Ultrastar Deluxe Songs Pack 2022
Kerby Reynolds
For those who use Ultrastar Deluxe, where's the best place to get more recent clips for it? I used 'ultrastarsongs.com' a while ago but it looks like their download section is down indefinately (not to metnion they don't have what I'm looking for).
Why? UTF-8 (without BOM) is a great encoding that can represent a vast number of symbols from all kinds of languages. Other encodings, like Windows code pages, are far more limited and are only suitable for a small family of languages.
Why? The TXT files are quite simple and easy to understand for non-coders. You can read them and edit them with a simple txt-editor. That's what made the format so popular in the first place. So even if there are many good mark up languages like xml we keep on using TXT-Files for this decade unless there are good reasons to change that.
The version attribute helps the game and apps to understand how uptodate a song file is and how it should be treated. Ideally all txt files will be upgraded to the latest version. The value are version numbers according to semantic versioning. Song Editors, Managing tools or txt-hostings should set this automatically.
Filename of the cover image. Should end with *[CO].jpg This is an image that shows the album cover or a picture related to the song. It should be in 1:1 aspect ratio. It should not be larger than 1920x1920px. All software support at least JPG/JPEG-Files.
Filename of the video file. This is a video that shows a music video or other visual content related to the song. The sound of the video is generally not played. Exception: If there's no audio file UltraStar Deluxe and Vocaluxe play the audio track from the video. It must be in a format supported by UltraStar, such as MP4 or AVI. See format support here: here
Specifies the delay in seconds between the start of the video and the start of the song. This value can be used to synchronize the video with the music. This attribute is useful when the video and audio files are not perfectly synchronized and you need to adjust the timing of the video to match the audio. By setting a positive or negative value for VIDEOGAP, you can delay or advance the start of the video relative to the start of the song.
#VOCALS defines the audio file that contains only the vocals of a singers voice. It's the acapella. This comes in handy when some games have the feature to change the volume of a singer while playing a song from 100%-0%. So that you can decide how loud the singer sings along to your own vocals. Needs to be complemented with #INSTRUMENTAL.
Specifies the genre of the song. This information can be used to categorize songs by their musical style. The value of the GENRE attribute can be any text string that describes the genre of the song. Some common genres include Pop, Rock, Hip-Hop, Country, and Jazz. You can add multiple tags and seperate them with comma.
#TAGS allows you to add any reasonable keyword for this song like topic or mood. This helps to categorize songs by keywords. You can add multiple tags and seperate them with comma. Song Editors have an auto complete function in GUI that adds common keywords.
This attribute specifices wether a song is used in commercial games or not. It's only for "Editions of games" like SingStar - Pop Hits, GuitarHero Live, Rockband vol.4, Let's Sing 2020. See list of editions here: List of Editions. This information can be used to categorize songs by their edition. You can add multiple tags and seperate them with comma.
Specifies the name of the person who created the ultrastar txt file. This information can be used to give credit to the person who created the file. The value of the CREATOR attribute can be any text string that represents the name of the person who created the ultrastar txt file. You can add multiple creators and seperate them with comma.
Specifies the language of the song. This information can be used to categorize songs by their language. The value of the LANGUAGE attribute should be English language names, not translated language names (e.g. "French", not "Franais" or "Franzsisch"). You can add multiple languages and seperate them with comma.
Specifies the year the song was released. This information can be used to categorize songs by their release date. The value of the YEAR attribute should be a four-digit number that represents the year the song was released.
START specifies the time in seconds from the beginning of the audio file at which the song starts. This value can be used to skip any silence or intro at the beginning of the audio file. The value should be positive integers that represent the start time of the song in seconds.
Specifies the time in milliseconds from the beginning of the audio file at which the song ends. This value can be used to stop playback before any silence or outro at the end of the audio file. The value should be positive integers that represent the end time of the song in milliseconds.
Specifies the time in seconds from the beginning of the audio file at which the preview of the song starts. This value can be used to set the start time of the preview that is played when browsing songs.
Specify the start beat of a medley section within the song. These value can be used to create a medley of multiple songs by specifying which section of each song should be included in the medley. Needs MEDLEYENDBEAT
Specify the end beat of a medley section within the song. These value can be used to create a medley of multiple songs by specifying which section of each song should be included in the medley. Needs MEDLEYSTARTBEAT
Specifies whether UltraStar should automatically calculate the medley section of the song. If this attribute is set to on, UltraStar will automatically determine the most suitable section of the song for a medley based on the note data. If it is set to off, the automatic medley calculation can be disabled.
#PROVIDEDBY helps to understand where a txt-file cames from. This is important cause there are many third-parties that host txt-files with different quality standards. This information should be normally set automatically from the provider. But you can set it as well manually with a song editor if you know where you got it from. Value should be a URL.
Use comment to write any important information in the text file that might be interesting for song creators. Right now there is no definition for what this attribute should be used excactly. It's not displayed in the games.
Specifies whether the note timings in the file are relative to the previous note or absolute. If this attribute is set to yes, the note timings are relative to the previous note. If it is set to no or not present, the note timings are absolute. If this line is missing, then the timestamps are absolute.
Specifies the character encoding used in the txt file. This attribute can be used to ensure that special characters are displayed correctly. Possible values are UTF-8, CP1252 and CP1250.This is not needed. All TXT should be UTF-8 (without BOM).
We're very aware of some gaping holes in our karaoke catalogue, but every time we go to download new ones, we forget which ones we said we ought to have.
Ignoring Gloria Gaynor, which is obviously in there, assume we have no songs and make some suggestions for good songs...and good karaoke songs, which are not necessarily the same things!
Any genre will do. DP likes metal, I like country and we'll both give almost anything a whirl if we're drunk enough (i think DP singing Katy Perry with the 7 year old was a highlight)
Ultrastar Deluxe is the programme we use - run it through the laptop, TV and hifi speakers. It's cracking fun and the kids are getting word perfect on 90s classics which makes me happy. Although they get a bit too excited about songs with swears in!
ultrastar-deluxe.github.io/
The Gambler by Kenny Rogers.
Jackson by Johnny Cash and June Carter.
Here You Come Again by Dolly Parton.
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You by Heart.
Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison.
For cli execution, just run the command in your project folder. Additional flags are listed below. If the usdx file is named "notes.txt", no arguments are needed. Otherwise it has to be explicitly stated:
ultrastar-pitch name.txt
If everything went well a new file "notes_new.txt" should appear. In case a different output name is desired, it can be changed with the "-o" flag:
ultrastar-pitch -o name_new.txt
The spleeter project uses deep learning to separate the vocal- and instrumental part of a song. In some cases (mainly acoustic songs), ultrastar-pitch performs better with the isolated vocal data. In other cases, its accuracy drops due to the introduced artifacts / information loss.
The software takes a timed usdx project file and the corresponding audio file. The song is converted into a mono wav and gets split into the predefined audio segments. These chunks are divided into blocks to be transformed into features. The output is then fed into a neuronal network to determine the pitches. Statistical postprocessing is used to determine pseudo key of the song. The predicted pitches are reevaluated to match the pseudo key.
The precision of this method changes greatly with the analyzed audio. For example a ballad with slow background music and a strong female voice can get an accuracy of over 90%, while a rock song with loud background music and a rough male voice can drop below 30%.
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