[slinkelist] Scrolling Lyrics and the Party GUI

Mike Kropp mkropp@cathouse.mv.com
Tue, 15 Feb 2000 14:07:47 -0500


The whole idea sounds like feature-creep.  Don't see the point.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> Behalf Of keith alexander
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:39 PM
> To: George Tang; 'slinkelist@nirvis.com'
> Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Scrolling Lyrics and the Party GUI
> 
> 
> Sorry, my point exactly.  Slightly better would be
> syllable based, but what a pain, or letter based but
> still highlight the words.  But none of these take
> into account the breaks.  One could try and throw in
> some formulae but basically I gave up....
> 
> KJA
> 
> Of course you could write a trainer... click a couple
> of data points in the lyrics during the song, and use
> the above formula plus the click points.....
> 
> --- George Tang <GeorgeT@concur.com> wrote:
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com
> > [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> > >Behalf Of keith alexander
> > >Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:49 AM
> > >To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
> > >Subject: [slinkelist] Scrolling Lyrics and the
> > Party GUI
> > >
> > >
> > >I tried the scrolling lyrics thing (I just wrote it
> > >myself), highlighting word by word as the song
> > played
> > >(basically: 
> > >Pause = tracktime/wordcount
> > >for counter = 1 to wordcount
> > >  Highlight(word)
> > >  wait Pause
> > >  Move Next Word
> > >next counter
> > >
> > >I tried some experimentation, but a I have few
> > lyrics,
> > >b it kind of stank. c this is not a karioke
> > machine... 
> > >
> > >=====
> > >Keith Alexander
> > >alexanders@rocketmail.com
> > >
> > 
> > This formula is not going work very well...
> > especially if there's a long
> > musical break in between verses...
> > 
> > George
> > 
> 
> =====
> Keith Alexander
> alexanders@rocketmail.com
> 
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