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Karaoke NCN (.mid, .lyr, .cur) to .kar file converter

ncn-to-kar

Karaoke NCN (.mid, .lyr, .cur) to .kar file converter, in the style of makekar.c by "kxth10".

The motivation for this was porting an existing Nick Karaoke (NickWin) track collection to PyKaraoke. makekar as posted is not multibyte character set-aware and would generate a separate cursor (/bouncing ball/what-bit-am-I-meant-to-be-singing) event for each byte rather than each character, making diacritical/combining characters in languages like Thai appear on their own, hanging in the air. I ran iconv across the lyrics to transcode them from ISO8859-11 to UTF-8.

Don't throw away your original NCN files. I haven't tested every file I converted with this code so it might produce some broken .kars. The originals compress really well so it costs very little to keep them in case you find you ruined your collection with my shonky code.

I found that a newer PyKaraoke on Linux showed track/artist names in Thai just fine, but 0.7.1 on Windows 7 didn't, so perhaps the resulting .kar files require a recent version of PyKaraoke?