pykaraoke-announce Mailing List for PyKaraoke

Folks,

I am pleased to announce a new release of PyKaraoke. Highlights are:

* Fixes for international / unicode characters in filenames.
* Support unusual CDG file draw commands found in the wild.
* Add options for double-buffered and hardware.
* ‘P’ pauses, Backspace rewinds.
* Make About window work with Wx2.6 again. Recent About window changes
work on Wx2.8 only.
* Allow remote control access to pykaraoke_mini.
* Windows: Fix temporary filenames used for unzipping same song twice.
* OSX: Improvements to OSX support.

Download the new release from here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pykaraoke/files/

Thanks,
Kelvin.

Folks,

I am pleased to announce a new release of PyKaraoke. Highlights are:

* Many new features useful for pro hosting with PyKaraoke.
* You can now associate performer names with songs in the playlist.
* Add Kamikaze button to add a random song to the playlist.
* Various new playlist features.
* Time progress indicator during song playback.
* Add support for pulling artist/title data from song filenames.
* Add option to display karaoke window without a frame.
* Many new configuration options and other GUI improvements.

Thanks go to project member John Schneiderman for his hard work on this
release.

Kelvin.

Hi Folks,

We are please to announce the release of PyKaraoke v0.6.

There are many new features and improvements in this version. Here are 
some of the highlights:

* Much improved GUI with many new features and additional configuration 
options.
* Launch external media players to play other formats such as DIVX, XVID etc
* Export karaoke files to MPEG format (command line only).
* Many enhancements on the GP2X platform.
* Now confirmed to work with OSX.
* Internal improvements and fixes in the CDG and KAR players.

And much more, see the full changelog here: 
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=123242&release_id=609671

Download it at the usual place:
http://kibosh.org/pykaraoke

Thanks to David Rose for more stellar work on this release.

Kelvin.

Hi Folks,

We've just released PyKaraoke v0.5.1. Download it at the usual place:

http://kibosh.org/pykaraoke

Changes in this release are:
* GUI: Now works with WxPython v2.8.
* GUI: Improved search results layout.
* CDG player: Improved handling of corrupt CDG files.
* CDG player: Solve minor scrolling issues.

Since the last release PyKaraoke has been added to the NetBSD official 
ports collection. If you are interested in providing packages for other 
operating systems and distros then let us know.

Kelvin.

Hi Folks,

Thanks to the excellent efforts of David Rose, we've just released 
PyKaraoke v0.5. Download it at the usual place:

http://kibosh.org/pykaraoke

Changes in this release are:

* Added support for GP2X
* CDG: Much improved performance by porting down to C
* CDG: Smoother scrolling and fixed horizontal scrolling
* MIDI: Fixed mid-song tempo changes
* MIDI: Smoother font-scaling and word-wrap
* pykaraoke_mini: New simple GUI for simpler environments (suitable for 
smaller screens and simple joystick control, or for use on a TV with a 
remote-control)
* Many other internal changes

As testament to the portability of PyKaraoke, it now runs on Windwos, 
Linux, FreeBSD and GP2X. Please let us know if you are interested in 
bringing PyKaraoke to other platforms.

Since the last release PyKaraoke has been added to the Debian, Arch 
Linux, Ubuntu "Edgy" and FreeBSD repositories. If you are interested in 
providing packages for other distros then let us know.

Kelvin.

PyKaraoke v0.4.1 has now been released. The main changes are:

We have made major performance improvements in the CDG player. It should 
now be possible to play back CDGs on much slower machines than were 
previously supported.

Also new in this release is an install script for Linux/Unix systems. 
You can now install by running "python setup.py install" as root, and 
can then start PyKaraoke from anywhere by running "pykaraoke".

The PyKaraoke GUI can also now be used to play back MIDI files contained 
within ZIP files.

You can get it from the usual place:
http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/

Thanks,
Kelvin.

> At 1280x1024, with Dangerous 02-14, Van Halen's Beautiful Girls, which
> is a pretty uptempo song, 10 can't quite keep up.  5 keeps up, but
> bundles too many updates to look good.

Someone has been writing to me off-list with syncing problems - that's 
on a 750MHz machine though - would be nice to know what the minimum spec 
is to run smoothly.

It would also be good to establish hard facts about where the bottleneck 
is. i.e. is it somewhere in the bowels of SDL or is it due to the CD+G 
decoding. As I mentioned in a previous mail, there were some areas of 
the code that were initially very slow on this machine (think it's an 
Athlon XP1800). Loading the colour table was an example - I had a CD+G 
that did a lot of colour table loads to achieve a colour-cycling effect, 
and the initial implementation didn't cut the mustard. The new one was 
way faster but could still be marginal. Are there particular parts of 
the track that seem to cause problems? If it's patchy, maybe we could 
spew out some debug to tell which CD+G commands are being decoded in the 
problem patches. Problem areas are likely to be the Colour Table load, 
Memory Presets and Scrolling.

> 1) allow passing in the label code and disc number to cdgrip to add to
> the front of the track names (sc8119-05.cdg, or sc8119-05 Here's The
> Title.cdg).

Sounds good.

> 2) only play one track at a time even on a playlist.

Something like a "Play" button, and a "Play One" button.

> 3) add OK buttons to the prefs and search dialogs.

Gotcha.

Kelvin.

Hi,

A new version of PyKaraoke has just been released. The main changes in 
v0.4 are:

We have added better scriptability to the MP3+G player, making it much 
more flexible when used as a standalone player or called by external 
playlist manager programs. You can use command-line options to control 
the window size, position and screen update rate.

There are also several small modifications in the MP3+G player, such as 
the addition of mouse-pointer hiding in the player window.

We would also like to welcome on board Will Ferrell, a new developer on 
PyKaraoke. All modifications for v0.4 were kindly contributed by Will.

Get it here:
http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/

Kelvin.

Hi,

Just a quick note to let you know that PyKaraoke v0.3.1 was released 
today. New in this version:

* Full-screen player mode (CDG and MPG)
* Supports the latest WxPython (v2.6)
* Improved CPU usage
* Better handling of zip filenames

Get it here:

http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/downloads.php

Cheers,
Kelvin.

A new version of PyKaraoke has just been released.

The major new feature in v0.3 is the addition of MIDI playback support. 
PyKaraoke can now play back karaoke songs in the .KAR and .MID format.

Other changes in this release are:
* Better handling of corrupt CDG rips
* Faster CDG playback on low-end machines
* Minor changes to make it more OSX-friendly
* Minor GUI improvements

For more details or to download see the PyKaraoke homepage:
http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/

Many thanks,
Kelvin.

PyKaraoke v0.2.1 has now been released.

This release fixes the playback of CDGs containing:
* Colour Cycling effects
* Transparent Colours

Improvements have also been made to the GUI:
* Optimised searches to handle thousands of results
* Fixed innacurate right-click in the playlist on some systems
* Fixed Folder View problem on some systems
* Other cosmetic GUI improvements

You can download v0.2.1 from here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123242&package_id=134597

As ever, let me know if you have any comments, suggestions for new 
features etc.

Kelvin.