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NAME

       pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player

SYNOPSIS

       pycdg [ options ] songfilename.cdg

OVERVIEW

       pykaraoke is a free karaoke player for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.

       pycdg is a CDG karaoke player which supports MP3+G and OGG+G tracks.

       The  player uses the pygame library (www.pygame.org), and can therefore
       run on any operating system that runs pygame (currently Linux, FreeBSD,
       Windows and OSX).

       You  can  use  this  file  as  a  standalone  player,  or together with
       PyKaraoke. PyKaraoke provides a graphical  user  interface,  playlists,
       searchable song database etc.

       For  those writing a media player or similar project who would like CDG
       support, this module has been designed to be easily  incorporated  into
       such projects and is released under the LGPL.

       Numeric  module  (numpy.sourceforge.net) is required only if you do not
       use the compiled C low-level CDG implementation in _pycdgAux.c

USAGE

       To start the player, pass the CDG filename/path on the command line:

            python pycdg.py /path/song.cdg

       You can also incorporate a CDG player in your own projects by importing
       this  module.  The  class  cdgPlayer is exported by the module. You can
       import and start it as follows:

            import pycdg
            player = pycdg.cdgPlayer("/path/song.cdg")
            player.Play()

       If you do this, you must also arrange to call pycdg.manager.Poll() from
       time  to  time,  at  least  every  100 milliseconds or so, to allow the
       player to do its work.

       The class also exports Close(), Pause(), Rewind(), GetPos().

       There   are   two   optional    parameters    to    the    initialiser,
       errorNotifyCallback and doneCallback:

       errorNotifyCallback,  if  provided, will be used to print out any error
       messages (e.g. song file not found). This  allows  the  module  to  fit
       together  well  with  GUI playlist managers by utilising the same GUI’s
       error popup window mechanism (or similar). If no callback is  provided,
       errors  are  printed  to  stdout.  errorNotifyCallback  should take one
       parameter, the error string, e.g.:

            def errorPopup (ErrorString):
                 msgBox (ErrorString)

       doneCallback can be used to register a  callback  so  that  the  player
       calls  you  back when the song is finished playing. The callback should
       take no parameters, e.g.:

            def songFinishedCallback():
                 msgBox ("Song is finished")

       To register callbacks, pass the functions in to the initialiser:

            cdgPlayer ("/path/song.cdg", errorPopup, songFinishedCallback)

       These parameters are optional and default to None.

       If the initialiser fails (e.g. the song file is not present),  __init__
       raises an exception.

OPTIONS

       pycdg  also  takes  various command-line options for setting the window
       size, position, and update rate. Type the following for a full list  of
       options:

       $ pycdg --help

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