Ong Chu,

How does Tkaraoke assign the # to the song? I generated a song list and it looks as follow:



I was under the assumption that whatever I see on tkaraoke is what the song number will be?

TKaraoke has many views. You can click on any column to sort by that column. Click on it again to sort in the other order (A-Z to Z-A, for example). Hence, what you see in TKaraoke can't be the order of the song numbers. The number you saw when generating the catalog is the number that you should use to punch into the remote control to select the song. The Pro version will have the "Song Number" column for you to use without printing out the song catalog.

They used MS 2003 .
- Chỉ có thể sort by songs name or songs number only . (một trong 2) còn muốn theo thứ tự thì phải tự sắp sếp folder & songs trong pc của bạn

You can sort by multiple columns in Word. It will first sort by ColumnX and if 2 rows have the same value in ColumnX then it will sort by ColumnY. In the case where you want ColumnX to be the Song Number, multiple columns sorting is useless because there will never be two rows with the same value in ColumnX (i.e. there is no two songs with the same song number).

Why do you want to sort by Song Number in the first place? Think of "Song Number" as the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) and "Song Name" as the Year and Model of a car. Do you see anyone ever attempt to list cars in order by VIN? They typically list the cars in order by Year/Model. The Song Number is important when selecting a song but it's meaningless in any other case. For song catalog, you want to know the Song Number so you can select a song using its Song Number but you don't care about the ordering of the Song Number. Typically, you sort by "Song Name" and then by "Ca Si Name" (ColumnX = Song Name, ColumnY = Singer Name).

Here is a sample song catalog. Note that the Song Number is not sorted in anyway.

To my knowledge, Tkaraoke generate the songs number accordingly to the file location of the songs, alphabetically...
For example: you have 100 songs, 50 songs in each folder, located in:

C:/Karaoke Collection/Thuy Nga
D:/Karaoke Collection/Asia

50 songs in the Thuy Nga folder will have the number from 1 to 50, then songs in Asia folder will be from 51 to 100, even though the folder is Thuy Nga, which is alphabetically after Asia.

With that in mind, when you have your collection printed, let's say 10000 songs. Then a month later, you add in another 1000 songs, and you want to add the new songs to the printed songs book without messing up the old one, you have to put the new 1000 songs ALPHABETICALLY after the old 10000 songs. Then add the new songs into Tkaraoke, don't have to clear, (clear songs or not, it does not matter). Once all songs are added in, you can just generate and choose the songs from 10001 to 11000 to print out and attached it to the already printed song book.

Hope it helps.