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Damion Gardner begins defense of his 2013 AMSOIL USAC/CRA Sprint Car title this weekend at Canyon Speedway Park in Peoria, Ariz. The 7th "Copper on Dirt" features both the USAC/CRA Sprints and Honda Western Midgets in USAC "doubleheaders" both Friday and Saturday at the 3/8-mile dirt oval near Phoenix. IMCA Modified and West Coast and CDM Late Model competition also is on tap during the two nights.
Charles Davis Jr. and R.J. Johnson are seeking to return to the top of the all-time USAC Arizona winners' list. Each have 11 as opposed to Bryan Clauson's 12 and both are expected to be top challengers for Gardner this weekend.
Gardner leads the all-time list of USAC/CRA winners with 46 victories. Five came last year on his way to his second series title. He has eight career USAC wins in the Grand Canyon State, but none at Canyon. He won five times at Manzanita Park in Phoenix, twice at Yuma and once at Tucson.
Johnson, the Phoenix driver who won 11 USAC races in Arizona last year and claimed USAC's Southwest Sprint Car Championship, won five races at Peoria in 2013.
Mike Spencer, the 5-time AMSOIL USAC/CRA Champ from Temecula, Calif., plans to be among top contenders this weekend. He won last year's "Brawl for it All" grudge series race at Canyon. He's expected to team up with Cory Kruseman this weekend.
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What if they were addictive, and had withdrawal symptoms?
Could someone make a bad batch? No one use the brown strength potion!

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The Illinois House today passed legislation giving the state so-called quick-take power to acquire private property for the proposed Illiana expressway connecting Interstate 65 in Indiana and I-55 in Illinois.
Quick-take would let the Illinois Department of Transportation bypass potentially lengthy eminent domain court proceedings in acquiring private property for the proposed highway.
The roll call vote was 61-57. The Senate passed the legislation in March.
Gov. Pat Quinn will sign the measure, his office said.
"It's an important tool that's going to help us get the Illiana built and stimulate the south suburban economy," Quinn spokeswoman Annie Thompson said.
Supporters say the measure will streamline the process so that ground could be broken for the Illiana by 2016.
There is no guarantee the Illiana will be built, however. Only $9 million has been allocated to study the project. The price tag for just the Illinois portion is estimated at nearly $3 billion.
IDOT has recommended a 47-mile corridor for the Illiana stretching from near Lowell, Ind., to Wilmington, Ill.
The General Assembly passed legislation last year calling for the Illiana to be developed as a so-called public-private partnership.
This would allow a private entity to finance, construct and operate the Illiana as a tollway, much like the Spanish-Australian consortium that leases the Indiana Toll Road and the Chicago Skyway.
The original legislation specifically ruled out using quick-take power.
The chief House sponsor of the bill passed Wednesday, Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights, said he believes quick-take is a "necessary evil" to get the highway built in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, among those voting against the measure, said it was too early in the process to approve quick-take power.
"(IDOT doesn't) know where (the Illiana) is going, they don't know whose land will be affected," Bost said. "This is not a standard practice."
Other legislators oppose quick-take on constitutional grounds.
The Illinois Farm Bureau also fought the measure.
"Our members feel that ... one private entity will benefit from the taking of land from other private entities," said Kevin Semlow, the Farm Bureau's director of state legislation.
In a statement, IDOT said:
"The legislation passed today puts us one step closer to building the Illiana Expressway, a project we strongly support for its potential to ease congestion, create jobs and economic development in the south suburbs and improve the flow of traffic, goods and services throughout the region. We remain committed to an extensive public outreach process and working with all impacted parties to address any concerns they might have."
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The Illinois House today passed legislation giving the state so-called quick-take power to acquire private property for the proposed Illiana expressway connecting Interstate 65 in Indiana and I-55 in Illinois.


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Explainer: UFO cases that generate buzz
UFO investigators see references to rocket ships, aliens and astronauts that go back to the days when humans first put chisel and paintbrush to rock. More than 6,000 years later, objects that are unidentified — at least at first — continue to appear in the skies and generate buzz.
Take, for example, the blazing pinwheel that appeared in Norwegian skies in December 2009, shown here. The sight sparked speculation that aliens were sending earthlings a signal. Other researchers speculated — and the Russian military later confirmed — that a missile failed.
NBC space analyst James Oberg says the incident fits into a long tradition of UFO sightings over Russia that are caused by secret military and space activities. Even when there's a prosaic explanation for the sightings, they can provide useful information about covert activities.
Click onward to learn about seven more UFO cases through time that generated buzz.
— John Roach, msnbc.com contributor
1897: Did an airship crash in Aurora, Texas?
In the 1800s, sightings of UFOs, called airships, streamed in from across the United States, according to Mark Easter, a field researcher and international director of public relations for the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON. Many of these sightings were explained as hot-air balloons, which were becoming a fad then. A reported UFO crash in Aurora, Texas, however, remains inadequately explained, according to a report by the group.
Among the evidence recovered during MUFON's investigation is an unusual piece of metal with properties consistent with a crash landing, shown here in a black-and-white view from the report. What's more, remains of the alien pilot are said to be interred at the local cemetery. Requests to excavate the grave, however, have been denied. Why?
A local historian concluded that the sighting was a hoax meant to drum up interest in the town at a time it was being bypassed by the railroad. Excavating the grave might expose the hoax. Oberg, however, says that cases such as the Aurora crash are immune to disproof — too much time has passed to rely on stories that could would have mutated and been embellished over the years, and there's no remaining physical evidence to study.
1947: The 'flying saucer' sighting
On June 24, 1947, former World War II pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying near Mount Rainier in Washington state when he spotted a chain of nine crescent-shaped objects that he said skipped across the air like saucers. Newspaper reporters, erroneously, called them "flying saucers."
"The phrase 'flying saucers,' which are assumed to be round like a saucer, spread so quickly that people began seeing not what he saw but what the reporters had misdescribed," Oberg said. The technical description of whatever Arnold saw has rarely been reported again, the space analyst added.
Other researchers, according to MUFON's Easter, put the sighting in the historical context of the post-World War II atomic weapons program. This activity, he notes, could in theory attract extraterrestrial attention. Plutonium for the bombs was processed at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation east of Mount Rainier.
"If there's some surveillance going on, these things, whatever they were, it just makes sense they would be hugging the east side of that mountain when Arnold saw them," Easter said. Doing so, he noted, would have helped shield them from detection by radar.
1947: The Roswell incident
Did UFOs crash-land in the desert outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947? According to the official line from the U.S. military, the answer is no. At the time, fragments of strange debris collected by a local rancher were explained away as an experimental weather balloon gone awry. In 1994, the military changed its story, saying that the balloon was actually part of Project Mogul, a covert operation to monitor Soviet nuclear blasts.
Oberg is satisfied with that explanation, but some members of the UFO community view the military's explanation as a cover-up of another kind. MUFON's Easter, for example, lends credence to a theory that the military shot down two spaceships that were checking out nuclear weapons being developed and tested in New Mexico. One crash site was cleaned up before it leaked to the press; the other became known as the Roswell Incident.
Amid the buzz, one thing is certain: The mystery has generated income for merchants in Roswell who play up the incident, including this unquestionably fake alien on display at a local museum.
1952: UFO buzz hits Washington
By 1952, according to MUFON's Easter, UFO fever was at such a high pitch that sighting reports started to clog telephone networks. The buzz hit a crescendo during two consecutive July weekends with a series of visual and radar sightings over Washington, D.C.
The military explained the wave of sightings on a temperature inversion, which can cause interference with light and radar. Skeptical members of the UFO community, however, see the time frame as the beginnings of a government-orchestrated mission to squelch the UFO phenomenon by making fun of the people who reported the sightings.
Oberg says the government was concerned about the flood of calls - it was interfering with communications. Security experts reasoned that enemies could purposely spread UFO panic to tie up lines of communication as they dropped bombs on U.S. cities. Instead of debunking the UFOs - which was an option studied - the military shored up its communications systems.
1967: Malmstrom missile site shuts down
Some UFO researchers say an inadequately explained sighting at a nuclear missile launch site near Malstrom Air Force Base, shown here, in March 1967 bolsters the case for a connection between nuclear weapons development and UFOs.
According to a MUFON investigation into the matter, retired Air Force Capt. Robert Salas, who was stationed at the site, said sightings of UFOs with pulsating red lights were followed by a rapid shutdown of the missiles' targeting system. The military admits the shutdown occurred, but its own investigation concluded that the UFO sighting was a rumor.
Oberg says he'd like to know more about the events surrounding this incident. He notes that the tale sounds similar to a case in Russia in which officials used UFOs as an excuse to explain why nuclear equipment was faulty.
1980: A diamond in the sky
In December 1980, Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Vickie's grandson Colby were looking for a bingo game in Texas when a diamond-shaped UFO appeared in the sky. Moments later, the UFO seemed to be escorted away by a fleet of helicopters - some similar to a type used by the U.S. military, according to various accounts of the UFO incident known as the Cash-Landrum Case.
After the incident, Cash and the Landrums reported symptoms such as nausea and burns that some experts believe to be radiation poisoning. Cash spent more than two weeks in the hospital. The trio sued the U.S. government for compensation, but the case was dismissed because a government connection to the incident could not be shown and the medical condition of the alleged victims prior to the incident remained sealed under privacy protection laws.
"That was an interesting case in the sense that it was one of these outliers that have a bright light being carried away by helicopters low across the skies," Oberg says. "That's really bizarre and as far as we know, that, if accurately reported, was the only case where that ever really happened."
2008: Did fighter jets chase Texas UFOs?
Dozens of people in rural Texas near Stephenville reported seeing a large object with bright lights flying low and fast in the skies on Jan. 8, 2008, apparently chased by F-16 fighter jets. At first, the Air Force denied they had jets in the area at the time. Two weeks later, the military admitted that there were indeed jets in the area, and suggested that the residents might have seen one of the jets as a UFO.
The admission satisfies some people as a reasonable explanation. Many such sightings turn out to be military operations. Others, however, remain unconvinced that the larger object has been adequately explained.
Oberg says even he has been fooled by jet overflights. When the line of jets passes overhead, the lights of the leading jet can be seen long before any sound arrives from it. By the time the second and third jets fly over, the roar is evident and it looks as if the jets are chasing the "silent" light out front. "I was shocked by just how gripping, how persuasive, the illusion was that the roaring jets were following a silent light in front," he says.


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At long last, author Jim Munroe and illustrator Shannon Gerard are releasing Sword of My Mouth, the sequel to post-rapture graphic novel Therefore Repent! Now you can win a free copy by telling us what these guys are saying.
Give us some dialogue for Gerard's illustration in comments, and the top ten (as chosen by Munroe) will get free e-book versions of the comic. First place winner gets a real life paper copy. You have 24 hours: Contest closes May 4 at 11:30 PST.
We reviewed the brilliant and haunting Therefore Repent! when it came out, and you can read about it here. (That book is now available online for free, so it's easy and cheap to catch up with the series.)
Here's what's happening in Sword of My Mouth:
Ella's baby isn't quite right. But since the righteous floated into the sky and magic started working, not much is. A stand-alone story continuing on from the acclaimed graphic novel Therefore Repent!, Sword of My Mouth moves the focus from Chicago, under siege by angels with machine guns, to the urban prairie of Detroit. Folks in the D have banded together to turn land with burned-out crackhouses into farming tracts, and seem to be on a road to self-sufficiency… until Famine rides into town.
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A twin-engine plane crashed into the mountains of eastern Kentucky, near Sizerock (Bob Forks area), yesterday (April 27, 2010) at approximately 12:30 PM. Two people were killed when the Beechcraft 58 Baron (registration N1856S) they were travelling in crashed for unknown reasons in a heavily wooded area. The occupants have been identified as Stephen and Beverly Reardon.
According to flight plan information, the Beechcraft departed Frederick Municipal Airport (FDK) in Frederick, Maryland at 10:24 AM and was headed for Olive Branch Airport (OLV) in Olive Branch, Mississippi. As the airplane cruised at 2,500 feet and was 15 miles west of Hazard, air traffic control (ATC) lost contact with the plane. It took a while for a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) airplane to locate the wreckage using the crashed aircrafts emergency locator transmitter (ELT) and about two more hours before authorities were able to access the crash site.
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AAA Member, Paul Stoller, regularly writes editorials for the Huffington Post. In Stoller's recent post, he draws attention to the quiet yet concerning issues that plague the Pennsylvania state-owned university system. Below is a excerpt of the published piece; click here for the complete article.
Governors like the ghoulish Rick Scott of Florida, or the sleepy-eyed Scott Walker of Wisconsin, have gotten a great deal of media attention for short-sighted, ideologically-driven policies that have undermined the quality of life for the citizens of those states. Education budgets have been cut, teachers, police and fire fighters have been laid off, and local services have been pared down. In Wisconsin, Governor Walker's union busting agenda has sparked a grassroots movement to recall him as well as his lieutenant governor.
The high profiles and radical "Heavy Tea" policies of Scott and Walker have, indeed, provoked a large measure of "buyer's remorse" and political resistance. Pennsylvania's recently elected governor, Tom Corbett, seems to maintain a much lower profile than his counterparts in Florida and Wisconsin. His agenda, though, is pretty much the same as his publicity-seeking colleagues in the South and Midwest — cut spending to reduce budget deficits, avoid raising taxes, and grant businesses incentives — including tax incentives — to trigger job growth, none which has seemed to induce past or present economic prosperity in Florida, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania. Indeed, Governor Corbett's proposed budget is a particular noxious pot of Light Tea that will be difficult, if not impossible for most Pennsylvanians to swallow.
The dangers of such Light Tea is that at first it seems rather bland and doesn't call much attention to itself, which means that people may little or no attention to its ultimate noxiousness. If you pay a bit attention to Governor Corbett's proposed budget brew, you quickly see that he thinks that education, especially higher education, is expendable. In his 2011-12 budget and his budget freeze, Pennsylvania's state-owned universities lost more than $112 million in Harrisburg funding. Put together, Governor Corbett's proposed budget, if passed without revision, would mean that the state university system will have lost $175 million in funds since his 2010 inauguration.
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Texas A&M Student Senate Allows Personal Defunding of LGBT Center
Update: The president of the student body at Texas A&M University, John Claybrook, vetoed the student senate's approval of allowing students not to pay for LGBT campus programs.
The (College Station, Texas) Eagle broke the news.
Saying it was time to "stop the bleeding," John Claybrook wrote in a letter announcing his veto. "The damage must stop today," he emphatically added. "Texas A&M students represent our core value of respect exceptionally and I'm very proud of the family at this university. Now, more than ever, is the time to show great resolve and come together, treating each other like the family that we are."
Given the narrow 35-28 vote, it looks as though the Aggies will be continuing fully to fund the center. Claybrook indicated to the Eagle that, out of the more than 1,300 emails he's gotten in 24 hours over the issue, the overwhelming majority were critical of the senate vote.
The bill's co-author, Chris Woolsey, seemed to be almost relieved that the whole fracas was over, even if his side lost. ""That's just how the process works," Woolsey told the Eagle. "It's just how the democratic process works. That's his check on us."
The student senate at Texas A&M University approved a bill Wednesday night that would allow students to opt out of funding the school's LGBT Resource Center if they cite their religious beliefs, the Dallas Voice reports.
The Student Senate debated the measure for three hours before finally voting 35-28 in favor of defunding. Less than 24 hours before the vote, the bill's name was changed from "GLBT Funding Opt Out Bill" to "The Religious Funding Exemption Bill." Additionally, the specific references to the Texas A&M's LGBT Resource Center were removed.
The measure's opponents said that the name change did not change the anti-gay nature of the bill. The Dallas Voice quoted Student Body President John Claybrook as not being sure if he would veto the bill or not.
Student Senate Finance Chairman Fernando Sosa told the Houston Chronicle that the revised bill "doesn't target any specific group, and for that reason, I now support it."
Chris Woolsey, the bill's creator, dismissed those opposed to the measure as being "emotional." The opposition "has been trying to appeal to the 'feel-good crowd' and the 'let's-all-be-friends crowd,' rather than offering a logical argument," Woolsey told the Houston Chronicle. According to Sosa, Texas A&M's LGBT center receives about $100,000 per year ($2 a student).
"Students should be able to decide where their money goes," he said. "Its not my intention to hurt the resources provided to GLBT Aggies."
As a public university, the student representatives at Texas A&M, which is located in a town near Waco, may have considered their measure a compromise intended to head off even more draconian action in Austin. State Rep. Bill Zedler is proposing an amendment to the state's budget that would cut off all state funds to LGBT centers at any of the state's many public universities.
The same night A&M's student senate made its move, the University of Houston Student Government Association went on the attack with a unanimous resolution opposing Zedler's plan. Cedric Bandoh, president of the University of Houston's Student Government Association, said students were already en route to the state capital at Austin to make their voices heard in the debate.
"I do not stand for any kind of discrimination and will definitely not stand for this nonsense," Bandoh told the Chronicle. "With all of the other major financial and other issues facing higher education, we need to focus our attention to real and pressing issues. The Women's Resource Center and LGBT Resource Center play an essential role here on campus and provide vital resources and services to our students."
Same-sex marriage is not only illegal in Texas, it's embedded in the state's constitution. Gay marriages performed in other jurisdictions are not recognized there. Outside of the major cities, the state is known for its conservative electorate and for politicians like George W. Bush and Gov. Rick Perry. But another prominent politician, Annise Parker, is serving her second term as Houston's mayor. By far the largest city in the state, Houston is also far and away the nation's largest city to have an out-gay mayor.
Parker, who was supported by many conservative voters who liked her close scrutiny of the city's budget, is indicative of the winds of change sweeping across the Lone Star State's vast expanses. In late March, the Texas Tribune analyzed polls. "Opposition to same sex-marriage has been on a slow and steady decline" in Texas, the article noted.
Most recent polls show 60 percent of Texans support some legal recognition of same-sex relationships. The number supporting marriage now beats out those opposed. Adding supporters of civil unions shows a clear majority.
While the vote by their peers at Texas A&M shows that that old-time religion continues as a powerful force against LGBT rights, change is certainly coming. It may take time and there may be more reverses. MSNBC wondered if Texas might be turning blue. The New York Times recently wrote that "Republicans should be worried, but Democrats in Austin and Phoenix shouldn't stock up on confetti just yet."


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This page will help you to set up Kodi for karaoke.
- 1 Features
- 2 Missing features
- 3 What will not be implemented
- 4 Supported formats
- 5 Configuration
- 6 Where to get Karaoke files
- 7 Playing
- 8 Advanced settings
- 9 See also
1 Features
Kodi supports the following Karaoke features:
- Supports CDG, LRCv1 and LRCv2 lyrics formats;
- Supports UltraStar song lyrics and video formats;
- Supports MIDI music and KAR files;
- Plays directly from MP3+CDG archived together;
- Supports song numbering with permanent numbers, which means the song could be selected by number, even if another song is being played. The numbering information could be exported into HTML file and used to print catalogs.
- Supports real-time lyrics timing modification, allowing to modify the lyrics-music delay. The delay is associated to the song, and then restored when this song is played again.
- Supports different background modes, including visualization, still picture or video.
2 Missing features
What is not currently supported:
- Playing CD-G disks directly. The suggested workaround is to rip them into MP3+CDG files using available software.
- Using digitized microphone input. The microphone should work in pass-through mode, but will not work in digitized mode, where the sound should be digitally processed by Kodi. This also means that any voice post-processing is not possible yet.
- Pitch modification.
3 What will not be implemented
- Playing vendor-specific Karaoke disks (like California Electronics or LG). Those disks need to be converted to playable files set first.
- Automatic voice removal. This is not possible to do automatically without seriously degrading music quality.
- Scoring table, nicknames and other attributes of karaoke-based games.
4 Supported formats
The following karaoke formats are supported by Kodi.
The karaoke song consist of two files: the music file (usually MP3 but could be any playable type), and a separate binary file with the same file name as the music file, but with .cdg extension. This is the most popular format in the NA/USA, with a lot of English language music in this format available both legally and illegally. The source of those files are usually original CD disks in CD-G formats designed for hardware karaoke players. Those disks got ripped by any of freely available CD rippers, repacked and shared via typical channels, or sold on multiple web sites around the world.
The main feature of this format is that the lyrics are stored in the binary format, in form of drawing instructions. This means the CDG file could contain text in any language, or even graphics, and will be properly rendered on any supported device no matter what fonts are installed. However those drawing instructions operate on a small 300x216 window, and therefore have to be upscaled. As a result, this format combines usually very good music quality with very poor graphics. Because of upscaling the lyrics visualization quality is the worst through all supported formats, especially on large screen TVs. Other problems of this format are inability for the ordinary user to fix the typos or synchronization issues in the song, and that software required to create .CDG files is not widely available. There are only two programs, and neither is cheap.
Same as with CDG, the karaoke song consist of two files: the music file (usually MP3 but could be any playable type), and a separate text file with the same file name as the music file, but with .lrc extension. This is the most popular format in the Asia, and the most widespread lyrics format in the Internet. The source of those files are either original karaoke CDs where text in CD-G format was replaced by text in LRC by the person who ripped it, or a home-made music often made from MIDI files. There is also a lot of legitimate lyrics web sites where the lyrics in LRC format are available for download, usually for free.
The main feature of this format is that the lyrics are stored in the text file, usually in UTF-8 encoding. This means nothing but text (i.e. no graphics), and that the rendering software (Kodi) must have all necessary fonts installed. However since the rendering device uses real scalable fonts to render the text, the lyrics visualization quality is very good, especially on large screens. Being a text file it could also contain meta information (artist and song name, overall song delay and so on), is easy to edit/fix, and easy to create. Under Linux such files could be created in five minutes using free software.
4.3 MP3+TXT (UltraStar)
Similar to CDG and LRC, the karaoke song consist of several files. Usually it's just two files - the music file (usually MP3 but could be any playable type), and a separate text file with the same file name as the music file, but with .txt extension. This is relatively new and a very popular format due to its usage in UltraStar game and its numerous clones. This format also supports pitch, which is now ignored but in future may be used to track the individual performance. Also the song archive often includes video and pictures. At this moment the pictures are ignored, however the video will be played at background if available.
There are several song packages available in Internet. For starters, the Performous web site, http://performous.org/, contains a few songs with a liberal license. A bunch of websites over Internet are also providing Ultrastar lyrics (only text, they do not provide music).
You can create your own MP3 and TXT files from Karaoke MIDI files or ABC files. Since the timing of lyrics is already in the Karaoke MIDI file, it's easier to programatically convert this information to the TXT format rather than trying to create lyrics files by hand. See the tips under the Karaoke MIDI section for creating Karaoke MIDI files from ABC files. To convert a Karaoke MIDI file to MP3, you can use Timidity itself. Timidity can take a MIDI file and convert it to WAV or other formats. If your version of Timidity doesn't support MP3, you can convert to WAV and then use a program like Audacity or Sox to convert to MP3. Many UltraStar files are also availabe in Ogg Vorbis (rather than MP3). Again, you can use tools like Audacity or Sox to convert audio file formats as necessary. To create a text file with lyrics automatically from a Karaoke MIDI file, so far, the only program I've found for this is MidiKar2UltraStar. It's written in Java and isn't Open Source. It would be nice to find some Open Source programs to automate the lyrics conversion.
The karaoke song consist of a single MIDI file which usually has .kar or .mid extension. The MIDI file inside usually contains multiple tracks, and one of those tracks contains lyrics synchronized with the music. Because MIDI file only contains instructions for the music synthesizer (like //play note "A" using instrument "Grand Piano"//) and do not contain the music itself, the file is usually very small. Most song files are around 50K. Vast majority of MIDI files is created by amateurs, and legally offered for download for free. This format is very popular in Eastern Europe. But for any language it's usually much easier to find a MIDI karaoke song than MP3 karaoke song.
To play MIDI files, Kodi incorporates a MIDI synthesizer Timidity++. This is a full-featured synthesizer which supports soundfonts, but special configuration is required. Since the lyrics in the MIDI file are in text format, a good quality rendering is possible. However there is no standard which would require MIDI files to use only UTF8 encoding, and therefore some of them use UTF8, and some of them use local encoding. Kodi tries to auto-detect whether to use UTF-8 but it might not always succeed. The text in MIDI files is relatively hard to edit or modify, however a lot of editors are available on all platforms, and there is open-source free software like Rosegarden to edit MIDI files.
You can create your own Karaoke MIDI files using a standard text editor, ABC notation and the Open Source program abc2midi. This will work on all platforms. If you're familiar with notes or can read sheet music, ABC Notation should be easy to work with. You can also convert available ABC files to MIDI or Karaoke MIDI files to use with Kodi. If you have a MIDI file and want to edit it to add or tweak lyrics or change some notes, you can use midi2abc to convert to ABC notation and then edit in a text editor. (You may lose some information in the conversion to ABC, but you can now change the music however you want.) After editing, you can convert back to Karaoke MIDI using abc2midi. If you want a more lossless way to edit MIDI files, try mf2t and t2mf or midicomp (combination of mf2t and t2mf available at Freepats site). These Open Source programs let you convert a Karoake MIDI file directly into a text format that can edited in any standard text editor. You can easily edit Karaoke lyrics in this format. The programs then convert the text file back to Karaoke MIDI format.
5 Configuration
Kodi needs to be configured to support karaoke. You need is to enable karaoke in the Setup -> Music -> Karaoke. I also suggest to disable "Music -> General -> Auto play next item" as it's usually not desirable for karaoke.
5.1 Skin selection
Skins other than default Confluence might require extra files to support Karaoke. Please make sure everything works with the default skin before switching to another, and if something does not work, please make sure it does not work on default skin too. The rule is the following: bugs in karaoke which happen using default skin, are assigned to me. Bugs which only happen using non-default skin, should be assigned to the team/person responsible for this skin.
5.2 Checking timings
You need to make sure there is no delay between audio and lyrics, or set up the appropriate value to compensate it. For this, get a couple of songs which you're sure are synchronized properly, and try to play it. If the lyrics are not synchronized, adjust delay through advancedsettings.xml. Note that there are two different delays for CDG and for LRC files. There is no delay for MIDI playback, it must be always synchronized.
5.3 MIDI playback
There are two ways to configure embedded Timidity synthesizer and enable MIDI playback - a simple way, and a more advanced way.
Simple way, you need a single soundfont file. Those are typically large (50Mb+) files with .sf2 extension, the most popular resource is http://www.sf2midi.com I recommend using widespread and well-tested SGM-180 soundfont, google for it or get 2.01 version from http://www.geocities.jp/shansoundfont/ (this one is included into Arch linux in the soundfont-sgm180 package). Download the file, rename it to soundfont.sf2 and put it into your Kodi directory:
- For revisions before 35301 copy it into system/players/paplayer/timidity subdirectory (you must create it first).
- For revisions after 35301 copy it into timidity subdirectory in your home userdata folder, i.e. something like .kodi/userdata/timidity/soundfont.sf2
Advanced way, you need to prepare timidity.cfg configuration file. Usually this is necessary when you use multiple soundfonts or want to add post-processing effects. This means you know enough of Timidity, and could handle it yourself. Kodi embeds version 2.13.2 of Timidity. (Note: Versions of Timidity created in 2010 and after have better support for Karaoke midi files created by ABC notation and better timing for lyrics especially in the xaw part of the code.) Create timidity.cfg and put it in the system/players/paplayer/timidity subdirectory, and check Kodi log file for errors if it doesn't work. There's a soundfont configurator tool available online at Tim Brechbill's Timidity site. It's assumes you're on a Windows system, but should be okay with Posix systems too if you correct your paths appropriately. You can use it to generate the Timidity.cfg file for you. There are also links to other good soundfonts at this site.
Please note that for SGM-180 soundfont playback you need a decent machine with at least 256Mb of RAM and at least Pentium 2.4GHz CPU. Otherwise get a smaller soundfont.
If you want to use soundfonts with Open Source and/or Creative Commons licenses, check out the Freepats Project. Many Linux distributions offer a Freepats package. The Freepats Project has Open Source and/or Creative Commons licensed soundfonts, instruments sounds and tools to create your own soundfonts.
5.4 Selection by number
To enable song selection by number, your music collection needs to be scanned (or rescanned if it was scanned already). During scan, the karaoke songs are detected, and the song numbers will be automatically assigned. After the scan is completed, you can export the numbered songs as HTML file (Setup -> Music -> Karaoke -> Export Karaoke titles... -> Export as HTML), open them in the OpenOffice Writer and print a song directory to have a professional Karaoke setup. Use two-column mode if you want to save space.
It is also possible to change the song numbering if you don't like it or if you want to maintain compatibility with your printed guide. For this you need to export numbered songs as CSV (Setup -> Music -> Karaoke -> Export Karaoke titles... -> Export as CSV), modify it as necessary, and import it back (Setup -> Music -> Karaoke -> Import Karaoke titles). The CSV format is TAB-separated, no quotes, no escape characters. The first field is song number, second field is artist name, third is song name, and fourth is path to the music file.
It is possible to select songs while a karaoke song is still played, by using numbers on your remote. This feature is enabled by default, however you need to make sure that the number buttons from your remote generate Number* events. By default they do not, so you need to modify your Keymap.xml. Put the following in your <remote> section:
<zero>Number0</zero> <one>Number1</one> <two>Number2</two> <three>Number3</three> <four>Number4</four> <five>Number5</five> <six>Number6</six> <seven>Number7</seven> <eight>Number8</eight> <nine>Number9</nine>
When you start pressing numbers, a small dialog will pop up in a left top screen corner. It will show selected song number and song name or "Unknown" if there is no such song for this name. Once the song is selected, press "Select" on your remote to add it into the playlist.
5.5 Show song selector automatically
If the setting "Show song selector automatically" is enabled, the song selection dialog will pop up after the karaoke song ends if there are no more songs in the queue. It will not pop up after a non-Karaoke song. This dialog works exactly as the in-song dialog, however once the song is selected, it starts playing immediately.
5.6 Setting up default background mode
Default background mode is "no background". If you wish to use visualization, video or a picture as background, it should be enabled in advancedsettings.xml.
For video background the video file must be available in supported format. Currently all the formats which could be played by Kodi are supported with exception of DVD and DVD images. Video playback is in alpha phase, so currently only one video could be selected as background. Using highly compressed video is not recommended; MPEG2 is recommended for fast machines and MPEG1 for slow machines. Educational videos like National Geography look very good for background. Stripping audio is not needed, as any available audio stream will be ignored.
When playing CDG+MP3 files, note that they usually have their own background which you can turn on/off in advancedsettings.xml as well.
6 Where to get Karaoke files
MP3+CDG. CD-G disks are available from many online retailers such as http://www.shopkaraoke.com or http://www.mycdg.com, as well as from some high street shops. Since at this moment Kodi cannot play such disks, you're suggested to rip them using available tools. Once you have ripped the disks to MP3+G format, you can play the songs directly from your hard disk using Kodi.
Alternatively there are some online retailers offering downloadable MP3+G files. See http://www.tricerasoft.com for a good example. From sites like this you can download the files already in MP3+G format and play them directly using Kodi. There is also a bunch of web sites selling huge collections of MP3+G songs on multiple DVD disks.
MP3+LRC. At this moment we do not know about any vendor which would sell legit MP3 karaoke files with LRC lyrics. A lot of LRC karaoke files and music are available on Asian (mostly Chinese) web sites, either freely or commercially, but their legality is questionable. However, LRC lyrics alone are freely available at a lot of web sites, and relatively easy to create, see the article in this wiki on HOW-TO create LRC karaoke lyrics files.
MP3+TXT. A few Creative Commons licensed songs come with UltraStar Deluxe. These will work on POSIX platforms as well as Windows. You can do a search on Creative Commons licensed MP3 files to find songs you can legally share with others. You'll probably need to create your own lyrics files though. You can also check Ultrastar, Ultrastar Deluxe and Performous forums for more songs and/or lyrics. If you legally own songs on CD, you can rip them to WAV for personal use using Open Source tools like CDex or Asunder or K3B and then convert to MP3 with tools like Audacity or Sox. Some software may convert directly to MP3.
MIDI. MIDI karaoke files are mostly available for free as "public domain", while only a few of them are available commercially. (Note: Some freely available MIDI Karaoke files have copyright notifications embedded in them. Also, just because the MIDI file is available for free, doesn't mean it's public domain. If the song itself is under copyright, the midi file is not legally in the public domain.) They are often found in specialized musician/karaoke forums as well as on dedicated websites. The MIDI format was very popular before introduction of MP3, and tons of them could be found in the old newsgroups archives. There's also a search engine for Karaoke MIDI files at the VanBasco site, but the site isn't always available.
ABC. ABC Notation text files files can easily be converted to Karaoke MIDI files or even MP3 files with text lyrics. Many are free, in the public domain or have friendly licensing restrictions. There are several search engines available for them. Another good place to look for them is The Mudcat Cafe.
7 Playing
Select the Karaoke song (either on disk or by number) and press "Select". The screen should change to visualization, and the song should start playing with the lyrics shown on screen. For us the best visualization for karaoke so far was Goom, but it is very resource-consuming so if your hardware is not top notch, you might want to switch to Project M instead, which is also very good.
If the lyrics for this specific song need to start earlier or later, press the button associated with SubtitleDelayPlus or SubtitleDelayMinus until lyrics are synchronized. Each press changes the delay by 50ms.
If you're in the middle of a song and decide you want to hear something else, press x to get back to your song listings. You can also move through your songs lists by pressing , or . to go backward or forward in your song listings.
8 Advanced settings
The following advanced settings are added for karaoke support. All they must be stored in the advancedsettings.xml file in the <karaoke> section:


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Fukushima Recap: Hard facts that prove the earthquake was fabricated, and Fukushima was a Stuxnet/nuke attack
Full Report:http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukureport1b.pdf
Facts unknown by people who have not read the Fukushima report, yet were fully certified by the World Nuclear Association.
1. Fukushima never lost off site power, which made the "flooding of the generators" irrelevant. You read that right, Fukushima had power the entire time. However, there was an "anomaly" which caused the transfer switches (that were above the tsunami line) to cut external power into the facility. Long before there was any disaster at all this problem was found and the off site switch gear was replaced, but even the new switch gear, which was SCADA controlled, refused to engage and provide power to Fukushima. What would do that? the Stuxnet virus, under control from Dimona, that's what.
2. Fukushima had 11 back up generators. Several of these were in the basement of the turbine building. The turbine building did get some water, but it was not enough to flood the generators there. Four of them which started automatically mysteriously switched off and could not be re-started, however a fifth one stayed running but could not be used because the Scada based switch gear that transfered it's power for facility use would not engage, so it sat there, running uselessly. It was sufficient to power emergency systems at all reactors by itself and if it could have been connected it would have prevented all disaster. But the "Dimona Dozen" said no.
3. The roads into Fukushima were totally un-damaged, so very early on (within the first couple hours, when it was clear there was something seriously amiss with the transfer switches,) massive flat bed semi mounted "portable" generators were driven into the facility and hooked up. Alas, the Scada controlled switch gear was not allowed by some mysterious entity, to engage. And you can't "just hook it up" by hand, you need specialized switch gear to handle that much power or there will be an explosion when it is connected. So they were stuck.
4. Fukushima had control power the entire time. Control power is what the computers and small non motorized devices run from (small devices, such as electric valves, relays, etc.) Control power alone was enough to save Fukushima from destruction, however, the engineers in the control room were not getting accurate readings, and all commands sent to valves were declined. If they had been able to open any of the pressure release valves, they could have saved the facility with high pressure pumper trucks (that could rapidly pump water into the reactors at the normal reactor operating pressure of 1050 PSI, but the valves, which should automatically open at 1058 PSI (and vent the reactors out the huge white "smokestacks") were electronically held shut, despite all attempts to cut power to them and force them to open. When the trucks arrived to try to get water into the reactors, they encountered pressures above 2700 PSI (despite the control rooms all saying the pressures were where they should be, at 1050 PSI) and 2700 PSO was the limit the trucks could pump to. This meant that not only were the pressure relase valves refusing to open, but the reactors were far far above maximum operating temperature (with temperature directly correlated with steam pressure) and the control room readouts were lying. That's exactly what Stuxnet does.
After they discovered how high the pressures really were (because the pumper trucks gave accurate answers) they decided to send people in to cut the wires to the valves (which would then allow them to open automatically) but before the final decision was made, 3 of the reactors exploded.
5. Reactor 4 was under maintenance and had it's core removed, yet it exploded anyway.
6. All 4 reactor containments were pre-purged with nitrogen, which made hydrogen explosions impossible, and the official lie - "hydrogen explosions" could not have destroyed the containments because they were simply too robust. Additionally, the only way hydrogen could get out of any reactor was through the smokestacks, there was no way for it to get into the containments to begin with. Seismic readings at Fukushima proper were 6.02, and the facility was designed to withstand local seismic events of 8+. All reactors were shock absorber mounted, the whole 9 yards, there was no damage that made hydrogen explosions possible.
7. YET HUGE EXPLOSIONS, NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS, HAPPENED AT REACTORS 3 AND 4, AND REACTOR PRESSURE VESSEL EXPLOSIONS, AT 3000+ PSI HAPPENED AT REACTORS 1 AND 2. These were pressure vessel explosions (boiler pressure vessel explosions) - nuclear reactors are in effect giant boiler pressure vessels - explosions of such boilers are really nasty (nasty enough to ruin containments) but nuclear weapons are worse, and I HAVE PROOF THEY WERE USED, which is why containments 3 and 4 were destroyed so much worse than 1 and 2.
8. Here is the big bad naughty thing this site is hated most for - a picture of the nuclear weapon, fronted as a security camera, that was placed under reactor 3 by Israeli "security firm" Magna BSP. A different one went into reactor 4.
Gun type nuclear weapons are very large, but nuclear facilities are huge, and there was space under reactor 3 for it. Yes, those are street lights on that tarmac, here is a picture of this type of "camera" (which in this case happens to be a real camera) mounted to a building, for reference:
(Notice on the one that went under reactor 3 that the cameras are externally mounted balls that are stuck to a sleeve, and on the real camera (obviously done to make a convincing fake for a picture) the cameras are totally cut into what would be the gun barrel. WHY THE DIFFERENCE? You guess!
No significant earthquake happened in Japan, 3/11 was an event where a man made earthquake measuring 6.6 was used as a front while nuclear weapons dropped in the Japan trench by the U.S. Navy, (which thought it was dropping sonobouys) were used to create an enormous tsunami, which did horrific damage. The USGS, which is a totally corrupted agency handled the paperwork for the earthquake but pissed off Japanese seismologists sent me the actual seismogram for the quake, and the reading is Richter, here it is:
They put the fake epicenter out in the ocean, to satisfy the official story, while showing what the actual readings were. There was no earthquake in the ocean at all, even the man made quake was 100 KM inland and the ZioPress simply scammed the news. I wonder if the seismologists who published this accurate seismogram are even alive anymore. DOUBT IT.
This is all documented in the Fukushima report (which this site is permanently banished for) because I refuse to take it down. The world needs to know just how damn dirty Israel really is. Japan was destroyed because they agreed to provide nuclear fuel to Iran, and refused to make a huge payout to the world bank.
Oh, for the heck of it (I guess) I'll post the picture that proves no big earthquake happened, and the tsunami really was nuclear. Everything is in perfect shape here, as the tsunami rolls in.


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Spring-DM, Aries Blueprint and custom namespaces
In a standard environment, Spring lives in a simple classloader. The classloader which is used to create the spring application is not supposed to change at any time, and everything that is needed for the application is supposed to be available from that classloader. So let's see what happens with custom namespace handlers. Spring detects custom namespace handlers through the presence of a file in the following location META-INF/spring.handlers. This file contains the name of the class supporting a given namespace. In a non OSGi environment, spring detects the namespace handlers by iterating through the resources and finding all these files. However, in an OSGi environment, things must be done a bit differently. The direction which has been taken by Spring-DM is to watch all started bundles and check for this META-INF/spring.handlers file. The custom namespace is then registered and available for use. This leads to multiple problems.
The first one comes from the fact that there is now way to express a dependency onto a "started" bundle. The OSGi specification defines the Require-Bundle header and Import-Package, but both headers do not care about the fact that the bundle is started or not, only that it is resolved. This means that when you deploy your bundles, you need to control the start order of all your bundles to make sure that all custom namespace handlers are started before any application that use them. Failing to do so will result in applications not being started and the solution is to manually restart the bundle. This really goes against the OSGi best practices.
The second problem comes is caused by the non-staged approach in the parsing of the spring xml configuration files. The Spring-DM extender parses the xml and each time a non standard element is found, try to locate the appropriate namespace handler in its internal registry and delegate to that namespace. Once again, this does not work well in OSGi because namespace handlers can come and go and you can't be sure that the namespace are available at the time your bundle start.
The next problem is related to classloading. The namespace handler does not come with its own classloader than can contribute to the application (remember spring has been designed to work with a single static classloader). This means that in order to use a custom namespace, the classloader of the bundle needs to be able to access all the classes that the custom namespace handler will refer to. If you have ever tried to use CXF in OSGi, you know what I mean: you need to import dozens of packages for your application to start to allow the namespace handler to find the classes it needs.
Another limitation is that custom namespace can't be versioned with Spring-DM and it may lead to having to define different namespaces to solve class-related compatibility issues. Let's say you have a namespace foo. This namespace allows to to create an interface named bar (version 1.0). Later, you have a revision of this package . This new version of the interface may or may not be compatible with the previous 1.0 version, but this has nothing to do with the namespace or xml schema itself. With Spring-DM, you need to version your schema because you can't have two namespace handlers supporting the same namespace. This may be problematic because you end up with two solutions. The first one is to always change your namespace (by including the version in the namespace), which means all the bundles using your namespace need to change their xml configuration even it it was compatible. The other solution is to not allow two versions to live in the same OSGi environment. This is simply not possible unless you fully control everything and this goes against the OSGi very goal.
I really don't blame the Spring-DM guys: I think their goal was to be fully backward compatible and that's what they achieved. Sadly, the end result does not behave well in an OSGi environment.
Now, the nice part is that the Apache Aries Blueprint implementation which I've worked on for quite some time now does a much better job at handling those custom namespaces. All four problems have been solved by leveraging OSGi. The implementation leverages the service registry for custom namespace handlers, each bundle containing a custom handler registering its own service. When starting an application, the blueprint extender will make a first pass on the xml configuration files and detect which namespace are used, then put the application in a waiting state until all namespace handlers are available. Each namespace handler can load its own classes thus avoiding the need for the blueprint bundle to import classes that it's not really aware of (because it uses a custom xml namespace and not plain beans). Last, by ensuring class-space consistency, a much cleaner versioning can be done on the various namespaces.
So give it a try if you hit one of the mentioned issues.
5 comments:
- costin said...
Hi Guillaume,
The issues you listed with namespaces are side-effects of a generic problem in OSGi regarding resource discovery and sharing - otherwise known as the extender pattern.
While types (as in java.lang.Class) are versioned and treated as first-class citizens in OSGi, resources (as in files) are not. You can share the packages in which files are defined (as long as they follow the java conventions which means META-INF/ cannot be used) but you still cannot differentiate them apart as there is no equivalent of a ClassLoader or a resource-consistent space. A common example is the META-INF/services location - without dedicated support from the OSGi framework, it's pretty much impossible to leverage this mechanism in OSGi (without modifying existing jars or duplicating the OSGi resolver).
However, as you probably know, there are proposals in the OSGi Alliance to address this gap (which we plan to incorporate).
As for actual solutions to the problems mentioned:
1. Depending on the number of namespaces used, ordering the bundles might be needed. Spring DM doesn't address this yet but dm Server (upcoming Eclipse Virgo) does.
Moreover, as you probably know, namespaces are currently discussed for the next Blueprint spec release.
2. Falls under 1) category however we have plan to improve the current behaviour (regardless of 1) in the next release).
3. The namespace handler implementation details (let alone class loading) are not the concern of the client - that's the whole point of decoupling after all. As for technicalities, the namespaces are services (as you've mentioned) that are bound to their declaring bundle, which means they do have a consistent class space (guaranteed by
the OSGi platform). Spring DM checks the compatibility between the namespace handler and the client and further more, for the rare cases where the handler has an intrusive approach, one can simply enforce consistency through the existing OSGi manifest directives.
4. If you want to use different versions of a custom namespace/schema, you can either version it (which is a best practice and it makes sense) or not (in which case Spring DM treats it as having a "default" version). At runtime, the best matching "class consistent" version is picked up but then again, for the cases where this doesn't apply, the OSGi directive can solve this elegantly, out of the box.
These being said, I'm glad to see Spring namespaces supported in Aries and interested to know more about the problems you faced and how you addressed them.
Costin Leau
Spring DM/Blueprint RI Lead
Great post! As soon this will be available in a future SMX Snapshot we will upgrade to blueprint :-)
- Guillaume Nodet said...
Costin, I think you missed some of my points.
What happens at the end is that as soon as you use custom namespaces you need to fully control the start order of all bundles so that bundles containing namespace handlers are started before the application bundles. And that's independent of the number of namespace handlers used. The problem is that Spring-DM decided to keep full backward compatibility so that dropping a spring namespace handler (using the META-INF folder) in osgi would work with spring-dm. Using a whiteboard pattern for the handlers would have been more appropriate I think.
A staged parsing would then have been able to preparse the xml files, extract the namespaces in use and wait for those to be available (as it's done in the grace period).
On point 3, I don't understand what you're saying. When you implement a custom namespace, the clients of this namespace don't need to know what implementation classes are used behind the scene. As you say, that's exactly the point of decoupling. The problem is that the current design of Spring namespaces does not allow that, thus this very problem of packages surfaces and the clients actually have to care about importing the needed packages in order for the namespace to work.
On the last point, I agree that OSGi support that. The problem is that Spring-DM does not support multiple handlers for the same namespace as far as I know. It only supports multiple namespaces wired onto different spring extenders (you still have at most one handler for a given namespace / spring-dm extender), which is not the case I'm talking about. The use case I'm referring to is a bit more subtle than that: it's about running multiple extenders for the same namespace and choose the one according to the class-space consistency of the client. Let's say you have Apache Camel 2.0 and 2.1 running at the same time in the framework, you want to be able to deploy camel routes and have them wired to the right camel version depending on which version of camel the client uses, but that does not mean that you want to version the namespace, because this put additional burden on the clients and the migration to a higher version very painful.
And I will for sure bring all that feedback when we'll work on the standardized blueprint namespaces in the OSGi EEG.
- costin said...
Spring is used heavily in non-OSGi environment and such the overwhelming majority of namespace handler implementations simply are unaware of it. These need to be supported and that's why the extender pattern was chosen.
It has worked great so far and except the ordering issue (which again we decided to not address ourselves with dm Server/Eclipse Virgo and the proposals in the OSGi Alliance).
You mention that Spring DM is "fully backwards compatible" - which is what we (Spring DM team) wanted, but does this mean your approach is not? And if so, can you point out in what ways?
Do you provide a different namespace handler abstraction or reuse the existing one?
Regarding 3), we'll probably have to take this offline since don't understand why the client needs to load the classes provided by the namespace handler. The handler can just inject the classes into the container (which is what happens now) - it's simple, clean and efficient.
For 4), I never encountered that case before. From you are telling me, the namespace/schema model was extended from a one to one mapping, to one to many. I'll see what I can do to support this in the next version but it would help to get some more information on your exact case - are there some links out there that you can share?
- ranajit said...
Hi Guillaume,
We are using FUSEESB which runs on Karaf.
It is very common that the blueprint file is not able to resolve any of the spring namespaces. For most of the implementation blueprint has created its own implementation which resolves most of the senarios. but in case we want to use spring namespaces in blueprint it becomes impossible. Adding a service with blueprint Namespace handler did not help or probably I am not sure if it was done correctly.
If there is way to resolve this then we will be able to use lot of spring features with blueprint.


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