alexras
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https://github.com/alexras/pylsdj

pylsdj is a arguably the most comprehensive library for dealing with LSDJ save files out there. It includes saving projects out of .sav files, loading them into other save files, loading and saving instruments between projects and editing things like tables, chains, phrases and the structure of the sequence itself.

This effort began way too many years ago, and had a few false starts along the way. It's finally to the point where it's documented and I'm confident with advertising its availability.

If you're not a programmer and some of these features sound exciting to you, Little Sound MC (https://github.com/alexras/lsmc) is coming soon to a computer near you (really soon, I promise; I just have to get it building on Windows).

egr
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Abandoned on Fire

Fantastic!

Delek
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Buenos Aires, Argentina

This is great news!

Any document regarding the .sav format of LSDJ?

alexras
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The LSDJ wiki is a great source of information on LSDJ's internal format (http://littlesounddj.wikia.com/wiki/.sav_structure) I've been working with Johan on filling in some of the gaps as I ran into them, so it should be pretty complete.

Knife Crimes
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Great stuff! Looking forward to having a go with it.

spiritwaffle
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Russia

Sweet! thanks for sharing

J3wel
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I'm really interested in trying this software out or at least working towards that.. I'm running on Mac (but i also have a PC) and it would be exceedingly helpful to have some kind of step by step tutorial on how to open and use the software.

I don't know a huge amount about computers and running commands at all so I'm struggling to get my head around any of the documentation on the github to find something useful for a beginner.

Anything you could do would be helpful.

alexras
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@J3wel, it sounds like you'd be more interested in LSMC than in pylsdj. I haven't packaged it up for distribution just yet, but when it's out, it'll be a regular app.

Kris k
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really excited to see how LSMC turns out- some of the limitations of LSDManager seem to be remedied by what you've implemented in pylsdj and having a proper GUI for it sounds great.

The Laohu
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Utah

Very cool. Nice job.

CS
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Nice, hope it goes well!

Will it be able to to possibly manage custom kits too? Really tired of having to use others computers and/or get over the official windows signature from more update versions of windows when something like this for mac should also be available.

alexras
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@CS: it doesn't manage kits _yet_, but I'd like it to eventually. I'll put it on the to-do list.

CS
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alexras wrote:

@CS: it doesn't manage kits _yet_, but I'd like it to eventually. I'll put it on the to-do list.

Just found out, the LSDj Patcher .Jar file works on Mac - if that might save you more time.

Last edited by CS (Jan 7, 2015 10:06 pm)

cyberic
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Hello!

Using Alexras wonderful libraries, we (at http://TheOtherDays.net) made a commandline utility.
With it you can:
- print information about a .sav or a .lsdsng file
- split a .sav file into several .lsdsng files
- join several .lsdsng files into a .sav

It can be used like lsdjmanager, but in a more automated way.

Please use it carefully and keep backups because it is still new code!

It should work with python2 or python3

Please use the github page here:
https://github.com/TheOtherDays/todmisc-songops
to report issues.

alexras
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Los Angeles, CA

Nice! This is exactly the sort of thing I'd hoped people would write.

cyberic
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Alexras, we have forked pylsdj and bread to improve compat with python3
I have done some profiling as well, because loading a .sav is VERY slow!

But otherwise, bread is really great, thx!

Let's continue on github ;-)