Releases: vicwomg/pikaraoke
v1.6.0
v1.5.2
v1.5.1
v1.5.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.0
1.4.0 (2024-09-03)
Features
- add a setup script (2d0e973)
- create python package (0c97670)
- upgrade yt-dlp on all pikaraoke runs (fedd6ed)
- volume normalization with
-nor--normalize-audiolaunch flag (experimental, may struggle on pi 3 cpus) - pikaraoke is now installable via pip and builds are automated! Thanks so much to our new pikaraoke collaborator @mariugul for his hard work in getting this project to this state.
Bug Fixes
- 287 bug: paths with spaces don't work (f25e326)
- modify files minimally to make it run (168abbb)
- resolve issues with commitlint attempt #1 (4c375e6)
Documentation
Contributors
Assets 2
Pikaraoke 1.2
Big change: the player and splash screen is now HTML-based
Why? Less pesky dependencies for one. Pygame was previously used to render the splash screen and VLC would pop on top of it. Both these packages proved to be difficult to maintain on Raspberry Pi OS versions. This has been replaced with a browser-based renderer which will host both the splash screen and video playback (streamed via ffmpeg) which should work much better on a wide variety of OS. Secondly, this means standalone server support: now you can run pikaraoke as a dedicated server process, launch the splash screen on a remote browser, and don't have to have your pi connected to the TV!
- Splash screen player is way more dynamic feature-rich now
- Better python environment handling and yt-dlp install isolation
- Lots of under-the-hood bugfixes and improvements from the backlog
- Sunfly-inspired singing dolphin logo and screensaver :)
1.1.2
What's new (1.1.2)
- Translation framework, with Chinese language support. Thanks tbelaire!
- HTML splash screen at /splash for remote browser display of QR code and up next
- Use yt-dlp instead of youtube-dl for faster downloads
- Drop omxplayer from pi install script (no longer in Debian package manager)
- Bugfixes
The 1.1.2 pi image is running Raspberry Pi OS Buster and confirmed working on pi4 and pi3.
Pi 4 users: make sure to plug your display into into the HDMI0 port, not HDMI1, otherwise you may experience issues playing video in VLC.
Note that it is not running Bullseye OS, which appears to still be problematic for running vlc on the CLI (see #161 ). I cannot recommend upgrading to Bullseye at this time.
1.1.1
Primarily bugfixes for maintaining mega-libraries
- Fix slow loading of huge libraries #85
- Paging controls on browse screen for libraries > 500 #85
- Fix issue with singer names with spaces and special characters not appearing #106
- Support scanning subdirectories #108 (thanks jramboz)
- Support more video formats and weird case sensitivity of mp3/cdg files #107 #95
- Singer names persist for 90 days #105
- Fixed lowercase sorted after uppercase #104
Sorry, no time to do a pi image. Download the 1.1.0 version and update with:
cd ~/pikaraoke
git pull
./setup-pi.sh
1.1.0
Nice, big update full of great suggestions from supporters and kind patrons of this project.
- Singer names! Each new device is prompted for a name when first adding a song, so that singer name is shown in the queue, splash, and nowplaying. This value persists in a cookie for that device.
- Administrator mode! Every karaoke party has some drunken mischief, this keeps things from getting out of hand ;) Can be enabled with "--admin-password " option. Log in via the info screen. Regular users can add songs, but cannot modify playback, queue order, or edit songs.
- VLC playback overlay can show the pikaraoke connection QR code with the "--show-overlay" option
- Advanced search option allows searching for non-karaoke results and downloading directly from a given Youtube URL.
- Expand the raspberry pi filesystem to fill the remainind SD card from the info screen.
- Loads of suggested UI improvements, polish, and optimizations.
- Bugfixes, refactoring