TKaraoke version 1.3 is coming soon. A key feature of version 1.3 is the ability to specify your own song name structure instead of always using the "author - singer - song" format. To specify our own structure, create a file in the root folder of your songs and name it %u% - %v% - %w% - %x% - %y% - %z%.tksns where u, v, w, x, y, z can be any of these {album, author, singer, song, key, sex}. Files and sub-directories of the root directory will inherit this structure unless you provide a different tksns file for the sub-directories. In this case, the structure defined in the sub-directory will override the structure in the root directory.

If you do not define any song name structure, the default structure will be used. The default structure is %author% - %singer% - %song%.

For example, if you renamed your songs according to this post, you would create a tksns file %album% - %singer% - %song%.tksns as shown in the screenshot below.

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There are 2 user-define fields named "key" and "sex". Their default meaning is "key note" (tông) and "singer sex" (giọng). You can change the meaning of these 2 user-define fields but you must use "%key%" and "%sex%" to refer to them. In your case, you would create a .ksns file like this:
%album% - %singer% - %song% - %key% - %author%.tksns or
%album% - %singer% - %song% - %sex% - %author%.tksns

You can hide any field (album, author, singer, key, sex, and lyric) except the "song name" field from the Options menu.

We might change %sex% to %genre% if genre is more useful info than %sex%.

This is kinda stupid to ask but how do you create a tksns file inside the root folder?

Thanks a lot!

I have the following format

%album% - %author% - %singer% - %song% -%key% - %sex%.tksns

and then rename my song like this

PBN_1 - unknown - Phi Nhung - Phai Long Em Con Gai Ben Tre - Que Huong - Nu

Everything line up ok, but I get song name and tên bài hát at the same time.

Can I just have the song name column not to show up? Since tên bài hát and song name
are the same, and I cannot hide either column.

Thanks.

This is a bug and should be fixed. We saw this bug once but can't repeat it. I tried to repeat your case but couldn't get the "Song Name" column to show up. If you restart TKaraoke, can you get the Song Name column to show up? Please list the exact step you did to get the Song Name column to show up.

Can you repeat this problem? Another word, what exactly should I do to see this issue. I know the bug is there but I'm having a hard time repeating it. I did tried to hide and unhide columns but couldn't get the Song Name column to show up again.

No matter what I do, I can't get the Song Name column to show up. Are you saying that if you restart TKaraoke, the Song Name column doesn't show up but when you start hiding columns, it will show up?

Tried that, doesn't show up. Try this:
1. Quit TKaraoke
2. Go to C:\Program Files\TSofts\TKaraoke\UserData and delete settings.dat
3. Start TKaraoke

Pay attention to what you do to get it to show up.

Thank you for detailed step. We have a identified this "song name showing up" bug. It will be fixed in the next build. About the .vob showing up as song name, I think your song name was named incorrectly. For example, if you name your song "song 1.vob.vob" then the song name is "song 1.vob". Windows default settings hide the file extension already so you shouldn't rename your song with the ending .vob. Try using Windows Explorer and remove .vob on the song name. If TKaraoke still load that file, that means you have extra .vob as stated above. Post back and let us know if this is not the case.