Hello everybody,
This is my question:
I'd like to have a midi player like Van Basco e.g. (http://www.vanbasco.com/).
I don't care witch program will be made portable, but i want to have two specifications:
1. Playing .MID files ("Player" in Van Basco)
2. Showing the lyrics ("Karaoke" in Van Basco)
And, the option "Output" of Van Basco would be very nice, but is not really needed. It would be really perfect, though.
I think it's possible to make an app portable with these possibilities.
I hope somebody will help me.
If I can do something, I really want to help, but I can't modify programms.
Thanks in advance (and sorry for my English ;))
024pr
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I've taken Timidity on my flash drive, copied all the files and managed to get it up and playing on another machine. Not sure what you'd have to do to get it completely self-contained on the flash drive as far as configuration settings, but Timidity has good command line support for setting configuration options. It'll play midi and mod files. Depending on which GUI setting you use with it, you can even bring up piano keyboards similar to Van Basco. There was a conversation on the freepats mailing list about the possibility of a small sf2 library for the instruments to make Timidity easier to run on low resource machines that don't have a lot of disk space. Haven't heard much further on that though. If you want to see the lyrics properly in Timidity, make sure to download the latest cvs version, not the tarball at Sourceforge. There's been some fixes. Also, worst case scenario, if you can't get Timidity to work right on your flash drive, save the midi file to wave using Timidity and play with portable Audacity.
I've read MilkyTracker is also useable portably on flash drives. Not much midi support, but it's great for playing mod file and related formats.
i could never get Timidty to work appropriately. i had to bungle around with Portable fooBar 2000 (not OSS and not available on this site) to finaly get SPC and MIDI playback.
Direct link http://mpesch3.de1.cc/1by1.html
If you install the winamp midi plugins then you can play & see the lyrics of the midi files.
Below is info copied from the portable freeware site.
Synopsis: 1by1 is a small and fast music player that plays files by directories, with optional playlist/favorites support.
Writes settings to: Application folder
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Then download mpglib.dll and extract to the same folder. Launch 1by1.exe.
Stealth: Yes
Path portability: Requires manual entry of relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Timidity isn't exactly easy to set up, but once it's set up and in place, it works really well. Another option may be XMPlay. I seem to remember seeing it on some portable applications lists. It's not Open Source. It can play several types of music files with plugins including midi if you have the sf2 fonts (similar to Timidity). Don't remember it doing midi lyrics though. I did see an option for mp3 format and lyrics.
You can use Vanbasco as a portable app. Just do the install and install it on your flash drive instead of the hard drive. Once the files ares stored go to the following area to activate.
On your flash drive go to:
vanBasco's Karaoke Player folder
and click on the vmidi file and it will start running..
I discovered this working process in a trial. I notice that vanbasco would not work on Windows 7 and I said to myself I wonder what would happen if I install it on an external hard drive or flash drive and that's how I found out it could run on a portable platform.
If you don't like this process an alternative to this program with limited features is http://midiplayer.info/ and this can be run on the hard drive or you can run it on a portable platform. The download file no longer works on this site and you will have to use this link to download it. http://midipiano.en.softonic.com/ or https://code.google.com/p/virtualpiano/downloads/detail?name=MidiPiano_2...
For Karaoke you can use this.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/midiquickfix/
http://download.cnet.com/Midi-Player/3000-2139_4-75741533.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miditool/
Try these virtual pianos
http://vmpk.sourceforge.net/
I hope this help you.
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