Here is my initial idea:
1. Provide an info file named x.tkdti a the root of the DVD folder (where the VIDEO_TS folder is also located).
2. Name x to be your DVD Name. This data will be used as the Album. For example: "PBNK 62.tkdti". TKDTI stands for TKaraoke DVD Track Info.
3. The x.tkdti file will be a text file that contains the DVD info like listed in this forum. For example:


In this case, this DVD has 21 tracks. Track 1 should be skipped (copyright info). Track 2 is song Cafe Dang Tro Lai, Track 3 is song Tinh Yeu Muon Thuo, v.v.

Hello vcdz382,

I'm exciting to see you support this feature :cool: This way, we can easily share the TKDTI file between those who has taken the advantage of mkv/vob and the new comers - the tKaraoke family can grow... bigger... faster :)

my 1 cent:

1. ".Skip" would work but would it be better to use "--" <<< this inline with your current logic of parsing the text line to pick out the Title/Artist/Song Name
.... Less code change (I hope I'm not wrong :)

2. The flexibility to put this "skipping indicator" on any line by itself => to indicate that track is unwanted in the catalog/index
.... I saw a couple of U Sing Alon's that has unwanted track @ the end... So does The Best of Nguyen Hung with a behind the scene.
.... There can be duplicated songs between DVD's... (say the best of Quang Lê's song are from other PBN's DVD) this give tKaraoke's members a chance to remove dup entry in the catalog --> look much better, like a pro :)

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Don't know if this should be another topic of discussion.

While we are at modifying the TKDTI entry/name... I wonder if we could also extend the song name to some how... indicate to Karaoke the Karaoke's Track number in the song.

For example...


If there is no "." in the Name, then tKaraoke loads the song as normal
.... No change to the current users
If there is a ".1" or ".2" then tKaraoke load the song with that track as the default.
.... In the future... if tKaraoke has "mode" - either "Karaoke" or "Vocal"... Then tKaraoke can use this to load the audio track accordingly :)

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Really appreciate your share and support of tKaraoke
Thanks

Report #1.

Try with Phượng Hoàng 02... Using the songlist from forum... (minus those "vob" at the end of each line if exist)

Named as "Phượng Hoàng 02.tkdti", placed in the same folder with "Video_TS" under "PHK 02 - La Thu Do Thi"

Result:

1. Song list: populate... beautifully... all 20 tracks are cataloged correctly.
2. Albun/Đĩa: pick up correctly from the tkdti file name as "Phượng Hoàng 02"
3. NO singer name, though.
4. Side Note: when I select whole group ò consecutive file in the listing (alphabet ordered by song name) and add to the queue
.... it looks like tKaraoke adds to the queue in the revert order: last song in the listing is first in queue???
.... is it.. normal???

I'm going to test more with other folder, especially with the ".skip" but.. I.. LOVE it so far :))

I forgot to Report...

In this version, for the "Đĩa" Name for Video_TS... it does NOT show the track # as it does in prev version for mkv/vob.

Not important to me but you may want the same "look and feel" for all :))

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Just test a Tân Cổ - no new finding to report - so far I have not get to one need ".skip" yet. Will do eventually.
I updated some of the listing as I go along.. :)

Need a break/smoke :)
More later.

Thank it's good already.
But I think you need to look at the listing for vob/mkv: make sure it does not break them
And, it does NOT load the lyric preview either


Agreed. it's better with per DVD.

I saw per... song because it was a "home/personal collection" (and shared in NG)... collect mainly from diff VN Productions... and yet... there are big issue with the... volume... in these type of DVD

Now that with tKaraoke - consolidating... the need for those DVDs... no longer exists :) :phew: big thanks :)

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Should I continue to report my findings? or wait for the next version?

Singer names should now show up in v1.4.0.045. All the other good stuffs (see the custom song name structure post) should show up also. If you don't provide a tksns file, the default structure is "%author% - %singer% - %song%"


a. This bug has been fixed in v1.4.0.045.
b. The default naming convention is "author - singer - song" if you don't provide a tksns file to specify your own standard. Hence, the Đĩa data will not show up - the data was placed in the Tác Giả column. This is the expected behavior. To have it show up in the Đĩa column, provide a tksns file named "%album% - %singer% - %song%.tksns" at the root directory. See the above post for more detail about tksks files and their rules.


This is fixed in v1.4.0.045 as well :)

Very.... COOOOOL!!!!
hehehe.... all fixed so far... with ".tksns" of course :)

Will test more and report more... later.

Thanks :beer4u:

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Forgot to mention:

I have Windows 7 RC
First install of 045... did not help... all issues remained...
I manually uninstalled 043 and installed 045 again then ok.

By the way, is TKaraoke stable under Win7 RC? There is one user reporting crashes here and there under Win7 and those crashes went away when using WinXP. I don't recall seeing any crash on Win7 but that was a while back.

The Windows 7 RC is at my desktop (not on the notebook)
In my usage... mainly for checking and testing... I would say tKaraoke is considerably stable :)

Rì bọt:

* I think tK has issue with Tình Platinum 13 - Bờ Bến Lạ: tK does not pick up the track list...
* I tried a few clear/add... stop/re-run tK but can't see the the song list in the catalog - other DVD's lists are fine.
* Used SmartRip to look into the DVD structure... all 20 songs are "Chapter" in "Program Chain 2" and in "Angle 1"
.... does this make any diff in the way tK scan for chapter?
.... Program Chain 1/Angel 1 has only one chapter of 49 seconds.

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I noticed that for Video_TS folder that does not have *.tkdti file, this version skip the DVD entirely...
... It will be help full if you give back the old way of... giving "DVD..., Bài Số ##" in the list so that it can be easily identify
... If not, there maybe video_TS folder that user don't even aware that exists in the Hard Drive.