karaoke on ubuntu?

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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).
>   

Wasn't Karaoke developed as a means of torture?  ;-)

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