Notification if a zip file is invalid when attempting to queue up rather than on play. It would also be great to have a config variable for your show start time and show end time (and day), so that you can queue up singers and have an estimated wait time (based on mp3 songs queued up, or apprx 3:45 secs. Also, the time that the singer was queued up would be beneficial. I was working on this program in C# as a proof of concept, but never finished creating the wrapper to interact with vDJ Flagging songs that have already been queue or sang would be awesome as well. Posted Tue 25 Sep 12 9:32 excellent news! previously I had been working on a system that is a server / client based system that a user can use a kiosk (running the client) and search for the song they're looking for and add it to to the server (pc running vdj). There are several other features that I am including that will make this an enterprise grade plugin, but I'll wait for the beta release to discuss them. Thanks for the suggestion! (6) I am planning on including all features from the original Atomix plugin, unless a feature in mine makes it obsolete. (5) Good idea, I will add an option for it. (3) History is already included in my plugin (duh, that's like feature #1), as is support for multiple locations. The only way to accomplish this would be to include some kind of chroma key feature in the plugin that would attempt to automatically make part of the karaoke video transparent this may be possible but I doubt I'll include it in the initial release. Background behind lyrics would be difficult to implement because the video for the karaoke is not transparent. (2) Background between songs is a feature of the original plugin and will be included in mine. This means you can load AND/OR play on any deck you want. (1) and (4) Customized action for the "Go" button is built in. Your singer queue is restored to its last state automatically at startup. Regarding my plugin (not available yet, but nearing beta stage): Disaster recovery is built in. You can then edit Title, Author, and anything else you desire. You can edit all of the track information from the browser: search for the song you want to edit, right-click on it, and choose File Infos. Once it's loaded to the top, I need a 'playlist_mix_next' command (I'm looking for functionality equivalent to double-clicking the next track in the playlist I'm not sure if 'mix_next' does that). To that end I need a 'playlist_add_top "filename.mp3"' (just like we have 'load "filename.mp3"' syntax). Loading and playing directly to a deck works fine, but when I'm running a show I like to use playlists and Automix to get smooth transitions. E-mail me ? (I don't check the boards frequently.) I too am trying to develop my own karaoke plugin, and it's coming along great except for a few things I can't accomplish using VDJscript (unless I'm missing something). Maybe together we can build the ultimate karaoke plugin. Posted Thu 05 Jul 12 8:29 I'd love to collaborate with you. Please let me know what you others think.
I want the amazing functionality of VDJ and the capabilities of other professional karaoke programs. Please consider your customer base and the possibility that others might feel as I do. The main features that would help most KJ's is the Singer historys saved (with keychange preference) and the scrolling lineup of the next three to ten singers. Compuhost is probably the most feature rich out of all of the programs. I just save a playlist with the customers name and songs, however it's a dumb way of doing it compared to the other programs which automatically save history. One way that i've gotten around the singer history stored is the "Playlists" Feature. I know that maybe 10% of your clients are Karaoke Jocks but I'm sure that number would grow if you added these features. I am writing to plead to the powers that be to include some of these features in VDJ. Other than that Virtual DJ has the other features already available. The most widely used are: Roxbox Compuhost PCDJ (which is no longer competition, but still prevalent) The features which help these programs stand out are the following: Singer history stored Solid Key Change ability Scrolling lineup of singers at top or bottom of screen.
There are only a handful of professional / quasi professional karaoke software options. I've shared this a few times.I'm hoping it reaches VDJ staff well this time.