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hey there, I've been thinking about doing some karaoke activity with my family this year for Christmas eve (in a few hours, I know).

Now I downloaded and installed karafun, a software that acts as a karaoke machine on your computer.

I was also able to find some tracks to test it out, everything seems to work fine. The problem now is actually being able to find tracks I actually know.

The formats seem to go from .cdg to .kar and even .midi.. I wouldn't really know how they are coded but they contain the lyrics that play in them..

Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone knew any sites that offered free karaoke tracks, I'm looking for some very known one (yes JK, as lame as britney spears and backstreet boys) just something very known that we could laugh at.

Thanks in advance.

Well i use windows media player with the minilyrics plug-in installed

Here is the website for minilyrics http://www.crintsoft.com/

You can change the text colours and all stuff like that and its linked to a DB where you can search for the lyrics

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Originally posted by freak544
You can change the text colours and all stuff like that and its linked to a DB where you can search for the lyrics

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Thanks, but will that be synchronized with the music? I want something that will only colors when it's time to sing it.. like karaoke basically.. I don't think this really does it.

edit : also, this suggests you take your own song and play it. basically the singer's voice is still there..

Yeah they are synchronized with the music and yeah thats the only problem that ou can hear the singers voice

There are options in it to fade in lyrics have karakoe style and you can also choose how many lines to display at once etc.

I am not sure if there is a way to get rid of the singer's voice in the song

If there was a way to get rid of the voice then this would be good as you can take any song you wish and play it but you may have to download the lyrics (in which it does itself or your press d and select the lyrics) if you are taking a laptop round someones house without the internet etc.

get a instrumental version of the song

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Originally posted by freak544
Yeah they are synchronized with the music and yeah thats the only problem that ou can hear the singers voice

There are options in it to fade in lyrics have karakoe style and you can also choose how many lines to display at once etc.

I am not sure if there is a way to get rid of the singer's voice in the song

If there was a way to get rid of the voice then this would be good as you can take any song you wish and play it but you may have to download the lyrics (in which it does itself or your press d and select the lyrics) if you are taking a laptop round someones house without the internet etc.

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Thanks for the help anyways, I'll look to this if I can't find any other way before tonight.

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Originally posted by duck!
get a instrumental version of the song 

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I thought about that.. but it's a bit too much trouble.. I think I'll just end up buying a few tracks off an online karaoke store.

There may be a way to remove the lyrics from the song by using an add on but im not sure

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Originally posted by freak544
to remove the lyrics from the song

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You mean the voice?
I don't know, I'm no expert in that kind of thing.

What I do know, is that on karafun's online store, you actually get 2 sound tracks (voice + music) and lyrics for every song you buy, so that would be perfect for me!

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Originally posted by freak544
There may be a way to remove the lyrics from the song by using an add on but im not sure

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yes, that's what CDG is, CD+Graphics, the voices are sort of 'suppressed' but not completely, and yes, there are programs to do that...
MIDIs are free and you can find almost any song on it, but tbh, they sound shitty. CDGs are alot harder to find for free...

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Originally posted by Voldemort
CDGs are alot harder to find for free...

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I was able to find albums.. But they are of songs I've never heard of.. Which pretty much sucks when you want to sing to it.