Version 3

Karaluxer v3 is now roughly feature complete. As mentioned before v3 will be the last major rewrite of the program.

Duet support still needs some improvement, but there are options that will help with making automatic duets on some songs (very dependent on how the subtitle file is structured).

There's some support for special characters in this release, however, I'd still recommend manually checking songs work with your Karaoke program of choice (Especially if you're an Anisoc member and trying to submit a song for Karaoke).

These releases are likely to only be made when there are significant changes, so I'd recommend grabbing the automatically compiled executable for the latest commit from the actions page or using the python script.

Karaluxer v3 Beta 1

KaraLuxer v3 rewrites the whole script to separate the core functionality of the script from the GUI (Like it was back in version 1).

The script can either be run from the command line or through the GUI (The compiled release only provides the GUI).

All the functionality of KaraLuxer v2 is present in v3 (Except for Duet support which is coming soon).

I've not had the time to fully test v3 so I suspect there are several bugs to fix. Most of these should be found and fixed by the end of the year (I expect Warwick students to find most of the bugs in the run-up to our Karaoke events in the next few weeks).

This will be the final major rewrite of KaraLuxer and once duet support is added to v3 there should be very few major updates to the program (at least from me).

Executable is unfortunately quite bloated, I'll work on reducing the filesize for future releases.

Fix for songs without English titles

Now handles songs (such as Kawaranai Mono) that lack an English title by falling back to the default language.

Can now skip fixing overlapping lyric lines

Adds the option to skip the extra steps of handling overlapping lyric lines, instead of deleting one of the two. This is especially relevant for fast paced songs (i.e. many Vocaloid songs, such as Mozaik Role), but you'll have to put a bit more work in to manually figure out where the lyrics should start and end.

Fixes for songs that produce a filename with trailing spaces.

Fixes songs where the title produces a trailing space in the sanitized filename.

Example: https://kara.moe/kara/beyond-the-time-moebius-no-sora-wo-koete/9ac0dd7f-0403-4c30-8bfd-0138b49b2ede

Version 2 (Beta)

Fairly substantial update that changes how the script handles and processes the subtitle file lines.

Lines are now processed in order of their starting time, rather than in order of their appearance in the ass file. This allows for the script to check for lines that overlap. When an overlap is detected the user is asked to select a line to discard, this will repeat until there are no more overlaps.

Another significant change is that the 'Comment' lines are used over the 'Dialogue' ones. This causes less issues with line duration and overlaps.

With version 2 the CLI version of the script has also been removed, with only the GUI version being available. This was done as most people in Anisoc don't use the CLI version at all, so it's easier to focus on just one. A future update may bring back the CLI version.

This release is tagged as beta because I've only done basic testing on the new version. There might be several bugs/errors/edge cases that have not been found yet, although so far it has been working as expected.

Fixed new tag breaking UltrastarPitch

Songs produced by Karaluxer will now work with UltrastarPitch again.

Improved overlapping lines

Improved the way the program handles overlapping lines. The current fix is far from ideal, and further effort needs to be invested in properly handling overlapping lines.

Additionally fixed the program not putting brackets when appending "(TV)" to TV-sized songs.

Fixed filename issues

Sanitized the filenames to prevent crashes when attempting to copy files/make folders.

Fixed punctuation

Attached the correct binary this time.