domspad / cli-aoke

Command Line Karaoke

cli-aoke

Command Line Karaoke

How it Works

The first time you run cli-aoke songs since you don't have the song files, they will be scraped from the web and placed in a .cli-aoke/ directory in your home directory. Running cli-aoke sing <song_file_name> finds the song file, searches azlyrics.com for the lyrics based off the filename, scrapes the site for the lyrics, then starts a python thread with the .mid file playing through fluidsynth & the lyrics being displayed line by line in your terminal.

Caveats

• You must install fluidsynth according to the instructions below.
• Sometimes the search for lyrics selects the wrong one, whomp whomp.
• The lines being printed are not synced with the song. (maybe there is a way to parse the lyric metadata from a .mid file?)

Requirements

This assumes you have setup fluidsynth in the following way:

$ brew install fluidsynth
$ wget http://www.schristiancollins.com/soundfonts/GeneralUser_GS_1.44-FluidSynth.zip
$ unzip GeneralUser_GS_1.44-FluidSynth.zip
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/share/fluidsynth
$ mv GeneralUser\ GS\ 1.44\ FluidSynth/GeneralUser\ GS\ FluidSynth\ v1.44.sf2 /usr/local/share/fluidsynth/generaluser.v.1.44.sf2

Installation

$ pip install cli-aoke

Usage

View song choices

NOTE: You must run first cli-aoke songs once before running sing because it scrapes a site for the .mid files to initialize your songs directory

$ cli-aoke songs

Sing a song

$ cli-aoke sing <song_file_name>

Example

$ cli-aoke songs
$ cli-aoke sing Jay-Z_-_Hard_Knock_Life.mid
$ cli-aoke sing Blackstreet_-_No_Diggity.mid
$ cli-aoke sing 2Pac_-_California.mid