vanBasco's Karaoke Player

The best MIDI File player compatible with MIDI Karaoke Songs 🎤🎹

vanBasco's Karaoke Player plays MIDI Karaoke files. Lyrics can be displayed in full-screen. You can change and recall tempo, volume, and key of a song, and mute or solo instruments. Best of all: The player is totally ad-free freeware!

Version history

v2.53 (released on March 12th, 2004). Changes since previous release:

• User-interface now supports English, German (deutsch), Italian (italiano) and Spanish (español). More language packs are available.
• Much bigger choice of character set to be used for lyrics, including Baltic, Chinese, Eastern Europe, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese
• Folder names in playlist window in non-English languages are now displayed correctly
• In the playlist window, song files can be dragged and dropped into the desired position of the playlist
• Karaoke Window sometimes disappeared for no reason - no longer
• Improved support for multiple monitors
• Help file now in HTML format
• Docking of player windows
• Support for multimedia keyboards
• A number of small bugs fixes

v2.52 - Changes since the previous version:

• Improved compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
• Supports now displaying JPEG files as background image in Karaoke window
• Special characters such as á, ê, ö, ù, ç etc. are now allowed in playlist names

Skins for vanBasco's Karaoke Player

By installing a new skin, you can change the appearance of vanBasco's Karaoke Player, i.e. you can give the user-interface of the program a completely new look.

To install a new skin, first download the .zip-archive of the file, e.g. skin.zip. Then extract the contents of the downloaded file to the installation folder of vanBasco's Karaoke Player, e.g. C:\Program Files\vanBasco's Karaoke Player. (To do this, you will need a file manager that is capable of reading .zip files. If you are using Windows XP, then Windows Explorer already supports this. Otherwise, you can download WinZIP.)

Then, inside vanBasco's Karaoke Player, open the setup dialog. (You get to the setup dialog by clicking the note button in the top-left corner in the main program window of vanBasco's Karaoke Player and choosing "Setup...".) Choose the "Misc" tab. In the box labeled "Skin" select the skin you just installed. Then close the setup dialog by clicking the "OK" button. The last step is to restart vanBasco's Karaoke Player. Enjoy!

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