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NAME

       pykaraoke_mini - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player

SYNOPSIS

       pykaraoke_mini

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

       pykaraoke_mini  is  a frontend for the pycdg and pympg karaoke players.
       It is similar to pykaraoke.py, but it is  designed  for  use  on  small
       portable  devices  rather than PC’s.  In particular, it could be useful
       on any device lacking a keyboard and mouse.

       It presents a scrolling list of songs to choose from, sorted by  title,
       artist,  or  filename.   It works within the same pygame window used to
       render the karaoke songs themselves, so the scrolling interface is  not
       available  while  a  song  is being performed.  The biggest strength of
       pykaraoke_mini is that it does not rely on a keyboard  or  a  windowing
       interface,  so it is ideal for use with a joystick or even an IR remote
       control in a bar.

       Unlike pykaraoke, pykaraoke_mini does not  store  a  database  of  song
       files, nor does it search around through different folders to find your
       song files.  Instead, it is your  responsibility  to  build  a  catalog
       file,  which is a text file that contains one line per each song.  Each
       line should be of the form:

            filename <tab> title <tab> artist

       You can include international characters by encoding the file in UTF-8.
       All  three  of  these  fields  will  be  presented  to  the user in the
       scrolling list.  The filename is assumed to be relative to the  catalog
       file itself.

       If  you  like, you can maintain multiple different catalog files ofthis
       form, which will allow you to run pykaraoke_mini with different subsets
       of  your  song files.  Use the --catalog command-line option to specify
       the  full  path  to  your  catalog  file;  the  default   filename   is
       songs/catalog.txt.

       While navigating the scrolling menu, the following keys are available:

            up  /  down   :  scroll through the list.  Hold the button down to
       scroll very rapidly.

            pageup / pagedown  :  scroll a page at a time.

            enter  :  select the highlighted song for performance.

            tab  :  change the sort mode between title, artist, and  filename.
            The current sort key is displayed first for each file.

            + / -  :  enlarge or reduce the font scale.  This also affects the
       font scale when a MIDI file is selected (but does not affect CDG or MPG
       files).

            a-z  :  search for a song beginning with the indicated letter.  If
       you type multiple letters, search for a song beginning with the  string
       you type.

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                    PYKARAOKE(6)