Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

[Loshka]

This is a message to those of you who tried using DancingMonkeys1.01, implemented all of the suggestions in this thread and still getting fid error.

I went through the matlab code. Even though the matlab code version does not match the latest executable version, two things are clear:

1) fid – this is a variable that Karl builds up in his program into a directory path. If somehow this variable is not build up correctly, when the program tries to write to this file, you will get fid error.

2) More importantly, if you do NOT enter the name of the output directory, Karl assigns a default in his program. I used this feature, to get around fid error.

This is what worked for me:

Download the latest version of the Dancing Monkeys (1.01). Uzip the file. Inside Dancing Monkeys folder you will see 5 other folders:
Bin, Lame, Output, Temp Music, toolbox

Open a command prompt window and cd into the directory where the executable is on your computer. (for example: c:\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32)

Now type dancingmonkeys.exe “c:\mysongs\cutesong.mp3” 3 5 8

Note that I did not enter the name of the directory where I want the results to go to.

The program will crunch through your music file and will put the results into the “Output” directory inside the Dancing Monkeys folder.

You will not get the fid error and you will not get “Unable to output the truncated …….....” error.


Message to Karl:
Please post on your website matlab code that matches the latest version of the executable.
Please add the necessary lines to the code that display the directory path to which you are trying to write prior to making any writes to the file. . This way the problems with the directory path and the filenames will become obvious.
Thanks

[flip314]

man, how much memory does this need? It allocated about 500 megs, then crashed because it couldn't get more. I'm not going to change my virtual memory settings just to run one program. besides, there's no way it should need that much memory. 2.5MB mp3 = 25 megs wave data. so it's keeping ~20 copies in memory? It shouldn't need anywhere near that many.
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[Isaacsfa]

Good work Karl! This program ran perfectly for me first time through (WinXP Pro, NTFS partition, 2ghz, 512ddr). Only problem I'm finding so far is getting a music file that has a consistant BPM, lol...So far I've gotten 'We are all made of Stars' to work, which was pretty boring due to the 112 bpm, but the steps would be fun for someone who was playing on standard or so. By the way, I'm not sure if this has been mentioned in the 6 pages of posts for this, but why did it generate an 8 foot song when I specified 9?

[Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj)]

[DJ Tau]

Hm... a very interesting project there Could you also post the C source? I'd like to get a Linux port working...

[DwP.nemesis]

ERROR: Unable to find LAME mp3 decoder.

EXITING


argh, whens this program actually gonna work?
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[Slowpoke]

This program performs quite amazingly, given what it's trying to do. My only problem with it is that the difficulty of the steps are about 2 feet easier than what they're supposed to be (eg, ask for a 7, and you get the equivalent of a 5 foot song). Also, the radars seem to always look pretty similar. It'd be great if, instead of specifying the difficulty level, you could instead input the radar coefficients you'd like the steps to conform to.

[ichiro]

Will it compile under Linux?

[sky5489]

C:\My Documents\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>DancingMonkeys.exe "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop
\TUPAC - Thugz Mansion.mp3\" 3 5 8 "C:\Program Files\StepMania\Songs\Dancing Mon
keys new\

ans =

Reference to unknown function or variable 'Files' while evaluating expression.


ans =

Reference to unknown function or variable 'Monkeys' while evaluating expression.



ans =

Error: Expected a variable, function, or constant, found "]".

ERROR: Unable to find music file.

EXITING

C:\My Documents\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>


i need help!!!!!

[spoonsman]

Try taking the trailing slash off of your mp3 file and also getting rid of the destination directory, just let it output into the default directory.

[Slowpoke]

It's DOS based so you can't use directories or filenames with spaces in them. Your directory "Program Files" is what's generating the error, no doubt.

[spoonsman]

DOS supports spaces in folder and file names if you put quotation marks around them so it recognizes it as only only parameter instead of two or more paramerters. He put quotation marks around the directory, no doubt that is not the problem.

I just tested this in WinXP's command line and at a DOS prompt in Win98.

[Slowpoke]

... except that according to what he typed, he didn't close the 2nd set of quotes, and the two error messages he got were pointing to the word that came after the space.

[sky5489]

this is a nice program(once u get to learn how to use it), but the only thing that is bad for me is that the songs take like an hour and half to do one song

[spoonsman]

[Amything]

Good job on this program!

This is my first post and I'm a total newbie to DDR (got it for christmas). But I tried 3 times to make a DWI without success until I found your program. Finding the BPM and gap was easy for me, but in the end it always started to drift out untill I gave up on it. I'm a former sound engineer and using Sound Forge, Acid and other programs, calculating the BPM to a .001 accuracy it still drifted. I think there are so many factors that come into this that makes it a very difficult and frustrating job.

Dancing monkey however gave me good results for the 2 songs I tested. I still don't think it's 100% but it gives you some kind of magical avarage that works throughout.

The steps where good considdering but I still ripped them out to make my own I'm a happy camper!

[Shadow_65]

Great program i lovew it but errrr....


is there any way for you to speed upthe proscess???

thx a million

[NAOKi SYNDROME]

For LAME encoder issues, read what Loshka says...
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[ZOOT]

Interesting paper.

[The_Pwnager]

Edit: ehe, nevermind, erasing that before anyone sees wut a noobie i am