vanBasco's Karaoke Player Editor's Review

Turn Your Bedroom Into A Karaoke Bar

VanBasco Karaoke Player is a lightweight karaoke MIDI karaoke program. It has built-in support for MIDI files (.mid, .midi and .rmi) and karaoke lyrics files (.kar), allowing users to play the most popular computer karaoke formats, although there are some fairly widely used karaoke and audio file formats not supported by this software.

Interface customisation is easy, with most aspects of the karaoke window fully customisable, such as the background image and colour, the font type and size, and the text position. There are also a variety of lyric display options, such as displaying hints, or showing song information when no lyrics are available.

VanBasco Karaoke Player also has functionality closer to a media player than a karaoke program in some respects, with shuffle and repeat buttons. There is also a playlist window, allowing you to cue up a large number of karaoke songs with ease. The program is also positively miserly with resources, so if listening to karaoke tracks is your thing, you could leave it running in the background without much trouble.

Pros: Very undemanding on system resources - will run on any computer around today. Does what it sets out to do effectively and efficiently, without any fluff. Freeware.

Cons: Doesn’t support a particularly wide range of file types, so you will be stuck with MIDI karaoke.

Conclusion: VanBasco Karaoke Player is a good choice if you want to sing along to MIDI karaoke and don’t want to spend any money. Users who want a little more out of their karaoke, such as real instruments or video song backgrounds should try something else.