Settings To open Settings dialog box click Settings button or select Settings... from File menu. Settings are divided into following sections: Display Recording CD General Skins Display Display settings controls the way karaoke lyrics are displayed.   Display section Quality defines number of frames per setting for the karaoke display. If you are working on a slower machine try decreasing this value to get better performance. If Use secondary monitor is selected and your computer is equipped with two monitors, full screen mode will use the second monitor. You may choose which monitor should be used in the full screen mode. You may also define custom position that will be used for full screen playback For lyrics window you may define Padding and create black frame around the actual content. This allows to position the lyrics screen perfectly on external display. Padding can also be defined for Singer screen clones Keep 4:3 aspect ratio ensures that karaoke display always has 4:3 ratio. If you are using wide screen monitor, or a monitor in portrait mode, this will add black bars to the sides so the karaoke display has the same proportions as regular TV screen.   Start in Full Screen mode causes Siglos Karaoke Player to start in full screen mode.   Video Renderer is a technical setting which you may try to change if you are unable to play video files.   Lyrics advanced allow to display CD+G lyrics ahead of the music. The value is in milliseconds, so setting it to 500 will cause the lyrics to appear half a second earlier. Negative value will cause the lyrics to be delayed.   Background section Siglos Karaoke Player has five background modes: · Solid color background (choose a color for MIDI karaoke, for CD+G the background color from the file will be used) · Gradient background (smooth transition from the color at the top to the color at the bottom) · Image slideshow (you may define images to be used in the slideshow, select the display time of the single image, and choose to display the images in the random order) Keep aspect ratio option will ensure that images will not be stretched out of proportions (ie. portrait images will have black strips added to their sides so they look proportionally) · Video (moving video will be played in loop) · Camera (if you have camera installed in your system its input will be used as a background) · Music visualizations are animated backgrounds that react to the beat. Siglos Karaoke Player supports Sonique and Windows Media Player plugins. Sonique plugins need to be placed in    %APPDATA%/Doblon/Siglos Karaoke Player /Visualizations folder. Windows Media Player plugins are detected automatically. You may adjust the intensity of the animation using the slider.   You may also choose an image or video to be displayed instead of default black background on the playback screen. This may be your logo or some other information. To do this select image to display using [...] button in Inactive background section.   CD+G section Siglos Karaoke Player features state-of-the-art technology that makes CD+G look much better. You can control its behaviour in Display section of Settings . In general there are three steps of CD+G enhancement:   Smart resolution increase   This technology allows to reduce jagged edges of CD+G images and makes it look much smoother and precise. It works great scaling CD+G to HD resolution   Gradient overlay   With gradient overlay each line of karaoke lyrics has three-dimensional look.   Shadow   Adding shadow effect to the lyrics makes them 'stand out' from the background.   Smooth sweeps   Siglos Karaoke Player detects word highlighting and replaces blocks of CD+G pixels with smooth single pixel sweeps that improve the experience and fluidity of the video.   Maximum Internal CD+G Resolution   Original CD+G is 288 x 192 pixels. Siglos Karaoke Player uses smart resolution increase, but it is very computation-intensive. This setting allows you to choose the internal resolution used by CD+G engine. The higher resolution the longer the processing time.   Sharpen   Adds additional sharpening effect   No margins   Disables CD+G margins, stretching text area on entire display   NOTE: You may need to disable some of the effects on slow computers if you are experiencing performance problems.   MIDI section You may change the font used for MIDI karaoke lyrics, change the number of lines on the screen, and define the lyrics location (top, bottom, or middle of the screen). International character support If Siglos Karaoke Player incorrectly displays MIDI files containing international characters (eg. Chinese), please make sure that you select appropriate script and font face that contains international characters. Recording Recording settings control the recording process used in Siglos Karaoke Player/Recorder.   Before you start please make sure that you have microphone connected to your computer. The microphone input is usually pink on your soundcard panel at the back of your computer. If you have more than one soundcard in your computer please choose the one you wish to use in Windows' Control Panel/Sound and audio devices/Audio as a default recording input. To adjust recording settings choose  Settings  ( ) button and then choose  Recording .   You will see the name of the active recording device (soundcard) and the active input. You may need to change the input to the microphone. Now test the recording level -- say something to the microphone and  Recording preview  should display the green bar. You may use  Input level  slider to adjust the level of the recording -- if it is too low you will not hear it and if it is too high it will distort. You may also control the recording level using  Recording level  slider ( ) of the main Siglos Karaoke Player window.   If you cannot hear what you are saying to the microphone you may need to enable microphone output on your soundcard. To do this click  Open mixer  button and standard Windows' mixer will appear. Now make sure that  Microphone  input is not muted (if you cannot see it choose  Options/Properties  and check the enable to microphone input).   File settings section allows you to select the format that Siglos Karaoke Player will use to save your voice. MP3 is selected as default. You may also define where the file with your voice will be stored -- but default Siglos Karaoke Player creates My Karaoke  subfolder under  My Documents . CD CD settings allows to set various options that control the way CD+G discs are played. CD-ROM device allows you to select which of the drives equipped in your machine should be used for CD+G discs. Automatically load CD on startup will save you clicking Load CD button if you play CD+G discs. Siglos Karaoke Player/Recorder can use online FreeDB database to look up track names for CD+G discs. You may disable this feature by unchecking Use FreeDB to search for track names on the Internet. You may also select different FreeDB server and define a HTTP proxy server if you are behind a corporate firewall. General These options control general behaviour of Siglos Karaoke Player.   By default after one song finishes the next starts automatically. Pause between the songs disables this feature.   Remember last playlist will keep track of the files on the playlist between sessions.   If Check for updates is enabled, then Siglos Karaoke Player will prompt to check if new version is available.   If Automatically play the playlist after loading is switched on, then playlist will automatically start to play after it is loaded.   You may associate Siglos Karaoke Player with various karaoke file extensions so it is opened automatically when you double-click such file. You may choose which extensions should be associated with Siglos using extension list.   NOTE: Using Siglos as default ZIP file application is not recommended, as it will interfere with software like WinZip. Skins Siglos Karaoke Player allows you to change the appearance of the main window -- you can choose from several skins of various sizes.