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Karaoke display of lyrics in iTunesI saw the "Lyrics" app on this page while helping out Chris with something else, and it sparked an idea that it'd be cool. It'd be rad to have karaoke-style lyrics displayed while playing a song in iTunes. The lyrics need to highlight when they are active in the song. Chris wanted me to add this to the feature list even though I don't even own an Apple. :d
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/libass could be useful perhaps? given a file and an arbitrary timestamp, it'll produce a 1bpp rendering --- probably wouldn't be too difficult to wrap in a QCPlugIn.
two problems: 1bpp is ugly (no antialiasing), and QC doesn't handle grayscale images. (3 if you count to QCPlugIn reference ;)
Assuming we can get it to render slightly nicer output (I've not looked much at the lib to see what it can output), it's trivial to write a simple format converter, so that's a simple problem to address.
I like the idea. Anyone else interested in it?