Ultrastar Deluxe v1.1 Final is released. Ultrastar Deluxe is a free and open source karaoke game inspired by the Singstar™ game available on the Playstation®. It allows up to six players to sing along with music using microphones in order to score points, depending on the pitch of the voice and the rhythm of singing.

It’s the final countdown…? Wait… NO it is NOT! This release is just the start of something new. Even if we can proudly ship the deluxe karaoke solution which has never been so stable before for any operating system today, this is just a brand new start for something even bigger and better. You guys are still havin’ a bunch of ideas which has not been merged or even implemented yet, so this project will grow. We hopefully can release next final sooner than this one. No – let’s not say “hopefully”. We DEFINITLY will release next final sooner, sooner than you might expect it. So what to do for now? 1. Grab your new version 2. Explore our new wiki to get all the information you need (still in work ) Many improvements were made since our previous versions: Platform independent (Mac, Linux, Windows) Visualisations with projectM Mouse and unicode support Video preview Background videos and music in the GUI Microphone configuration assistance And many more other enhancements… Ultrastar Deluxe 1.1 ----------------------------- -------------- platform -------------- upd: platform independent code base upd: endianness independent code base add: Linux and FreeBSD support (x86 and x86_64) add: Mac OS X support (Intel 10.5/10.6) -------------- audio -------------- upd: reimplemented audio playback and input upd: pluggable audio/video modules - Bass input/playback/decoder (windows only) - SDL audio playback (all platforms) - Portaudio playback/input (all platforms) - FFmpeg decoder (all platforms) upd: video files enabled for the #MP3 tag (using the first audio stream of a video) add: Microphone Passthrough (experimental) fix: a start without a microphone plugged-in does not result in a crash add: background music -------------- video -------------- upd: revised video decoder implementation upd: windows: updated FFmpeg binary upd: performance improvements fix: updated ffmpeg dlls to fix black preview bug after seek -------------- interface -------------- upd: video backgrounds for themes upd: Song Screen: performance improvements with many songs upd: theme change w/o restarting Ultrastar Deluxe upd: new score display in Sing Screen (animated) upd: Score Screen redesigned (animations) upd: Deluxe theme enhanced (ty mog) upd: ability to select party modes before the game upd: default skin and color are read from themes and skins add: visualisations (due to projectM) as background while singing upd: Truetype fonts (due to freetype6) instead of the old bitmap fonts -> support for international character sets -> smoother type face upd: new lyrics effect: Shift upd: more than one additional song path can be set in config.ini (SongDirX) upd: microphone settings simplified - vu-meter for incoming signals on the selected input - display of input volume - adjust input volume by using ´+´ and ´-´ keys - threshold display (gray bar) - adjust threshold with ´T´ key upd: international keyboard layout (uniform shortcuts on QWERTZ, QWERTY, AZERTY, ...) rem: removed confusing solmization option add: text reflections in themes add: note lines can be switched off in options add: mouse support (hardware and software) add: texture type "Colorized": Texture is colorized by adjusting the hue value (see HSB color model) add: overlay when pause modus is activated in Sing Screen fix: some "Screens=2" bugs add: Unicode support: All "printable" characters should work with the input fields (e.g. players´ names) add: resizable window add: toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode with ALT+Return (Linux and FreeBSD only) fix: mapped same function to Return and Enter (numpad) add: video preview during song selection add: toggle displayed time with ´T´ key between current position, remaining or total playback time add: mic configuration assistance: error messages are displayed if multiple or no mics were assigned to a player. -------------- internal -------------- upd: synchronization of lyrics, video and audio (timers were not synchronized until now) you can be choose via config.ini ("SyncTo" option) between: - synchronize lyrics and video to audio (default) - synchronize audio and video to lyrics - no synchronization upd: DLL interface replaced by Lua plugin interface upd: Select Object replaced by Select Slide upd: improved stability and major code base cleanup fix: solved some bugs/crashes in Midi/Kar converter upd: Vista/Win7 conform: configuration files is saved in the user directory. Running USDX from CD/DVD should also be possible from now on. upd: cover thumbnails are saved in an SQLite database -> more reliable than the old solution; small performance loss on start fix: cursor freeze after Alt-Tab fixed through change of SDL.dll fix: better detection of ending at songs/videos while using FFmpeg upd: windows: user data will be placed in installation directory if user has write permissions, else it will be stored in APPDATA -------------- song files -------------- upd: UTF8 support upd: #Encoding tag - CP1250: Central/Eastern european encoding (should not be used for new files) - CP1252: Western european encoding; was used as default before 1.1 (should not be used for new files) - Locale: uses system encoding (should not be used for new files!) - UTF8: text file is encoded in UTF8 (recommended) upd: select default encoding (if #Encoding tag is missing) via the "Encoding" option in config.ini. - Possible values: - "Auto" (Default), "UTF8", - "CP1252" (USDX<1.1 default), "CP1250" (old US default), "Locale" (System encoding) - IMPORTANT: - "CP1252", "CP1250" and "Locale" are for backward compatibility only, new files should always be encoded in UTF-8 with BOM upd: support for UTF8 BOM (new standard in Ultrastar Deluxe) upd: #Year tag is read and saved fix: does not crash any longer if there is no linebreak in lyrics file fix: blank lyrics lines are ignored fix: editor does not delete unknown tags any longer from song txt files

Download: Ultrastar Deluxe v1.1 Final
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