
	 	Unify Karaoke Software Home Edition
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1 What's It?
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Are you a karaoke jockey? Feel tied to spend lots of time and money to go to karaoke lounge? Just like to sing at home with  family at anytime you want? Want to enjoy the professional quality of karaoke atmosphere with your family or friends? Want to hold a wonderful party and impress all your guests? Unify Karaoke Home Edition is your best choice!

Unify Karaoke Software Home Edition include karaoke player and song manager will transform your pc in a karaoke player. With it, you can store your favourite karaoke songs into the pc and order them by song's index, title, singer, language, style or chars number from screen. You can print out the songbook list if you like. It is no need to search hardly from lots of your discs for a song like before. Futher more, your can order Karaoke Remote and Karaoke Library from us.


2 Software Specifications
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      Support VCD, DVD, CDG, MP3, MPEG4, MPEG1, MPEG2, MIDI, AVI, WMA, WMV and many other media files
      Support disc playing
      Multi-CDROM support
      Changeable user interface
      On screen song selection
      Select songs by title, singer, style, language ...
      Song list book printing
      Voice cancel and fanfare
      Add more songs from disc
      On Screen Display menu
      Singer information and image management
      Support Unify Karaoke Remote
      Support multi languages (English & Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese)
      Add more languages at any time 



3 System Requirement
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1) Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP,Windows 2000/XP is recommended.
2) Internet Explorer 5.0 with SP1 or above.
3) MS Execl (for song book printing)



4 Software Installation
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1) Run setup.exe file.
2) Select your favorite language.
3) Follow the instruction of the setup file


5 How to Upgrade from Old Version
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You need to transfer your songs and singers from old database after new version is installed
1) Go to Song Manager -> Tools -> Import songs and singers;
2) Select your old database to import from, you can find it at <AppPath>\KtvPublic\ktvXXX.mdb (XXX is version number);
3) Click <start> to import. You might need to refresh songbook after import.
Please notice: the serail number will be changed after upgrade to ver8.10.308, you might contact support@unifykaraoke.com for your new register code. Please attach your original register information.


6 What's New?
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Version - 8.11.312 (Current Version)
Released @ 2003/12
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1) Support new remote instead old one (Former user need to upgrade hardware)


Version - 8.10.308
Released @ 2003/09
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1) Support multiple selection
2) Support select songs by alphabet
3) Support select artist by alphabet
4) Support select songs by most popular
5) Support touch screen to select songs
6) Support barcode scanner to select songs
7) Enhanced user interface
8) Change playing order in list window
9) Support unicode in song manager
10) Add globe region support in song manager
11) Fix CDG decode error
12) Enhanced database format
13) Enhanced serail number(need to re-register)

Version - 8.04.307
Released @ 2003/06
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1) Support adjust Volume, Mic, Key, Vocal on menu window
2) Support disable menu window when necessary
3) Support rewind and restart CDG file
4) Fix some error in CDG decode

Version - 8.04.306
Released @ 2003/05
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1) Enhance menu window with more functions
2) Support to choose DVD/MPEG2 track with remote or shortcut key
3) Support maxmium 8 tracks as karaoke music track for DVD/MPEG2 file
4) Support to work at 640x480 mode
5) Bug fixed: Runtime error 5 at pure english windows system
6) Bug fixed: Can't select songs from database at pure english windows system

Version - 8.04.305
Released @ 2003/05
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1) Support key change function
2) Support CDG file (*.mp3+*.cdg)
3) Add about 20 languages with English string.

Version - 8.04.304 (Only for testing)
Released @ 2003/04
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1) Use new database format to support unicode
2) Change DAO3.6 to ADO2.1
3) Use DirectShow instead MCI driver
4) Support DVD and Mpeg4 file if proper driver was installed

Version - 8.03.302
Released @ 2003/02/24
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1) Add short cut for uninstallation
2) Will not overwrite old database while upgrading
3) Fix bug - can't change the name of Program Group
4) Will not display all records if there are too many songs in database
5) Fix bug - out of momery while search songs
6) Japanese version

Version - 8.03.301
Released @ 2002/02/03
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Version - 8.02.212
Released @ 2002/12/18
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1) Multi-Regional(language) users support in Karaoke Player
 * Setting a song only for customers come from particular region or for all regions. 
 * A song may have different title/singer/style for different region of customers.
 * Change a room region for particular customers. The menu & message of the room will showed in selected language. 
 * You can set up different service for different region of customers.
 * The customers will not be disturbed by songs and services of other regions.
2) Import/Export songs and singers information from/to an access file
3) Import/Export singers' image and information from/to a folder
4) Import/Export services' image from/to a folder
5) New library manager with library import/export tool, manage your Karaoke Library easier and safer
6) Adjustable/close-able song's property window and preview window
7) New media files window in song manager, easier for search media in your Karaoke Library.
8) New import/export wizard for song/singer/service import/export
9) Full English/Chinese Simplified/Chinese Traditional language support in Karaoke Player
10) Multi-language(currently English/Chinese Simplified/Chinese Traditional) hot switch in Karaoke Player Menu window and OSD Window. ( Windows98/SE/ME/2000/XP compatible )
11) Multi-language resource file is opened to users. You can add your local language by just edit a text file
12) Customers can search songs by singer's type (male/female/band)
13) Add Traditional Chinese installation guide
14) Remove user login window in Home Edition
15) Administrator can set room region for the customers from server side. So the customers needn't do anything.