karaoke on ubuntu?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> out of the blue there is a request from my household for karaoke on our
> ubuntu-based audio system.  
> 
> so: ok.  i see there are some programs that do that -- pykaraoke in
> particular, and i see ultrastar-ng is in debian so it should build on
> ubuntu as well.  but:  where do i get songs?  i had hoped htere was
> maybe an amarok plugin that would damp out vocal frequencies in music
> tracks while showing the lrics...  but that doesn't seem to exist, at
> least as far as i can tell.  so i guess i need some new music files from
> somewhere...  has anyone else done this?  any hints?  thanks,

Well I think all those karaoke discs that you can actually buy are just
VCD discs, so you could always just play those things if you had any.
Trying to filter out the vocals can't possibly give a good result for
the music.

Of course there used to be midi files around with embedded lyrics,
although the sound quality was only what you would expect from midi
files and sometimes worse (due to bad arranging).

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