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Followed wiki, cannot get XBMC Live to play .kar files
#1
I wanted to set up XBMC to play karaoke files. I followed the wiki here:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_setup_XBMC_for_Karaoke#MIDI_playback

So I downloaded the soundfont file from http://www.geocities.jp/shansoundfont/, unzipped the file, renamed the .sf2 file to soundfont.sf2, then copied that file to dotXBMC/system/players/paplayer/timidity in my usb.

Then I rebooted into my usb, but when I tried to play the .kar files, nothing happened.

I also tried creating dotXBMC/userdata/advancedsettings.xml with the following content but it didn't help:

Code:
<advancedsettings>
    <karaoke>
        <syncdelaycdg>0.0</syncdelaycdg>
        <syncdelaylrc>0.0</syncdelaylrc>
        <alwaysreplacegenre>false</alwaysreplacegenre>
        <storedelay>true</storedelay>
        <autoassignstartfrom>1</autoassignstartfrom>
        <nocdgbackground>true</nocdgbackground>
        <defaultbackground type="vis" />
    </karaoke>
</advancedsettings>


Here is the content of xbmc.log. The content is long and there is a 10000 chars restriction in this forum that prevents me from posting the whole file. So here i extracted the lines i think are relevant and posted here. If you want more, just tell me.

Code:
09:18:54 T:3079366544 M:3312427008   ERROR: TimidityCodec: cannot init codec: TiMidity: Can't read any configuration file.
                                            Please check special://xbmc/system/players/paplayer/timidity/timidity.cfg
09:18:54 T:3079366544 M:3312427008   ERROR: Failed to initialize MIDI codec. Please make sure you configured MIDI playback according to http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO:_Setup_XBMC_for_karaoke
09:18:54 T:3079366544 M:3312427008   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file /media/Ma Heo maxe/karaoke/alloutoflove.kar
09:18:54 T:3079366544 M:3312738304   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [/media/Ma Heo maxe/karaoke/alloutoflove.kar]
09:19:56 T:3079366544 M:3302154240   ERROR: PulseAudio: Waited for the Context but it failed
09:19:56 T:3079366544 M:3302154240   ERROR: PulseAudio: Failed to create context
09:19:56 T:3079366544 M:3302154240 WARNING: Failed to find previously selected audio sink

Many thanks.
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#2
Hmmm.. Nobody has ever had this problem? Or am i posting it wrong in some way?
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#3
Got this today setting up my karaoke. You need to create a blank timidity.cfg file in the timidity directory.
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#4
Oh many thanks!
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