karaoke on ubuntu?

[Matt Price]

On Wed, 2007-23-05 at 12:51 -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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?  ;-)
> 

of course -- it's one of those 'group torture' methods, like when they
have kids shoot their peers when inducting them into the Lord's
Resistance Army.  but that doesn't mean it can't be done with Free
Software....

matt

-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/legacy/attachments/20070523/413ed9eb/attachment.sig>