Karaoke Plugin
Quote from impactband4u on February 8, 2020, 4:06 pmHi guys, I need a plugin that can read .cdg files. I want to built a karaoke player for a school project. Any suggestions?
Hi guys, I need a plugin that can read .cdg files. I want to built a karaoke player for a school project. Any suggestions?
Quote from mazzu001 on February 8, 2020, 4:49 pmWhat you could possibly do (which I have done in the past) is have an event launch a file. For instance I have an app that views playlists that are stored in a database. Each record has the Artists name and the song title as well as a path to a file (which I have used to point to a PDF of sheet music, but could also point to any file like a .cdg file) whenever a user chooses a new song (using a subroutine which is called whenever the database changes) the file is automatically launched in the defailt program for that file type. I accomplish this by running cmd in the background at startup and using something like this in the subroutine.
OnStartup:
Run "[WindowsDir]system32\cmd.exe" "" "RunOnce+LoadComplete+Hidden" "" "[cmd]" dbpOpenTable "SetLister" "SongBank" "LoadPDF"SubRoutine :LoadPDF
DropFile "[cmd]" "[SetLister.[selectedlist].attachment1]" SendKeys "[cmd]" "{Enter}"This causes whatever default program the user has installed to handle PDF to open that particular file. So if you change that to .cdg files, your default program that opens .cdg files will launch that particular song. The reason I open cmd.exe this way is so it stays hidden. If you just use dropfile command it will pop open the cmd window, which may not matter in your situation but this way its cleaner without opening up an extra window.
In theory this should work. There isnt a plugin for .cdg files at the moment so might take a little clever coding. But it wouldn't be too difficult. Let me know if I can help you through the code part. Id be happy to help you out
What you could possibly do (which I have done in the past) is have an event launch a file. For instance I have an app that views playlists that are stored in a database. Each record has the Artists name and the song title as well as a path to a file (which I have used to point to a PDF of sheet music, but could also point to any file like a .cdg file) whenever a user chooses a new song (using a subroutine which is called whenever the database changes) the file is automatically launched in the defailt program for that file type. I accomplish this by running cmd in the background at startup and using something like this in the subroutine.
OnStartup:
Run "[WindowsDir]system32\cmd.exe" "" "RunOnce+LoadComplete+Hidden" "" "[cmd]" dbpOpenTable "SetLister" "SongBank" "LoadPDF"
SubRoutine :LoadPDF
DropFile "[cmd]" "[SetLister.[selectedlist].attachment1]"
SendKeys "[cmd]" "{Enter}"
This causes whatever default program the user has installed to handle PDF to open that particular file. So if you change that to .cdg files, your default program that opens .cdg files will launch that particular song. The reason I open cmd.exe this way is so it stays hidden. If you just use dropfile command it will pop open the cmd window, which may not matter in your situation but this way its cleaner without opening up an extra window.
In theory this should work. There isnt a plugin for .cdg files at the moment so might take a little clever coding. But it wouldn't be too difficult. Let me know if I can help you through the code part. Id be happy to help you out
Quote from impactband4u on February 9, 2020, 4:50 amHi mazzu001
Thank you very much for the reply. If there is not a plugin out there that can read cdg files, it would be much appreciated if you could help me with the code part. Maybe a small demo so i can see how it's done. It would be nice if someone could built a plugin that can read .cdg files though :) I will definitely buy it
Sorry luishp, i see now this post is in the wrong section and should be in the "Plugins VisualNEO Win" section. If you can move it, it would be great. Thank You
Hi mazzu001
Thank you very much for the reply. If there is not a plugin out there that can read cdg files, it would be much appreciated if you could help me with the code part. Maybe a small demo so i can see how it's done. It would be nice if someone could built a plugin that can read .cdg files though :) I will definitely buy it
Sorry luishp, i see now this post is in the wrong section and should be in the "Plugins VisualNEO Win" section. If you can move it, it would be great. Thank You
Quote from luishp on February 10, 2020, 2:41 pm@impactband4u Don't worry I have moved it to the appropiate section.
Regards.
@impactband4u Don't worry I have moved it to the appropiate section.
Regards.