Rigmar Karaoke Collection 2017

[rigmar_radio]

Well Gang it is that time of the year again when our DJ roadshow members take a deep breath and relax a little after the busy holiday season.   If they are half decent at there job, they take this welcome downtime to sort out there media collection, or perhaps add Karaoke content to it for the first time.

Over the 1st few months of this year I will be uploading my entire Karaoke collection once more.  This is a major download and you will require a 500GB hard drive to store it on.  The 2017 collection features the following points:

1.  All songs are renamed and tagged for easy import into professional DJ or Video Club software using the recommended music industry notation of Artist - Song Title [any other info]  I do not use Karaoke disc information as this collection is designed for playback from a hard disc drive and NOT physical CD Rom discs.   This collection is to help those new to Karaoke presenting obtain an affordable start and once downloaded it should be topped up by you subscribing to a monthly Karaoke disc or download service.   You do not require an internet connection to play back this collection as you will have the physical data on your hard drive.   You are advised to keep the same file name format:

The song file name will take this format:  

Snake Oil Willy Band - I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore [SBI Karaoke].cdg
Snake Oil Willy Band - I Don't Look Good Naked Anymore [SBI Karaoke].mp3 

Where SBI is the Karaoke Label information.  SC=Sound Choice CB=Chartbuster SF=Sunfly and so on.  All tracks are contained in a single WinRAR Archive folder

2.  Each torrent will contain over 1200 songs in Alpha/Numerical Order from A to Z over many parts or Vol.  OUTSIDE of each RAR Archive will be a plain text file listing the contents of each Archive so you can make an informed decision on whether to commit to a full download or not.   The collection now offers multiple Karaoke Label Choice for 2017 on the more popular tunes.

3.  During last year I have gone back to my original CD Karaoke discs and re ripped tracks at 320 kpbs Audio sample rates for better audio sound quality where possible.  This job is on going as it takes a long time.  Audio quality varies now from 128 to 320 as a result of this major change.  After this I will be giving away my CD Karaoke discs to local DJ's as they are taking up too much space and not being used.

4.  Errors continue to be found and corrected.   Duplications continue to be found and removed.   Where errors and duplications still exist it is your responsibility to correct or remove them.   Always remove the smaller sized track as that will have the worst audio sample speeds.  Over 38% of the collection is now ripped at 320 kbps Audio @ 41000 Hz.

5.  Each Torrent will be between 4 and 5 Gigabytes in size.   Slow or dial up download speeds will not be tolerated.    Those peers who do not know how to torrent and can not download at sensible speeds also can not as a rule upload to the swarm and are nothing but leeches.   Together let's make 2017 the year slow download speeds are a thing of the past.   The torrent will be seeded by a 1GB box in Europe and there is simply no excuse for slow download speeds.

6.  Due to restrictions on the use of RAR Archives this collection will be posted in the other/other section on the Pirate Bay.  Where other sites allow they will be found in the Music/Other or Music/Karaoke section where possible.

The next part or Vol will be uploaded to all the major public torrent sites once the previous Vol is well seeded and can survive on its own.   Re Seed requests will only be handled at the end of the collection as I will require all my upload bandwidth to seed the current torrent.   Any other info will be posted here as the collection goes on.

Rigmar Radio - Seeding to the World since 2004

[rigmar_radio]

Wow over 100 downloads in 12 hours. Cool eh? OK gang Vol 1 is well seeded so moving on to Vol 2 which is up now in the Other/other section due to restrictions in posting in Music. CDG+MP3 Karaoke. Don't forget you can download just the plain text file to view the contents of the single WinRAR Archive before you decide to download the main body of this torrent. New for 2017, better audio quality for thousands of Karaoke songs as I re rip from the original media at 320kbps sample rates where possible. My thanks to SASCOT for his help in this massive project.

ALL FILES have been renamed and tagged to conform to best industry practise for the naming of music files on a computer and will import into any professional playout software giving excellent search results on the road. Physical CD Karaoke discs are yesterdays news.

Remember each RAR Archive contains OVER 1200 Karaoke Tracks and is OVER 5GB in size compressed. You will require at least 500GB hard drive space to house the whole collection of about 72 thousand songs. I estimate there will be about 50 to 60 Vol for the 2017 collection and at this rate you will have the whole lot before the end of April this year. Rigmar Radio - Rockin' the Free World since 1967

[rigmar_radio]

OK Gang, Vol 1 to 5 are now up, over 6000 Karaoke tracks in the ever popular CDG+MP3 format.   I will be pausing for a day or so to let the slow download people attempt to catch up as large swarms mean better average speeds and more seeds per peer.  

ALL 5 torrents are very well seeded in both Europe, and the rest of the World.   There really is no excuse for slow downloads and well over half the peers I see can not download worth a toss, mostly due to sheer GREED, downloading and in some cases BOASTING in forums about how many seeding torrents they are running all at the same time.   Every active torrent uses up system resources, including CPU time, RAM, Disc Drive access and open file handles.   Try just for once running only the wanted download and stopping all the rest and see how that works on a well seeded torrent like these.

Many Peers of course never read the torrent description or this forum and just click on every download they fancy until they all grind to a halt and then blame there ISP or the seeds for slow torrents grrrr....  They are KILLING BIT TORRENT.

Every downloading torrent opens up at least two upload slots and often a lot more.   Every seeding torrent opens up 5 or more upload slots and it is your upload speed to any swarm which pretty much dictates how fast you download from it.  OK some DSL (phone line broadband) connections are just plain rubbish and you will never get good download speeds from them, but there are far too many dial up download peers out there for that to be the real reason.   It is mostly just bad bit torrent habits.   Many peers have NO IDEA how to remove seeding torrents from there clients!!  TRUE honest.    Let's make 2017 the year of faster and not slower average swarm speeds.

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I must of course point out that some PEERS, in fact over 100 of them on each torrent have very good download speeds and many do indeed max out there download bandwidth on this series of Karaoke torrents. I have observed speeds of over 100 megabits per second on all 5 vol so far and dozens of peers who max out at 30 megabits per second which seems to be a popular cut off point for many of the lower cost connections around the World. Full marks go to you people for not only do you get the Karaoke quicker, but you help to speed everyone else up in the swarm too with your upload as you download from the swarm.

But sadly for every good peer I am still seeing more than 1 dial up download person, leeching from the swarm as there upload bandwidth is totally maxed out over dozens of active torrents.

[Blenslarf]

Thank you for such a fine share. I tend to be able to download a volume in less than an hour. Then until the next volume becomes available, I seed the last three I downloaded. Several times, however, I've downloaded 99% of the volume within an hour but then it becomes stuck and sits on that 99% for hours and begins to seed itself.

Am I doing something wrong? Selecting the wrong kind of source? I am on a cable service, usually downloading standard files around 45 MB/s here in the United States.

[ejonessss]

how many volumes are there?

you said "This is a major download and you will require a 500GB hard drive to store it on"

volume 11 has been posted already making it exceed 500 gig


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sorry i mis calculated there would be probably be 100 volumes and 11 would exceed 50 gig not 500

[tonedeaf]

Wow over 100 downloads in 12 hours.  Cool eh?  OK gang Vol 1 is well seeded so moving on to Vol 2 which is up now in the Other/other section due to restrictions in posting in Music.  CDG+MP3  Karaoke.  Don't forget you can download just the plain text file to view the contents of the single WinRAR Archive before you decide to download the main body of this torrent.  New for 2017, better audio quality for thousands of Karaoke songs as I re rip from the original media at 320kbps sample rates where possible.  My thanks to SASCOT for his help in this massive project.

ALL FILES have been renamed and tagged to conform to best industry practise for the naming of music files on a computer and will import into any professional playout software giving excellent search results on the road.  Physical CD Karaoke discs are yesterdays news.  

Remember each RAR Archive contains OVER 1200 Karaoke Tracks and is OVER 5GB in size compressed.   You will require at least 500GB hard drive space to house the whole collection of about 72 thousand songs.   I estimate there will be about 50 to 60 Vol for the 2017 collection and at this rate you will have the whole lot before the end of April this year.   Rigmar Radio - Rockin' the Free World since 1967

im liking these  no i meant loving em thanks

[Gumbie68]

this is so awesome really appreciate you uploading THANK YOU SO MUCH ......From South Africa

[rigmar_radio]

OK Gang we are about half way through so I am taking a few days off as I need my upload bandwidth for other projects for a day or so.  I will be back with Vol 32 and then daily until done.   The following question and answer session will be posted on that torrent, but is reproduced in advance here for your information:


Rigmar Karaoke Collection 2017 CDG+MP3 Audio 128 or a lot better

Welcome back after our short break to allow the slow downloaders to catch up with the main and current swarm. Please view the plain text file called TRACK LIST VOL 32 for the contents of the Single RAR Archive.

Q. Why Archive this torrent?
A. Bit torrent clients and computers in General do not handle large numbers of open or half open individual files very well. Due to the duel file nature of CDG+MP3 Karaoke each torrent would contain over 2400 individual files if I did not Archive them first. Seeding that many individual files would use up vast amounts of computer resources and lead to problems on less powerful systems with too many open files, Too much Virtual Memory, RAM and CPU resources if anyone were to seed more than a handful of torrents in this series.

Placing over 2500 files in a single Archive reduces the file count to just one, solving that particular problem. You also save 40% or more on the downloaded file size due to the compression factor. I am well aware that un packing such a large Archive takes time on slower Computers, but this is the only way I can distribute the huge number of individual files which will make up this collection when done.

Q. You seem to have a bee in your bonnet over slow download speeds. What is that all about and why should I care?
A. Bit torrent standards have been in decline for some years now. At the very time ISP's are giving the World a better connection with more upload bandwidth than ever before, average swarm speeds have been going DOWN. When people download very slowly from a swarm it is because they can not upload to fellow peers in that swarm. This in effect makes them LEECHES who can only download slowly due to overloading there connection by running more than one active torrent at any time. While it is true you can seed as many active torrents as you want at the same time, this IS NOT THE CASE if you want to download quickly. Each seeding torrent and every download takes a part of your tiny upload bandwidth away from the swarm until you have none left to give. SLOW DOWNLOADERS disrespect the original seed by not taking the maximum download speed the SEED is offering them. SLOW DOWNLOADERS are LEECHES who drag the average swarm speed down to there pathetic level when they have a unique bit of the whole torrent no one else but the original seed has, as they are unable to upload that BIT to the rest of the swarm due to there sloppy bit torrent habits. SLOW DOWNLOADERS are taking 24 hours or more to download a file(s) which they should be able to grab in 1 hour or less and leave himself/herself open to detection due to the long time they remain in the swarm. SLOW DOWNLOADS ARE KILLING BIT TORRENT in 2017, let's all work to make dial up download speeds yesterdays News.

Q. What is the point of such a large project on Bit Torrent?
A. Go look at any commercial Karaoke download portal and see the prices they charge for bulk Karaoke start up collections! Now you get the point. This series, uploaded once every year is designed to help those new to Karaoke presenting get there first Karaoke collection up and running. It is also designed to raise standards in the file naming of Karaoke collections so all Karaoke users file name following industry best practise. Finally this torrent series is designed to help those established presenters, and I know there are a lot of them! Make a clean start to there collection when there original has grown out of control and is giving them problems with bad search results due to duplications and errors over the years. Over the years we have seen so called Karaoke release groups shouting they only upload clean fresh Karaoke, only to find the file names and tags are all over the place and many hours are needed to get that Karaoke in a place where you can import it into playout software and get the Artist data in the Artist field and the Song title in the song title field. Hopefully this collection will spread around the World and put a stop to this nonsense. NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FIG about original Karaoke manufacturers catalogue or disc numbers and they are placed at the very front of the filename where the Artist info should be in a music file name grrrr... if you import as is in pro DJ, VJ or Club playout software. Yes some Karaoke players do take care of this, but HELLO if you are setting up Video feeds for Karaoke lyric display, you may as well promote HD Music Video between singers when you can and that rules out using most of the micky mouse playout software seen in many Karaoke only venues. Many Karaoke only players are just not up to the job requirements for professional presenters.

Q. Is this the largest bit torrent project ever?
A. No other very large 500GB plus torrent projects have been uploaded in the past. This however is possibly the fastest to download each day.

Q. When will I be finished?
A. When you see ZZ Top in the Artist field Est between Vol 50 and 60 if I reach that far. That will take until the end of February 2017.

Q. How much disc space will the collection take up when I un compress the archives?
A. I can only guess at approx 500 Gigabyte disc space. I have never uncompressed the entire collection as duel CDG+MP3 files as Ots DJ Pro use a single file system for Karaoke which saves a lot of space on your hard drive.

Q. Can I make a new torrent from all or part of this collection and call it my own? on a private tracker site???
A. Yes though a mention of the fact the torrent is the Rigmar Karaoke Collection would be the correct thing to do when re posted as it would tell your peers what they are getting inside each archive and avoid duplicate downloads. Once this collection is out there every year, it is public domain.

Q. Why do you upload the whole collection every year and not just the parts or songs which have changed since last time?
A. Many thousands of changes, edits, Audio sound quality improvements are made over the course of a year to all the tracks in the collection. The file names may not change but this year for example a large number of songs now have Audio sampled at 320 kbps for better sound quality. Many thousands of tracks have minor changes made to both file names and MP3 tags to give better search results when using professional playout software.

Q. Will I get a spreadsheet of all the songs suitable for sending to a commercial printer to make Karaoke song selection books?
A. Yes on the last Vol of this years collection a CSV Plain text file suitable for importing into any decent spreadsheet will be included along with pre made Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets sorted by Artist and then Song Title. This book will run to over 900 A4 sized pages at a font size of 10 pixels. Best print double sided using a commercial printer for best results.

Q. Will I be able to put the name of my roadshow on these books?
A. Yes blank headers and footers will exist in the Excel versions for you to edit.

Q. Can I use open office to make these books from the CSV plain text file and sort by Artist or song title from it?
A. YES the CSV file will import correctly into any half decent spreadsheet on a PC or MAC.

Each RAR Archive contains 1200+ Tracks and is uploaded daily. Target download time for the 5GB sized download is 1 Hour or a lot less!!!! If you take longer than 1 hour please find out what you are doing wrong and correct it for next time. Please not that if you share an internet connection or have a DSL (Phone Line) connection there may be little you can do to improve your download speeds. Thank you.

Rigmar Radio - Seeding to the World since 2004.

[Bikerider1986]

Thanks man. I am upgrading what I got from you before. You are the best! I see it's not finished so i can't remove the old until I get the rest of the upgraded collection.

[Dr0223]

OK Gang we are about half way through so I am taking a few days off as I need my upload bandwidth for other projects for a day or so.  I will be back with Vol 32 and then daily until done.   The following question and answer session will be posted on that torrent, but is reproduced in advance here for your information:


Rigmar Karaoke Collection 2017 CDG+MP3 Audio 128 or a lot better

Welcome back after our short break to allow the slow downloaders to catch up with the main and current swarm.  Please view the plain text file called TRACK LIST VOL 32 for the contents of the Single RAR Archive.

Q.  Why Archive this torrent?
A.  Bit torrent clients and computers in General do not handle large numbers of open or half open individual files very well.  Due to the duel file nature of CDG+MP3 Karaoke each torrent would contain over 2400 individual files if I did not Archive them first.   Seeding that many individual files would use up vast amounts of computer resources and lead to problems on less powerful systems with too many open files, Too much Virtual Memory, RAM and CPU resources if anyone were to seed more than a handful of torrents in this series.

Placing over 2500 files in a single Archive reduces the file count to just one, solving that particular problem.   You also save 40% or more on the downloaded file size due to the compression factor.  I am well aware that un packing such a large Archive takes time on slower Computers, but this is the only way I can distribute the huge number of individual files which will make up this collection when done.

Q. You seem to have a bee in your bonnet over slow download speeds.  What is that all about and why should I care?
A. Bit torrent standards have been in decline for some years now.  At the very time ISP's are giving the World a better connection with more upload bandwidth than ever before, average swarm speeds have been going DOWN.  When people download very slowly from a swarm it is because they can not upload to fellow peers in that swarm.  This in effect makes them LEECHES who can only download slowly due to overloading there connection by running more than one active torrent at any time.  While it is true you can seed as many active torrents as you want at the same time, this IS NOT THE CASE if you want to download quickly.  Each seeding torrent and every download takes a part of your tiny upload bandwidth away from the swarm until you have none left to give.   SLOW DOWNLOADERS disrespect the original seed by not taking the maximum download speed the SEED is offering them.   SLOW DOWNLOADERS are LEECHES who drag the average swarm speed down to there pathetic level when they have a unique bit of the whole torrent no one else but the original seed has, as they are unable to upload that BIT to the rest of the swarm due to there sloppy bit torrent habits.  SLOW DOWNLOADERS are taking 24 hours or more to download a file(s) which they should be able to grab in 1 hour or less and leave himself/herself open to detection due to the long time they remain in the swarm.  SLOW DOWNLOADS ARE KILLING BIT TORRENT in 2017, let's all work to make dial up download speeds yesterdays News.

Q.  What is the point of such a large project on Bit Torrent?
A.  Go look at any commercial Karaoke download portal and see the prices they charge for bulk Karaoke start up collections!  Now you get the point.  This series, uploaded once every year is designed to help those new to Karaoke presenting get there first Karaoke collection up and running.  It is also designed to raise standards in the file naming of Karaoke collections so all Karaoke users file name following industry best practise.  Finally this torrent series is designed to help those established presenters, and I know there are a lot of them!  Make a clean start to there collection when there original has grown out of control and is giving them problems with bad search results due to duplications and errors over the years.  Over the years we have seen so called Karaoke release groups shouting they only upload clean fresh Karaoke, only to find the file names and tags are all over the place and many hours are needed to get that Karaoke in a place where you can import it into playout software and get the Artist data in the Artist field and the Song title in the song title field.  Hopefully this collection will spread around the World and put a stop to this nonsense.  NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FIG about original Karaoke manufacturers catalogue or disc numbers and they are placed at the very front of the filename where the Artist info should be in a music file name grrrr... if you import as is in pro DJ, VJ or Club playout software.  Yes some Karaoke players do take care of this, but HELLO if you are setting up Video feeds for Karaoke lyric display, you may as well promote HD Music Video between singers when you can and that rules out using most of the micky mouse playout software seen in many Karaoke only venues.  Many Karaoke only players are just not up to the job requirements for professional presenters.

Q.  Is this the largest bit torrent project ever?
A.  No other very large 500GB plus torrent projects have been uploaded in the past.  This however is possibly the fastest to download each day.

Q.  When will I be finished?
A.  When you see ZZ Top in the Artist field  Est between Vol 50 and 60 if I reach that far.  That will take until the end of February 2017.

Q.  How much disc space will the collection take up when I un compress the archives?
A.  I can only guess at approx 500 Gigabyte disc space.  I have never uncompressed the entire collection as duel CDG+MP3 files as Ots DJ Pro use a single file system for Karaoke which saves a lot of space on your hard drive.

Q.  Can I make a new torrent from all or part of this collection and call it my own? on a private tracker site???
A.  Yes though a mention of the fact the torrent is the Rigmar Karaoke Collection would be the correct thing to do when re posted as it would tell your peers what they are getting inside each archive and avoid duplicate downloads.  Once this collection is out there every year, it is public domain.

Q.  Why do you upload the whole collection every year and not just the parts or songs which have changed since last time?
A.  Many thousands of changes, edits, Audio sound quality improvements are made over the course of a year to all the tracks in the collection.   The file names may not change but this year for example a large number of songs now have Audio sampled at 320 kbps for better sound quality.  Many thousands of tracks have minor changes made to both file names and MP3 tags to give better search results when using professional playout software.

Q.  Will I get a spreadsheet of all the songs suitable for sending to a commercial printer to make Karaoke song selection books?
A.  Yes on the last Vol of this years collection a CSV Plain text file suitable for importing into any decent spreadsheet will be included along with pre made Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets sorted by Artist and then Song Title.  This book will run to over 900 A4 sized pages at a font size of 10 pixels.  Best print double sided using a commercial printer for best results.

Q.  Will I be able to put the name of my roadshow on these books?
A.  Yes blank headers and footers will exist in the Excel versions for you to edit.

Q.  Can I use open office to make these books from the CSV plain text file and sort by Artist or song title from it?
A.  YES the CSV file will import correctly into any half decent spreadsheet on a PC or MAC.

Each RAR Archive contains 1200+ Tracks and is uploaded daily.  Target download time for the 5GB sized download is 1 Hour or a lot less!!!!  If you take longer than 1 hour please find out what you are doing wrong and correct it for next time.  Please not that if you share an internet connection or have a DSL (Phone Line) connection there may be little you can do to improve your download speeds.   Thank you.

Rigmar Radio - Seeding to the World since 2004.

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Q. I am running an old MAC Snow Leopard OS. Do you know if there is compatible DJ or Video Club software for my system? As of right now I cannot open the file with any of my current apps.