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Karaoke mp3 blogs

Published on January 12, 2009 in Getting Karaoke. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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I just found what looks like a karaoke mp3 blog: freekaraokemusic.blogspot.com. Right now they’ve only posted torrents, but it seems promising.

Since it’s really the only good karaoke source I’ve been able to find so far, I just added it as a sidebar widget (to your right).

Dealing with CD+G’s

Published on January 4, 2009 in Karaoke Setup. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

CD+G’s are karaoke CDs (see wikipedia entry). Moral of the story: don’t fuck with them.

You’ll just want everything on a laptop anyway, and many CD-ROM drives (like the ones found in most Mac laptops) won’t even read CD+G’s.

You still see lots of karaoke DJ’s using CDs out of habit. But requiring singers to write down disk and track numbers on pieces of paper is such a drag.

I’ll go out on a limb here and say that even if you inherit a large collection of discs, you’re better off selling them to some schmuck (or microwaving them one by one) and hitting the torrent sites and/or setting up mIRC. It might seem like a waste, but you’ll burn more time in the long run dealing with CD+G’s.

Karaoke torrents: build your collection fast

Published on January 4, 2009 in Getting Karaoke. 14 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

mIRC works great for finding individual tracks, but because most people will only let you download 50-75 songs per day, you’ll need to use Bittorrent to get all the classics.

Here’s what to do:

  1. Install a Bittorrent client (if you don’t have one): Mac / Windows
  2. Try to download the biggest files first here and here.
  3. Then try here and here for the fastest/most reliable downloads.
  4. Then search here and here every few weeks for new stuff.
  5. Closed torrent sites like this one will have special sections for karaoke, but you need to keep track of ratios.

If anyone knows of other good sources for karaoke torrents, feel free to post in the comments.