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SongBoss

Steven Tucker (tuxtasb) Publisher

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  • songboss

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  • LGPL-3.0-only

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  • Today - 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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