Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

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Pantera · Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:59 am Post subject:

Yeah, no kidding...sheesh >_<
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Jesizzle · Basic Member Joined: 16 Apr 2004

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\JeSuS>cd /d:\
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

C:\Documents and Settings\JeSuS>cd /d d:\

D:\>cd dancing monkeys\bin\win32

D:\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>dancingmonkeys.exe "d:\music\unchained melody.mp3"
4 6 9 "d:\steps\"

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Initialised.
input: d:\music\Unchained Melody.MP3
(44.1 kHz, 2 channels, MPEG-1 Layer III)
output: ..\..\Temp Music\Temp Song.wav (16 bit, Microsoft WAVE)
skipping initial 1105 samples (encoder+decoder delay)
Frame# 10320/15455 128 kbps MS bitstream problem: resyncing...
Frame# 13748/15455 192 kbps MS
Decoded Mp3 / Copied Wav
Loaded song.
Normalised song.
WARNING: Unable to Output truncated version of song. Please copy original to out
put directory.
Outputted truncated normalised song.
Monoed song.
Smoothed song.
Normalised mono and smoothed data.
Thresholded data
Found peaks and troughs.
Found beat positions.
Calculated peak to beat offset.
Brute forced the interval tests.
Calcualted Gap and BPM.
Calculated Energy
Computed Self Similarity
Calculated Bar Similarity.
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Divided song into groups.
Found pauses.
Found freeze arrow positions.
Foot Rating: 4
Foot Rating: 5
Foot Rating: 8
Created arrow patterns for each difficulty level.
ERROR: Invalid fid.

EXITING

D:\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>dancingmonkeys.exe "d:\music\unchained melody.mp3"
4 6 9 "d:\steps\"

got this on my first try...is the song too big???

Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

Try running it without the last argument, "d:\steps\", and just let Dancing Monkeys create the files in the default location.
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maitines · Basic Member Joined: 14 May 2004 Location: Spain

shida · Basic Member Joined: 18 May 2004 Location: forever lost

Ok,
first off, hi to everyone since I'm new.

second,
I have the memory allocation error while running this program. Now I did check my virtual memory (1536mb) which seems like a good amount, but apparently it isn't. Question is, should I bump it up more?
I'm skeptical about doing that tho..

@maitines: that's the right line.. you just need to go over to column D and E. if you are using ultraedit, it will show you the column on the bottom status bar.

maitines · Basic Member Joined: 14 May 2004 Location: Spain

shida · Basic Member Joined: 18 May 2004 Location: forever lost

still getting that memory allocation request error.. already increased the VM to 3000..
any ideas guys? or am I doomed...

edit: nevermind, I figured out what was wrong.

Kham · Trick Member Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Location: Canada

can someone can explain us the easiest way and detailed way to make a song ?
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Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:03 pm Post subject:

Kham · Trick Member Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Location: Canada

thanks-a-lot bumhole
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Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 9:18 am Post subject:

icywindow · Basic Member Joined: 29 May 2004

Well, I found this useful, but not as useful as it could have been. Therefore I made it slightly more user friendly. I wrote a frontend for dancing monkeys.

Here it is

http://icywindow.100free.com/dancingmonkeysfrontend.zip

Shame it's about 8 mos after it was created, oh well.

Thnx,
icywindow

Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 12:01 am Post subject:

Wow. I ran Mr. C.C. from KeyboardMania through DM the other night, with 5, 7, 9 as the difficulties as usual....and for Heavy it pulled an ITG on me: freeze, freeze, handplant.

First time it's done that. Makes me wonder if DM doesn't actually get 'smarter' the more times it's used...

Mods, any chance this thread could be stickied? I have yet to see anyone on any forums that I know of post about or link to some other program that can do what DM does, and I think it's useful enough to anyone making a simfile that it'd be worth stickying.
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Geneity X · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Location: @_@

This program is AMAZING

I used a song that 4 BPM counters couldn't find the BPM for and 2 different tapping programs couldnt find the right BPM, yet the program did it effortlessly with BPM DEAD ON. o_O

The steps can be pretty repetitive but can leave a few surprises like a stop in the song (which was expertly placed, btw)

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Another thing I was really surprised at is that it shortens the songs to DDR length, which was very nice to see, but is there anyway to get it to make full versions?

The only question I have is why does it convert to .wav files?? Those are MUCH bigger than MP3's and are more annoying, lol.

I give this 2 thumbs up

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splunge · Trick Member Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA

Ok im attempting to run this program.
Im running it in the command prompt window, from the WIN32 directory.

Im using this command:

dancingmonkeys.exe "c:\dont.mp3" 3 5 8

Im not using an optut directory like half a dozen posts say not to.

I have a copy of dont.mp3 in the dancing monkeys\output directory.

Im STILL geting "WARNING: Unable to Output truncated version of song. Please copy original to output directory." " andCreated arrow patterns for each difficulty level. ERROR: Invalid fid." errors.

Im trying to do this with 'Dont mess around with Jim' by Jim Croce, which is a 3:02 song. I guess i should try to trim the song down myself.

Convert the mp3 to .wav and use a .wav editor to chop it, i assume?

Any other suggestions while i continue to plug away at this?

Michael Scofield.Stg · Trick Member Joined: 25 Jan 2004

Can anyone explaing this error to me:

splunge · Trick Member Joined: 17 May 2004 Location: Atlanta, GA

Sounds like the music changes tempo in mid song and dancingmonkey doesnt like it. =/ Shame too cause Conjunction Junction would be a fun song. =)

Ok ive doen everything i could possibly think of. Putting input and output directories in quotes, putting them in low-level folders (c:\music), putting in a destination directory (followed by a \ of course) and without a directory, tryiing it on .mp3 and /wav versions.... Im freekin lost here..

I did notice when i run the program, right off the bat, i see this:

MS-DOS Version 5.00.500

Parse Error 9

Parse error 9? wth?

*cries* All i wanted was a program to acurately cacluate the bpm and Gap.. i can do the step patterns myself! I already made a light step pattern for the song, but when i play it it always feels off rhythm, and i don tthink i have the gap right. =( =( =(

Even before the program craps out with this silly error, it SAYS its caclulated the BPM and gap.... WELL WHAT ARE THEY? It should tell you right there what they are and not keep it hidden until it writes it to a completed output fule that DOESNT WORK...

/smashes chairs and sobs pitifully

icywindow · Basic Member Joined: 29 May 2004

Unable to confidently find BPM means simply that the BPM is not constant during the song; therefore the algorithms that the program uses find that the bpm varies enough (+-2 bpm) that it cannot generate a stepfile for it.

Splunge: sounds like you're running an old arse ver of windows if you're loading up dos 5. Try win 98 or higher, or use my frontend.

Update on frontend: Someone's making my frontend better, adding batch support and possible mp3 reencode support, so get ready for an even easier time running DM!

~icywindow~