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Finished a very old song request from https://www.mylittlekaraoke.com/forum/index.php?topic=309.0

Download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ra3RC-L7JhkJ-WAKyevuefyvKqNH2YdY/view?usp=sharing

The zip contains some extra resources that aren't technically necessary:
* Original YouTube video and the command I used to crop+reencode it, please use that as a starting point if the current video.mp4 is too large (don't reencode the current video.mp4, the quality of the original YT video is bad enough already)
* A PDF with some notes that isn't what is actually sung, but you just have to shift everything. Ie, a 'C' in the PDF becomes a 'G' in the actual song, etc.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CD5zQGDitVKG4U71aOjEsI3XQ-1tTDkI
EDIT: but there's an updated version in the third reply.

contains txt and mp3. Uses background.png, cover.jpg and video.mp4 from existing English version

Almost finished, just be sure to check/adjust the following:
- Check the pitch of the "Ge" note every time they sing "Gemeinsam". In the English version that is just "We" (one syllable), but in the German version it's two and the pitch of "Ge" appears to be lower one time and then the same the other times, but I'm not sure.
- I've changed Spike's first note to rap (where he's tasting the gem) because Rarity is slightly 'behind' compared to the English version, causing their lines to be too close (2506 in the file).
- In general some lines are now super close together, sometimes only 1 or 2 beats apart, or even 0 in the case of "Das Wetter -- Das Essen". Some linebreaks might want to be removed or first notes changed to rap, but I've kept in as much as possible for now.

I need some help in finishing this song:
- someone should look at the pitches, at least at "Am Anfang waren" and anytime "suße Fantasie" occurs. I haven't changed any pitches from the English version, but I usually fail these parts on that version as well
- someone that really knows German should look at the syllables and check if they're split correctly
but other than that, I think it's certainly playable at this point.


https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yzkUi8chj9N0DJAqIJqqq9VjXAJ_j8vc
EDIT: but also see the link in the second post.

It requires background.png, cover.png and video.mp4 from the existing English version, so you'll want to copy those over yourself.


I plan to do other German songs as well (at least Gemeinsam wird's gelingen, Er ändert sich and (K)eine Kleinigkeit), but only if this sort of .txt is close enough that it can be finished without too much effort. If it's not of good enough quality for the MLK team, then please do tell me on which specific area(s) to improve. Otherwise, expect more German songs in the future.

(Yes, I know there already is one at https://www.mylittlekaraoke.com/forum/index.php?topic=1162.0 this one is not that one)

So, this is more me figuring out if I have my timings right, because I think it sounded OK in an editor, but it's hard for me to tell because that's on a different computer I run MLK from and the audio/screen delays are possibly just not the same.

I essentially took the existing version (notes.txt), cut out the few paragraphs of text that are actually not in the animation version, then tried my best at retiming them. Compared to the original, the second part starts at the word "soon" (it's only in there once). So at most, you'll have two blocks to retime (should only be a couple of milliseconds).

A 6:46 song, while good, gets really old if it's played like 7 times a day, this version is 'only' 6 minutes or so, so you have some variety.

NB: I took the audio from the video file itself, but I think there's some light sound effects in there. It's probably possible to make a _much_ higher audio version by taking the audio of the existing MLK song (the full song) and cutting that up (worst-case you only have to use the part where the cut is from the video, and everything else from the full song). Shouldn't be too hard with one of those fancy editors that show a waveform, and you can make an instrumental one as well. I just don't have the time for it right now (or this entire month, really).

Ignore my shitty cover.png and background.png, I'm sure someone can do a better job. Video was taken from youtube back when they had a way less shitty version than they have now, I just cut some parts off it but no re-encoding whatsoever.

Download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pg0NOuUzAv-NzcsMbKv2J3m3f_rpLpfU/view?usp=sharing