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There is a file glimglam.txt. I'm not sure if this is meant to be a singable Starlight-only version, or a leftover developer version (there is a difference between instglim.mp3 and instrumental.mp3, but Trixie is not very clear in instglim.mp3, so I'm not really sure).

Either way, the glimglam.txt still has duet tags, which the rest of the file is very clearly not.

In both the duet version (duet.txt) as well as the regular version (notes.txt) there is a linebreak at 1841 that might need to be moved (I don't know how USDX handles these) because they might cut off the current sentence. It can be moved to something like 2600 or something.

[zero-length note plus extra linebreak at 568]

This is like the thread in Official songs, it'll take way too much time to do this in a thread per song.
NB: these fixes are only for songs that, once downloaded and unpacked, end up in the 'Community' folder. Aka, they are all for older songs, before songs could be downloaded individually.

In the post I just list the songs and what is wrong with them on a not-super-technical level. See the linked two diff files for my proposed solutions. Numbers refer to beats, not line numbers.

4EverfreeBrony - Chant of Mirth/notes.txt
* The note starting at 2110 overlaps with the one starting at 2097

4EverfreeBrony - Chant of Mirth/notes.txt
* duplicate #LANGUAGE tag

AcousticBrony, MandoPony - I'll Fly Higher/notes.txt
* linebreak at 54 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 156 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 382 interferes with previous note

Andrew Huang - PFUDOR/notes.txt
* zero-length note plus extra linebreak at 568
* linebreak at 1131 intereferes with previous note

AwkwardMarina - Anthropology/instrumental.txt
* duplicate #UPDATED tag

Black Gryph0n, Michelle Creber - Beat It/notes.txt
* invalid #UPDATED separator (! instead of :)

BlackGryph0n, Baasik, Michelle Creber - Getting Stronger/notes.txt
* overlapping notes+linebreak around 244-250

BronyFX - Discord's Lament/notes.txt
* duplicate #YEAR tag

DaWillstanator feat BriLizyT - Lullaby For A Princess/duet-instrumental.txt
and
DaWillstanator feat BriLizyT - Lullaby For A Princess/duet.txt
and
DaWillstanator feat BriLizyT - Lullaby For A Princess/instrumental.txt
and
DaWillstanator feat BriLizyT - Lullaby For A Princess/tia.txt
* linebreak at 6112 interferes with previous note

DaWillstanator feat BriLizyT - Lullaby For A Princess/luna.txt
* multiple #GENRE tags

F3nning - Fluttershy's Gala/notes.txt
* linebreak at 790 interferes with previous note

Feather - Mad Mares/notes.txt
* linebreak at 3130 interferes with previous note

FiW - Gypsy Bard - Extended/instrumental.txt
and
FiW - Gypsy Bard - Extended/notes.txt
* linebreak+note at 326 interfere with note previous note (the one starting at 324)

Filly Funtasia - From Now Until Forever/notes.txt
* linebreak at 722 interferes with previous note

Flapplejack/notes.txt
* linebreak at 33 interferes with previous note

Forest Rain - Memory Lane/notes.txt
* duplicate #EDITION tag
* linebreak at 1571 interferes with previous note
* overlapping notes (and linebreak) around 1781-1795
* linebreak at 2411 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 2982 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 3342 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 4075 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 4324 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 5098 interferes with previous note

Forest Rain - Trixie/instrumental.txt
and
Forest Rain - Trixie/notes.txt
* multiple #UPDATED tags

Kenny9807 - Apples to the Core (Rock Version)/notes.txt
* linebreak at 125 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 450 interferes with next note
* linebreak at 689 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 1729 interferes with next note

Mandopony, Eilemonty - Picture Perfect Pony/notes.txt
* illegal instruction at 1375 (f instead of F)
* overlapping notes (and linebreak) around 1430-1436
* overlapping notes (and linebreak) around 2019-2024

Meelz - Twilight Sparkle, You're My Reason to Live/instrumental.txt
and
Meelz - Twilight Sparkle, You're My Reason to Live/notes.txt
* multiple #UPDATED tags

Metajoker feat. Fluttershyay - Universe/notes.txt
* linebreak at 2145 interferes with previous note

Ponime - Luna Genesis Evangelion/instrumental.txt
and
Ponime - Luna Genesis Evangelion/notes.txt
* linebreak at 840 interferes with next note

Ponyphonic - Lullaby for a Princess/instrumental.txt
and
Ponyphonic - Lullaby for a Princess/notes.txt
* linebreak at 128 interferes with previous note

Ponyphonic - The Moon Rises/notes.txt
* duplicate #LANGUAGE tags

PrinceWhateverer - Frailty/notes.txt
* duplicate #LANGUAGE tags

Sand Josieph (ft. Lanovran & SiminaCindy) - Daddy Discord/duet-instrumental.txt
and
Sand Josieph (ft. Lanovran & SiminaCindy) - Daddy Discord/duet.txt
* zero-length note at 2420 (did not look into how the other versions don't have this error, maybe they solve it in a better way than I did)

Silver Note - Chasing Marks/instrumental.txt
and
Silver Note - Chasing Marks/notes.txt
* multiple #GENRE tags

Tara Strong - Take My Hand/notes.txt
* linebreak at 1777 interferes with previous note

Tarby - Kaos Rizing/notes.txt
* linebreak at 863 interferes with previous note

The Count of Monte Cristo - I Will Be There/duet.txt
* linebreak at 1420 interferes with previous note

The L-Train - Fall of an Empire/12-ch8-duet.txt
* mupltiple #START tags (as fix I looked at what the other version used)

The Living Tombstone feat. Dasha - Good Girl/instrumental.txt
and
The Living Tombstone feat. Dasha - Good Girl/notes.txt
* linebreak at 577 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 849 interferes with previous note
* linebreak at 1635 interferes with previous note

UnderPony - Aloe Aloe/notes.txt
* duplicate #LANGUAGE tag

Voodoopony ft iBringDaLulz - Dreams of an Earth Pony/notes.txt
* notes starting at 2530 and 2532 overlap
* notes starting at 4750 and 4754 overlap

WoodenToaster, The Living Tombstone - Love me Cheerilee/instrumental.txt
* between notes starting at 481 and 522, there is a linebreak for 5012

zatslol - Alicornication/notes.txt
* duplicate #LANGUAGE tags

H8_Seed - Heartstrings/notes.txt
* unnecessary linebreak at 1810

Nyan/notes.txt
* unnecessary linebreak at 1529

SimGretina, MEMJ - Dear Luna/notes.txt
* unnecessary linebreak at 3842

links to fixes:
Fixes 1 (general fixes):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H00itduVSTSw7qnv4SwHTEWYXTj5PMUy

Fixes 2 (unnessecary linebreaks):
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1S7qxNIafoUZtPjTusER3pmuViRDyaIL1

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backgroung.png should be renamed to background.png
(or, alternatively, the txt's should point to the typo'd name)

currently, the game isn't able to find the background file, which just looks weird.

For some reason there's no thread about this, but there is an entire section missing from this song Przewalski's Ponies - Derpy? After 2:30 there's still:
- a "Wooo-hooo!" at 2:38
- at 2:45 the refrain comes on again, only a few lines

Must-do:
- There's no official title for this, so I just named it 'Carols' for now
- Audio still needs to be normalized (it's very low volume)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hHocPzC88qRMwHNmfWahy5Ln5D6CwWXm/view?usp=sharing

Lyrics:

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And sing ca+rols
Ca+rols, ca+rols, ca+rols, ca+rols, ca+rols

Credits:
Cover = 1695441 on derpi, background = 1981470 on derpi

I noticed some songs actually crash USDX (any English Acadeca duet for example) and Ultrastar Play was also complaining about a bunch of other issues, mostly things like where the linebreak cuts through a note, but there were also some more creative ones like notes that were in the completely wrong order within a sentence.

So I made this big patch for the songs in the "Official" directory. Go to your 'Official' folder and apply the patch:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n-W04h6rPkIc31XkOrooxl_rE7t3xjQv/view?usp=sharing
(I did not want to paste it here because that might introduce encoding issues)

I'll be doing a similar thing for everything in the Community and Downloads folder in the coming weeks.

EDIT: there is one file that is not showing up in USDX at all:
Official/[HU][S1E14] A varras egy csoda/vidam.txt
I remove a duplicate #ENCODING tag from it with the patch, but it still does not want to show up. I have absolutely no idea what's wrong with it though.

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ojygzviCa9N097qqzlV27HQvkjefPTgz/view?usp=sharing

Some things to note:
- I started this before I changed my workflow (which has much better BPM's)
- Especially some of the chorus parts (where they sing "In Our Town, In Our Town") still feel really weird
- Didn't include video, sometimes they're okay but I don't think it adds anything to the experience here. Of course the MLK people can always get it themselves.
- Sound is synced to the YouTube version, but you will probably want to get the Bandcamp version or something instead (again, this would have probably fixed the BPM problem, but I'm not going to redo it)

I'm not sure if this really counts as a MLP-related song or even a Community song, but hey, Neon Pegasus is in there and I was going to work on Breakfast Burrito instead but I needed something short and easy to test some stuff with (remind me to make a post about my workflow sometime) and then this happened.

So, without further ado:

Download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tmnK7nZ5tLwMrKKU50ZztdXuLKpuavyS/view?usp=sharing

State of progress: made in less than 90 minutes, getting around 7k on Hard and over 9.5k on Medium

Todo:
* Someone will probably want to double the BPM and do some microscopic timing things
* Golden notes
* Artist / animator permission?

[spoiler=also the similarity in these screenshots][/spoiler]

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11_SHLnDneCva_n4nhd3gBnPPbMnrCqeC/view?usp=sharing

Todo (I'm not doing these):
* Turn some notes into Golden Notes
* Some pitch checks (I get ~6k on hard and ~9k on medium)
* Artist permission, see very bottom of youtube description for details

Maybe todo:
* Resize/crop background image for 1920x1080
* Recode video to 720p (the 720p I get from youtube is garbage quality, so the current one is 1080p)

AKA "Luna's Banishment - Deep Edition"
Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKTWBrT13q8k5OKdM5FgHyZo2Fs2uWVd/view?usp=sharing

Lyrics: converted from the .vtt of the YouTube 'subtitles'. Argodaemon's subtitles are the best lyrics

Only a few little things left to do:

   
• Pitches. I tried but it's like half the notes are deliberately between two tones. 5k or 6k on Hard is not too difficult in the current state
• Artist / Animator permission. I'd have contacted at least Argo about it but YouTube decided that PM's are not important
• The note that currently starts at beat 535 might push the PG rating (what rating does MLK even use)

_{I regret nothing}

This isn't anything related to the game or the MLK songs, but the forum.

Sometimes, it takes very long to load. This is especially bad the first time I open it.

The problem is this URL that gets called:
https://www.mylittlekaraoke.com/forum/index.php?scheduled=mailq;ts=1548667093

Especially the first time, it takes over 40 seconds to respond, and during that the tab icon remains spinning etc. In the response headers is also something that says it "expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT" which is not useful at all.
It (eventually) returns a 1x1 gif.

Googling around suggests it's some kind of thing that makes sure the emails get sent, but I'm not sure why it takes over 40 seconds. Not sure if it's easy to fix or can be fixed at all (don't bother looking into this more than a few minutes) but if it's something easy like the mail queue being full of failed email to dead email addresses, just clear it and edit those accounts to never get an email or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYhf8akL24
(youtube-id: bmYhf8akL24)

mp3: http://www.mediafire.com/file/c3evdxrklktfoyv/Alternate+Realities.mp3
instrumental: http://www.mediafire.com/file/uqxzb4sk4x3mpvy/Alternate+Realities+%28Instrumental%29.mp3

cover/background:

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https://img.youtube.com/vi/bmYhf8akL24/0.jpg for now, but there will probably be a higher res and/or a better picture later on.

Just a thread to claim this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLvjfrxynA

Lyrics: I know where to get these
Cover: will extract it from the official mp3 https://alllevelsatonce.com/fluttershy (warning: certificate expired 5 january). EDIT: nope will just crop the youtube thumbnail

Will probably use one of https://derpibooru.org/966984 https://derpibooru.org/945261 or https://derpibooru.org/617497 as a background.

If someone wants to add video, be my guest (there's a few on youtube) but I'm not doing it.

Claiming this one since it seems nobody else is working on the holiday special songs. I have audio/video, will post that once finished/playable.

WIP lyrics, including syllables, except for the CAPSLOCK parts ("really" and some Pinkie Pie non-singing stuff):

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I want+ed to get you
Some+thing oh, so rare
A gift to show I care
But noth+ing can com+pare

To you, that's easy to see
But I got stressed and o+ver+thought
Un+til the day was shot
And it was all for naught
But now it's clear to me

I'm not gif+ted at gift+ing
It's REALLY pret+ty sad
I tried to show I care
But it turned out bad

I'm not gift+ed at gift+ing
So all that's left to say
Is that I REALLY hope my gift+ing
Did+n't ru+in your hol+i+day


Oh, Spike
A song is a love+ly pres+ent
I want+ed to get you the best gift ev+er
I just could+n't fig+ure out what it was

Ooh! Ooh!
The gift+-giv+er taught me that
Eh, what was it?
The best gift is more pre+cious than gold
But it can+not be sold
PINKIEPLS1
PINKIEPLS2
It can nev+er be bought
Yet is ea+si+ly sought

What's so fun+ny?

It's a rid+dle
And the an+swer is
Friend+ship


The most mag+i+cal gift
That I can re+call
It could+'ve been big or small
Or even noth+ing at all

It does+n't mat+ter, you see
If it's from my friends on whom I de+pend
No mat+ter what you spend
It will be per+fect to me

The true gift of gift+ing
Is what it means in+side
We can show we care
Spread+ing love far and wide

The true gift of gift+ing
Is to+tal+ly free
And you're the best there is at giv+in' it
With the friend+ship that you give to me


We've all been friends for+ev+er
And look how far we've come
how far we've come
The hol+i+day brings us close
And now it's time for fun
it's now be+gun


The great+est gift you give to me
Is more pre+cious than gold


Ah+-ah+-ah+-ah


Nev+er end+ed, always mend+ed
And it can't be bought or sold


The true gift of gift+ing
Is what it means in+side
We can show we care
Spread+ing love far and wide

The true gift of gift+ing
Is to+tal+ly free
And you're the best there is at giv+in' it
With the friend+ship that you give to me

And so it worked out
And a les+son was learned
There's no need to ob+sess
Gift+-giv+ing is sim+ple
As long as you re+call
friend+ship is the best gift of all


I might as well claim this one as I'm pretty far into it anyway. It'll probably be 'done' this weekend. 'Done' being me getting 8500-9000 on Medium because I don't get more than 2500 on Hard on any song.

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