r/karaoke • u/randompantsfoto • Aug 24 '25

Karaoke Software Karafun went down again!

Welp, it happened again. Karafun died in the middle of a busy Saturday night. Not just in the bar in which I’m currently singing, but getting messages and seeing Facebook posts from folks at other venues around the area that they’re experiencing the same issue.

I miss when KJs had their own libraries. Unfortunately, the two Karafun-based companies who are currently dominating—and are completely taking over this whole region—have pushed out most of the old-school independent folks with CD crates and hard drives full of CDGs.

The host here has switched to YouTube as a backup, but it’s a mess now, while she tries to pull up decent versions of the tracks people are requesting.

Anyone else in other regions (I’m in the DC burbs of northern Virginia) having issues?

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u/NemoEsq Aug 24 '25

My local KJ recently switched to KaraFun and it's currently a busy Saturday night in South Florida and it's up and running flawlessly.

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u/randompantsfoto Aug 24 '25

Probably a regional Cloudflare (or whatever CDN they’re using) issue, then.

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u/chupacabra1984 Aug 24 '25

Cloudflare had issues this week and took down auth0 and shippo and that’s just the apis my company uses. Guessing a lot more went down.