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Documents

• "Development" changes: ChangeLog
• "User" changes: NEWS
• Readme
• Todo
• License (GPL)

2008-07-14 JMG	Ok - seems a few years have passed by :-) Since I'ma currently working as a full time Debian developer in Munich I wasn't much interested in programming in my free time. But here comes the long overdue new release v0.1.37. It has a few new features, like automatic hyphenation and audacious support. Seems that XMMS is now really phased out by the distributions, so I should think of stabilizing it. On the other hand I would like to move all text handling to pango... Anyway, as always get the latest release in the development area. BTW - I don't think the changelog for the release is accurate, as this release brewed here since two years.
2005-11-14 JMG	Originally I wanted to place the release on 11-11 (carnival), but some more bugs showed up and I decided to do some debugging on the weekend. Finally v0.1.35 is ready, so get it here.
2005-11-07 JMG	After 3 weeks holiday in Spain I plan to release v0.1.35 at the end of the week. So please check the latest development snapshot. I got myself a Kubuntu Breezy install, which uses NTPL (which my SuSE 9.2 does not) and SingIt showed many timing / freezing problems, which should be fixed now.
2005-07-01 JMG	I'll be on holiday for about 2 weeks, so I thought it's a good idea to release the fixes I made since the large version 0.1.30 development release.
2005-06-02 JMG	It's been a long time since I did any release. I moved to Munich for the job, and wasn't very interested in hacking SingIt for a long time. But the project got reanimated a few days ago and I have put some time into karaoke recording and playback with ALSA. Just get the latest snapshot...
2003-08-29 JMG	Back home since one week. And after a little bit more testing finally a new development snapshot. And - taataa - a new release to, which fixes problems with VBR file lengths.
2003-08-07 JMG	Just if some people are wondering - no I'm not dead just on a trip throught Europe. So no development. I will be home in about two weeks. I'm travelling with Inter-Rail and my ticket will be finished then.
2003-06-19 JMG	I'm back to Germany since last week. There is a new development snapshop. Main new feature is the XOSD based displayer by Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre. A few more bugfixes, but I don't have much time - to much stuff to do after the nine months in Ireland. And I'm going to the "Kieler Woche" ths weekend. I hope I can really do some development at the beginning of July. Some more interested developers out there???
2003-05-30 JMG	I just uploaded a new development snapshot. For the next two weeks I'm on holidays, so no work and no mail. There are still a lot of bugs in the code and that's the reason I don't release it as a new version.
2003-04-22 JMG	New development version. Using old build mode, which is fixed by the new libtool 1.5, and fixed a few other errors.
2003-04-16 JMG	Just again a new version (v0.1.27). Since v0.1.26 won't run until installed in "home install mode" and the new libtool version finally fixes the "relink" install problem I switched back to the old install scheme. This version has a known error in the new karaoke window displayer but otherwise should run.
2003-04-14 JMG	New development version. Lots of cleanup and two new translations (it, fr). No real new features (maybe except the frame limiter), but a lot of new code.
2003-04-04 JMG	Just a quick note that I pushed a new snapshot today.
2003-04-03 JMG	One week ago I got an old (PII) computer from the university. Not really sufficient for hacking xmms visualisation plugins, but it has at least enought memory. So the development has made some progress in the last days. I hope to release a new version in the next week and there will maybe be an additional programmer in the project. Seems I have to learn some CVS basics :-) Stay tuned.
2003-03-08 JMG	Finally a new development release. There hasn't been much progress, but I thought it would be good to release something every 6 months ;-) Here goes v0.1.25...
2003-01-13 JMG	Obviously no real progress had been made since the last few months. I'm not sure how the development will continue. All ideas to get a computer have failed. Since I will get a new computer in my office in Cork (which should have been there since October 2002), I can maybe continue to do a little development. 6 Months to go in Cork.
2002-09-18 JMG	Ireland status: I will definitly stay in Ireland (Cork City) for at least for 9 months. Tow days ago I moved to a house in Cork near the local university (UCC). I will study at the CIT. I hope to buy a computer in the next week so I will be able to continue hacking on SingIt and fix some new known bugs. Stay tuned.
2002-09-03 JMG	Hi everybody. I will be on "holiday" for ~ 2 weeks in Ireland (Cork). I will leave at 7th September. There will be internet access at the university at Cork but there won't be any linux system in reach, so there won't be real support for this time. Maybe you start populating the SingIt user mailing list (Hint, Hint, Hint).
2002-07-22 JMG	The new SingIt development version (v0.1.23) supports a new lyric visualization in the SDL displayer. SDL is enabled by default now. The SDL displayer should be much more stable.
2002-06-17 JMG	One month is gone since the last version. Here comes v0.1.22. The main focus was the integration of G-Force into the SDL displayer. There are still some bugs left but it will take more time to fix them, so I choose to make a new development version. There is also a new stable release v0.0.7. It should fix a compile error and is mainly an adaption to the latest tools.
2002-05-18 JMG	Few days ago I created a mailing list for SingIt users.
2002-05-12 JMG	Back from Ireland - and finally a new development version after one month. Visible changes are the - very experimental - SDL displayer and the time indicator inside the karaoke widget.
2002-04-26 JMG	Just a new development snapshot - for the next week I will be in Ireland (no linux / maybe mail). So don't expect replies to your mails in the next 7-8 days.
2002-04-04 JMG	Finally passed the colloquium (1.0), had some free time and here comes version 0.1.20. I finished some features, moved some to 0.3.x and cleaned everything for a final 0.2.0 version. There are many ideas left, but they may require major rewrites, so I move them to the next development versions.
2002-03-05 JMG	3 hours ago I finished my thesis which I wrote together with a friend and we made the final printout - I just have to make a hardcover version in the copy shop in the morning and pass the colloquium in 2 weeks (not really afraid of it) and 3 1/2 years of studies are finished.
2002-02-27 JMG	Today I looked at my freshmeat entry (I send a snapshot in yesterday) - vitality 15.89% (Rank 33) and popularity 1.20% (Rank 2624) from 18,813 registered projects . Thanks to everyone supporting this project .
2002-02-26 JMG	I'm proud to release a new development snapshot (v0.1.18) - three important things to mention: Moved the config file (To preserve your config simply copy .xmms/config -> .xmms/config-singit) Some keybindings have changed (expl.: CTRL + p = config (preferences) window / CTRL + c = individual displayer config) I got the first patch for the plugin!
2002-02-14 JMG	The actual development snapshot has some improvements compared to v0.1.17. Mainly I fixed some bugs in the OpenGL plugin and the key processing in the editors timestamp mode is improved (does work this CAPS-LOCK (=shift) and / or NUM-LOCK). Just give it a try. There are still problems with the OpenGL viewer - gdb catches segfaults in the NVidia drivers...
2002-02-10 JMG	Ok - new development release: v0.1.17. From a request I moved all dates on the page to ISO 8601, so we have YYYY-MM-DD notation - better to sort. Send me a mail if I forgot one. The next release will also support it it.

For older news see the archive

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This "X Multi Media System" t;X Multi Media System" (XMMS) plugin displays formated lyrics.
If you don't know XMMS visit the homepage of the project.

It was mainly inspired by a WinAmp lyric plugin called "Kuo's Lyrics Visualization Plugin" by Kuo Shiang-Shiang.

The plugin has some remote functions, so you don't need to switch to XMMS for basic manipulations.

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Displayer This is the main window of the plugin. It consists of the diplayer textview, the timer, which displays the elapsing time to the next (un-)highlight and the status line, which shows the current filename.

Creator The lyric creator is a tool, which allhe lyric creator is a tool, which allows you to easily create or edit your lyrics. You can find the exact information in the README file of the distribution. The main feature are the two edit modes: The first mode for quick inserting timestamps [00:00] and the second mode to edit the whole text.

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• Bugfixes
• Update to current autoconf, automake and gettext versions
• Backport of song parsing code from 0.1.28
• Backport of color code from 0.1.28
• Usage of SingitFileInfo to handle bad VBR length changing files
• Cleanup of stuff, which won't make it into 0.0.x series
• Removed song length from song change recognition

• Bugfixes
• Update to current autoconf, automake and gettext versions

• Added an option to hide the displayer if no lyrics were found
• Refresh lyrics when start playing
• Strip timetags from file
• Basic id3 tag viewer

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• Fix compile errors without libid3
• Fix compile errors without libpcre
• Fix pango font handling
• Fix profiling options
• Fix PCM rendering
• Fix MIDI kar timestamping
• Better time approximation for amarok
• Added --enable-query-support and disable query per default
• Started gstreamer plugin
• Changed plugin locking - again
• D-Bus 0.6x support (= v1 API)
• Import libcdg123 sources
• Add TTF font and size to main config
• Add manpage (singit.6)
• Port karaoke widget to cairo
• Split internal and external socket command handling
• New audacious input and player plugin
• Add libhnj support for hyphenation support

Modified libCDG123 for CD+G support (optional for SingIt 0.1.30 - 0.1.36)

• Changed libcg123 dependency to v0.0.3
• Finish plugin based queries
• Improved query interface
  (split DB an [search] engine based results)
• Ported old Lyrix v1 query -> plugin
• New Lyrc (lyrc.com.ar) query plugin
• New Leo's Lyrics (www.leoslyrics.com) query plugin
• New Lyrix v2 DB (lyrixdb.org) query plugin
• New internal plugin handling code

• Improved D-BUS error messages
• Added some more output to configure
• Merged XMMS and BMP plugin (libinput_xmms_bmp)
  Note: Newer BMPx doesn't provide an XMMS socket
• Added instance to "--input" command
• Merged Debian protocol changes
• Common time approximation functions, which should fix the sync problem for rhythmbox
• New amarok input plugin
• Make Noatun input "testing", since Noatun doesn't provide a filename via DCOP and player plugin isn't ready yet
• Reworked query backend
• Remove Debian buildfiles from release
• Lots of cleanup

• Rewrote some socket code to use GIOChannels
• Correct filename guess code
• New Debian packaging

• gtk-doc'ified and doxygen'fied
• Beep Media Player support (BMP)
• Some more S'n'R work
• New --input command
• Restructured codebase
• Fixed text change recognition
• Double startup crash fixed
• Reworked locking

• Better SDL_common crash workaround (hopefully)
• Merged spreaded D-BUS API wrapper instances
• Debian KDE compile fixes
• File access monitor (FAM) support
• Common editor functions (cut, copy, paste)
• Search (Find) and Replace dialog shells (libgtksar)
• Convert HTML "named entities" to UTF-8 on HTML strip

• Fixed Noatun player plugin
• Fixed Rhythmbox input plugin
• Extended D-Bus interface
• New internal D-Bus input plugin
• libcurl query backend
• Reorganized displayer build system

• Ported to Gtk+ 2.6+
• Ported to libsoup
  (old libsoup needs patch for correct thread handling)
• Ported to Pango
• Moved from xosd to GdkWindow
• Control socket
• Input plugins to support multiple players
  (Timer, D-BUS, Noatun (KDE DCOP), XMMS, Rhythmbox)
• Player plugins (to start SingIt)
  (XMMS, Noatun)
• D-BUS interface
• Midi parser based on libkmid
• CDG file support
• OGG karaoke recording support

• Started large refactoring tasks
• Cleanup editor lyric views (new SingitEditorView klass)
• Moved and renamed development headers
  • singit_*.h --> singit/*.h
• Removed displayer "show/hide/toggle" callbacks
  • They were just called after a song change
  • Instead added "set_song" callback to indicate song changes
  • Removed song structure from set_time
  • Port of all displayer plugings
• Add query page to editor notebook
  • Using lyrix servers
  • Using ghttp to handle HTTP
  • Using old (libxml2) and new (text) result parser
  • Supports HTTP proxy usage
  • Cached lyric queries
• Reworked karaoke widget and data
  • Karaoke ball data now "sinus" based
  • Fullscreen doesn't work right yet
  • Minor display errors
• Integration of a (fake) control socket
  • Facades SingitConfig
  • No more direct usage of SingitConfig in the plugins
  • Removed parameter from "update" callback
  • Moved "config.h" into private plugin area
• New SingitSingleton class for better instance control
  • All status objects ported to SingitSingleton's
  • All global config objects moved into status data struct
  • Work around gtk type system limits for fake "dynamic" types
• New XOSD based plugin from Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre
• Removed song length from song change recognition
• Plugin was totally confused by VBR files

• Update to libtool 1.5
  • Finally fixes "relink" install problem
  • Revert to old build mode
  • Make displayer build process more libtool conform
• New shared library loader (wraps libltdl and old code)
  • Use new wrp_* funtions to load plugins
  • ased on file basename without extension (like lt_dlopenext)
• Set real background color in fullscreen displayer
• More strict and simplified config handling
  • Fixes startup config loading
• RPM spec file generation
• Better locking scheme
• Include right french translation file (ups...)

• Fixed locale handling
• New combined karaoke window and fullscreen displayer
• Cleanup color management
• Karaoke widget cleanup (hopefully fixed the memory leak)
• Tag management for Ogg Vorbis files (no save)
• General framerate counter / limiter
• New configure.ac file based on autoscan output
• Moved all paths from config.h into Makefiles
• Hopefully fixes the config save problems
• Cleanup plugin locking and library loading (now use RTLD_GLOBAL ;-(
• Prevent symbol export in displayer plugins (export.sym)
• Changed library build process (should finally build on Debian)
• No DisplayerPlugin struct needed outside the plugin scanner
• Rewritten strip HTML function (i.e. skips comments)
• Cleanup translation strings and modified editor menu for translation
• Cleanup G-Force multi-character constants usage (depricated in gcc 3.2)
• New french translation
• New italian translation

• Calculate best font size in SDL displayer
• Progress indicator in SDL displayer
• Validated synced lyrics stream read / write support
  (Just read in use yet)
• Better modal message boxes (still not perfect)
• Another SDL test displayer
• Cleanup SDL surface locks
• Moved to gcc 3.2.x compiler

• Support for new tag format ([xx:xx.xx])
• Updated to latest development tools
• Validated unsynced lyrics read support

• New lyrics visualizer in the sdl displayer

• Integrated G-Force 1.1.6 code into SDL displayer
• Ported G-Force Code to SDL
• Moved the whole SingIt config and data again
  (.xmms/>various< -> .xmms/SingIt/)
• New simple SDL test displayer
  (to debug various SDL problems)

• Move id3 and ogg tag specific code into its own library (tagger)
• Separated non visual karaoke widget code (data) from the gtk widget
• Started an SDL-based plugin
• Visual time indicator in karaoke widget (o o o . . . .)
• Wrapper for various id3lib library versions
• Less skips in the karaoke widget due to better exposure handler

• Overall cleanups (editor, id3 dialog, config dialog, ...)
• Finished disabled editor funtions
• Some more OpenGL effects
• Corrected auto time offset function
• Consolidate general distributed sound calculation funtions
• Fixed compatibility bugs with autoconf 2.53
• "Decoded" GtkCList color management
• Enabled navigator config dialog
• Fixed a lyric file parser error

• Change LSong -> SingitSong and made it a gtk class
  (same procedure as SingitConfig in 0.1.18)
• Fixed --disable-debug-option
• Added a "show if text found" option to navigator plugin
• Prepared the karaoke widget for further improvements
• Plugin interface change (show / hide / toggle includes SingitSong*)
• Removed standard search path of file home (use ~~ instead)
• New time offset dialog (more user friendly)
• Auto time offset function

1. Some keybindings have changed
   (expl.: CTRL + p = config (preferences) window / CTRL + c = individual displayer config)

• Moved config file from .xmms/config -> .xmms/config-singit
  (To preserve your config simply _copy_ .xmms/config -> .xmms/config-singit)
• Changed editor keyhandling
  Works with Num-Lock / Caps-Lock (= Shift !)
• Changed song structure checks
• No more OpenGL errors when OpenGL isn't supported by XFree
• Fixed some OpenGL bugs - still segfaulting (in NVidia symbols :-(
• Made home install useable again
• Rewritten config system - now using GtkObject
• Support for song position relative lyrics (~~)
• Totally new configure setup
• Started new debug system (level based to prevent message flows)
• Created new editor icons
• Higher editor accuracy for clicks (clist + sync)
  Patch from Dino Leonardo Sangoi

For older releases see the archive

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Ok - if you're looking for a MS Windows version of a lyric displayer you can check these pages:

•  "SingIT" (Supports WinAmp and NAD)
  (where I took the name from)
•  "Kuo's Lyrics Visualization Plugin" (Supports WinAmp)
  (where I took the int="-1">(where I took the interface from)

•  xmms - main program (mp3-mod-...-player)
•  id3lib - support for id3vxx - information
•  OpenGL True Type - for OpenGL plugin

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• Year 2001
• Year 2000

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My name is Jan-Marek Glogowski (Dipl.-Inf. FH).
Since three years I'm working full time as a "Debian" developer at Munich in the LiMux project, which (slowly, but constantly) migrates all the municipal desktop PCs from Windows (NT4) to our own derivated Debian distribution. You can reach me via glogow at fbihome.de

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