Alright, so we’re jamming with tons of new features such as the new recording page and the song lyrics new functionality. We’re positive these upgrades will make a difference and provide a more friendly and compelling experience. There are several changes that in essence complement each other. Therefore, we’ll try making it easy on you. Here are the details:

NEW SONG LYRICS PROFILES

First things first, the most important aspect is to let you all know that starting today all Red Karaoke users will be able to see the songs lyrics even though the songs might not be available on the database. Therefore, Red Karaoke can now be considered as a portal for song lyrics. Having this in mind, we have uploaded a database of 65000 song lyrics that will be available as part of the artists profiles. OK so you don’t get all confused about it, check out the following image so you can have a better understanding of how things work now.

This image reflects the new karaoke list on Red Karaoke. As you can see, there are new icons on the list. Here’s what what each icon means:

This icon means that the karaoke is of higher quality and that our administrator has already revised it so not to contain any type of error at the time of recording.

This icon means that the song profile does not contain the karaoke file. Therefore, you’ll be only able to see the song lyrics.

This icon means that the song profile contains the karaoke file. Therefore, you’ll be able to sing to the song’s music.

If you take a look at the upper left corner of the image you’ll see several buttons. These ones are available for you to order the songs profiles as you wish. If you click on “karaoke”, then only the songs with their corresponding karaoke tracks will appear. The songs with lyrics only will appear below the ones with karaoke tracks. If you click on “song” then the they’ll be alphabetically reordered by song title. This happens independently whether the song comes with a karaoke or not. In the section “album” the songs with this type of information will precede the list. As for “artist”, the list will be automatically order by artist name.

As the database undergoes updates, you will be able to see new and more song lyrics profiles.

A CAPELLA RECORDINGS

Another important change to share with you all is that now our community of users will be able to sing a capella. Up until now, those who wanted to record a song title for which no karaoke was available had to find a karaoke without music to record the song of their choice. This represented a problem since no one knew what was available. Therefore, listening to ‘a capella’ songs was a bit chaotic.

It turns out the problem has been solved. Now, you can record any ‘a capella’ song from your own profile, even if the songs has no karaoke available.

So, in all other song lyrics profile with no karaoke file, you will be able to record ‘a capella’ so if users want to listen to it they’be able to do it knowing exactly what song they’ll be listening to.

OTHER CHANGES

Other changes are related to minor adjustments to the page design. For instance, the design of the search functionality design, and the tag pages, etc.

Well, we hope the new changes enhance the Red Karaoke experience. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome here as well as on the forums section.

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