Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Kap Release

2009-03-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
pports the use of MPlayer, but it will eventually support many more players. No screenshots; we gotta actually build it to see what it looks like, huh? :-) Cheers -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player Progress

2009-03-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
any changes we made*. We aren't compelled to distribute those changes, though, merely because we *made* them to GPLd code. The discrepancy this introduces in web-app code is what the Affero GPL was introduced to avoid. So, John: when do we get to see the code? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player

2009-02-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
agine, I'm seriously considering trying to take it out on the road and make some money with it, so stability and ease of use in that environment is important to me as well. Things like "use windows, not dialog boxes, for management functions, so you don't lock up the realtime

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Time Left

2008-09-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t. I concur, but please let me suggest that you try to make sure the numbers are constant-width, and precalculate enough that you can fill empty places with spaces; having that line jump around on the screen every second will drive people nuts. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

[Pykaraoke-discuss] So, what's everyone doing with PYK?

2008-01-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Kelvin: did we ever look into the "break the playback window apart from the management window" thing? Will? How were you dealing with that? Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] how to display Polish chars from *.kar?

2007-12-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
hose characters are > garbled, in the same way all time, like if the charset > definition was ignored. > > Is thare anything that could be done about it? New Year's > Eve is coming :). So it is. Any ideas on this, Kelvin? (He wrote it; he'd be the best person to ask

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mac osx tiger]

2007-11-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
lt putting the air interface and the control interface on separate display adapters? I may be *finally* about to do something productive with the silly program; I have a soft-launch gig coming up in January at a restaurant a friend of mine bought recently. Cheers, -- jra -- J

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Show the lyrics on an other monitor

2007-08-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
in the environment and furnish it to the player program if found, as $DISPLAY. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://bay

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Not sure if I'm asking a stupid question or not...

2006-09-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
:-) I suspect pre-rendering to FLV and shipping to a flash player is the best goal; a version of the cdg player that would permit rendering to a file (I believe the current one won't) is, if I understood boss-man correctly, under consideration.

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Not sure if I'm asking a stupid question or not...

2006-09-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
thin line sociologically anyway, and you only get 3 failures. 1, if it's big enough.) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New Version and CDG changes/interpretation

2006-07-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ll Ferrell recently moved to, roughly, Daytona. Where are you? (And will you be at the TalentQuest State Finals in St Pete any of the next 3 weekends? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] freedb.org

2006-07-03 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
rticle.pl?sid=06/07/03/0055211 I think they could have done a *MUCH* better job of transferring control of a service resource. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] RW vs RW_RAW (was New ripper)

2006-07-02 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
't know. I entirely think it could mean that, yes, and it would probably just bit-pack them. Recording some identifiable data, as you have, and checking to see what comes back on a bit-by-bit basis would probably prove it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] RW vs RW_RAW (was New ripper)

2006-06-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ne *manually trimmed to a specific short size as requested*? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] RW vs RW_RAW (was New ripper)

2006-06-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:33:08PM +0100, Drew wrote: > But the first difference in the files is at byte 2353. Velly Intelesting. My memory tells me that the byte count of a raw sector of a Red Book CD is 2352. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashwo

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
de, > and send along the first 100KB or so of each rip. Well, I haven't actually gotten a drive yet, but shortly. Unless you meant for me to do it on the Toshiba internal... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s I'd be interested to see it. Could some testing software be whipped up? I wouldn't object to spending the money on some specific CD+G disc (so that we all have the same baseline) if there was something I could run against that disc to diagnose what the drive was shipping over

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:19:23PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: >On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:13:48PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: > > On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
. "yeah, >it'll be about ten minutes before you can sing this because my >computer has to read the whole disc first") Well, it's often about 10 minutes anyway, isn't it? Most of our ringers hand in the disc *as* their request slip, round here. And you should a

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 02:13:48PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: >On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: > >I've relocated to Florida (Palm Bay), and am trying to set &

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
27;m going ot test it. > > Has anyone looked into cdparanoia? > > I couldn't find an option for ripping with subcode but I didn't look > that closely. Amusingly, googling for cdparanoia subcode turns up... me and Will, talking about whether it will do it or not. :-) Ch

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0400, William Ferrell wrote: >On 6/25/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I'll admit; that's *almost* all I've got so far. :-) > Not quite: I have a paper sketch of a screen layout. > I

[Pykaraoke-discuss] The Other End: ProShow; a playback controller for commercial hosting

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
rs to feed my mixer), and potentially interface with wireless songbook tablets (my current target is the Fujitsu Point 510 or 1600; the touchscreens of which are 800x600, color, and don't require a pen). How *have* things been going with your lashup these days? And where's your blog again?

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] New ripper

2006-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
> 1. The drive was returning incorrect data. However the fact that the > audio was distorted suggests to me that it was not just returning RW_RAW > data because that would have resulted in normal audio and garbage cdg. > > 2. cdrdao is doing something to the data. Has anyone looked i

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Changing font of pykaraoke

2006-04-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:34:36PM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > On 4/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah... as I say, I think that's why they didn't allow people to > > actually put it on as text: that would be *much* easier to extract

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Changing font of pykaraoke

2006-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 05:47:09PM +0200, Cyrill Helg wrote: > Am Montag 17 April 2006 15:52 schrieb Jay R. Ashworth: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:35:48AM +0200, Cyrill Helg wrote: > > > First of all thanks for the cool application. My issue: I would like > > > to

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Changing font of pykaraoke

2006-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
els were afraid people would extract the text and do nefarious things with it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Thin

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ck. > > > >Could you sync it, though? > > Well there's the new "no audio" option in pycdg. This uses the system > clock to play the CD+G in real time. It would need to know if you had > paused or rewound etc, but it could probably do the job. You can al

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
egotiations broke down recently. I went public with the details, and > >Tom Martino (the "Troubleshooter") is going to have me on his radio > >program Monday to hash this stuff out. Heh. This should get > >interesting fast :) > > Itching to hear how this pans out.

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:19:22AM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > > [ lost address; pressed for time; please reply back onto list? ] > > Not a problem :) I've done that before ;) Tnx. > > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:06:06PM -0600, William Ferrell wrote: > > > On

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] [HOWTO] Implementing pitch-shifting and crossfading (for filler music/other sources) for PyKaraoke on Linux with JACK

2006-04-07 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
player -ao sdl ... > -or- > # mplayer -ao jack ... You can configure that in mplayer.conf, right? > Fire off an MPlayer instance with a song to make sure it appears as a > client in the qjackctl Connections window. > > If you're using MPlayer with SDL,

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke v0.4.2

2006-03-30 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
nt stuff onto the buffer right before it gets flushed to > the display device, so it may still just apply and work. Indeed. I'm going to sit down this week, and finally try to comp up what I think a pro-hoster control front end for pyk oughtta look like; I'll post it when I'

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Runtime error

2006-02-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
w which version of Windows > you're using please? Also was it working previously or did this happen > the first time you ran it? It did it to me, too, Kelvin; I'd forgotten to say anything. XPPro. First time. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CAVS' "Super CD+G" format

2005-12-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
m > > Feel free to chip in, add a separate section for a professional player etc. Aw. Not MediaWiki. Denied. :-) Wilco, though. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink

[Pykaraoke-discuss] CAVS' "Super CD+G" format

2005-12-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
sights here would be welcome. I infer from the patent that if I can get to MCG files, they might be reasonably parseable with the current engine... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Re: FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
iling code in there using the hotshot module. It > hasn't turned out to be useful unfortunately - according to the > documentation it doesn't play well with threads. The accumulated time it > spews out is totally incorrect for instance. I've disabled it in there > for now.

[Pykaraoke-discuss] *Creating* CDG files

2005-12-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
it's almost $200. PowerKaraoke *looks* nice (though I haven't played with it)... but it's still $90. I suspect Kelvin has a feel for how complex the tracks are, having rendered them; any thoughts on this? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Re: FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
it'll stop doing any updates, allowing the CPU to catch up quicker. The > thinking is that a spell of no updates is better than a spell of out of > sync updates. I didn't get to this today, but as so many things go, sloth proved to work well for me. :-) I'm off to

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Re: FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ould have thought the {mumble} library was doing it for you? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Re: FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s that have > been updated. I'm not sure how it will pan out, so before I tidy it up > and do it properly, could you give this one a go? FPS is set to 30. I've downloaded it; I'll check it today. Saw your note about depth; I'll play with

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Rip-rap

2005-12-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
LABEL}${DISC}-" * echo ls -CF echo eject /dev/hdc echo "Done." =8<=== It probably ought to have an *overall* time tracking facility, and some logging. And I need to update my cdrdao to permit slowing down; I'm rippi

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
up with "Jesus Is Just Alright" by the Brothers Doobie (DG11-11); 15 was too slow. It does appear to not be trying to alias the art, in whatever fashion it was before. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ng like 20:1, it's taking 26 minutes to convert, on average, 60ish minutes of tracks. Is that unreasonable? For a C-IV 1400 it seems a bit slow. What's the default set of MP3 conversion parameters? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[E

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ylist. > > Something like a "Play" button, and a "Play One" button. Well, even for home-type use, you really only want to play one song at a time, I'd think. Single-user practice is the only environment where play-all seems useful, at least to me. > > 3) add

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:59:36PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > However, I'm curious if anyone here knows how to snag the right-hand > > "half" of my two-screen-wide X server desktop and create a "preview" > > of what it's showing in a small w

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t falling behind. > > Can "fullscreen" mode change the scan rate of the X server? Set it to > > 640x480x8, and the problem would likely evaporate. > > Yes, full screen mode will switch your display resolution if it can > match a mode to your options; try this: >

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
n routinely squeeze 50 FPS out of it at 800x600. If > I try for 60 FPS, it loses sync with the audio and isn't usable. Mine is much less happy than that, but, of course, that's at 1280x1024. Can "fullscreen" mode change the scan rate of the X server? Set it to 640x48

[Pykaraoke-discuss] FINALLY -- ghod I hate SuSE

2005-12-11 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
(Will: there's another button for the interface: "Problem with track -- rerip" :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & As

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke RPM

2005-12-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:39:56PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:43:37PM +, Kelvin Lawson wrote: > > but I don't have a system to try it out on. Any feedback you have on the > > correct dependencies would be much appreciated. > > I hope

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke RPM

2005-12-02 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
.3. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
hen there could be erroneous data in the border > that gets scrolled in. > > What do you think? I think that I've never *ever* seen a commercial CDG that scrolls. Ever. KBS will create them, and I should have that in a week or two. But I wouldn't worry *too* much about it

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
y-extant project which is closest to what we need, and submit patches? And, BTW, Will; could you check your mailer for an HTML knob, and flip it off? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-27 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ht screw are those with more than one python installed, with the same interpreter name in different places in their paths. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashwo

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s picking a location for everything else that won't conflict. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ/KJ in Denver Checking In

2005-11-26 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
lidays, I hope I've gotten his name right :-) thinks much the way I do about in-show usability, *and* *is* a coder. :-) > Any ideas would be appreciated. Looking forward to contributing where I > can! Our plans for evening domination are proceeding precisely on schedule. Cheers, -- jr

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] First attempt. Failure. :-} SuSE 9.3

2005-11-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
lvin; I've been through much of your python code the last 24 hours; please let me compliment you on your *insanely* good coding and commenting style. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Bayl

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] First attempt. Failure. :-} SuSE 9.3

2005-11-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
y? (Obviously, my preferred target would be Vorbis/Theora...) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think

[Pykaraoke-discuss] First attempt. Failure. :-} SuSE 9.3

2005-11-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
'm doing wrong? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think&

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:22:38PM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: >On 11/9/05, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:56:11AM -0700, William Ferrell wrote: > >Yay! Let me know when it's populated; I added supp

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] PyKaraoke v0.4

2005-11-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & AssociatesThe Things I Think'87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
be added inside the main interleaving loop; if not, it > could be more "interesting" to implement. /me runs and hides Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth[EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] CD+G CD image mastering tool nearly finished

2005-11-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
that word "mastering", buddy. :-) Yes, I *am* going to break down and buy KBS, here when I can afford it... I'd talked to the Brit who built it by email once, and it went the way my first email to you did, Will... and then he ran away. But anyway; co