SongBoss
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Package name
- songboss
License
- LGPL-3.0-only
Last updated
- 12 October 2026 - latest/stable
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Host karaoke shows with rotation, requests and multi-screen playback
SongBoss is a karaoke hosting application for KJs (karaoke jockeys). It manages a rotation of singers, plays karaoke tracks across separate singer, audience and host screens, and keeps the show moving between songs.
Features:
- Singer rotation with drag-and-drop reordering and per-singer queues
- Separate singer view, crowd/audience view and host control window for multi-monitor setups
- Library management for karaoke video and MP3+CDG tracks
- Break music playlists that fill the gaps between singers
- Song requests collected from a request server, with an on-screen QR code and ticker
- Per-song key change (pitch shift) using FFmpeg
- Play history and session save/restore
- English and Spanish interface translations
Playback is handled by a bundled copy of libVLC, so no separate media player installation is required.
SongBoss forces the Qt "xcb" platform plugin because libVLC embeds its video output into a Qt widget via XEmbed; on a Wayland session it therefore runs through XWayland.
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