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UltraStar-Deluxe / USDX

The free and open source karaoke singing game UltraStar Deluxe, inspired by Sony SingStar™
https://usdx.eu
GNU General Public License v2.0
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[Feature Request] Allow to jump over long sequences without lyrics using S #173

Closed bohning closed 8 years ago

bohning commented 8 years ago

This is already possible at the beginning of the song, but it would also be useful for songs with long instrumental parts. Pressing S could jump to 5 seconds before the next lyrics (enabled if instrumental parts exceeds a certain threshold, for example).

basisbit commented 8 years ago

we discussed this at a physical meetup in detail already and decided to not implement jumping within the song in the default UltraStar Deluxe master branch. Most music is considered to be art and the artist usually intends the song to have these long breaks for a reason. We want people to enjoy the good music, which includes these long instrumental parts. Additionally, these keyboard interactions would disturb from the game playing experience. If a song is not suitable for karaoke because of too long "breaks" inbetween, the creator should just cut the audio+video file accordingly.

bohning commented 8 years ago

Okay, I understand the reasoning. Thanks for the feedback =)

basisbit commented 8 years ago

If you don't agree with the reasoning, please tell us why. This is an open & free project, thus it is important that others tell us if they disagree and why they disagree.

bohning commented 8 years ago

On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, then this argument would even go against the functionality of skipping long intros at the beginning using S. I have found this new feature quite handy, less during actual game play, but more while checking songs. So it's a feature that would be nice to have, but which I would not consider crucial. A 5 minute instrumental solo may disturb the game playing experience more than I quick key press, I guess. So it would be up to the user to use the functionality or not. But again, it's nothing I desperately need.

In fact, today I was testing to see if it works while fixing songs that needed #END tags. The editor cannot be used for this, because it limits access to where there are lyrics. So in order to check if the songs ends as expected with the #END tag, you have to let it play and keep an eye on it...

basisbit commented 8 years ago

also, this is a duplicate of #90

bohning commented 8 years ago

True, I missed #90, sorry for that.