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Bug 132288 - MIDI doc : adding .kar (karaoke) file information
MIDI doc : adding .kar (karaoke) file information
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: documentation
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: NONE
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-01-23 12:36 UTC by Stephane Loeuillet
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Stephane Loeuillet 2004-01-23 12:36:46 UTC 
here are some informations i have discovered on .kar files :

they are plain midi files and seen as such by "file" :

file /mnt/windows/D/Zarbi/gstreamer/unsupported/midi/kar/fr/Dans\ La\
Simca\ 1000_2.kar
/mnt/windows/D/Zarbi/gstreamer/unsupported/midi/kar/fr/Dans La Simca
1000_2.kar: Standard MIDI data (format 1) using 13 tracks at 1/120

they contain both music (std midi) and lyrics synched with timestamp.

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the following come from a text file i found somewhere on the net :

KAR files are based on standard Midi files with the following additional
events:
 
The KAR text meta events start with an @ followed by a character indicating
the type of KAR text meta event, then followed by text for that event.  The
following text meta events occur embedded in regular MIDI text events:
 
FileType:     @KMIDI KARAOKE FILE
Version:      @V0100
Information:  @I<text>
Language:     @LENGL
Title 1:      @T<title>
Title 2:      @T<author>
Title 3:      @T<copyright>
 
The following lyric text indicators are defined.  A \ (backslash) in the
text is to clear the screen. A / (forwardslash) in the text is a line feed
(next line).


i got some thousand .kar sample files if you want to look