Karaoke players for Mac?

[rickryan.com]

I have a friend who is setting up a home karaoke setup for his wife/kids. Can anyone recommend a good k-player for mac? He said he's tried a couple but needs something that has a catalog/search function on it. Weird, I thought they all would've had that.

 

[steve149]

I would have started by not recommending the Mac ..

I like Just Karaoke 2.0 (my normal karaoke program) .. they have a Mac version. http://www.tricerasoft.com/wp/tricera/indexphp/products/justkaraoke-2-0-karaoke-done-just-right/

 

[rickryan.com]

I would have stated by not recommending the Mac ..

I like Just Karaoke 2.0 (my normal karaoke program) .. they have a Mac version. http://www.tricerasoft.com/wp/tricera/indexphp/products/justkaraoke-2-0-karaoke-done-just-right/

Mac is all they have in their house. I'll recommend Just Karaoke to them. Thanks.

 

[ittigger]

Steve-o, there's nothing wrong with a Mac .. c'mon man.

 

[steve149]

Steve-o, there's nothing wrong with a Mac .. c'mon man.

I know .. but I needed to bust some chops today.

 

[NickC]

K-Jams is about the best one out there, but I will warn you........Compuhost it is NOT

 

[jokerswild]

Kjams lite would work great for a basic player....

One thing that I don't like about even the Pro version is the search function is slow unless you use special searching terms.... such as Artist:U2 for example... this makes the software only search for the term U2 in the Artist column instead of all visible columns as per their wiki page.

But.....

The Pro version has a built in server that allows you to use their iPhone/iPad app to access the DB and to also ad yourself to the rotations.

Which in a home setup may be ideal.... leave the computer in autoplay and let the kids pick songs via the iPad app and the computer just maintains a rotation and displays whos singing next etc.... like a jukebox.

PS the Pro version has it's own ripping tool and will automatically rename files as you name them in the browser kinda like iTunes.

 

[Dan The Man]

I'm out of my league here a bit but as I remember it OS X's Spotlight search (Cmd Space) is pretty robust. Couldn't you search from there then drag and drop into the KJ app?

 

[ittigger]

Most likely .. if the app allows drag and drop.

 

[jokerswild]

Most likely .. if the app allows drag and drop.

Sadly no

 

[steve149]

The Just Karaoke 2.0 search is pretty good .. and I have 12,000+ karaoke files. For purely home use, the KJams Lite may be fine. For doing an actual show, where you need singer control, the JK2 is pretty good. One feature I like is the optional remote request station. You can run a laptop or small touch system or even a smartphone to have people look through your song catalog and send their requests into the admin console where you can place it directly in queue if you want.