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How to unzip a ton of karaoke tracks (Mac / Linux)

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Karaoke players (like Winamp or VLC) can’t read inside .zip files, so you need to unzip all your karaoke to use them. Turns out, if you have a big library there are just too many files to use the unix wildcard *.

And you get an error like: -bash: /bin/ls: Argument list too long

Here’s how to move your huge library of karaoke songs to one folder, and unzip them. It’s well worth the trouble to be able to use Winamp (which is super-simple and solid for karaoke nights).

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Free, open source karaoke software

If you want to do karaoke in linux, or using only free software, you’ve got two options, PyKaraoke and VLC.

For running a karaoke night, PyKaraoke is better. But you probably have VLC already, and it’s available for Mac.

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