Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Visual Artifacts

2009-02-14 Thread William Ferrell
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Tim wrote: > > Perhaps this is a known problem, but I thought I would bring it up. > > The .cdg tracks I just ripped look normal at the beginning of a song, > but the longer you play them, the more random mis-colored artifacts > start to show up on the screen. It'

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] So, what's everyone doing with PYK?

2008-01-18 Thread William Ferrell
On Jan 18, 2008 9:35 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There hasn't been a lot of traffic on this list lately, which means one > of two things: > > 1) everyone's given up, or > 2) PYK is Good Enough now. :-) PYK has always been pretty good :) The patches I submitted back (I think

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Command line options for song window

2007-11-29 Thread William Ferrell
On Nov 29, 2007 7:37 PM, Mark Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I follow what you are saying and that is what I am attempting to do with > the window-x parameter I am specifying. My screen 1 resolution is > 1280x1024. My screen 2 resolution is 1024x768. NVIDIA Twinview reports 1 > logical s

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Command line options for song window

2007-11-28 Thread William Ferrell
On Nov 28, 2007 10:50 PM, Mark Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I ran several tests launching a song directly via pycdg. The song window > always appeared on the screen where it was launched from regardless of the > "window-x" option value. For example, if the terminal window was

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] pycdg segfault on amd64

2007-02-01 Thread William Ferrell
On 2/1/07, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Daniel, > This problem was indeed happening with multiple .cdg files, though I can't > say if it applied to them all. Because pykaraoke worked with the same files > on x86 without incident, however, I doubt that corrupted/rogue data is the

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Update on Windows compilation of optimized C version of PyKaraoke

2007-01-10 Thread William Ferrell
Heh. This is complicated :) Visual Studio Express Edition *does* indeed include a free C and C++ compiler. The download took awhile :P I'm piecing together what requirements are needed (and how the heck to go about actually building the whole mess), but I thought I'd mention I haven't forgotten a

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Quick Question

2006-12-31 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/31/06, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Ryan, > I am wondering if someone can help me out. I want to put together a > simple python script or windows executable that can be passed a zipped > cdg+mp3 as a command line argument. Play the file (perhaps have an > option to select

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Pykaraoke for OSX

2006-11-28 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/28/06, Stief Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, i´m interested on Pykaraoke for OSX. If there´s a chance for testing a Beta i would be glad to do this for you. I usually used Winamp and a CDG plugin but now i´ve changed to an imac. I installed PyKaraoke on a mac notebook runni

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Questions regarding MID playback features

2006-08-16 Thread William Ferrell
On 8/16/06, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Carlos,> I checked it today, and now I got it. You are using PyGame's engine to> pay MIDI, and that makes it hard to support something like whats done on> the Windows MIDI API, which is pretty flexible. That's right, we don't have much control

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] My additions to PyKaraoke

2006-07-04 Thread William Ferrell
On 7/4/06, David Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings,Over the past couple of weeks, I have exchanged a couple of emails withKelvin about some changes I wanted to make to PyKaraoke.  In particular,I was interested in porting it to the GP2X ( http://gp2x.co.uk/ ), whichhad some difficult const

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] freedb.org

2006-07-03 Thread William Ferrell
On 7/3/06, Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday I was playing around writing programs in C which talk to thefreedb server and retrieve track listings. This is all with a view toadding track lookups to my ripper (which is a fairly crucial feature). While I was on the freedb.org website, looki

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] RW vs RW_RAW (was New ripper)

2006-06-29 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/29/06, Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 20:37 +0100, Drew wrote:> I've had an idea, I'll write a program to inject some recognisable> subcode into a RW_RAW image. Then I'll burn the image with the injected> subcode, read it back with cdrdao in RW mode and look for the sub

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] RW vs RW_RAW (was New ripper)

2006-06-29 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/29/06, Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've had an idea, I'll write a program to inject some recognisablesubcode into a RW_RAW image. Then I'll burn the image with the injectedsubcode, read it back with cdrdao in RW mode and look for the sub codein the image. Seems like along winded way round,

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:13:48PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote:>On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[1]jra@baylink.com> wrote:>>  On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: >  >I&#x

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-25 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Drew wrote:> > Well, having finally gotten SuSE 10.0 onto my laptop and the 100GB> > drive (which freed up the 80GB to go in the external chassis), I'm> > about to start ripping my 400 disc library -- w

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote:>I've relocated to Florida (Palm Bay), and am trying to set>up shop here as a KJ.Well, no shit.  Welcome to sunny (where, by sunny, right

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, I'll admit; that's *almost* all I've got so far.  :-)Not quite: I have a paper sketch of a screen layout.I need to figure out Glade, which I gather is the prototypingenvironment of choice for complicated user interfaces. As I've discussed b

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-07 Thread William Ferrell
On 6/6/06, Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I posted a few months ago with a plan about building a karaoke systemusing pykaraoke. One thing I noticed was that cdgrip was a little slowto rip and I wondered if I could make any improvements. What kind of slowness do you experience with it? I've

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Changing font of pykaraoke

2006-04-22 Thread William Ferrell
On 4/22/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:34:36PM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > > On 4/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah... as I say, I think that's why they didn't allow people to >

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Changing font of pykaraoke

2006-04-22 Thread William Ferrell
On 4/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:47:09PM +0200, Cyrill Helg wrote: > > Am Montag 17 April 2006 15:52 schrieb Jay R. Ashworth: > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Cyrill Helg wrote: > > > > First of all thanks for the cool application. M

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Pitch-shifting HOWTO updated

2006-04-08 Thread William Ferrell
I've updated my HOWTO to include more configuration details for MPlayer, version numbers for packages used, and more automation details (including a basic script). Have another look if you're curious about such things :) http://willfe.com.nyud.net:8080/index.php/Pitch-shifting_With_PyKaraoke_and_J

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-08 Thread William Ferrell
On 4/8/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ lost address; pressed for time; please reply back onto list? ] Not a problem :) I've done that before ;) > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:06:06PM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > > On 4/7/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL P

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-07 Thread William Ferrell
On 4/7/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 12:29:58PM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > > This HOWTO attempts to document how the whole thing fits together, how > > to implement it on your own system, and how to use it in production at >

[Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-07 Thread William Ferrell
PyKaraoke doesn't currently support pitch-shifting natively during song playback, and this is about the only missing feature that prevents PyKaraoke from being a complete digital replacement for the traditional analog CD+G player. This is the case because PyKaraoke relies on Pygame's MP3/Ogg/WAV p

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke v0.4.2

2006-04-02 Thread William Ferrell
On 4/2/06, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Will, long time no speak. Heh, I've been really busy :) > > I've been experimenting a lot lately with trying to get pitch shifting > > working, and I've made a pleasant discovery that, at least in Linux, > > makes it a snap to implement. I

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke v0.4.2

2006-03-29 Thread William Ferrell
On 3/29/06, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That reminds me... I've had v0.4.2 ready to go for some time now. Tthe > Linux/source release is on Sourceforge now. The Windows installer will > follow later. > > Changes in this release are: > > * pycdg: Support starting files without .cdg ex

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CAVS' "Super CD+G" format

2005-12-20 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/20/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem, as I note, is that the commercial ones are packaged in > > this encrypted .DAT file, that I'm going to have to crack first. > > OK well let us know if you find time to look further into it. After I > get this new release out I'd

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Re: FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-19 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/19/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jay, > > Thanks for the feedback. So do you think this is an improvement on the > previous performance? If it's difficult to tell with the new 1/4 second > display-dropping code then let me know and I'll take it out. > > If it's an improvem

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] *Creating* CDG files

2005-12-19 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/19/05, William Ferrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Essentially, there are eight instructions in the command set: [then I list nine] Duh, I can count :P --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] *Creating* CDG files

2005-12-19 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/19/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, let's take a short right turn, shall we, and muse on a related > topic. > > How hard would it be to create a media=type plug in for something like > Audacity or one of the other multi-track audio editors for Linux which > could be used t

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-13 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/12/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:18:27PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > > > Well, only in that they do 2 fields per frame. :-) > > > > You're right; I paid more attention to how it performed at native > >

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/12/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:56:28AM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > > On 12/11/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The CPU horsepower is heavily affected by the display update rate, I > >

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/11/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jay, > > > I note that it doesn't handle full-screen well (1280x1024), speedwise; > > is there something I should be doing there? > > The CPU horsepower is heavily affected by the display update rate, I > think v0.4 went out with a default

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-11 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/11/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have it working now. > > I had to build SDL from tarball source -- the RPM wouldn't even > ./configure, much less build a binary (which was my preferred > approach). > > Building it required installing slang-devel and smpeg-devel, both of

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Installer

2005-12-01 Thread William Ferrell
On 12/1/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've used python distutils to make a simple install script for > PyKaraoke. Hopefully this should make it easier to create the various > packages we need for the distro package managers. I'll test this after tonight's karaoke sho

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/28/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that I've never *ever* seen a commercial CDG that scrolls. > > > > Ever. > > > > KBS will create them, and I should have that in a week or two. But I > > wouldn't worry *too* much about it. > > I've got one from "Doctor Music", that

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/27/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:29:11PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > >I'm actually keen to implement an internal MP3/OGG/WAV player > >anyway; we need that to be able to do pitch shifting and time >

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Christopher A. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since everything in 0.4 is self-contained already, if you keep thecurrent files in their own folder, it should work. As a first step, Iwould suggest placing what would be the unzipped files in somethinglike /usr/local/PyKaraoke and cre

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 02:54:56PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:>Definitely. Red Hat and derivatives are still the prevalent distros.For sufficiently large values of "derivatives". Hehehehe yeah :) >It  *shoul

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Right now, I'm working on what I can do to help sponsor PyKaraoke and>>CDG Tools in one of the Fedora Core repositories. That means creating an>>RPM and sponsoring the package. I'm working on both. That said, I'm not >>exactly an expert on RPM

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It turns out that Will, in Ft Collins (and after the holidays, I hopeI've gotten his name right :-) thinks much the way I do about in-show usability, *and* *is* a coder.  :-) Yup, got the name just fine :) > Any ideas would be appreciated. Lo

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/26/05, Christopher A. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I run a mobile DJ/KJ service in Denver and have had a couple of e-mailexchanges with Kelvin, which has led me to this list.I've gone through the archives and see there's someone also in Ft.Collins - we should talk sometime. :) Hey, my

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Re: Little patch to add support for WAV files to pycdg

2005-11-17 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/17/05, Marcel Portela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hy guys, sory for de english... >> Well, the issue is checking the disc for a file with an extension of >> unknown case. The same work that my patch is doing must still be >done, >> it'd just be nice to move it outside pycdg.py; I do think the

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] First attempt. Failure. :-} SuSE 9.3

2005-11-14 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/14/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 12:16:47PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:>I've  given  it some thought; once we get pykaraoke switched over to a>different  playback engine (so we can play with the audio stream as it >h

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] First attempt. Failure. :-} SuSE 9.3

2005-11-14 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/14/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 09:37:04AM +, Kelvin Lawson wrote:> >   File "../pykaraoke-0.3.1/pycdg.py", line 400, in run> > pygame.mixer.music.load(self.SoundFileName)> > error: Module format not recognized >> This is because SuSE helpfull

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Tagging pykaraoke for a new release?

2005-11-11 Thread William Ferrell
Hey guys, It occured to me we should probably tag the pykaraoke build currently in CVS for the v0.4 release (because I have more stuff I want to bang on and commit to CVS, but that shouldn't be released in v0.4 :); anyone object if I do so? Once it's tagged, there's a CVS command (that escapes me

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke v0.4

2005-11-09 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/9/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Will,I've just incorporated your patches into CVS. As it's bang up to datenow, feel free to commit at will from now on :-)If you could check it over before I do the release that would be great.I made a few small mods, mainly to keep the API co

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-09 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/9/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Committed (and README updated as well).Excellent, I'll line this up for release shortly after the newPyKaraoke. Thanks for your efforts, this is exactly what cdgtools needed.> It would be "easier" to write a function that mangles 96 bytes (one

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-09 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/9/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yay! Let me know when it's populated; I added support for archives this > morning. The disc I burned with it last night worked correctly on a> standalone CD+G player, so the tool is confirmed working.Good stuff. I've just populated CVS with the

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-09 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/9/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:56:11AM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:>Yay!  Let  me  know  when it's populated; I added support for archives>this morning. The disc I burned with it last night worked correctly on>a st

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-09 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/9/05, Kelvin Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Will,> Just to throw a quick teaser out there, I thought I'd mention I've got> that tool I'd talked about to convert CDG+MP3/OGG to a cdrdao-compatible> CD image and TOC/cue sheet mostly finished. This is excellent news. I've got an interleav

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-08 Thread William Ferrell
On 11/8/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:22:54PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote:>I've  burned  a  CD it generated tonight and I'll test it at tonight's>karaoke  show.  If it works on that standalone player, I'll send

[Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-08 Thread William Ferrell
Hey guys, Just to throw a quick teaser out there, I thought I'd mention I've got that tool I'd talked about to convert CDG+MP3/OGG to a cdrdao-compatible CD image and TOC/cue sheet mostly finished. The only "feature" left to implement is automatically handling archive files (ZIP archives, tarballs