A karaoke software question: is it available under FC4?

[Christopher A. Williams]

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


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