On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 07:09 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 13:49 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > > > > Mplayer has all that is needed to play karaoke, you just need > > > > to supply the disks (and the voice). It is available in Livna.org or > > > > freshrpm.org's repositories. > > > > > > I run a mobile DJ and Karaoke service with a partner and am *extremely* > > > interested in this topic. The MPlayer site is currently not responding > > > for me at all. We are in the process of going totally digital and the > > > ability to play Karaoke formats (<Audio>+G, etc.) would allow us to > > > quickly re-engineer our systems with Fedora instead of Windows. I'm the > > > person custom building these systems, so the buck will stop here in > > > terms of configuration. > > > > I once played some CD+G files with xmms and a plugin (sing-it?). This was > > a few years ago. > > Thanks for the tip! I had a look and Sing-it is still there, but has not > been all that actively developed. To be fair, it is still moving along > though. There is an additional library to allow playing of CD+G formats, > but still nothing that I saw can handle digital <Audio>+G formats, the > most common being MP3+G. > > I'll just have to keep looking for now. I'd really love to be able to > have a truly professional digital karaoke package that runs with Fedora > - even if it were closed source at this point. I guess that may mean > continuing to bother Tricerasoft. > > Other ideas are certainly welcome! ...and just when it was almost time to give up, I found a package that has some potential. Have a look at PyKaraoke.. http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/ It's still in development, but the basics look quite promising. Perhaps this could eventually be something to consider for Extras?... Cheers, Chris -- ====================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein
