# Quick start

##### <span class="HMNormal">*<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Importing songs</span>*</span>

<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="HMNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The first thing you need to do before you use Siglos Karaoke Professional to run your karaoke show is creating a database of songs. The database contains the list of songs on your hard disc, allowing finding the songs you need in a lightning fast manner. It also allows Siglos Karaoke Professional to keep track of the songs sung by singers.</span></span>

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*<span lang="EN-US" style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);">To create the song database you need to have the songs saved on your hard disc. If you do not have songs on the hard disc, but rather on CD+G discs, we recommend </span>*<span style="color: rgb(35, 111, 161);"><span lang="EN-US">[<span class="HMTip">*<u style="text-underline: double;">Power CD+G Burner</u>*</span>](http://www.powerkaraoke.com/src/prod_powercdgburner.php)</span><span class="HMTip">*<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> to convert your discs into digital format.</span>*</span></span>

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##### <span class="HMNormal">*<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Adding singers and playing songs</span>*</span>

<span lang="EN-US"> </span><span class="HMNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The main part of the Siglos Karaoke Professional is the playlist window. By default it works in rotation mode -- it allows to manage the list of singers and songs, add new singers to the rotation, and start the playback of the song.</span></span>

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<span class="HMNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The next step is to add the singer to the rotation.</span></span>

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##### <span class="HMNormal">*<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Playing songs</span>*</span>

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