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NAME

       pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player

SYNOPSIS

       pycdg [ options ] songfilename.cdg

OVERVIEW

       pykaraoke is a free karaoke player for Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.

       pycdg is a CDG karaoke player which supports MP3+G and OGG+G tracks.

       The player uses the pygame library (www.pygame.org), and can therefore run on any operating system that runs pygame (currently Linux, Free-
       BSD, Windows and OSX).

       You can use this file as a standalone player, or together with PyKaraoke. PyKaraoke provides a graphical user interface, playlists, search-
       able song database etc.

       For  those  writing  a  media player or similar project who would like CDG support, this module has been designed to be easily incorporated
       into such projects and is released under the LGPL.

       Numeric module (numpy.sourceforge.net) is required only if you do not use the compiled C low-level CDG implementation in _pycdgAux.c

USAGE

       To start the player, pass the CDG filename/path on the command line:

	    python pycdg.py /path/song.cdg

       You can also incorporate a CDG player in your own projects by importing this module. The class cdgPlayer is exported by the module. You can
       import and start it as follows:

	    import pycdg
	    player = pycdg.cdgPlayer("/path/song.cdg")
	    player.Play()

       If  you	do this, you must also arrange to call pycdg.manager.Poll() from time to time, at least every 100 milliseconds or so, to allow the
       player to do its work.

       The class also exports Close(), Pause(), Rewind(), GetPos().

       There are two optional parameters to the initialiser, errorNotifyCallback and doneCallback:

       errorNotifyCallback, if provided, will be used to print out any error messages (e.g. song file not found). This allows the  module  to  fit
       together well with GUI playlist managers by utilising the same GUI's error popup window mechanism (or similar). If no callback is provided,
       errors are printed to stdout. errorNotifyCallback should take one parameter, the error string, e.g.:

	    def errorPopup (ErrorString):
		 msgBox (ErrorString)

       doneCallback can be used to register a callback so that the player calls you back when the song is finished playing.  The  callback  should
       take no parameters, e.g.:

	    def songFinishedCallback():
		 msgBox ("Song is finished")

       To register callbacks, pass the functions in to the initialiser:

	    cdgPlayer ("/path/song.cdg", errorPopup, songFinishedCallback)

       These parameters are optional and default to None.

       If the initialiser fails (e.g. the song file is not present), __init__ raises an exception.

OPTIONS

       pycdg also takes various command-line options for setting the window size, position, and update rate. Type the following for a full list of
       options:

       $ pycdg --help

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							  PYCDG(6)