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Karaokii
Karaokii
	File:Karaokiiwii.jpg
General
Author	Pedrocrespo
Type	Music
Version	0.05
License	GPL-3.0
Last Updated	2009/08/29
Links
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Revision as of 12:00, 9 February 2023

Karaokii is a karaoke application designed for the Wii. It syncs song lyrics with the rhythm of the music being played. To use Karaokii, the song files must be stored in the /apps/Karaokii/songs/ folder of an SD card that is readable by the Wii. As a sample song, Sean Fournier's hit "Broken Stereo (Acoustic Version)" is included. You can hear or download the entire album "Oh My" for free from Jamendo. You can also download additional sample songs from the Karaokii Download Center or use Ultrastar songs. If you create your own Karaokii songs, you can share them by contacting the developer or using the discussion page. A submission form will be available soon.

Karaokii supports OGG format for music files and two types of lyrics: line karaoke and word karaoke. The application can read Ultrastar, Ultrastar-ng, Ultrastar Deluxe, and Performous lyrics files by changing their extension to .ki3. All .kii, .ki2, and .ki3 files can be animated using image scripting. Currently, Karaokii does not support voice recognition as there are no microphone libraries available.

Line karaoke displays the entire line of lyrics for each timemark. The lyrics must follow a format similar to an .lrc file and be stored in a .kii file. The timing can be formatted in several ways, such as [mm:ss:xx], [mm:ss.xx], [mm.ss:xx], or [mm.ss.xx]. A sharp sign can also be used in place of a timed line without any text.

Word karaoke provides word-by-word karaoke support. The lyrics must be stored in a .ki2 file and follow a format similar to an enhanced .lrc file. The timing for each word or syllable is indicated using mm:ss.xx tags. The first word takes the timing of the line timecode between [] and the rest take it from the previous <> tag.

Regular Ultrastar and derivative .txt lyrics files are compatible with Karaokii. To use these files, change the extension to .ki3, convert the .mp3 file to .ogg, and resize the album cover to 180x180px and switch it to PNG format if desired. The song and album cover files must be named the same as the karaoke file. All media must be placed directly in the /apps/Karaokii/songs/ folder of the SD card.

Controls

Global

Wiimote	GCN Controller	Action
Wiimote Home Button	GC Start Button	Quit game / return to loader

While song selecting

Wiimote	GCN Controller	Action
Wiimote DPad Left Wiimote DPad Right	GC DPad Left GC DPad Right	Move through song list (coverflow).
Wiimote AButton	GC A Button	Play selected song

While song playing

Wiimote	GCN Controller	Action
Wiimote AButton	GC A Button	Pause/Play
Wiimote BButton	GC B Button	Return to song selection menu

External links

Wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Karaokii

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-'''Karaokii is just what its name says: a Karaoke for Wii.'''
+Karaokii is a karaoke application designed for the Wii. It syncs song lyrics with the rhythm of the music being played. To use Karaokii, the song files must be stored in the /apps/Karaokii/songs/ folder of an SD card that is readable by the Wii. As a sample song, Sean Fournier's hit "Broken Stereo (Acoustic Version)" is included. You can hear or download the entire album "Oh My" for free from [https://web.archive.org/web/20090214000445/http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/36026 Jamendo]. You can also download additional sample songs from the [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827215201/http://www.kadede.com/karaokii/ Karaokii Download Center] or use Ultrastar songs. If you create your own Karaokii songs, you can share them by contacting the developer or using the discussion page. A submission form will be available soon.
-It shows the lyrics from the song is playing by following the rhythm of the music. All files must be stored under /apps/Karaokii/songs/ in a SD card readable by Wii.
+Karaokii supports OGG format for music files and two types of lyrics: line karaoke and word karaoke. The application can read Ultrastar, Ultrastar-ng, Ultrastar Deluxe, and Performous lyrics files by changing their extension to .ki3. All .kii, .ki2, and .ki3 files can be animated using image scripting. Currently, Karaokii does not support voice recognition as there are no microphone libraries available.
-It includes '''Sean Fournier''''s hit '''"Broken Stereo (Acoustic Version)"''' as sample song. Hear or download '''"Oh My'''", the whole album '''for free''' from [https://web.archive.org/web/20090214000445/http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/36026 Jamendo].
+Line karaoke displays the entire line of lyrics for each timemark. The lyrics must follow a format similar to an .lrc file and be stored in a .kii file. The timing can be formatted in several ways, such as [mm:ss:xx], [mm:ss.xx], [mm.ss:xx], or [mm.ss.xx]. A sharp sign can also be used in place of a timed line without any text.
-You can download a lot of sample songs via [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827215201/http://www.kadede.com/karaokii/ Karaokii Download Center] or use Ultrastar ones. You can send Karaokii made by you by contacting me (see my profile) or in discussion page of this article. A form would be available soon.
+Word karaoke provides word-by-word karaoke support. The lyrics must be stored in a .ki2 file and follow a format similar to an enhanced .lrc file. The timing for each word or syllable is indicated using mm:ss.xx tags. The first word takes the timing of the line timecode between [] and the rest take it from the previous <> tag.
-== Filetypes support ==
+Regular Ultrastar and derivative .txt lyrics files are compatible with Karaokii. To use these files, change the extension to .ki3, convert the .mp3 file to .ogg, and resize the album cover to 180x180px and switch it to PNG format if desired. The song and album cover files must be named the same as the karaoke file. All media must be placed directly in the /apps/Karaokii/songs/ folder of the SD card.
-* Music comes always in OGG format, although mod or mp3 support could be added in the future.
-* Karaokii features two kinds of lyrics: 'line karaoke' and 'word karaoke'.
-* It can read 'Ultrastar', 'Ultrastar-ng', 'Ultrastar deluxe' and 'Performous' lyrics files by renaming their extension to '.ki3'.
-* All '.kii', '.ki2' and '.ki3' can be 'image-scripted' to show animations while song playing.
-* Sorry about no voice recognizing by the moment ;), there are no microphone libraries yet.
-=== Line Karaoke ===
-'Line karaoke' displays a whole line of lyrics for each timemark. For 'line karaoke', Karaokii uses the file extension '.kii', and the lyrics inside must follow a format really similar to a '.lrc' file.
-These are some valid examples:
-    [00:05.96]When you try your best but you don't succeed
-    [00:19.94]When you get what you want but not what you need
-    [00:27.25]When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
-    [00:33.66]Stuck in reverse
-Timing can be formatted in all these ways: [mm:ss:xx] or [mm:ss.xx] or [mm.ss:xx] or [mm.ss.xx].
-Using 3 digits for milliseconds instead of centiseconds is also valid.
-A space could appear between the timing and the text too - it is removed by the program.
-    [00:23.61] Satan loves a bomb scare
-    [00:25.15] But he won't scare you
-    [00:26.65]
-    [00:29.25] Hey, sexy boots
-    [00:32.84] Get on your boots, yeah
-A sharp sign means the same than a timed line without any text.
-    [00:32.41]Oh baby dont you know I suffer?
-    [00:36.12]Oh baby can you hear me moan?
-    #
-    [00:39.92]You caught me under false pretences
-    [00:44.20]How long before you let me go?
-No lines must be blank in the lyric file and presence of ID tags (such ti:, ar:, au, al:) are not necessary and there must not be any of them in the file, althought they are ignored.
-=== Word Karaoke ===
-Word karaoke brings real word-by-word karaoke support. The format is similar to enhanced '.lrc' files, and they are contained in a '.ki2' file.
-It follows all the rules from 'line karaoke' and add <mm:ss.xx> tags for each word or syllable we want to get timed.
-    [00.32.50] Life <00.33.000>leaves <00.33.500>the <00.34.000>leaves
-    [00.35.00] by lo<00.35.500>gical <00.36.000>deduc<00.36.500>tion
-    [00.38.00] now the <00.39.000>self-des<00.39.500>truction <00.40.500>defeats <00.42.500>you
-Again the timecode can follow any of the fomats listed above and the space between it and the text is optional.
-The first word takes the timing of the line timecode between [] and the rest take it from the previous <> tag.
-To know words from syllables, words are followed by a space " ".
-=== Ultrastar compatibility ===
-All regular Ultrastar & deriv. '.txt' lyrics files are supported, so download any you like from the Internet, change the extension to '.ki3', converse '.mp3' to '.ogg' and if you want to you can use the album cover too by resizing it to 180x180px and switching to PNG format.  Songs files must be named exactly the same as the karaoke file and album cover image. All media gets put directly into the songs folder, subfolders are only to be used for scripting. References in the lyrics to the image file (which are usually jpg) to the newly converted png file. References in the lyrics to the mp3 will also need to be changed. Often there are several versions of the song such as lead or backup, choose one and name it as the main file. Finally cover images often have separate identifiers such as [CO] for cover art and also must be removed.
-=== Scripting ===
-All '.kii', '.ki2' and '.ki3' typefiles feature '.png' images scripting to show animated images while the song is playing. The starting character that tells the software wether a line contains scripting data is '@'.
-That's the format:
-    '''@file t0 t1 x0 x1 y0 y1 zx0 zx1 zy0 zy1 r0 r1 o0 o1'''
-Where:
-    '''file''' is the name of the image file without '.png'.
-    '''t0''' and '''t1''' mean appearing and desappearing time in milliseconds since the song started.
-    '''x0''' and '''x1''' mean x coordinates in pixels at start and end of the animation.
-    '''y0''' and '''y1''' mean y coordinates in pixels at start and end of the animation.
-    '''zx0''' and '''zx1''' mean horizontal percentual zoom at start and end of the animation.
-    '''zy0''' and '''zy1''' mean vertical percentual zoom at start and end of the animation.
-    '''r0''' and '''r1''' mean inital and finishing rotation of the image in degrees.
-    '''o0''' and '''o1''' mean inital and finishing opacity of the image in perecentage.
-All this data are integers except ''file'' that is char string.
-There is a script command analog to FillScreen that allows you to choose the background color to use while song is being played. Its opening label is two at signs '@@'as seen here:
- '''@@FFFFFF''' //Fill the screen in white (Hexadecimal RGB format).
-Images used in script have to be be inside a folder whose name must be the same used as lyrics and audio filename.
-=== Album covers ===
-Each song can (and should) have an album cover to be shown in the song selection menu. This images must be '.png' and sized 180x180px.
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