karaokeanywhere

[leo-magic]

Hi!

I found an interesting App for the iPhone for reading CDG on your iPhone: KaraokeAnywhere
http://www.karaokeanywhere.net/

cu,
Leo

[dave]

well THAT kicks ass. pretty sweet!

[aantix]

Awesome software...

Makes me wonder if Dave couldn't roll some sort of preview into his current iPhone app? I'm sure you have nothing left on your feature todo list.

[dave]

What i think i'd really like to do is make KaraokeAnywhere "just work" with kJams.

Reply to my post and say YES YOU WANT!

[aantix]

Not sure I see your vision here Dave with Karaokeanywhere. I was envisioning the user could use iJams to select the track and see a preview of the lyrics playing all in the same window.

Maybe slightly easier.. With iJams you could display the song artist/title along with the first couple of verses of the lyrics. I think there's a couple of open lyric servers out there that allow for api call requests.

[dave]

no
iJams is for selecting songs you want to play on a computer far away. i am not envisioning that iJams will do anything other than remote control of a computer.

KA is for PLAYING songs on your iPod, it's a karaoke Player.

they are *entirely* different things.

[Brendan]

Is there potential to access your kJams library/playlists from Kaoraoke Anywhere? That would be sweet.

[dave]

KA does not appear to have playlists, it seems it has one big list and you pick which song you want to play.
you'll have to ask them about new features.

[Brendan]

Okay, how about the library?

[dave]

well the general idea would be that you have a designated playlist as your "sync" list. cuz some people have 100k songs in their main library, you wouldn't want to sync that every time.

[leo-magic]

And? No news from karaokeanywhere?

[dave]

they seem to have dropped the ball.

[DeusExMachina]

Actually Dave, I think the revenue stream, especially since you already have done the foundational research, is just to incorporate it into iJams, or make a separate app, but link it to your already existing stores. Your kJams Pro users can help get the word out at shows (you could make a showScreen for them) and you could then channel more sales through the store, not just to kJams users, but their attendees as well. Or you could link it is into iJams, and let people who use iPhones at shows download their songs to practice, again via the stores. Offer a buy-this-track button on the iJams interface or some such.

[dave]

i'm already working on it. i'd have been happy to work with them, but they were like all "yeah yeah let's do it" then i never heard from them. too bad for them i guess.

[DeusExMachina]

What would be even nicer is a revenue sharing model. A few cents to you, a few to the person on whose network the iJams client is surfing.