| From the Where2sing.com forum: There is a difference between a CDG disc and an mp3+G file combination. A CDG disc is basically an audio disc with graphics content hidden in the header space of the disc. This is why you can play one of these discs in a regular disc player and you get the music, it's only reading the body of the disc. A CDG player is designed to read both the body (music) and the header (graphics).
An mp3+G file combination is the presence of two separate files, usually zipped. The audio is contained in a standard mp3 file while the graphics is contained within a special file called a cdg file. It's not protected in any way, it's just the file extension. So, if you bought a song digitally, say Robbie Williams - Angels, you would end up downloading
Robbie Williams - Angels.zip
and that zip file would contain
Robbie Williams - Angels.mp3
Robbie Williams - Angels.cdg
It is these files, unzipped, which are burned to the Zoom discs, as data files.
If you put a standard CDG disc into a CD ROM and looked at the content of the disc in a file manager program, you wouldn't see that. You'd either see a whole bunch of .bin files, or maybe some .vob files. depending on how the files were burned to disc. A CDG player is designed to read files burned in this way, in other words, read media files, and not designed to read files burned like Zoom are doing it as above.
A CDG disc is a media disc whereas Zoom are shipping data discs. The difference is that if you wanted to put the songs from a media disc onto your laptop, you'd have to use a ripping program that is designed to read the media and convert it into data files whereas the Zoom discs allow you to just stick it into your CD ROM and drag and drop the files across, no converting or 'ripping' required (and almost certainly no renaming of files). This makes them very handy for digital operators, though why they are persisting with discs, I really don't know.
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