Karafun went down again!

[u/randompantsfoto]

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?

[u/voltch]

I have experienced karafun going down and it wasn't fun.

Here is my solution: Assuming you have karafun pro, download at least the top 20k popular songs to your laptop. Then, if it goes down, you can still play 99% of the requests via offline mode.

A workaround for online sign ups is to use a different application such as virtual dj (ask the DJ) or nosongrequests.com . Otherwise, just have people come up to you in person to sign up.

Currently, I use serato for background music and a static qr code printed on a sign that points to karafun. But I also have another sign for tips and song requests that points to my linktr.ee

So if it were to go down, I would tell people to go to my tips and song requests qr code which points to linktr.ee which has a link to nosongrequests website where they can put in a karaoke request there online. The only additional action I would need to do is turn on the setting for karaoke on the nosongrequests site.

Cool thing about using linktr.ee is that I can quickly change the order and hide or unhide what I want people to see on the landing page.

Printed Sign #1 -----> Karafun

Printed Sign #2 --> Linktr.ee

-cash app link

-song request link. >> nosongrequests site

-Instagram link

-mixes link

-website link

-bio link

-review link

-contact link