This chapter explores using karaoke files in MP3+G format. Files are pulled off a server to a (small) computer attached to a display device (my TV). Files are chosen using a Java Swing application running on Linux or Windows.
In Chapter 23, I discussed the MP3+G format for karaoke. Each “song” consists of two files: an MP3 file for the audio and a low-quality CDG file for the video (mainly the lyrics). Often these two files are zipped together.
Files can be extracted from CDG karaoke discs by using cdrdao and cdgrip.py. They can be played by VLC when given the MP3 file as an argument. It will pick up the ...
