Re: First Word in Karaoke; Verses

[Mark Dewey]

I suspect it may have something to do with my karaoke 
player not yet supporting UTF-8 encoding.  VanBasco's 
karaoke player comes with some examples karaoke midis. 
 Here's the website: <http://www.vanbasco.com/>.  It's 
a nice karaoke player, though, except for the first 
word thing with Lilypond midis, and that it doesn't 
support UTF-8 encoding (there's a workaround for the 
midis, sort of: Just append the first word to the 
second word, with an underscore, as in "first 
first_second"; however, it'll highlight the first and 
the second at the same time, but at least you'll see 
what it is).

For the lyrics, I was talking about how it only plays 
one verse (seeing as there's only music enough for one 
verse) - the verse that plays, though, is what I meant; 
it seems to be routinely something like the second or 
the fourth verse that plays, usually, though I'd prefer 
the first.  Hmm, is there a player out there that will 
play all the verses even if you only input the music in 
the midi once?  Maybe it would help if I had another 
karaoke player to experiment with.  What are some good 
ones for LilyPond midis (preferably small midi programs 
that support UTF-8 encoding, key changes, tempo 
changes, and such - but, any should be good)?  Let me 
see if it works that way for Winamp . . . Hmm - it's 
worse on Winamp; there aren't any spaces and the 
highlighting doesn't come in for at least a sentence 
(but it does show the first word) - and it doesn't 
follow the lyrics when they pass the page (but that's 
probably just the karaoke plug-in's thing).




Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> I don't know much about MIDI, so hopefully somebody else
> can fill in more details. However, I just verified that all
> words are included in the generated MIDI file and the first
> word starts at time index zero.
> It might help to figure out what the problem is if you could
> find some other MIDI file where the first word does show up.
>
> For the verse ordering, it seems that the verses appear in the
> same order in the MIDI file as in the printed output. The question
> is how your Karaoke player determines which one to play first.
>
> One of the few things I have learned about MIDI over the years
> is that it's far from standardized, so something that works for
> one particular sequencer may not work on another.
>
>   /Mats
>
> Mark Dewey wrote:
> > I've noticed that when I use LilyPond midis as karaoke,
> > they skip the first word (at least in VanBasco's
> > Karaoke Player - that's generally all I use for midis,
> > other than Anvil Studio).  This appears to happen with
> > every version of LilyPond I've used for a really long
> > time.  I'm currently using 2.11.18 on Windows 2000.
> > Also (just a side-note, and perhaps not a bug:), it
> > seems the first verse isn't the chosen one for karaoke
> > most of the time (I'm not sure how the verse used is
> > determined when there are multiple verses on the same
> > music, but it would be nice to choose it; perhaps
> > there's a way already).
> >
> >
> >
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