On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:32:09PM -0600, Jack Downes wrote: > I'm a beginning python coder, and have found python to my liking. Along > the same note, I've been working with a poorly written site which wants > a karaoke engine in place for it's web people to use. I'm interested in > trying to make the pykaraoke modules work in some way as a web-based > karaoke system. Is this even feasible or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Well, my appraisal is that from a technical standpoint, you have two choices on web-karaoke: write a browser plugin to do it -- I don't think you can keep sync any other way, or render the track to a video file of some sort, and ship it out to the browser that way -- you might be able to leverage Flash for this, if you know it well enough, either as FLV or directly as an SWF. Any approach may cause you copyright/performance licensing problems, and the latter approach additional ones, since you'll be the one syncing the lyrics to music. That is to say, there are lots of pitfalls; get a lawyer before you get a coder. :-) (I normally believe in letting people fall on their own faces, but karaoke rides a thin line sociologically anyway, and you only get 3 failures. 1, if it's big enough.) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
