Best karaoke game with unlimited songs?
April 11, 2008 4:52 PM Subscribe
Best karaoke for PC?
What we want is some program + service which provides a Konami-like interface with a vocal+ musical track, and with (paid) access to _all_ songs, because what you really want with karaoke is to sing songs you LIKE. And that of course changes as new songs come out.
My wife and I have had a blast over the years playing karaoke-style games on XBox, PS2 (and now the Wii). We much prefer the Konami games to Sony's SingStar - SingStar is nice since it has the original artists & videos, but the absolute time-track on Konami's implementation is far superior if you don't know the song well (which is usually the case at parties).
The fatal flaw of both however is that the number of songs you can access is extremely limited. We downloaded all the songs for Konami via XBox Live years ago - about 80 (and cost about $80), 70% of which were lame songs no one's ever heard or would want to sing. SingStar sells separate genre-based discs, with about 50% of the songs being worthwhile.
I can't believe the recording/gaming industry haven't recognized that millions of game-buyers are willing to pay a dollar a song or whatever to have it in their karaoke collection.
What is out there to provide this functionality? Thanks!
What we want is some program + service which provides a Konami-like interface with a vocal+ musical track, and with (paid) access to _all_ songs, because what you really want with karaoke is to sing songs you LIKE. And that of course changes as new songs come out.
My wife and I have had a blast over the years playing karaoke-style games on XBox, PS2 (and now the Wii). We much prefer the Konami games to Sony's SingStar - SingStar is nice since it has the original artists & videos, but the absolute time-track on Konami's implementation is far superior if you don't know the song well (which is usually the case at parties).
The fatal flaw of both however is that the number of songs you can access is extremely limited. We downloaded all the songs for Konami via XBox Live years ago - about 80 (and cost about $80), 70% of which were lame songs no one's ever heard or would want to sing. SingStar sells separate genre-based discs, with about 50% of the songs being worthwhile.
I can't believe the recording/gaming industry haven't recognized that millions of game-buyers are willing to pay a dollar a song or whatever to have it in their karaoke collection.
What is out there to provide this functionality? Thanks!
There's an open source clone of Singstar for the PC called UltraStar.
Also, it's worth mentioning that Singstar for the PS3 has a fairly massive downloadable catalog in Europe already (it's not out in the US yet), and the recently released Karaoke Revolution for the PS3/360 also has downloadable content.
posted by Remy at 5:52 PM on April 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
Also, it's worth mentioning that Singstar for the PS3 has a fairly massive downloadable catalog in Europe already (it's not out in the US yet), and the recently released Karaoke Revolution for the PS3/360 also has downloadable content.
posted by Remy at 5:52 PM on April 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
There is a karaoke game for the PC called SingSong at singthegame.com. It has tools so you can karaoke any song you want.
posted by NateS at 10:55 PM on October 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by NateS at 10:55 PM on October 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
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