Karaoke-Version.com - Download script?

prixmulti

I have seen one who made a script for downloading stems separate from karaoke-version.
Are there anyone here who has that script or a similar solution?

logoclick

can you elaborate on what your talking about?

HughB

I know you can do it one track at a time. Hopefully they will enable a method to do this as multiple tracks at once.

FredAnderson

I think you are referring to Ben Scheirman's "Puppeteer Karaoke Version" script (node app)

You can find the repo here, it works right out of the box.

https://github.com/subdigital/puppeteer-karaoke-version

Here is the video where I heard about it (guessing the same for you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5msY5rGl8A

prixmulti

@"FredAnderson"
Thanks - that was the one!

FredAnderson

prixmulti I have used this script, let me know if you have any trouble with it.

Klar

FredAnderson How do you run this?

bens

I heard my name! 👋

profcyclist

bens This script is a life-changer!! Thank you!

FredAnderson

It's my first day here 🙂. I wasn't aware you were on the board (although I suppose it should have been obvious).

While I have you, I made a fork this morning, I was going to make a couple updates for a merge request.

If for some reason the "Click Track" is already on "solo" your click deselects that. I noticed the there is a class ".is-active" when the element is engaged. I was going to put a condition around the "button.click" even to skip is it was already soloed.
considering a couple of command line arguments "enable count in" and create a folder with artist/trackname/ to download the tracks.
add a line in the dontenv to specify a download location
options to pass in a file containing a list of links.

Thoughts?

bens

I ran into that as well, I wasn’t sure why the click was pre-selected on some tracks.

I don’t recommend enabling count-in unless you’re going to do it with a single track only. If you do it on all tracks they sum together and it’s really loud, so you have to edit regardless.

dotenv is really for secrets only. I could see a command line option for that.

For the list of tracks, I would worry you would start to trigger some sort of alert on your account. I don’t know if this is a good idea.

Anyway, for further discussion, let’s use Github Issues and not derail Peter’s forum 🙂

jmhenry5150

Agreed! I used it today.

prixmulti

Unfortunately, I'm not that technically sound - so I would like one of you who makes it work, made a Youtube instruction in the use of the script.

Ray9s

@bens What an amazing idea to simplify downloading the tracks. I need this in my life. I'm trying to run the script but I'm not too familiar with this kind of code. I've got it to the point of running (with help from ChatGPT) but it's erroring out trying to find the env file. I don't know if I'm not naming it correctly or what the issue is but it's returning this error "Missing KV_USERNAME or KV_PASSWORD in environment".

I've named the file dotenv.env
contents of the file look like:
KV_USERNAME=My_UserName
KV_PASSWORD=MyPassword

Any advice you'd be willing to provide me would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

FredAnderson

Ray9s just name the file .env
that should do it

profcyclist

Ray9s The only way I got it to work was to name the .env literally ".env". If you have anything before the dot as a prefix it doesn't work for wouldn't for me.

Ray9s

profcyclist interestingly....I tried naming it just ".env" but my Mac is not allowing it.

profcyclist

Ray9s MacOS you have to create the file using Terminal and the VIM command. I had a colleague help me but it wasn’t terrible to do.

Ray9s

Yay, I got it working properly. Thanks so much for the assistance. I just wish I'd discovered this tool before I wasted so much time manually downloading these files 😆

profcyclist

Ray9s Dude I've downloaded like 400 songs with individual stems over the years before I found this! If only I had it way back LOL!

prixmulti

I would still like to hear if one of you who has solved the problem would make an instructional video - for those of us who are not so technically proficient

FredAnderson

prixmulti I can do that, I was waiting to see if the script's author was going to pick it up.

You need to have node.js installed, so.. if you do not have it currently installed, please do that first. There are videos on youtube for that step if you need it.
You can check to see if you have it installed by opening the terminal and typing
node --version