A karaoke software question: is it available under FC4?

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 13:49 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:

> > >     Mplayer has all that is needed to play karaoke, you just need
> > > to supply the disks (and the voice).  It is available in Livna.org or
> > > freshrpm.org's repositories.
> > 
> > I run a mobile DJ and Karaoke service with a partner and am *extremely*
> > interested in this topic. The MPlayer site is currently not responding
> > for me at all. We are in the process of going totally digital and the
> > ability to play Karaoke formats (<Audio>+G, etc.) would allow us to
> > quickly re-engineer our systems with Fedora instead of Windows. I'm the
> > person custom building these systems, so the buck will stop here in
> > terms of configuration.
> 
> I once played some CD+G files with xmms and a plugin (sing-it?).  This was
> a few years ago.

Thanks for the tip! I had a look and Sing-it is still there, but has not
been all that actively developed. To be fair, it is still moving along
though. There is an additional library to allow playing of CD+G formats,
but still nothing that I saw can handle digital <Audio>+G formats, the
most common being MP3+G.

I'll just have to keep looking for now. I'd really love to be able to
have a truly professional digital karaoke package that runs with Fedora
- even if it were closed source at this point. I guess that may mean
continuing to bother Tricerasoft.

Other ideas are certainly welcome!

Cheers,

Chris


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