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		       Karaoke FX - release 0.6 (alpha)
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Description:
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Karaoke FX is a midifile player that can display lyrics in synch whith the
sound so as it can be used for karaoke.
It relies on plugins for midi output devices as for lyrics display. Thus it is
easy to write plugins to display lyrics in the way you want ( see
doc/display_plugin.txt ) , with your own visual effects in OpenGL. 
Then you can dynamically change lyrics representaion during execution.


Currently supported midi devices:
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+ Alsa raw_midi device


Dependencies:
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Simple Directmedia Layer Library > 1.2.0
FTGL > 2.04 and freetype > 2.0 for displaying ttf fonts with OpenGL
Alsa > 0.9 for midi output
Gtkmm > 2.2 for graphical user inteface


Display Plugins:
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display_gl.so: basic gl display with FTGL extruded ttf fonts and particles




26 Feb 2004
Jean-Christophe Duberga, jeanchristophe.duber@free.fr
