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weisselstone · (This post was last modified: 2013-03-30, 20:45 by weisselstone.)

Before submitting this as a bug to trac I would like some confirmation from others.
I read on http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...or_Karaoke that XBMC supports the Ultrastar txt file-format for karaoke files. This sounds easier than compiling a working Ultrastar Deluxe on OpenElec. The source at xbmc/music/karaoke/karaokelyricstextustar.cpp seems to support this theory.
Practically I couldn't get it to work. MP3+CDG works fine after enabling Karaoke in Music Settings but when selecting the .mp3 with .txt it just plays it like every ordinary song.
Maybe someone (using Ultrastar) could test these steps:

Enable Karaoke in Music settings
Scan a song with (ultrastar) lyrics txt into the library
start the song

You can find legal test files here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultrasta...les/Songs/
Keep in mind that you should have to rename the .txt file to the same as the .mp3 file.

I'm using XBMC 12.1 on OpenElec 3.0 Generic.
The files are named like this:

Code:
openelec:~/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar) # ls -l

total 5028

-rwxr--r--    1 root     root       5132584 Mar 30 19:17 Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3

-rwxr--r--    1 root     root          8367 Mar 30 18:55 Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.txt

And the debug log after starting the song shows this:

Code:
18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 4787318:160 0 KEY_OK devinput (KEY_OK)

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: OnKey: 11 (0b) pressed, action is Select

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnClear from xbmc

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 2, from xbmc, message OnClear

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnAdd from xbmc

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 2, from xbmc, message OnAdd

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers(/storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3)

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: system rules

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: matches rule: system rules

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: rtv

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: hdhomerun/myth/mms/udp

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: lastfm/shout

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: rtmp

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: rtsp

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: streams

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: dvd

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: dvdimage

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: sdp/asf

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: nsv

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerSelectionRule::GetPlayers: considering rule: radio

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: matched 0 rules with players

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding audiodefaultplayer (3)

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=0, audio=1

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding player: PAPlayer (3)

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: for video=1, audio=1

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: adding player: DVDPlayer (1)

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CPlayerCoreFactory::GetPlayers: added 2 players

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CFileCache::Open - opening </storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3> using cache

18:34 T:2702990144  NOTICE: Thread CFileCache start, auto delete: false

18:34 T:2702990144   DEBUG: Process, request seek on source to 5067048

18:34 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Seek - waiting for position 5132456.

18:34 T:2702990144    INFO: CFileCache::Process - Hit eof.

18:34 T:2702990144   DEBUG: Process, request seek on source to 0

18:35 T:3015911168    INFO: AudioDecoder: File is queued

18:35 T:3015911168    INFO: CSoftAE::MakeStream - AE_FMT_S32NE, 44100, FL,FR

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAE::Run - Sink restart flagged

18:35 T:3015695168    INFO: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - keeping old sink with : AE_FMT_FLOAT, FL,FR, 44100hz

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - Using speaker layout: 2.0

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - Internal Buffer Size: 17664

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: AERemap: Downmix normalization is disabled

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAEStream::CSoftAEStream - Converting from AE_FMT_S32NE to AE_FMT_FLOAT

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: AudioDecoder::GetReplayGain - Final Replaygain applied: 1.000000, Track/Album Gain 89.000000, Peak 0.000000

18:35 T:3015911168    INFO: PAPlayer::PrepareStream - Ready

18:35 T:2728274752  NOTICE: Thread PAPlayer start, auto delete: false

18:35 T:2728274752   DEBUG: PAPlayer::Process - Playback started

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: ADDON: Dll Initializing - projectM

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Calling TransferSettings for: projectM

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetActivePlayers", "id": 1}

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Calling player.getactiveplayers

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAE::Run - Sink restart flagged

18:35 T:3015695168    INFO: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - keeping old sink with : AE_FMT_FLOAT, FL,FR, 44100hz

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - Using speaker layout: 2.0

18:35 T:3015695168   DEBUG: CSoftAE::InternalOpenSink - Internal Buffer Size: 17664

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Visualisation::Start()

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: OnInitialize() started

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: OnInitialize() done

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CGUIInfoManager::SetCurrentSong(/storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3)

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetItem", "params": { "playerid": 0 }, "id": 1}

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Calling player.getitem

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetActivePlayers", "id": 1}

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Calling player.getactiveplayers

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.GetItem", "params": { "playerid": 0 }, "id": 1}

18:35 T:2959747904   DEBUG: JSONRPC: Calling player.getitem

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Loading additional tag info for file /storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnPlay from xbmc

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 1, from xbmc, message OnPlay

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Karaoke: lyrics for song /storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3 not found

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CGUIInfoManager::SetCurrentSong(/storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3)

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Loading additional tag info for file /storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnPlay from xbmc

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 1, from xbmc, message OnPlay

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: Karaoke: lyrics for song /storage/music/Karaoke/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du (Kar)/Wise Guys - Mensch, wo bist du.mp3 not found

18:35 T:3015911168   DEBUG: LIRC: Update - NEW at 4787765:160 0 KEY_OK_UP devinput (KEY_OK_UP)

18:50 T:3015911168   DEBUG: PROJECTM - Changed preset to: Geiss - Oldskool Mellowstyle.milk

18:55 T:3015911168   DEBUG: PROJECTM - Changed preset to: Rovastar & Geiss - Dynamic Swirls 3 (Mysticial Awakening Mi.milk

18:55 T:2817055552   DEBUG: Thread Jobworker 2817055552 terminating (autodelete)

EDIT: The .txt file is in ANSI format, converting to UTF-8 didn't help. Converting it to .lrc using FoF Lyric Converter 2.39 worked but this is just a messy workaround,

priesh · 2013-11-07, 19:44

I know this is an old thread but I also have been trying to get XBMC to work with Ultrastar karaoke tracks - I tried in 12.2 and 13.0a9 and in both instances XBMC crashes if I enable Karaoke and try to play one of my Ultrastar tracks.

Did you have any luck getting it to work after you posted this thread?

fightnight · 2013-11-11, 23:06

Me too

Example of the track with karaoke enabled:

Code:
http://www.putlocker.com/file/A212CF63C9BD1D38

Renard · 2014-04-07, 16:11

Same issue here - never could have XBMC read ultrastar files.

(2013-03-30, 20:05)weisselstone Wrote: Keep in mind that you should have to rename the .txt file to the same as the .mp3 file.

Derp. Ultrastar TXT files have a #SONG: tag which should be used to discover the correct MP3 in a given folder. I believe it's a bug, maybe I should fill a bug report.