karafun report
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forgotten_ariaSome people were interested in karaoke setups. I thought I would write about I found out.
I got a iKaraoke KS780-BT Bluetooth CD&G Karaoke System and used the karafun service. Most likely you just need the karafun service and something for people to feel like they're singing into a mic. We very much got the private room karaoke feel, which was awesome. (I have a cheap "party" bulb which helped.)
Karafun has a 2 day party pass for $6 which gives you access to a nice collection of songs. While they didn't have everything I could possibly want, I felt like I had as good a selection as Doremi had (though not sure about the foreign language songs.) There did seem to be some pretty large holes (like no radiohead, for example, which they have a note that they're dealing with copyright issues with it. This might explain why some of the songs I thought they had disappeared.) I really liked how they let me sample songs before I gave them any money and had free songs with which I could set things up.
You can give your guests a URL and then everyone can search karafun and add songs to the queue with their name attached. This is a win over the private room set up, since people know who put the song in. The one down side is that the queue reordering seemed broken and only barely worked, but even having some control was a big win.
I used it with the chromecast, which did exactly what I was hoping it would do, which is audio and lyrics on the TV and lyrics still on the tablet with the ability to control start, pause, volume levels, pitch and tempo.
While strictly I don't think one needs the machine, it does do what I want. I could switch to CDG if I wanted fairly easily, it takes two mics, has echo and fancy lights. I do wish the volume control on the mics was separate and had more control. It also has a tablet/phone stand, which word well.
I got a iKaraoke KS780-BT Bluetooth CD&G Karaoke System and used the karafun service. Most likely you just need the karafun service and something for people to feel like they're singing into a mic. We very much got the private room karaoke feel, which was awesome. (I have a cheap "party" bulb which helped.)
Karafun has a 2 day party pass for $6 which gives you access to a nice collection of songs. While they didn't have everything I could possibly want, I felt like I had as good a selection as Doremi had (though not sure about the foreign language songs.) There did seem to be some pretty large holes (like no radiohead, for example, which they have a note that they're dealing with copyright issues with it. This might explain why some of the songs I thought they had disappeared.) I really liked how they let me sample songs before I gave them any money and had free songs with which I could set things up.
You can give your guests a URL and then everyone can search karafun and add songs to the queue with their name attached. This is a win over the private room set up, since people know who put the song in. The one down side is that the queue reordering seemed broken and only barely worked, but even having some control was a big win.
I used it with the chromecast, which did exactly what I was hoping it would do, which is audio and lyrics on the TV and lyrics still on the tablet with the ability to control start, pause, volume levels, pitch and tempo.
While strictly I don't think one needs the machine, it does do what I want. I could switch to CDG if I wanted fairly easily, it takes two mics, has echo and fancy lights. I do wish the volume control on the mics was separate and had more control. It also has a tablet/phone stand, which word well.
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