Three years ago, after a sixteen years quest, I was able to find a copy of the Donna Summer one. Do you have "The Planets"? By the way, I helped Steve Martin with many of the pictures collected at The CD+G Museum. Check it out!

I've so always wondered about the Mask graphics cd after I'd re-read about it in one of the old Rumours fanzines...heck at the time I was so new to collecting so getting one of those cds didn't even enter my mind back than....I tried it on my regular Mask cd thinking it had it but no luck. Would cd players play them now? And how could one find one of those Mask cds? (after all these yrs that is)...I wonder what Stevies songs look like??? :)

Follow the link on previous post to the CD+G Museum. Almost 95% of Behind The Mask are still encoded. Or, using the guide on the CD+G Museum, you can identify if your copy is encoded. If you have access to an old console game, or a Karaoke machine, you are set. Or if your CD or DVD drive can read the graphic subcodes (you can find out with Nero Info, a free tool), then rip the CD to a bin file with CDRWIN (one of many tools). The there is a free CD+G player for the PC that plays the bin file for you. Also, I have rips of Behind The Mask that have been converted to ipod video format. So, when I am doing cardio, I watch my CD+G collection!

Is there a way to convert it to a file type that can then be converted to an MPEG so I can burn it to a DVD?

John

I didn't know Donna Summer had one. Which title is it? I do have "The Planets" and always thought it was one of the better ones that I have. Also if you look at the inner ring of the cd it will have CD+G
inscribed.

Use Power CD+G to Video www.powerkaraoke.com. As its title says, it's a CD+G to Video Converter with AVI and MPEG as output formats.

Donna Summer
 

Yes, Donna Summer's Another Place And Time. This is one of those titles that was released as CD+G in a very limited quantity. Same for Simply Red's Picture Book. Do you have this one too?

Great! Thanks for this. :)

The thing is, I don't forsee buying any other CD+G discs beyond BTM so I hope not to buy this for $40 just to convert the BTM graphics to mpeg.

So do you know if the trial version of PCD+GTV is fully functional for a while (i.e. will it allow me to convet just this one album) or, are there functional restrictions on the free trial version (i.e. will it only convert like half of each song to mpeg or put a watermark on the mpegs I make until I spend the $40 etc.)?

John

I don't have either one of those. I do remember seeing a clip on TV where they said they had been secretly including graphics to cds for a while and they showed the Donna Summer one but I couldn't tell which disc it was. I think I have that cd but not sure if it's the one with graphics though. I'll check when I get home. Right off I don't have a complete list of the ones I have but I think there is at least a dozen. Thanks for the info!

Well, I tried the trial version and it converts just the first minute of each track and has a watermark throughout the minute.

So if anyone does buy this & has a copy of BTM they can rip/convert to MPEG, let me know & we'll work out either a disc trade or an upload trade. Just one request, I'm a full screen kind of guy so if the border could be zero that'd be prefered. :)

John

I've ripped and posted the different songs/videos to YouTube.

Skies the Limit
Love is Dangerous
In the Back of My Mind
Do You Know
Save Me
Affairs of the Heart
When the Sun Goes Down
Behind the Mask
Stand on the Rock
Hard Feelings
Freedom
When It Comes to Love
The Second Time

I still have the original files, but they're in .mov format and might not translate very well to something the size of a TV. I can upload those if you'd like, or I can try to get a larger video output. The original video size I had was quite small, though, so I don't know how the quality of those would turn out.

Thanks very much oaacdi & DeadliestPoison! :)

John

Thanks Greg! These are great.

Thank you for posting these! Its hard to believe this passed as "technology" not all that long ago.

thanks DP...it's always fun to rewatch these vids...:xoxo: