Karaoke Mugen vs TKaraoke

Karaoke Mugen is a free, open-source playlist manager for karaoke parties, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Operators can add, remove, reorder, shuffle, import, and export songs, while guests can suggest tracks from their own devices. Operators can enable voting, set song or singing-time quotas, and filter songs with blacklists and whitelists; sessions can also use automixes and quiz mode. The player includes playback controls, automatic volume adjustment, pitch and speed changes, and a synchronized second video player. It accepts video formats supported by mpv, uses ASS subtitles, and can import formats including Ultrastar, Karafun, and KBP. Once installed, configured, and up to date, it can run without an internet connection, but guests need the same Wi-Fi network. The software is published under the MIT license and provides a WebSockets API for additional interfaces or clients. Linux binaries require GLIBC 2.31 or higher; the Windows portable version must be updated by replacing files from a new ZIP archive.

TKaraoke is a karaoke player that indexes thousands of songs and lets users search by song name, singer, songwriter, or lyric text. It can play YouTube content as if it were on a local hard drive. The Songbook controller app lets phones, tablets, or laptops control TKaraoke editions; Songbook 2 is available free from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. On Android TV, TKaraokeUSB plays songs from an external USB drive without a song server on a computer. It supports 4K songs on capable devices, voice search in English or Vietnamese, and formats including MKV, MP4, VOB, AVI, M4V, and MPG. The TKaraokeUSB free version is limited to 1000 songs. TKaraokePro2 runs only on 64-bit computers running Windows 7 or newer. Its demo key costs $1, paid once and stops songs after two minutes; the full key costs $100, paid once and unlocks Pro features, with free lifetime upgrades stated. The product is listed for Android, iOS, and Windows.