As high and mighty as you may think that sounds it's pure folly. At the every least you are foolishly denying reality.
- YouTube and illegal libraries have nothing in common.
- Private Karaoke parties are typically 60 people or less, students, family, or co-workers
- YouTube has about 12,000,000 million karaoke tracks accessible by anyone
- YouTube is the single largest music streaming service in the world - much bigger than Apple, Spotify, etc.
As a KJ host you would certainly benefit from a dedicated karaoke software and from the gig report given you can see that a lack of independent search features, catalogs, and legacy product made the job difficult and disappointing with VDJ as the source. Despite that, it would be foolish to overlook the largest and most obvious resources.
Any group of individuals (like students or co-workers) with access to a sound system and internet can create a working karaoke night. People can easily search YouTube instantly on any device - and even do it in advance of the party. There are over a dozen karaoke versions of "Greased Lightning" on YouTube. It takes no more than an iPad and a mic line mixer to add karaoke to an existing sound system. I'm not suggesting you use VDJ or a browser as your karaoke system. I simply acknowledging that in this day and age your "available library" should not be limited to your own hard drive or CDs.
If you're not tapping into the resources around you and can't access things so readily on hand to your clients, then you're going to appear out of touch when providing karaoke or any music service.
I can easily see an iPad in my setup with the ability to run a request from YouTube. Why would I tell customers I don't have a given song when they can plainly find it on their own phone instantly?
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