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<blockquote data-quote="bloasfist" data-source="post: 421609" data-attributes="member: 26914">Feature request: find mp3's with karaoke (.cdg) filesHi, I have a large number of karaoke albums on my harddisk. These are in .mp3 format (audio) with corresponding .cdg files (video). Using&nbsp; <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=89149&amp;filename=karaoke-2.3.zip&amp;a=17508372" target="_blank">Karaoke for DirectX 2.3</a> directshow filter i'm able to play these pairs of .cdg and .mp3 files as video. For that, i use myvideo's to play the .cdg files. I just added .cdg to the media list and i hid the .mp3 files (as described <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tips-tricks-52/play-karaoke-kar-cdg-lrc-media-portal-2269/#post16871" target="_blank">here</a>). But one cannot search in myvideo's. Launching the .cdg files from mymusic also works, but here it's kinda stupid to hide the .mp3 files <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />.That's where this plugin could come in... I imagine it shouldn't be that hard to add a 'karaoke mode' option in the global music search plugin that -when enabled- only searches in id3 tags of mp3's having a .cdg file paired with it. An easier option would maybe be to only search through mp3's in a given karaoke-directory, or to manually tag al the mp3's with .cdg files with some kind of flag indicating that it's a karaoke file.Then -when returning the results found in the mp3 tags- it should give the .cdg files as a search result,&nbsp; because these are the file you wanna click on to start (otherwise only the .mp3 file starts and the 'fancy' karaoke lines aren't used). [USER=25116]d-fader[/USER]: What do you think: can this be done? And secondly are you willing to try it?TIA!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bloasfist, post: 421609, member: 26914"] [b]Feature request: find mp3's with karaoke (.cdg) files[/b] Hi, I have a large number of karaoke albums on my harddisk. These are in .mp3 format (audio) with corresponding .cdg files (video). Using [url=http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=89149&filename=karaoke-2.3.zip&a=17508372]Karaoke for DirectX 2.3[/url] directshow filter i'm able to play these pairs of .cdg and .mp3 files as video. For that, i use myvideo's to play the .cdg files. I just added .cdg to the media list and i hid the .mp3 files (as described [url=https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tips-tricks-52/play-karaoke-kar-cdg-lrc-media-portal-2269/#post16871]here[/url]). But one cannot search in myvideo's. Launching the .cdg files from mymusic also works, but here it's kinda stupid to hide the .mp3 files ;). That's where this plugin could come in... I imagine it shouldn't be that hard to add a 'karaoke mode' option in the global music search plugin that -when enabled- only searches in id3 tags of mp3's having a .cdg file paired with it. An easier option would maybe be to only search through mp3's in a given karaoke-directory, or to manually tag al the mp3's with .cdg files with some kind of flag indicating that it's a karaoke file. Then -when returning the results found in the mp3 tags- it should give the .cdg files as a search result, because these are the file you wanna click on to start (otherwise only the .mp3 file starts and the 'fancy' karaoke lines aren't used). [USER=25116]d-fader[/USER]: What do you think: can this be done? And secondly are you willing to try it? TIA! [/QUOTE]

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