Where to Get Music to Start a Karaoke Business

"Hi, my name is Richard Buccola of Starlite Karaoke here in New York City and on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to show you how to start and run a successful karaoke business. Okay I want to talk about how you're actually going to get your music onto your computer. I was fortune enough from starting this business 7 years ago I did everything on CD's and I bought CD's, it's expensive and you can find that if you go online, type in karaoke.com, great site. For just learning about karaoke which I recommend definitely going online doing your homework and learn it and read a lot about it. But getting your music I was able to take the CD's that I bought and rip them to a file so I can play on my computer and then what I did was put in all my music of all the years of buying CD's I put them on an external hard drive. I recommend an external hard drive because it elevates pressure on your processor. If you do too many things while you're trying to do a karaoke show you're going to see the program will shut down and it will freeze and you don't want that. So don't have internet running, in fact don't have anything running when you're running your show. Just keep the one program that you're going to use. The program I use to run my show is copy host, copy host is a great site. Also to rip your CD's or your CBG's, they're called CBG's because they have graphics. To rip them you're going to need CBG rip, it's a program. You can go to cbgrip.com to learn more about that. You're also going to need winzip, winzip.com, both of these programs will help you rip your CBG into a file so that you could find it on your computer and just type in. I just type in a song or an artist and it comes right up for me."