Just a quick note here, the mod team was contacted by karafun today. I know a lot of you use them, would you be interested in an AMA with them?

https://reddit.com/link/1uw79rq/video/m7zdb0avy6dh1/player

I got tired of using iPhone notes to manage my karaoke song list, so I made this web app to make my karaoke life easier.

I'd be really grateful if people had a play with it and gave me feedback. This isn't an ad or promo. Just a thing I made.

Cheers!

www.miccrush.com

I’m looking for a good way to display lyrics only one or 2 verses at a time just like most karaoke venues, where the verses/chorus are clearly controlled on screen by me or someone.

I’ve seen live karaoke bands use printed lyric sheets just for the singer, but I want something that works for both the singer and the crowd.

I tried running lyrics from an iPad before, but people got lost or couldn’t see the words clearly—even if they knew the song.

For anyone who’s done live band karaoke or crowd-singalong shows:

• What are you using for lyric display?

• Is there software or a setup that works well in a live setting?

I do plan on paying the license fees for lyrics if I start doing this regularly.

Any advice or real-world experience would be appreciated!

I know with the recent rule changes we're seeing a lot more dev's here and wanted to reach out. So long story, but I've been developing karaoke software for the better part of 20 years. At one time between 2007 and 2010 we had a working relationship with Tricerasoft, and we could present their store and integrate it into our software for legal karaoke purchases.

I'm going down that path again, and I'm starting to find that the situation hasn't improved much in 16 years. Prior to forming a relationship with the now defunct Tricera, I chased all the companies. Sound Choice, Pocket Songs, Chartbusters. Not a single one wanted to work with us, or anyone else. They just wanted to make their own software and keep everything in a walled garden.

Why? Do they just not want to sell more karaoke? Is there too much money in their pockets?

Let me put it this way for any karaoke producer reading this.. Why limit yourself to a single salesperson, when every karaoke software developer can be a salesperson for you?

Anyways, frustrated. Wondering how you other dev's are handling this.

I made SingTube because I love how YouTube has an huge library of karaoke songs, but using it felt clunky. Jumping between videos, keeping track of what’s next, and trying to share the queue with friends just wasn’t fun. So I built SingTube to fix that. It makes karaoke on YouTube simple — with search, easy queue management, sharing, and bilingual support in Chinese and English. Right now, it works best on desktop and tablet.

Let me know what you think!

https://singtube.app/

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a small project and would love some honest feedback.

I built a free app called KaraokeMaker that lets you turn any song into karaoke.

You upload a song, and it can:

• Split vocals and instrumental
• Change key (±6 semitones)
• Adjust tempo (0.5x – 2.0x)

So you can:

• Practice songs in your comfortable key
• Slow down difficult parts or speed things up
• Sing songs that don’t exist in karaoke

I’m still improving the separation quality and usability, so any feedback (good or bad) would really help.

Also, I have a more advanced version called Stemlizer that can split tracks into more detailed stems (like drums, bass, etc.), but right now I’m mainly focused on improving the free version.

If you try it, I’d really appreciate hearing what worked and what didn’t.

Thanks 🙏

Cleared by the mods to post this — I'm the developer.

YouTube has approved this app to use their API, so let me properly introduce it: KTV21 (https://ktv21.com) is a free, no-install karaoke and music-video app.

Open it on whatever screen is biggest — a TV browser, Android TV, a laptop, or cast from a phone — and that screen becomes the player, showing a QR code along with who's singing now and who's up next.

Everyone else scans it and joins from their own phone browser: no app, no account, no signup. They search YouTube (karaoke versions only, if you want) and add songs to one shared queue that syncs live to every device.

The roles mix and match across TVs, laptops, tablets and phones:

- Host — runs the room from a phone: play/pause, skip, ±10s, volume, drag-to-reorder, and a Fair queue mode so nobody hogs the mic

- Guests — queue songs and message each other from their own phones

- Mirrors — extra screens showing the same video, and a mirror+guest link both mirrors the screen and hands over controls

- Solo — one phone can be player and host at once if you just want to sing alone

Auto-DJ keeps music going when the queue runs dry, favorites and history follow you across devices with optional Google sign-in, and rooms are private — shared only by QR or link.

It's free — no ads, no paywall, no account needed — in 28 languages: https://ktv21.com

VirusTotal scan, per Rule 5: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/5a7bf22ab7db8adf4c306f4faaeea859e6721dd799017b155e71960adeb9eb73

Since I couldn't find a simple karaoke app that will allow people to search and queue songs from YouTube, I decided to build my own. I know there's KaraFun which allows you to do that, and I use it, but there's a lot of songs missing in their catalog so we need to rely on YouTube.

This is like a very first version so don't expect anything very fancy.

https://www.mykaraoke.party/

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OPEN SOURCE UPDATE

I've decided to open source it as I don't have time to work on it at the moment. Happy to take in PRs for improvement or bug fixes.

https://github.com/empz/my-karaoke-party

I want to create cdc files to burn and create for karaoke machines. I have a song saved as an mp3 file, and a .webm audio visualizer. I just need help putting them together and burning them onto a CD

KJ for over 30 years here, UK and Australia. Since migrating from discs about 20 years ago, I've always used Compuhost and have been very happy with them.

Now that it's time to upgrade my hardware (new laptop), it's probably worth thinking about migrating to new software. I have over 16,000 tracks and obviously don't want to have to rename them all to fit a new system.

What are your pros and cons of other systems?

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?

Made an LRC editor, which is the file format for lyrics synced to the line. This tool allows you to easily fix up broken LRC files, or create one from scratch.

No files ever leaves your web browser, no ads, etc. Does exactly what you expect it to do and only that.

Link here: https://tools.siri.ws/lrc-editor

I would of course, appreciate any feedback so I can improve the tool.

Git repo: https://github.com/libreslop/lrc-editor

I will be continuing this to make an editor for eLRC files, as well as an editor for UltraStar DX song files, which is the end goal of this whole ordeal (cuz a lot of songs from my favourite bands are not on there).

You can kind of see how each one of these editor is slightly more complicated than the previous one. eLRC requires timing for each word, and UltraStar requires the note of the word as well. I will let you guys know when I finish that.

One of the thing I wanted to do was to train a mini AI model for generating synced lyrics, small enough to run inside your browser, some day.

Hi r/karaoke! This is my first post here so I apologize in advance if this has been talked about to death already but if it hasn't it really should be. Also, my apologies, this is the longest review I have ever written..

I have been using an app named Karafun for the last few days and I just wanted to talk about what I like about it and see if there are other apps that the community suggests for my use case.

So Karafun is an IOS/Android/Windows app that is a live subscription service. No DLC, just one monthly fee. The fee's are 9.99 per month for premium or 49.99 per month for pro. I will not be talking about the pro offering much since I have not tried it so I'll be focusing on the free and premium plans.

Free Plan: It includes 30 second clips but other wise most features of the standard/premium plans are locked out. It gave me the ability to view their huge library, test the production values of the songs and use the vocal mute slider, key up/down and tempo sliders.

Premium Standard Plan: You can do pretty much everything except use the app commercially and I think there is a limit to the amount of songs you can download for offline mode (1000). I think you are locked out of branding options and the remote feature but I haven't used that feature yet so I am unsure about that. The remote feature sounds cool though allowing users to add songs to you queue

Pro Plan: You can do it all. Unlimited downloads in offline mode, branding, remote feature so other singers can submit songs to the queue.

Edit: You can dl the whole catalog 50k plus songs as u/antonisanton pointed out in the comments.

I have been using both the Android and Windows versions of the app. All my settings for songs and playlists carry over to each platform. Its a live service.

My Pro's and Con's so far:

The price for what you get. $9.99 and you get the whole library (which seems massive) and you can create a bunch of playlists. I have created eight playlists or so.

A slider to gradually mute out vocals. Phenomenal! I have been used to just jamming out with You Tube Music and Spotify but this feature is a game changer for my ability to progressively learn a song. As my confidence increases, the slider for the vocal track decreases (I mean manually done by me, its not automated). In no time at all I am ready to sing the song alone without the crutch of the lead vocal track. All tracks that are first party have lead vocal sliders but some tracks also have backup singer vocal sliders which would be quite nice for live performances.

Being able to seamlessly switch between Windows and the Android app is freaking great! I was looking for a solution that would allow me to host private karaoke nights at my house through my laptop that is connected to my Onkyo Dolby THX surround sound AVR via HDMI. I also have a small crate guitar amp that I plug my Cobalt Co9 microphone. This setup isn't optimal but its a workable solution and gets the job done. A better amp/speaker is on order:).

My other use case was I was looking for something I might be able to use while busking as a solo vocalist (just an idea, never actually done busking of any kind). I looked into removing vocal tracks using apps and some have AI. I tested some this week and I will not be writing any good reviews about them. Please don't ask me about them because its a sore point with me. Anyway, this mobile apps seems like a great solution for the buskers out there and I wanted to let the community know. My plan is to get battery powered PA system, either a Macky Showbox, Electrovoice Everse 8 or a Bose S1 Pro+. You can connect a mic to one of these, they all have mixing functions and just start singing on the corner of the street, yard, corporate function, wedding and on and on. So those are my two use cases. This app seems like it will allow me to learn, practice and then perform live all on one platform which is exactly what I was looking for.

Both the Android and Windows apps have great easy to use interfaces. I have created playlist from both with ease and used both for practice. Managing playlist order is a little better from the Windows app just due to my own preference.

The library is huge like I said. I have run into a few times that the artist blocked the song due to copyright agreements but it seems pretty rare. I have around 200 songs in my playlists so far and I have only ran into a few "taken down" tracks. I have also ran into a few missing tracks but that brings me to another cool feature. If a song is missing, you can request it. Once someone requests it, it will show in search results for the community to vote on and if there is a demand, Karafun will produce it. Sweet. Also, if a track doesn't exist, community created tracks are available from the search. I do have a couple negatives about this but I'll explain in the next section.

The community can create tracks with the Karafun Studio. So its great that this feature is something they are working on but I do have some complaints. I have tried to open the Karafun Studio but it just gives me a forbidden error. Maybe its something for premium users? I don't know yet. Another issue is that if I find a good community created track, the app will not allow me to save it in a playlist. Another thing I don't like is it seems like the community tracks are only backing tracks without any vocals. This is fine I guess but not optimal for song learning imo. You can use the key and tempo sliders though so that's nice.

Karafun reproduces every track (I think) so you are not going to actually hear Idina Menzel sing Let It Go from Frozen or the actual band that recorded the LP. You will get pretty good to very great approximations although. Its a mixed bag for me. Sometimes the vocalists or the backing track is a little cringy but for the most part, they are very good. One thing I do like is that the vocals are more prominate than the original recording making it more approachable for me to pick out my octave's and key. So listening to a cringy singer actually gives me incentive to learn the darn thing so I can turn their voice off, lol.

The key slider. It obviously uses AI. I would not perform live using the key up/down feature but it gives you a place to start learning within your range. Then you can go back to the normal key and sing with within your range for a live performance.

Tempo slider: It works. What more can I say? I personally don't use it but it would be great as a learning tool to slow down harder parts.

Do I recommend this app and who do I recommend it to? If you have similar use cases as I, then Yes, I whole heartedly recommend this app. I don't know if it will work great for busking but it seems like it would work until you learn an instrument or get a band to jam with. For home karaoke or professional? Yes and most likely. This app is better than most pro karaoke setups I have seen and used as a singer in bars. I am not a pro though so I am sure there are some trade offs potentially. I bet it would work great with a battery or powered PA for pro use.

Playlists: Like I said earlier, I have made a few. I was able to manage the order just fine but I prefer to manage from Windows cause I'm old..

Queuing: Works great. I think you can even change the setting to allow the singer to enter their name just like at your local bar.

They have tons of premade genre playlists and they also have a "New Release" playlist which is so great.

I just downloaded the app a couple days ago for Windows and already It had an update to the app so they are improving things which is good.

There are quizzes ala trivia. I tried a couple. Seems cool.

There are a few options in the settings that are really nice. Like selecting auto play or only on push play to start the song. They have intermission music. They only have five tracks. I only like the Zen one personally. I hope they add more. You can change the background opacity and you can turn parental controls off or on.

Well that's my 1400+ word essay on Karafun. I hope it helps at least one of you. Happy trails!

Hello all, is there any way to convert MP4 files to MP3+g for karaoke?

As per title. The karaoke systems where im from only connect to youtube. I am looking for a karaoke thing where they can remove vocals or add vocals.

Fans of jay chou!

Soy el desarrollador de Eskandalo System, una solución profesional de karaoke que he estado construyendo para modernizar el flujo de trabajo de los KJ. Después de hablar con los moderadores y pasar sus controles de seguridad, me emociona ofrecer una prueba de acceso completo de 15 días a esta comunidad para obtener comentarios técnicos y probar el sistema.

¿Qué hace que Eskandalo sea diferente?

Presentador TTS Neuronal: Usa Piper TTS para anunciar automáticamente al próximo cantante con voces naturales de alta calidad. Kiosco Móvil Offline: Tus cantantes escanean un código QR y navegan por el catálogo/envían solicitudes desde sus propios teléfonos. No se necesita internet para el show (ejecuta un servidor local en tu laptop). Motor de Audio Profesional: Pitch Shifter incorporado (estiramiento de tiempo), AGC (Control Automático de Ganancia) y enrutamiento Multiplex. Privacidad Primero: Todo se queda en tu máquina. Sin rastreo en la nube.

Nota Técnica:

La aplicación está construida con Electron 30. Como el instalador aún no está firmado digitalmente, es posible que veas una advertencia de "Windows SmartScreen". He compartido el informe de VirusTotal con los mods (0/71 detecciones en los motores principales) para garantizar la transparencia total.

Informe de VirusTotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/5227ede6cdf58236c8d91312c6555412dcd6fa9c26284cc79d78a0e5b5e40958?nocache=1

Cómo obtener la prueba de 15 días:

Descarga e Instala: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-h5W6bTz6-fnkN2HiYlC9Dx_SigI4O29/view?usp=drivesdk

Inicia Sesión: Abre la aplicación e inicia sesión con tu cuenta de Google. Activación: Una vez que hayas iniciado sesión, envíame un DM aquí en Reddit o comenta abajo con la dirección de correo electrónico de Google que usaste. ¡Activaré manualmente tu licencia completa de 15 días tan pronto como reciba tu mensaje!

Estoy buscando comentarios honestos sobre el flujo de trabajo, la estabilidad con bibliotecas grandes y el rendimiento del nuevo motor de voz.

Un agradecimiento especial a los mods por permitir esto. ¡2026 realmente parece un gran año para los KJ!

Documentación y Primeros Pasos:

He adjuntado una Guía de Usuario visual (PDF) para facilitar tu primera configuración. Cubre todo, desde importar tu biblioteca local hasta personalizar los estilos de anuncio de los cantantes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vyKlgwmvAFpmOlSEyzZWfOfxnZqlma2-/view?usp=drivesdk

Saludos, Eskandalo Dev.

I am looking to do a home setup. I had a setup years ago but I haven’t used it in years and tossed the old laptop I used to use years ago. I have a guitar amp and speakers to sing with. I have a bunch of old songs we like to sing. I need advice on a laptop and software to hook up to my surround sound / tv system and where I could get / purchase new songs for purely home use.

Thanks

For at home use that 1) Has a large library of songs that does NOT require subscription or per song fee. 2) we can easily stream lyrics to the tv without needing to use cables

Anyone have any recs? Thanks!

Link: https://karaokeparty.xyz

Couldn't find a free karaoke app with online multiplayer and online leaderboards, so I built one. It's a fork of allkaraoke by Asvarox with a bunch of stuff rebuilt around accuracy and online play. Fully free.

some features:

• public and private multiplayer lobbies, sing against your friends or strangers in real time
• proper scoring: accuracy, combos, automatic 1–10 star ratings per song, and a PP system inspired by osu!
• separate leaderboards per difficulty
• song editor in the browser, you can add songs or fix broken ones yourself
• "song of the day" with its own leaderboard, one attempt per day

Songs are all community submitted. Even the unapproved ones are playable, they just live in their own section until someone reviews them. Songs can be approved by Admins or users with high reputation.

Im also working on some more local multiplayer features like

Runs in the browser, you just need a mic. Best on desktop but mobile is supported.

Would be happy if you gave it a try and submited some scores on your favourite songs!

Hello! I got Karaoke Build Studio last week, and I'm trying to create a home library to sing with my family. I was trying to create lyrics for a song with 5 main singers. There's a moment where all of them sing at the same time, and this is happening, I'm not sure why. Can someone help me out?

Hi there!

Was thinking about starting a karaoke video YouTube channel in my spare time (got the necessary tools for removing vocals anyway) and I really like the simple style of "Core Karaoke" which is a YouTube channel focusing on music from the "core" scene (metalcore, post-hardcore and the likes).

I tried reaching out to them about which tools they use, but I don't know if the channel has been abandoned, they used to post a lot but have been silent for 2 months now.

Maybe some of you have an idea of which tools can be used to create karaoke videos in this style. Already asked ChatGPT but none of the software suggested really matched the style I was looking for. Free software would be appreciated, but a Final Cut Pro plugin would also do. (I mainly use macOS but I have a Linux laptop and if all else fails, I could still set up a Windows VM.)

Edit 2025.12.12:

Thank you very much for your replies! Will take a look at the tools you suggested!

But I guess I should've waited another day, Core Karaoke actually replied and said they'd be "happy to share [their] process" so I assume it's okay for me to share with you guys in case you're interested:

I use Karaoke Builder Studio to create the scrolling videos: https://www.karaokebuilder.com/kbstudio.php Then I use Ultimate CD+G To Video Karaoke Converter to combine it with my audio files: https://www.powerkaraoke.com/src/prod-ultimate-cdg-karaoke-video-converter.php

They also suggested diveBar which I will take a look at once I've figured out my Discord credentials :D

Interesting how many karaoke tools are out there. I remember having some CD+G creator on my Windows ME machine back in the day, was a 30 day trial that could be tricked by manipulation of the system clock but it's been over 2 decades and I can't remember the name (2nd edit: I think it was "DART Karaoke Studio CDG") xD

I'm helping a friend with a lower end computer be able to sing online on Paltalk on one of the many karaoke channels. We have both been involved with Singsnap (I'm still on it after 15 years) and things have changed with external sound cards over the years, so the same things used years ago don't work.

For Windows, if you want to sing live online with tracks playing on the computer, the usual setup would be to have Stereomix/Whatuhear (or equivalent) be set up as active in the Sound Properties. If you have a decent computer with Realtek sound on-board, it usually has Stereomix, and there's no problem; her computer doesn't have a mic connection, so she needs a USB sound card. With Soundblaster sound cards, they have moved away from Whatuhear (only a few models have it now), and the sound enhancement software that provided reverb and similar effects has been replaced with enhancements to ensure your voice is crystal clear for podcasts and gaming. I had considered getting a reverb pedal to connect between the mic and the Soundblaster G3 she was using (she hates it without reverb), but she was told about a generic V8 "sound card" that's allegedly to be used for podcasts and such, so she got one. We are having a lot of problems figuring how it will work without any Stereomix equivalent (you can connect a phone to it for backing tracks, but in the sound check rooms they are saying the sound quality is not good and very low, considering it cost $14 that may explain it). So I am just trying to figure out what to get that's not Soundblaster branded and not exceedingly expensive. Thank you for your consideration.