Hi Friends,
In previous post I write about the major roadblock to the karaoke machine using RaspBMC.
So after too much of frustration, in the end I got succeeded but I the long process I don’t know the exact steps what I have followed.
Still I am writing what I actually did.
As in the previous post I mentioned that the wolfson pi is not working with the RaspBMC as there is no documentation, But after too much struggle and support of Ragnar Jensen & Christopher Stanton I finally got succeeded.
Another problem I was facing is with playing the .kar file in RaspBMC is also a problem.
So what I actually did is followed the Road blocks to Karaoke but after all the step I still got failed. So I don’t understand what the problem was. So, after I searched the issue on internet. I noticed that most of the people are using RaspBMC gotham release. So then I update my RaspBMC to gotham release.
For that I go to RaspBMC application and updated my RaspBMC.
This is the most difficult task for me because as I have slow internet connectivity and I am not sure whether it works or not. After updating I get the sound output from the wolfson pi but with some static noise.
Then again I followed the kernel updater steps and changed the few setting it again stopped working. At this moment I got fully frustrated.
This moment I followed the other method and in RaspBMC setting I enabled setting to use external sound device. Then when I open the audio device setting I found this
(snd_rpi_wsp Analog) in the setting after I enabled this I got sound output to my RaspBMC.
Might be that’s because of the RaspBMC build but I am not sure for this.
Other than that when I tried playing .kar files it also works.
For playing karaoke you just need to change few setting.
For playing karaoke files you need to enable karaoke support.
Go to SYSTEM-> SETTINGS-> MUSIC-> ENABLE KARAOKE SUPPORT.
You can also edit the font setting that how you want to see the lyrics on the screen.
This is the setting you need to enable on XBMC. But still it is not done.
You need to do something more.
Connect to the RaspBMC to the home network. And also connect your PC to the same network.
Download the soundfont.sf2 file I have attached mine soundfont.sf2 file. Upload the file to the ~/home/pi/.xbmc/userdata/timidity/
Now create a blank timidity.cfg file in the same folder.
Restart RaspBMC and it all done.
Now you can use RaspBMC as a karaoke.
Moreover you can use MP3+CDG, MP3+LRC, MP3+TXT to use it as karaoke player.
When I playing .kar karaoke file it is bit lagging. But overall performance is better. Other formats works best.
This is karaoke on my 10 years old TV. 
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