how to” visual tutorials, please visit CAVS USB players’ homepage at
CAVS website .
