Changelog

We are introducing a brand-new review system to help KJs build their reputation, a shared availability calendar, and a massive under-the-hood upgrade to the pop-out player!

🎛️ For Hosts

Build Your Reputation: You can now collect rich reviews from your singers! Guests are seamlessly prompted to leave feedback after a gig, helping you build trust, showcase your skills, and land more venue bookings.

Share Your Schedule: Let venues and singers know exactly when you are free. You can now manage your availability using our new shared calendar view across all your gigs.

Supercharged Pop-Out Player: We've upgraded the karaoke pop-out window! It now uses native Picture-in-Picture technology to give you a cleaner, more reliable floating display for your lyrics and visuals. Using an older browser? No problem—it seamlessly falls back to the classic window mode so your show goes on without a hitch.

🎤 For Singers

Track Your Feedback: We've added a dedicated "My Reviews" page so you can easily keep track of all the feedback and praise you've left for your favorite KJs.

Club-Friendly Dark Mode: No more blinding screens in the middle of a dark pub! The entire app is now locked into a sleek, consistent dark theme perfectly tuned for venue lighting.

🏢 For Venues

Pack the House: Your venue profile now features a crystal-clear "Upcoming Gigs" section, making it incredibly easy for singers to see exactly what karaoke nights you have planned.

⚡ Under the Hood

Lightning Fast Discovery: We've completely overhauled how the app fetches data. Browsing venues, discovering gigs, and loading dashboards is now noticeably faster.

Rock-Solid Emails: We've upgraded our background monitoring to ensure important platform emails—like venue invites and notifications—hit your inbox instantly and reliably.

A major tune-up for the platform! We've made the app faster, tightened up our security, and improved accessibility across the board so everyone can enjoy the show.

🎤 For Singers & 🎛️ For Hosts

Silky Smooth Playback: We've fine-tuned the karaoke player so that custom video screensavers and classic lyric transitions flow smoother than ever before.

Snappier Performance: Everything feels faster. We've optimized how the app handles heavy lifting, meaning queue updates, message loading, and local file scanning now happen in the blink of an eye.

Inclusive Design: We've significantly improved accessibility across the platform. Sign-in forms and song request modals now feature clearer labels and better screen-reader support for announced errors.

⚡ Under the Hood

Ironclad Security: We've deployed a massive security upgrade, hardening our database rules, securing upload tokens, and preventing script injections to keep your profile data incredibly safe.

Academy Upgrades: The Karaoke Academy is now faster and more reliable to browse thanks to improved caching and layout refinements.

Smarter Diagnostics: We've upgraded our backend logging. While you won't see this one on screen, it helps our team track down and squash bugs faster than ever.

We are taking crowd engagement and venue branding to the next level! Singers now get instant push notifications when it's their turn to shine, and Hosts can deploy stunning custom video screensavers to keep the energy high.

🎤 For Singers

Never Miss Your Turn: Get instant push notifications sent right to your phone when you are "Up Next"! You can finally grab a drink or step outside without the fear of missing your name being called.

Bring Your Own Track: Got a special, custom version of a song? You can now attach custom track files (like ZIP or MP3+G) directly to your requests so the host has exactly what you need.

🎛️ For Hosts & 🏢 For Venues

Next-Level Video Screensavers: Elevate your stage branding! You can now upload full video screensavers and even use green-screen (chroma key) effects to create a truly professional, TV-quality display when no one is singing.

Seamless Audio Transitions: Dead air is a vibe killer. Background music now fades back in exactly as the karaoke track starts its outro, eliminating any awkward silence between performances. Plus, your visualizers will keep dancing to the background music!

Silky Smooth Queue Management: We've supercharged the drag-and-drop queue! Rapidly reordering singers or moving them to the active list is now lightning-fast and completely stutter-free, no matter how busy the night gets.

Level Up Your Knowledge: We’ve added a massive batch of new professional guides to the Academy, covering everything from PA system buying to karaoke licensing and host survival kits.

⚡ Under the Hood

Smarter UI Animations: We've tweaked how elements load on the page so menus and cards slide into view faster and more smoothly as you scroll.

Say goodbye to Wi-Fi anxiety! We've made the platform incredibly resilient to spotty venue internet, while introducing live, highly accurate wait times for your singers.

🎤 For Singers

Live Wait Times: No more guessing! Your singer dashboard now shows a live, derived ETA, telling you exactly how many minutes until you hit the stage.

Browse & Request Offline: Venue Wi-Fi letting you down? You can now browse the songbook and save your song requests even if you temporarily lose connection—we’ll automatically send them to the host as soon as you're back online!

Changed Your Mind?: We've added a quick confirmation step when cancelling a request so you don't accidentally lose your spot in the queue with an errant tap.

🎛️ For Hosts

Bulletproof Offline Mode: If the internet drops mid-gig, you won't lose your place. The platform now securely saves your queue state locally and displays friendly connection banners, automatically recovering the moment you reconnect.

Faster Gig Setup: We now remember your local music folders! You no longer have to manually select your karaoke and background music directories every time you start a new session.

DJ-Level Background Controls: You can now open a dedicated menu right from the player to select specific background tracks on the fly, and we've added a handy "Randomize" toggle to keep the mix fresh.

Atmospheric Visuals: We've refined the default "Plasma" visualizer, slowing it down and giving it a warmer, softer glow that looks absolutely fantastic on the big screen.

⚡ Under the Hood

Smarter Database Syncing: Adding a singer to the active queue now happens in a single, hyper-efficient database update, making the whole system faster and more reliable under heavy load.

We are making it easier than ever to succeed on Karaoke Name. This massive update brings a brand-new Academy packed with business guides, interactive onboarding tours for Hosts, and a beautiful new look for our changelog!

🎛️ For Hosts

Interactive Guided Tours: Brand new to the platform? We’ve built an interactive, step-by-step guided tour right into the dashboard to show you exactly how to set up your screen, manage your queue, and run your first flawless gig.

The Karaoke Academy: We've launched a massive new library of professional resources! The new Academy is packed with deep-dive articles on how to start a karaoke business, equipment buying guides, and tips for managing your singer rotation.

Dedicated Help Center: We've split our educational business guides from our technical support. Our new Help section makes it incredibly easy to find step-by-step instructions for things like setting up QR codes and connecting visualizers.

The Founding Host Plan: Early adopters, rejoice! We've launched a brand-new Pricing page featuring a strictly limited "Founding Host Plan," offering a massive 50% discount for our first 100 hosts.

🏢 For Venues

Profile Strength Checklist: Maximize your visibility! We've replaced the old progress bar on the Venue Dashboard with an actionable "Profile Strength" checklist, showing you exactly what details you need to add to attract the best KJs and the biggest crowds.

🎤 For Singers

Smoother Screen Loading: We've upgraded how the app loads data behind the scenes. Now, when you navigate to your dashboard or browse for venues, you'll see sleek, color-coded loading screens instead of blank pages.

Clearer "Free Forever" Messaging: We've updated our website copy to make one thing absolutely clear: building your Stage Profile and requesting songs will always be 100% free for singers.

⚡ Under the Hood

The "Neon Stage" Changelog: You might have noticed things look a little different around here! We've completely redesigned this changelog page with a beautiful dark theme, animated version cards, and handy category badges.

Lightning-Fast Performance: We’ve deployed some major under-the-hood React upgrades ("Suspense boundaries") that make the entire platform feel significantly faster and more responsive, while also boosting our rankings on Google.

Welcome to our biggest update yet! We are thrilled to introduce Private Gigs for hosting exclusive events, along with our all-new Singer Pro subscription that lets you save your personal setlists, keys, and tempos.

🎤 For Singers

Perfect Your Performance: You can now set your preferred key and tempo when requesting a song, ensuring the track perfectly matches your vocal range.

Introducing Singer Pro: Upgrade to unlock your complete repertoire history. Look back at your past performances and easily build a setlist of your all-time favorite songs.

Change of Plans?: Changed your mind about singing? You can now easily remove yourself from the active queue.

Follow Your Favorites: You can now save your favorite Karaoke Hosts so you always know where the best parties are.

🎛️ For Hosts

Host Private Gigs: Running a private party or corporate event? You can now create Private Gigs that are completely hidden from public discovery and search.

Hands-Free Key Changes: Let the system do the heavy lifting! When you play a song from the queue, the singer's preferred key and audio settings are automatically applied.

Smarter Queue Management: Songs are now automatically marked as "performed" in the queue once they finish playing, and we've added simple one-click controls to Start or Finish your gig sessions.

Accept Venue Invites: You can now easily receive and accept gig invitations directly from venues within the platform.

🏢 For Venues

Complete Schedule Control: Take full control of your entertainment calendar with our new events and scheduling page.

Seamless Host Management: We've built a smooth invite-and-accept flow so you can easily assign your favorite karaoke hosts to specific nights.

Manage on the Fly: You can now view singer history, track gig favorites, and edit gig details directly from your Venue Dashboard.

⚡ Under the Hood

New In-App Changelog: You can now read about all our latest updates (just like this one!) directly inside the app with our new animated changelog page.

Sign-In Updates: We’ve added a secure Microsoft sign-in option and retired the Facebook login for a smoother, safer authentication experience.

Better Support: We’ve overhauled our support ticketing system and messaging UI so you can get help faster when you need it.

We’ve massively upgraded the Pop-Out Karaoke Player with customizable visuals and a "Next Up" bar, while making it easier than ever for singers to find your gigs with location-based nudges!

🎤 For Singers

Find Gigs Near You: Out on the town? We'll now show you a handy "Nearest Gig" prompt when you are close to an active venue.

Easy Gig Access: Searching for a specific private room or event? You can now jump straight in using a simple Gig Code search.

See Who's Next: Keep an eye on the screens! The new Pop-Out display now features a queue so you always know when your turn is coming up.

🎛️ For Hosts

Ultimate Pop-Out Control: We've supercharged your external display! You can now customize the timing and visibility of the "Next Up" bar, and adjust the visualizer quality (from 25% to 100%) to perfectly match your hardware's performance.

Password-Protected Parties: Running an exclusive event? You can now lock down your gigs with password protection that updates in real-time.

Control the Crowd: You now have the option to require singers to create an account before joining your gig queue, keeping things organized and spam-free.

Printable QR Codes: We've added a dedicated page to easily generate and print QR codes so your crowd can scan and join the queue instantly.

🏢 For Venues

Drive More Footfall: Our new location-aware technology actively nudges nearby singers to check out your active karaoke nights!

⚡ Under the Hood

Rock-Solid Reliability: We’ve squashed bugs to ensure song catalogues load faster and more reliably.

Silky Smooth Visuals: Enjoy a smoother visualizer experience, even when you are tabbing between different browser windows.

Calling all pub landlords and event spaces: this is your update! We’ve introduced a powerful Venue Dashboard, a verified tier system, and built-in messaging so you can find and hire the best karaoke hosts in the business.

🏢 For Venues

The All-New Venue Dashboard: Manage your karaoke nights like a pro. Get live data on your events and switch seamlessly between multiple venue locations with our new map picker.

Get Verified: Stand out from the crowd! Claim your venue to earn a Verified Badge, ensuring your gigs get top priority in our discovery feed.

Find & Hire Top Hosts: Looking for a great KJ? Browse our new Venue Host Directory and use our built-in messaging system to chat with them directly!

Beautiful Event Listings: Make your gigs look amazing with our improved Create Gig form and a much smoother image uploader.

🎛️ For Hosts

Get Discovered by Venues: With the new Host Directory, verified venues can now find your profile and message you directly to book you for their next big night.

Track Your Success: You can now see detailed stats for completed gigs, plus keep an eye on how many people are viewing your profile!

🎤 For Singers

Trust Where You Sing: We've cleaned up the discovery feed. Now, you'll only see gigs from verified, active venues—meaning no more showing up to a cancelled night.

Chat with the Host: Need to ask a question before the gig? You can now use our built-in messaging UI to reach out.

⚡ Under the Hood

Smarter Dates: The gig list now automatically formats dates and times based on your local region.

Smoother Onboarding: We’ve significantly streamlined the signup flow for new venues joining the platform.

We are officially live! Welcome to the very first production release of Karaoke Name. We've fine-tuned the platform to make finding gigs, hosting nights, and managing venues better than ever.

🏢 For Venues & 🎛️ For Hosts

Get Found on Google: We want your nights to be packed! We've massively improved how public gig pages and venue profiles appear in search engines, helping new singers discover your events.

Look Your Best: Your event posters and venue photos will now load faster and look sharper, giving your brand the high-quality presentation it deserves.

🎤 For Singers

A Smoother Experience: We've made the entire site more accessible. With clearer headings and improved navigation, finding your next stage and requesting songs is a breeze.

⚡ Under the Hood

Out of Beta: We are officially in production!

Safe & Secure: We’ve rolled out comprehensive updates to our Privacy and Legal policies to ensure your data is properly protected.

Getting ready for the big time! This update focuses heavily on making Karaoke Name look and feel amazing on your mobile phones, along with major security upgrades.

🎤 For Singers

Karaoke in Your Pocket: We know you are usually on your phone when out at a gig. We've completely overhauled our mobile layouts so browsing for venues and interacting with the queue on smaller screens is smoother and much more responsive.

🎛️ For Hosts & 🏢 For Venues

Ironclad Security: Peace of mind is key. We've significantly upgraded our access controls to ensure your gig settings, venue details, and host profiles are safe and secure from unauthorized access.

⚡ Under the Hood

Rock-Solid Reliability: We’ve squashed several bugs and improved overall platform stability so your gigs run without a hitch.

Smarter Analytics: We’ve deployed new internal analytics tools that will help us understand how the platform is being used so we can keep building the features you want most.

Say goodbye to awkward silences between singers! We've introduced seamless background music support and made it even easier for the crowd to join your gigs directly from the karaoke screen.

🎛️ For Hosts & 🏢 For Venues

Keep the Party Going: Fully integrated background music is here! Load up your MP3 folders, and the system will automatically crossfade your tracks to keep the energy up.

Smart Audio Fading: Never miss a cue. Your background music will now automatically fade out the moment a karaoke track begins, and fade right back in when the singer finishes.

Scan to Sing: We've added a handy QR code directly to the main karaoke player display. Now, your crowd can simply point their phones at the screen to join the queue without having to ask you for the link.

Organized Controls: We've tidied up the karaoke player settings menu so you can find your display and audio configurations much faster.

⚡ Under the Hood

Smoother Playback: We've optimized how the system scans folders and reads track info, ensuring your background music seeking and crossfades are silky smooth.

Take complete control of your sound with our massive audio processing upgrade, featuring professional pitch and speed controls, plus our new streamlined Host onboarding experience.

🎛️ For Hosts

Pro Audio Controls: Accommodate any singer's vocal range with our new speed and pitch (Transpose) controls! Fine-tune the audio processing to make every performer sound their absolute best.

Protect Your Speakers: We've added a smart volume limiter and smoothed out volume changes. You never have to worry about sudden, deafening audio spikes or annoying "clicks" between tracks again.

Perfect Sync: Experiencing a slight delay? Use our new audio/video sync slider to get those lyrics perfectly timed to the beat every single time.

Choose Your Plan: We've completely revamped how Hosts sign up. Our new onboarding flow makes it incredibly easy to choose the perfect subscription tier for your karaoke business.

Manage Massive Catalogues: Building a huge song library? Your catalogue now features collapsible sections, making it much easier to organize, navigate, and add new tracks.

Visual Feedback: The karaoke player controls now feature helpful visual feedback, so you always know exactly what settings are active at a glance.

🎤 For Singers

Sound Better Than Ever: Thanks to the new pitch controls and smoothed audio transitions, your performance will sound more professional and polished from the moment you take the mic!

⚡ Under the Hood

Seamless Accounts: We've deployed major improvements to authentication and account management, keeping your data secure and your logins hassle-free.

A massive upgrade to the visual and audio experience! We've added over 30 new dynamic visualizers, crystal-clear lyric smoothing, and advanced audio processing to make your singers sound absolutely amazing.

🎛️ For Hosts

Mind-Blowing Visuals: Keep the crowd engaged even when no one is singing! We've added over 30 new modern visualization modes across 5 categories, including 3D retro visuals, starfields, and beautiful gradient backgrounds.

Crystal Clear Lyrics: We've completely upgraded how classic CD+G lyrics display on screen. Our new smoothing technology removes the chunky pixels so the words are crisp, clean, and easy to read.

Pro Audio Magic: Change the pitch of a backing track without making the singer sound like a chipmunk! Our new advanced audio processing protects the natural tone of the voice.

Manage Multiple Libraries: Got a massive, diverse music collection? You can now easily manage and switch between multiple song catalogues.

Easier Screen Management: Total control over your external displays. We've added transparent background support, better pop-out stability, and a forced screensaver option for when the stage is empty.

Cleaner Queue Controls: We've tidied up the interface! Managing the singer queue is faster than ever with a neat new 2x2 grid for action buttons and clearer visual dividers.

🎤 For Singers

Sing to the Beat: Our enhanced beat detection means the on-screen visuals and effects now pulse perfectly in time with your performance!

⚡ Under the Hood

Smoother Playback: We've tightened up the code to ensure pausing, playing, and track navigation are incredibly stable.

The built-in Karaoke Player is officially here! Hosts can now play tracks directly from the platform with full CD+G graphic support, stunning waveform visuals, and dedicated playback controls.

🎛️ For Hosts

The Core Player: Say goodbye to switching between different apps. You can now play classic karaoke files directly in the browser with full support for on-screen lyrics.

Total Playback Control: Easily pause, stop, and skip through tracks. We've even added an interactive audio waveform—just click anywhere on the wave to instantly jump to that part of the song!

Pop-Out to the Big Screen: Easily pop the player out into a separate, smooth-running window so you can drag it over to the venue's TV or projector. You can even tweak the display scaling to fit any screen size.

Custom Screen Effects: Add some serious flair to your screens with text glow, stereo VU meters, and even a retro CRT TV mode.

Instant Mic Mute: Need to make a quick announcement? You can now instantly disable the microphone input with a single click.

🏢 For Venues

Fully Compliant: We've published our official legal and licenses pages so your business stays fully compliant and protected while using the platform.

Hosts can now track their success with a powerful new analytics dashboard, while singers get an interactive map to easily hunt down the best karaoke nights in town!

🎛️ For Hosts

Measure Your Success: We've launched a comprehensive Host Analytics Dashboard! You can now see detailed stats, filter your performance by specific venues, and select custom date ranges to see how your nights are growing.

Export Your Data: Need to crunch the numbers or send reports to venues? You can now export all your analytics directly to a CSV file.

Flawless Sync: We've made the real-time queue sync much more reliable, so you and your singers are always looking at the exact same list.

🎤 For Singers

Explore on the Map: Finding a gig is more fun than ever! We've added an interactive map view so you can visually explore active and upcoming karaoke nights in your area.

Know Before You Go: We've redesigned the singer gig page to put crucial venue information right at the top.

Mobile-Friendly Queues: Navigating the song queue on your phone is now smoother and much more responsive.

⚡ Under the Hood

Smarter Filters: We've polished the date filters in the gig discovery feed to ensure accurate, lightning-fast searches.

We've completely revolutionized how you manage the singer rotation! Enjoy drag-and-drop queue ordering, lightning-fast song search, and easy QR code access.

🎛️ For Hosts

Drag & Drop Queues: Take total control of the rotation. You can now easily drag and drop singers to reorder the list on the fly.

Active vs. Waiting: We've split the queue into two distinct lists: the "Active" queue (who is singing now) and the "Requests" queue (who is waiting to join). You can choose exactly where new requests go.

Lightning Fast Searching: No more scrolling through endless lists. When you or a singer adds a request, our new "fuzzy search" autocomplete instantly predicts the right song, even if there's a typo!

Easy Recurring Gigs: Running the same night every week? You can now instantly duplicate previous gigs, complete with location mapping and custom event images.

Manage Capacity: Keep an eye on the room with real-time gig countdowns and capacity estimations.

🎤 For Singers

Scan & Sing: Joining the queue is now as simple as pointing your phone at a QR code.

Go Premium: We've laid the groundwork for our premium singer registration, giving you a VIP experience at your favorite venues.

Show off your karaoke persona! We've launched comprehensive profiles for Singers, Hosts, and Venues, allowing everyone to build their brand on the platform.

🎤 For Singers

App-Like Experience: You can now install Karaoke Name directly to your phone's home screen for instant access—just like a native app!

Build Your Profile: Complete your signup and customize your public profile card with an image upload to let everyone know who the star of the show is.

🏢 For Venues & 🎛️ For Hosts

Dedicated Dashboards: We've rolled out brand-new dashboards specifically tailored for Venue and Host management, putting all your essential tools in one place.

Stand Out: Your public profile cards now feature improved styling and visibility, helping you attract more singers and book more events.

Finding the perfect karaoke night just got easier. We've launched our advanced gig discovery platform, turning Karaoke Name into a true nightlife marketplace!

🎤 For Singers

Find Your Vibe: Explore our new gig discovery feed with advanced filtering and search. You can easily distinguish between gigs that are "Live Now" versus "Upcoming."

Save Your Preferences: We now remember your search filters, so your favorite types of gigs are always front and center when you log in.

🎛️ For Hosts

Stand Out Listings: We've added slick nightlife animations to your gig cards to make your events pop in the discovery feed.

⚡ Under the Hood

Solid Foundations: We've implemented robust authentication and subscription management systems to keep the platform running smoothly.

Sharper Marketing: We've rolled out clearer landing pages packed with industry statistics to help explain the value of the platform.

The stage is officially set! Welcome to the very first release of Karaoke Name, the ultimate platform designed specifically to bring Singers, Hosts, and Venues together in one seamless ecosystem.

🎤 For Singers

Your New Digital Stage: Discover a whole new way to experience karaoke. Check out our new Singer Intro to see how we're going to make finding gigs and requesting songs easier than ever.

🎛️ For Hosts & 🏢 For Venues

Grow Your Nights: We've built dedicated hubs just for industry pros. Explore our new Venue and Host info pages to learn how Karaoke Name will help you manage your queues, streamline your shows, and pack your rooms.

⚡ Under the Hood

Tailored to You: Right from day one, we've built the platform around your specific needs. Simply choose your role (Singer, Host, or Venue) from the navigation, and the site instantly adapts to give you the tools you need.

A Beautiful Welcome: We've launched a slick, modern homepage (complete with some cool 3D artwork!) to give our growing community a highly polished first impression.