Karaoke Shell

Karaoke Shell is an interesting and streamlined piece of software that aims to help you host fun karaoke parties with the least amount of effort and hassle on your part.

We'll start off by saying that this is by no means a full-featured or,  even professional, karaoke application. However, before you get discouraged, its raw simplicity may not be such a bad thing after all.

Point in fact, what Karaoke Shell loses for not having praiseworthy,  advanced and customization features, it more than makes up for regarding ease of use and user-accessibility, mainly thanks to a very attractive approach, as we'll be pointing out in a second.

To deploy the app on your computer, simply let yourself guided by the typical, wizard-based installer, however, do keep in mind that it requires the presence of .NET Framework 4.0 or later on your computer in order to run.

Having done that, be sure to provide the app with full administrator rights before launching it. Right off the bat, you will notice that the app's main screen has no song list or other run-of-the-mill elements you would expect from a karaoke app, but instead, it features a clean-looking album art gallery.

If up until this point things might seem a bit too bland, what follows might just tick all the right boxes for you. Basically, you can manage all your playlists by following the address on the bottom right side of the main screen via your computer's default browser, or any other smart device, for that matter.

This means that anyone at your party with a smart device can connect to Karaoke Shell's media library and select songs or even manage content (adding lyrics, Wiki info and album art to your songs), since we all know, replacing various lyrics with funny (or inappropriate) words is one of the best recipes for having a good time.

Last but not least, it's also worth pointing out that the app works with some of the most popular karaoke-related formats such as CDG and KAR, and with most types of audio and video formats.

By now, it should be quite clear what Karaoke Shell is all about. This atypical karaoke app is designed to appeal to most amateur "DJs" or party hosts out there thanks to its simple functionality, and let's not forget about the feature that allows everyone at the party to use it directly from their smart devices.

Sure, as we mentioned before, it's not nearly as customizable as most karaoke apps out there, but let's be honest, you don't really need customizable borders, special effects, and other frames-per-second-nonsense to have a good time with your friends.