So, i’m pretty sure that I have mentioned that Diana is into karaoke… and I may have even mentioned that I have set up our home PC to handle karaoke… ripped Diana’s discs to the HD, grabbed a few neato Winamp plugins, and so on… Well, here’s a post about the neato plugins…
autoKDJ…
Totally awesome… Takes advantage of Winamp’s Media Library, and has an interface where you can search your library, cue up songs and enter singer info, and even change pitch, tempo, and speed through the use of the Pacemaker plugin… But wait! There’s more! autoKDJ has a backdoor interface where you can interact with the set-up from a remote PC! You can have your Karaoke PC act as a server, up at the booth, and have a few other PC’s set around the venue so that patrons can enter their names and songs, and it all gets saved at your server – songs placed in queue and rotation sorted out, so that you never have to worry about keeping those silly little slips around or in order…
At any rate autoKDJ is awesome… and a hell of a lot better than the method that our favorite place uses… I’m gonna try and figure out how to sell them to the idea… Sad thing, however, I have seen their mp3-g zip naming system, and for them to take full advantage of autoKDJ, they would have to go through and rename every file… I do not know the size of their collection, but their printed master index takes up two four-inch binders… so… that be some work…
And I have no idea why I am sharing his…
Well I tried the program and maybe I don’t have the plug-ins but ultimately I haven’t been able to do much with it. When I try to add media the playlist for the karaoke ends up with noname singers that apparently added their songs in 1601…. Needless to say if that’s true I may really need to upgrade my computer. When I try to remove the strange “phantom” singers the whole program locks leaving no alternative but to end the program. Grrrr!!! It’s really not as user friendly as the program the “favorite place” uses. The first time I sat down to the “other program” I could figure it out in a couple minutes. Most of the time an abundance of features is a good thing but not always. The winamp program actually has a section for payment! If I ever go to a karaoke place and have to pay to sing they no where to go. I think you should be able to disable some of their features.
hmmm… maybe we shall have to try the previous version… i believe i’ve got a version older than what is available…