Hey guys, thanks to your help I’m able to read the lyrics/time tags from the kar file.

The problem is that values from Text "(Time Ms)" tag seems to be wrong:

[quote:3mk58ld9]
2009-07-03 15:39:46.445 playstream[8244:20b] ->\So
2009-07-03 15:39:46.446 playstream[8244:20b] MS->16117120
2009-07-03 15:39:46.446 playstream[8244:20b] ->clo
2009-07-03 15:39:46.447 playstream[8244:20b] MS->16117376
2009-07-03 15:39:46.447 playstream[8244:20b] ->se
2009-07-03 15:39:46.447 playstream[8244:20b] MS->16117632
[/quote:3mk58ld9]

The start at 16117120 ms. You’ve said that ms value is an integer, so I print them like this:

NSLog(@"MS->%d",(int*)tag.data);

Thx so much, I’m almost have it!!!

you are formating the address of data, converted into an adress of a int pointer… It’s pointer confusing, I know…

I did it in 2 steps because I get cockeyed with this stuff
int v = (int)tag.data;
NSLog(@"MS->%d",*v);

Oh sorry, it was a noob mistake

Thx so much!

It would be nice if the tag system would hold these…

Anyway, the midi meta type 0x1 (Text Event) and 0x5 (Karaoke Lyric event) in the midi file hold the lyrics. Usually, the text event is mostly used.

You have to sync it yourself from the midi event time stamp, back to the playing sound’s position.

It not very easy though.

Hi, I’m a newbie to FMOD. This is my first post. I can use FMOD for iOS app to play .KAR file with DLS sound bank. It works great.

My problem is about getting lyrics text using tags in .KAR file. I try to implement it but not success yet. Here is my logic.

1. After create sound already, I check for how many tags in this .KAR file. It’s return 1,248 tags.

[code:mx9z7jxh]//check how many tags in KAR file?
result = sound1->getNumTags(&numtags, &numtagsupdated);
ERRCHECK(result);[/code:mx9z7jxh]

1. I try to get ‘Text’ and ‘Text (Time MS)’ tags by looping it.

[code:mx9z7jxh]//Loop through to get a specific tags
FMOD_TAG tagtext; //Text
FMOD_TAG tagtime; //Text (Time MS)

for (int i = 0; i < numtags; i++)
{

result = sound1->getTag("Text", 0, &tagtext);
ERRCHECK(result);

result = sound1->getTag("Text (Time Ms)", 0, &tagtime);
ERRCHECK(result);

}[/code:mx9z7jxh]

*** The simulator is freeze at this point.

If I could get these tags, I will keep it in the NSDictionary object. Anybody has an idea how to display the text with highlight the word while playing the music? Many thanks and sorry for my English.

Some modifications were added a while ago to the MIDI codec for .kar support. To use it you need to use our tag API, you will see tags with the name "Text" have the lyric fragments, then there will be a corresponding "Text (Time Ms)" tag that will have the time offset for that lyrics fragment.

You don’t need to parse the MIDI file manually, just build up a table with the FMOD tag information and display the lyric fragments at the correct offsets.

That code doesn’t look quite right to me.
getNumTags will return a total number of tags, not just a count of "Text" tags, so I wouldn’t use that for loop.

I would recommend doing something like the readtags example. Continue to call getTag for "Text" with index -1 until it returns TAGNOTFOUND.

Really!!? That’s great. I’ll go fiddle with my karaoke example right now!!

Thank you very much Mathew for your quick reply. Then I change my code to below. It’s now can get both ‘Text’ and ‘Text (Time Ms)’ tags. But it took a bit long time (more than 1 minute to complete). Is this normal or how to improve the speed to read the tags?

[code:34dcx53w]while (true)
{

    if (sound1->getTag("Text",-1, &tagtext) != FMOD_OK)
    {
        break;
    }
    if (tagtext.datatype == FMOD_TAGDATATYPE_STRING)
    {
        outputtext.text = [outputtext.text stringByAppendingFormat:@"%s = %s \n\n", tagtext.name, tagtext.data];
    }

    if (sound1->getTag("Text (Time Ms)",-1, &tagtime) != FMOD_OK)
    {
        break;
    }
    if (tagtime.datatype == FMOD_TAGDATATYPE_INT)
    {
        outputtext.text = [outputtext.text stringByAppendingFormat:@"%s = %d \n\n", tagtime.name, tagtime.data];
    }

}
[/code:34dcx53w]

Yep, according to revision.txt it went in on the 05/03/09 (v4.23.07).

I had a quick check of how getTag works, and it might be more efficient for you to do a loop over all tags by index…

[code:3hnbrhaj]unsigned int numTags;
sound->getNumTags(&numTags, NULL);
for (unsigned int i = 0; i < numTags; i++)
{
FMOD_TAG tag;
sound->getTag(NULL, i, &tag);

/* check if this is a tag you are interested in */

}[/code:3hnbrhaj]

Ah, I got 4.22.01, so not time stamp though the lyrics are there. Update time!

[quote:39m9m5cz]
+ Added new "Text (Time Ms)" tag to MIDI files so it can be used in conjunction
with the "Text" tag that conains lyrics. This supports the ".kar" file format.
[/quote:39m9m5cz]
These are the tags:data I get from a Stairway to Heaven .kar

[quote:39m9m5cz]
Track 1 Name:Soft karaoke

Text:@KMIDI KARAOKE FILE

Track 2 Name:Words

Text:@LENGL

Text:@TSTAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Text:@TBy Led Zeppelin

Text:@TKaraoke file by Alex Villa

Track 3 Name:Steel String Gt

Track 4 Name:Recorder

Track 5 Name:12-string

Track 6 Name:Keyboard

Track 7 Name:12-string

Track 8 Name:Vocals

Track 9 Name:Standard

Track 10 Name:Fingered Bass

Track 11 Name:Feedback Gt

Text:\There’s

Text: a

Text: la

Text:dy

Text: who’s

Text: sure

Text:/All

Text: that

Text: glit

Text:ters

Text: is

Text: go

Text:ld

Text:/And

Text: she’s

Text: buy

Text:ing

Text: a

Text: stair

Text:way

Text: to

Text: hea

Text:ven

Text:\When

Text: she

Text: gets

Text: there

Text: she

Text: knows

Text:/If

Text: the

Text: stores

Text: are

Text: all

Text: clo

Text:sed

Text:/With

Text: a

Text: word

Text: she

Text: can

Text: get

Text: what

Text: she

Text: came

Text: for

Text:\O

Text:o

Text:oh

Text: o

Text:oh

Text:o

Text:ooh

Text:/And

Text: she’s

Text: bu

Text:y

Text:ing

Text: a

Text: sta

Text:ir

Text:way

Text: to

Text: hea

Text:ven

Text:\There’s

Text: a

Text: sign

Text: on

Text: the

Text: wa

Text:ll

Text:/But

Text: she

Text: wants

Text: to

Text: be

Text: su

Text:re

Text:\’Cause

Text: you

Text: know

Text: some

Text:times

Text: words

Text:/Have

Text: two

Text: mean

Text:ings

Text:\In

Text: a

Text: tree

Text: by

Text: the

Text: bro

Text:ok

Text:/There’s

Text: a

Text: song

Text:bird

Text: who

Text: si

Text:ngs

Text:/Some

Text:times

Text: all

Text: of

Text: our

Text: thoughts

Text: are

Text: mis

Text:gi

Text:ven

Text:\Ooh

Text: it

Text: makes

Text: me

Text: won

Text:der

Text:/Ooh

Text: it

Text: makes

Text: me

Text: won

Text:der

Text:\There’s

Text: a

Text: fee

Text:ling

Text: I

Text: get

Text:/When

Text: I

Text: look

Text: to

Text: the

Text: west

Text:/And

Text: my

Text: spi

Text:rit

Text: is

Text: cry

Text:ing

Text: for

Text: lea

Text:ving

Text:\In

Text: my

Text: thoughts

Text: I

Text: have

Text: seen

Text:/Rings

Text: of

Text: smoke

Text: through

Text: the

Text: trees

Text:/And

Text: the

Text: voi

Text:ces

Text: of

Text: those

Text: who

Text: standing

Text: look

Text:ing

Text:\Ooh

Text: it

Text: makes

Text: me

Text: won

Text:der

Text:/Ooh

Text: it

Text: really

Text: makes

Text: me

Text: wonder

Text:\And

Text: it’s

Text: whis

Text:pered

Text: that

Text: soon

Text:/If

Text: we

Text: all

Text: call

Text: the

Text: tune

Text:/Then

Text: the

Text: pi

Text:per

Text: will

Text: lead

Text: us

Text: to

Text: rea

Text:son

Text:\And

Text: a

Text: new

Text: day

Text: will

Text: dawn

Text:/For

Text: those

Text: who

Text: stand

Text: long

Text:/And

Text: the

Text: fo

Text:rests

Text: will

Text: e

Text:cho

Text: with

Text: laugh

Text:ter

Text:\If

Text: there’s

Text: a

Text: bus

Text:tle

Text: in

Text: your

Text: hedge

Text:row

Text:/Don’t

Text: be

Text: alar

Text:med

Text: now

Text:/It’s

Text: just

Text: a

Text: spring

Text: clean

Text: for

Text: the

Text: May

Text: queen

Text:\Yes,

Text: there

Text: are

Text: two

Text: paths

Text: you

Text: can

Text: go

Text: by

Text:/But

Text: in

Text: the

Text: long

Text: run

Text:/There’s

Text: still

Text: time

Text: to

Text: change

Text: the

Text: road

Text: you’re

Text: on

Text:\And

Text: it

Text: makes

Text: me

Text: won

Text:der

Text:\Your

Text: head

Text: is

Text: humm

Text:ing

Text: and

Text: it

Text: won’t

Text: go

Text:/In

Text: case

Text: you

Text: don’t

Text: know

Text:/The

Text: pi

Text:per’s

Text: call

Text:ing

Text: you

Text: to

Text: join

Text: him

Text:\Dear

Text: la

Text:dy,

Text: can

Text: you

Text: hear

Text: the

Text: wind

Text: blow

Text:/And

Text: did

Text: you

Text: know

Text:/Your

Text: stair

Text:way

Text: lies

Text: on

Text: the

Text: whis

Text:pering

Text: wi

Text:nd

Text:\And

Text: as

Text: we

Text: wind

Text: on

Text: down

Text: the

Text: road

Text:/Our

Text: shad

Text:ows

Text: tal

Text:ler

Text: than

Text: our

Text: so

Text:ul

Text:/There

Text: wal

Text:ks

Text: a

Text: lady

Text: we

Text: all

Text: kn

Text:ow

Text:\Who

Text: shines

Text: white

Text: light

Text: and

Text: wants

Text: to

Text: sh

Text:ow

Text:/How

Text: ev’

Text:ry

Text:thing

Text: still

Text: turns

Text: to

Text: gold

Text:\And

Text: if

Text: you

Text: lis

Text:ten

Text: ve

Text:ry

Text: ha

Text:rd

Text:/The

Text: tune

Text: will

Text: come

Text: to

Text: you

Text: at

Text: la

Text:st

Text:\When

Text: all

Text: are

Text: one

Text: and

Text: one

Text: is

Text: a

Text:ll

Text:/To

Text: be

Text: a

Text: rock

Text: and

Text: not

Text: to

Text: roll

Text:\And

Text: she’s

Text: bu

Text:y

Text:ing

Text: a

Text: sta

Text:ir

Text:wa

Text:y

Text: to

Text: hea

Text:ven.

[/quote:39m9m5cz]

Some other file also have a Lyric text…

Would you care to explain the quote in the update release, the one about the time stamp, because I see no time stamp.., Nor do I see any tag that looks like "Time (ms)"

I do check if the tag is a string dtata
[code:39m9m5cz]
if (FMOD_Sound_GetTag(sound, 0, -1, &tag) != FMOD_OK)
{
return (double)0;
}
if (tag.datatype == FMOD_TAGDATATYPE_STRING)
{
[/code:39m9m5cz]
Perhaps the tag is not text???

BTW, is your help file up to date?

Mine says
WHAT’S NEW
Stable 4.18
Features…

<nothing else>
In the What’s New section… Or did I screw up somewhere getting/using the wrong version?

There should be another tag called "Text (Time Ms)", it carries the time as an int (FMOD_TAGDATTATYPE_INT).

And that "What’s New" section of the docs has been removed in our newer branches as it fell out of date, just use revision.txt to see any changes.

Got it thanks

Had to change my code to handle all types. It used to skip over all non string types…

Text: wind.

Text (Time Ms):164102

Text is followed by a Text (Time Ms) tag now. Thanks for the extra bit of info.