cli-aoke

Command Line Karaoke

How it Works

The first time you run cli-aoke songs since you don't have the song files, they will be scraped from the web and placed in a .cli-aoke/ directory in your home directory. Running cli-aoke sing <song_file_name> finds the song file, searches azlyrics.com for the lyrics based off the filename, scrapes the site for the lyrics, then starts a python thread with the .mid file playing through fluidsynth & the lyrics being displayed line by line in your terminal.

Caveats

You must install fluidsynth according to the instructions below.
Sometimes the search for lyrics selects the wrong one, whomp whomp.
The lines being printed are not synced with the song. (maybe there is a way to parse the lyric metadata from a .mid file?)

Requirements

This assumes you have setup fluidsynth in the following way:

$ brew install fluidsynth
$ wget http://www.schristiancollins.com/soundfonts/GeneralUser_GS_1.44-FluidSynth.zip
$ unzip GeneralUser_GS_1.44-FluidSynth.zip
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/share/fluidsynth
$ mv GeneralUser\ GS\ 1.44\ FluidSynth/GeneralUser\ GS\ FluidSynth\ v1.44.sf2 /usr/local/share/fluidsynth/generaluser.v.1.44.sf2

Installation

$ pip install cli-aoke

Usage

View song choices

NOTE: You must run first cli-aoke songs once before running sing because it scrapes a site for the .mid files to initialize your songs directory

$ cli-aoke songs

Sing a song

$ cli-aoke sing <song_file_name>

Example

$ cli-aoke songs
$ cli-aoke sing Jay-Z_-_Hard_Knock_Life.mid
$ cli-aoke sing Blackstreet_-_No_Diggity.mid
$ cli-aoke sing 2Pac_-_California.mid