minirok(1) [debian man page]

minirok(1)																minirok(1)

NAME

       minirok - a small music player written in Python

SYNOPSIS

       minirok [options] [file]...

DESCRIPTION

       Minirok is a small music player written in Python for the K Desktop Environment. To start it, select it from the applications menu, or type
       minirok in a terminal.

       To reproduce music, first type in the combo box at the left the directory where music is located, and press enter, or select "Open directo-
       ry"  from  the File menu. Available audio files will be shown in a tree structure. Locate the files you want to play, and use drag and drop
       to append them to the playlist in the right. You can also press double click in a file or a folder to append it to the existing playlist.

       Both the tree view and the playlist have search line widgets above them. Typing text in them will reduce the shown items to those  matching
       the  introduced words. If you press enter after a search in the tree view completes, the visible items will be appended to the playlist. If
       you press enter in the playlist search line, the first visible track will be played.

       You can modify the order in which the tracks are played by enqueueing them in a different order. For this, press right button  click  on  a
       track, and select "Enqueue track". Or press Control + RightButtonClick on the track to enqueue.

       Similarly, you can signal that playing should stop after a certain track. To do this, select "Stop playing after this track" in the contex-
       tual menu as above, or press Control + MiddleButtonClick.

       If you make changes to the filesystem, you can quickly refresh the tree view by clicking on the refresh button next to the combo  box  with
       the directory name. A key can be also configurated to do this, F5 by default.

DBUS INTERFACE

       Minirok	offers a DBus interface to control the player and various other bits. At the moment a single object /Player is provided, under the
       org.kde.minirok service. To invoke a DBus method, run from a terminal qdbus org.kde.minirok /Player methodName.	dbus-send(1)  should  also
       work, but then you'll need to fully qualify the method name.

       Here's a list of available methods:

	   Play
	   Pause
	   PlayPause
	   Stop
	   Next
	   Previous
	   NowPlaying
	   AppendToPlaylist
	   StopAfterCurrent

       See  the README.Usage file for details. Note that this interface will only be available if the required dependencies are installed. See the
       README file a list of these.

LAST.FM
       Minirok can submit played tracks to Last.fm, or any other Last.fm-compatible service (such as Libre.fm). You will just  need  to  configure
       your username and password in the preferences dialog.  Starting with Minirok 2.1, no external software is needed any more.

OPTIONS

       -a, --append
	      Try  to  append  the  files given as arguments to an existing Minirok instance first. If that fails, start a new Minirok instance as
	      usual. (This is done via DBus, see the README file for required dependencies.)

       Minirok also accepts many other options for using the Qt and KDE libraries. Run minirok --help-all for a comprehensive list.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please report bug to the Debian Bug Tracking System. See the README.Bugs file for instructions.

       A list of reported issues is kept at http://bugs.debian.org/minirok.

COPYRIGHT

       Minirok is Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Adeodato Simo, and licensed under the terms of the MIT license.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/NEWS

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/FAQ

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/README

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/README.Bugs

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/README.Lastfm

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/README.Usage

       /usr/share/doc/minirok/TODO

								    2007-09-04								minirok(1)

PYKARAOKE(6)															      PYKARAOKE(6)

NAME

       pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player

SYNOPSIS

       pykaraoke

DESCRIPTION

       pykaraoke  is a free karaoke player for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.  You can use this program to play your collection of CDG, MIDI and MPEG
       karaoke songs.

       PyKaraoke Features:
	   * CDG (MP3+G, OGG+G) playback - Play standard CDG karaoke files
	   * MIDI (.MID/.KAR) playback - Play MIDI format karaoke files
	   * MPEG playback - Play karaoke songs and movies in MPEG format
	   * Playlist - Queue up songs, sit back and enjoy
	   * Searchable song database - Easily find your songs from the main screen
	   * Search inside ZIP files - Play MP3+G/MIDI files wrapped in ZIP files
	   * Cross-platform - Runs on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows

USAGE

       The player starts in Search View. From here you can search for songs in your song database. You need to first set up the database, however,
       by clicking "Add Songs".

       To  set	up  the  database, add the folders that contain your karaoke songs. Select which type of files you are interested in adding to the
       search database (CDG, MPG etc). Click "Look Inside Zips" if you also want to search inside any ZIP files found  in  the	folders  for  more
       karaoke songs.

       When  you  have	finished adding folders, and setting your preferences, click "Scan Now" to start building the database. This can take some
       time but only needs to be done once. The search engine then searches your database, rather than searching the  hard  disk  every  time  you
       search for a song.

       Once  you have set up your database, clicking "Save" will save the database and settings for the next time you run the program. (The infor-
       mation is saved in a .pykaraoke folder in your home directory).

       If you get more karaoke files, don't forget to rescan the hard disk and build the database again. Otherwise the new files won't be  visible
       in the search engine.

       With your database set up, you are ready to start searching for and playing your karaoke songs. From the main window, enter the name of the
       song you would like to find and click "Search". This will populate the Search Results panel below with the matching song files.	From  here
       double-clicking	a  song  plays	it  directly. You can also add the song to your playlist by right-clicking on the song and using the popup
       menu.

       There is also a simple explorer-like interface that can be selected using a drop-down box on the main window ("Folder  View").  Using  this
       you can also play songs directly or add them to the playlist, by right-clicking on the song and using the popup menu.

       In  the	right-hand side of the window you will find your playlist. Songs can be added from the search results or folder browser, until you
       have built up your playlist. Once ready, click on the song you would like to start with. When the song is finished playing, the	next  song
       down  the playlist will automatically start playing. You can also delete single songs, or clear the entire playlist by right-clicking on an
       item in the playlist.

       pykaraoke is actually a GUI frontend which controls three libraries, pycdg for CDG files, pykar for  MIDI/KAR  files  and  pympg  for  MPEG
       files.  If  you	do not wish to use the GUI you can actually start a player directly from the command-line (or by associating file-types in
       your operating system).

SEE ALSO

       You can find PyKaraoke's home page at: http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/

AUTHOR

       PyKaraoke was written by Kelvin Lawson <kelvinl@users.sourceforge.net> and William Ferrell <willfe@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   july 16, 2006						      PYKARAOKE(6)