Bug#578750: ITP: kmid -- MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Hello Lisandro,

On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 10:40 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
wrote:
> 
> * Package name    : kmid
is it kmid or kmid2?

>   Description     : MIDI/Karaoke player for KDE

> KMid is a rewrite from scratch of the original KDE midi player.
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
       Not so useful for end-user
> It plays MIDI and karaoke files.

I would suggest:
> This package provides a MIDI and karaoke player for KDE. KMid2 is a
> rewrite of kmid for KDE4, with a new architecture and also some new
> features.

Upstream description also list some interesting features, which could de
included (I have dropped some bullets, it could be shorted further to
only list the nice features of this MID player).

> Some major features:
> * Playback to external hardware MIDI devices.
> * Allows to use software synths as well.
> * Tempo and volume controls.
> * Pitch (transpose) control.
> * Rhythm view (visual metronome).
> * Configurable character encoding, font and color for lyrics.
> * MIDI Mapper.
> * Channels window, with solo/muting controls and instrument selectors.
> * MIDI sequencing is implemented on pluggable backends.

Does it just play .MID files, or does it also plays some similar files?

Regards,

Franklin