CDG Player Released - Karaoke

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Developer Ole releases CDG Player, cdg & mp3 player for ps3. Karaoke!

Music fans and wannabe American Idol contestants will rejoice over this next piece of news. The same developer who brought us the Amiga emulator (E-UAE ps3) for the PS3, has now released a new project he's been working on. The project is known as the CDG Player, and it allows for CDG discs to be played on the PS3 console. The project was developed using the legal PSL1GHT SDK and is open source.

Most of you probably won't recognize what CDG discs are, but if you've ever sang karaoke you've most likely used one. CDG, which is also known as CD+G, stands for compact disc plus graphics and is the industry wide standard for karaoke discs. The specially crafted discs allow for lyrics to be displayed on screen, while the audio is played. Now, with the help of the CDG Player, singing fans will no longer need to bare the burden of purchasing a pricey karaoke machine.

CDG Player is a simple program for PS3 that plays mp3 files and displays graphics stored in cdg files. The format is used in many karaoke disks.

Compiled by psl1ght sdk and libraries.

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Features:
- simple file selector
- mp3 and cdg playback

Requires:
- ps3 ready to run homebrew programs

Controls:
- CROSS - select a file or directory
- CIRCLE - go to parent directory
- SQUARE - exit the program


FAQ:
Q: does it play CD disks ?
A: no, use a ripping program to convert your CD to audio tracks in mp3 format

Q: does it play OGG, WAV, etc. (your favourite audio format) ?
A: no, just mp3 format is supported (16 bit, stereo, 44100 or 48000 Hz) along
with the cdg format

Q: does it support zipped files ?
A: no

Q: does it support microphone plugged in the ps3 ?
A: no, to amplify your voice you need an extra hardware (mixer)

Q: the program sucks, can you add more features ?
A: the source code is freely available, do it yourself


Credits and thanks:
- minimp3 (KeyJ’s Blog : Blog Archive » Honey, I shrunk the MP3 decoder)
- PyKaraoke (PyKaraoke - Karaoke for Linux)
- psl1ght sdk team
- PS3 homebrew scene


Release log:
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r1
- initial release

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Ole

Download: CDG Player rev. 1 (and) cdg_player-ps3_r1_src.zipSource

Karaoke Info: Karaoke Warehouse

Source: CDG Player

News Source: PSGroove.com - Karaoke CDG Player Released

Thanks to PSX-SCENE member Ni72ous for the news tip!

And thanks to grandy for the article!

[RiPPERD]

nice work! good to see some homebrew stuff that isnt just remakes of other stuff!

think this is a console first aint it?

[gDrive]

^ Looks like it

[Ex-Cyber]

It might be a console first for playing straight from image files, but it's definitely not a console first for CD+G playback support. Several older CD-based consoles/add-ons had support for it built into the stock firmware.

edit: looks like XBMC did it a while ago

[konangrit]

FAQ:
Q: does it play CD disks ?
A: no, use a ripping program to convert your CD to audio tracks in mp3 format

Until someone ports Cobra USB's patch to CFW this will remain a problem for PS3 homebrew. We need full access to the BD drive, it's telling that currently the only way to achieve this is with a commercial solution. Low-level PS3 scene does seem to be dead, Sony's bullying worked. Fortunately devs like Ole are still working on the higher level side and releasing original apps like this.

[korn16ftl]

It might be a console first for playing straight from image files, but it's definitely not a console first for CD+G playback support. Several older CD-based consoles/add-ons had support for it built into the stock firmware.

edit: looks like XBMC did it a while ago

JVC X'EYE comes 2 mind hopefully this will soon have disc support

[vacano]

What's the best software for windows 7 to create a karaoke song?
I love to use this app with my own karaoke songs.

[harryoke]

What's the best software for windows 7 to create a karaoke song?
I love to use this app with my own karaoke songs.

power karaoke creator is a good program...check it out
or if you just want to convert a karaoke cd to mp3+g try mp3+g toolz

[PiKeYtRoG]

I really hope the authors keep going with this.

There is a system available called Kwizoke I think it is, and it is costing around a grand! And it uses an Amiga 1200!

This could be a real alternative, and it could put some old knackered ps3s to good use if you put the tracks on the internal hard drive.

Al you need is line-outs to a mixer from the multi-av.

My sunflys work well on this.

A find-as-you-type feature would be fantastic, maybe being entirely keyboard driven for complete ease of use, it could become a viable system.

This might be very valuable indeed in time to come... If I could get an all-in-one solution for my karaoke, I`d pay good money for it and I`m sure a lot more people would too.

Good good work. I gotta learn this programming malarky