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NAME

       pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player

SYNOPSIS

       pykaraoke

DESCRIPTION

       pykaraoke is a free karaoke player for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.  You
       can use this program to play your collection  of  CDG,  MIDI  and  MPEG
       karaoke songs.

       PyKaraoke Features:
           * CDG (MP3+G, OGG+G) playback - Play standard CDG karaoke files
           * MIDI (.MID/.KAR) playback - Play MIDI format karaoke files
           * MPEG playback - Play karaoke songs and movies in MPEG format
           * Playlist - Queue up songs, sit back and enjoy
           *  Searchable  song database - Easily find your songs from the main
       screen
           * Search inside ZIP files - Play MP3+G/MIDI files  wrapped  in  ZIP
       files
           * Cross-platform - Runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows

USAGE

       The player starts in Search View. From here you can search for songs in
       your song database. You need to first set up the database, however,  by
       clicking "Add Songs".

       To  set  up  the  database,  add  the folders that contain your karaoke
       songs. Select which type of files you are interested in adding  to  the
       search  database  (CDG,  MPG etc). Click "Look Inside Zips" if you also
       want to search inside any ZIP files  found  in  the  folders  for  more
       karaoke songs.

       When  you  have  finished adding folders, and setting your preferences,
       click "Scan Now" to start building the database.  This  can  take  some
       time  but  only  needs to be done once. The search engine then searches
       your database, rather than searching  the  hard  disk  every  time  you
       search for a song.

       Once  you  have  set  up  your  database, clicking "Save" will save the
       database and settings for the next  time  you  run  the  program.  (The
       information is saved in a .pykaraoke folder in your home directory).

       If you get more karaoke files, don’t forget to rescan the hard disk and
       build the database again. Otherwise the new files won’t be  visible  in
       the search engine.

       With  your  database  set  up, you are ready to start searching for and
       playing your karaoke songs. From the main window, enter the name of the
       song  you would like to find and click "Search". This will populate the
       Search Results panel below with the  matching  song  files.  From  here
       double-clicking  a song plays it directly. You can also add the song to
       your playlist by right-clicking on the song and using the popup menu.

       There is also a simple explorer-like interface  that  can  be  selected
       using  a  drop-down  box on the main window ("Folder View"). Using this
       you can also play songs directly  or  add  them  to  the  playlist,  by
       right-clicking on the song and using the popup menu.

       In the right-hand side of the window you will find your playlist. Songs
       can be added from the search results or folder browser, until you  have
       built up your playlist. Once ready, click on the song you would like to
       start with. When the song is finished playing, the next song  down  the
       playlist  will  automatically start playing. You can also delete single
       songs, or clear the entire playlist by right-clicking on an item in the
       playlist.

       pykaraoke  is  actually  a GUI frontend which controls three libraries,
       pycdg for CDG files, pykar for MIDI/KAR files and pympg for MPEG files.
       If  you  do  not  wish  to  use the GUI you can actually start a player
       directly from the command-line (or by associating  file-types  in  your
       operating system).

SEE ALSO

       You can find PyKaraoke’s home page at: http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/

AUTHOR

       PyKaraoke was written by Kelvin Lawson  <kelvinl@users.sourceforge.net>
       and William Ferrell <willfe@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>, for
       the Debian project (but may be used by others).

                                 july 16, 2006