Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Extended Debate

2009-08-03 Thread John Schneiderman
On Saturday 1 August 2009 06:13:47 Kelvin Lawson wrote: > Interesting question. From the start I always intended for PyKaraoke to be > usable in commercial projects. To that end I deliberately avoided GPL to > remove any restrictions / concerns that commercial projects may have about > whether they

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Extended Debate

2009-07-31 Thread John Schneiderman
On Friday 31 July 2009 16:20:02 Tim wrote: > I am not familiar with who all holds the copyrights to code in the > project, but if your worry is that someone will take this product and > compete with your company with the same code, then why don't you just > use a full GPL rather than the LGPL? It

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Extended Debate

2009-07-31 Thread John Schneiderman
There's some debate here where I work about moving forward with the PyKaraoke project. At this time nothing has been decided or set in stone. We want to open up communications to see if our goals fit the community. We are looking for a karaoke player that we can use in a professional capacity. T

[Pykaraoke-discuss] New Release 0.2

2009-04-14 Thread John Schneiderman
I have made the next release of Kap available, as well as updating the site, and adding an official mailing list. As a side note there are more features to come for PyKaraoke. I'm in the process of working on them now. John S. ---

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Kap Wishlist

2009-04-13 Thread John Schneiderman
On Monday 13 April 2009 13:31:46 Floris wrote: > So Kap is a GUI for "mplayer -playlist" at this time? Pretty much. With interface specifically tailored for running a show. You can see the rough road map for Kap in the TODO file. I'll be uploading a tarball later tonight for downloading without

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Kap Wishlist

2009-04-13 Thread John Schneiderman
On Monday 13 April 2009 13:25:13 Floris wrote: > Maybe I missed something, but I thought it would also > be possible to use cdg files in Kap. > > Is it possible to use cdg files? > And maybe for a future release to play a movie file as > a background and use a mp3/ ogg - cdg file combination as > t

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Kap Release

2009-03-10 Thread John Schneiderman
Just wanted to announce the release of the DJ media player sister project. It is ready in an alpha state. You can find the code at: http://kap.nongnu.org . Look forward to your comments and suggestions. It currently only supports the use of MPlayer, but it will eventually support many m

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player Progress

2009-03-09 Thread John Schneiderman
On Monday 9 March 2009 13:28:50 Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > - "John Schneiderman" wrote: > It doesn't even prevent proprietary *use* (though AGPL does), it prevents > proprietary *redistribution*. You're right I should have been more specific. AGPL doesn't re

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player Progress

2009-03-09 Thread John Schneiderman
On Monday 9 March 2009 08:45:48 Kelvin Lawson wrote: > I haven't really followed the progress of GPLv3 - I made PyKaraoke LGPL > because it's fairly open and I wanted to encourage people to use it both > privately and commercially. I guess it could go mixed license to > incorporate your standalone

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player Progress

2009-03-05 Thread John Schneiderman
On Wednesday 4 March 2009 18:30:20 Kelvin Lawson wrote: > Thanks for keeping us posted. Did you implement a new frontend or is it > an extension of the main Wx GUI? Either way I'm happy to incorporate any > new features within PyKaraoke. Kelvin, I've actually done both. I've created a sta

[Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player Progress

2009-03-04 Thread John Schneiderman
Just giving an update on the DJ player progress. It's moving along nicely. Should have something to show in the next few days. Is this something that as a community we would like to be a part of PyKaraoke, or would it be best to spin it off as a separate project? John S. -

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player

2009-02-20 Thread John Schneiderman
On Friday 20 February 2009 11:10:51 Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Well, first I think you're an Alan Sepinwall fan. :-) > > To have an opinion on your actual question, though, I'd have to see where > your UI changes have taken us -- I haven't loaded the code in some months. > > I'm assembling pieces fo

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player

2009-02-20 Thread John Schneiderman
On Friday 20 February 2009 10:52:13 Iann Gorrill wrote: > I'm not sure if this is along the same lines or not, but I've been > developing a manager of sorts around PyKaraoke over the last month or > so. Basically the idea works like this: > > Media pc - Hooked up to tv with speakers and mic. It h

[Pykaraoke-discuss] DJ Player

2009-02-20 Thread John Schneiderman
I've been getting a lot of feedback about wanting to have an integrated search list for the ability to play music through PyKaraoke. With the ability already present to call MPlayer, this should be an easy task. What does everyone else think? John S. ---

[Pykaraoke-discuss] IRC Channel

2009-01-27 Thread John Schneiderman
I noticed that there was not a channel for PyKaraoke on FreeNode. I've gone ahead and created it. The channel name is pykaraoke. John S. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tel

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] SVN Breakage

2009-01-26 Thread John Schneiderman
On Monday 26 January 2009 11:42:28 John Schneiderman wrote: > Just wanted to let everyone know that SVN will be breaking either tonight > or by Wednesday. As I will be uploading a major structual change to the > permission and authentication system. Sorry, ignore this. Sent it to

[Pykaraoke-discuss] SVN Breakage

2009-01-26 Thread John Schneiderman
Just wanted to let everyone know that SVN will be breaking either tonight or by Wednesday. As I will be uploading a major structual change to the permission and authentication system. John S. -- This SF.net email is sp

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Recent Changes

2009-01-12 Thread John Schneiderman
Just thought I would give an update on the progress being made. I am currently stress testing and refining the changes that I made. I'll keep everyone updated as I progress. John S. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Menu Layout

2008-11-24 Thread John Schneiderman
There has been some discussion as to the way the menu is laid out in terms of expected navigation. Currently the setting configuration is found under "File" which is confusing to those I've spoken with. I propose we move the configuration options into a Settings category. John S. -

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Next Feature

2008-10-31 Thread John Schneiderman
I was thinking the next feature I'm going to tackle is having the ability to add the singers name in the play-list. Thoughts? John S. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the c

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Play/Stop Button

2008-10-23 Thread John Schneiderman
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 21:15:54 Nick Marinho - B-) wrote: > It's surelly a good feature. Another that can be too, the button Rewind and > Forward, like a normal music player. > What do you think about it ? That is actually another feature that has been often requested. It is most likely the

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Play/Stop Button

2008-10-22 Thread John Schneiderman
One of the requested features I've heard was having a Play and a Stop button for starting and playing a song when you're not automatically playing the next song on the play-list. I believe this would be a very useful feature. My thoughts on how to handle the behaviour is to have the start butto

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Search Double Click

2008-10-06 Thread John Schneiderman
After using the interface for a bit, it seems that the behaviour of having the song played from the search list is unexpected. I'm thinking of adding an option to change it so that double clicking will add the song to the playlist and not directly play it. John S.

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Time Left

2008-09-24 Thread John Schneiderman
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008 15:00:42 Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > 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 > dri

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Time Left

2008-09-23 Thread John Schneiderman
Forgot to add that the format for the status message I'm considering is: [Current Time/Time Remaining] Artist - Title John S. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Li

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Time Left

2008-09-23 Thread John Schneiderman
I'm currently in the process of adding the time left in the currently playing song. I'm thinking of replacing the status bar where it says "Playing " and adding the time display there. Does anyone have a better location? John S. --

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Support for zipped cdg's mp3's

2008-08-20 Thread John Schneiderman
On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 19:03:06 Holmes Wilson wrote: > Huh, that's strange. And nested folders? I remember having the > impression that not all the songs in my library were included. Then I > used a folder with all the songs unzipped with no subfolders and it > worked fine. > > Should I see

Re: [Pykaraoke-discuss] Support for zipped cdg's mp3's

2008-08-19 Thread John Schneiderman
On Tuesday, August 19, 2008 17:08:01 Holmes Wilson wrote: > Do you have any plans to support zipped cdg's or mp3's? Holmes, PyKaraoke already supports zipped cdg and mp3's. If you are asking about individually zipped files, I do not believe that current is offered. Though you would be better of

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Patch Submitted

2008-07-12 Thread John Schneiderman
I've submitted the patch. I gave a detailed description of what the patch does. I have tested it of course. More on the way. :D John S. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication is only for the person(s) named above. Unless otherwise indicated, it contains information that is confidential,

[Pykaraoke-discuss] New Patch

2008-07-08 Thread John Schneiderman
Just a heads up, around Friday I should have another patch to you. Again, it'll be built against the development CVS. John S. - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting

[Pykaraoke-discuss] Patches

2008-06-30 Thread John Schneiderman
I work for a karaoke company that is interested in using this player. How does your project accept patches? John S. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about

[Pykaraoke-discuss] CDG C implementation

2008-06-24 Thread John Schneiderman
How do I get PyKaraoke to use the C implementation and not the python implementation. I'm running GNU/Linux. John S. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about