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hi momus, and welcome.
yes, you need a post nov 5th build, and a skin that supports the gui option. i haven't looked at the pm2 skin to see if it has support for this.
for pm1, the support is right there under settings. (ie it's one of the 11? options that come up when you first select settings.) i don't know if chokemaniac has moved it or not since then.
even if you can't find the settings in the gui, you can still change them though. xbmc saves it's settings to e:\tdata\0face008\settings.xml. just have a look in there (once you've saved your settings at least once by changing a setting) and the appropriate places to change should be obvious.
all you do then is play a mp3 file with a .cdg named similarly.
i'm currently redoing the settings structure etc., so this problem of skins not supporting a particular setting will be a thing of the past.
cheers,
jonathan
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have you thought about creating a my karaoke section on the main menu of xbmc? i think this could be benificial. if there were a sperate interface for karaoke you could:
1. full screen karaoke file playback
2. partial screed karaoke file playback. pop-up list of karaoke songs, sortable similar to my music (use id3 tag information in .mp3). this screen would pop-up on the left side of the screen by selecting a controller button. on the top half of the pop-up would be the songe queue. on the bottom half of the pop-up would be a list of karaoke songs in the library (similar to above).
3. a full screen view allowing you to create/load a playlist of karaoke files, select individual karaoke files and manage a current song queue.
4. a status bar for mic useage one it becomes available.
perhaps some of this interface modification could be handled by other programmers who are knowlegable about xbmc interface design more so than support for cd+g files. this might speed our karaoke efforts along.
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rlamirand, the goal right now is to have all the basic functionality working. only when this is done does it make sense imo to add gui bells and whistles.
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first, thanks stcogoli, great work.
there seems to be a bug in closing down the cdg file at the end of a song. i am playing my files over xbms and when cdg is enabled, if i try to play an mp3 (with or without cdg file) after an mp3 has stopped (with or without cdg file), the xbox hangs.
if i manually stop the mp3 (and/or cdg) before the song ends, it works fine. playlists work fine. only problem is when a song terminates at the end of the playlist or a single song.
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Yawa
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sorry for the noob question, but i used xbmc 1.1 and i couldn`t find support for my mic, that comes with my xbox music mixer.
is the mic support still in development?
and what are cdg and kar files?
sure, it`s for karaoke, but what is included in these files?
i have some mpg videos, they are instrumental with lyrics.
are these another karaoke files like cdg/kar?
thanks!
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i kinda expected the hd display to be screwed cause i dunno exactly how it works and i did not bother trying to get it right since i don't have a hd myself to test it. it's probly simple to fix but would be a pita for me to do...unless somebody wants to donate one... :lookaround:
from my previous post: .cdg is a file containing a graphics stream which can be displayed in sync with any other music file (mp3, wav, etc) whereas .kar contains synthetized midi music with a synchronized plain-text stream. roughly, .cdg and .kar are respectively to music files what the subtitle formats (.idx, .sub) and .srt are to movies. mpg movies can also be used for karaoke but they are not very standard (hard to obtain) and take a lot of space.