How run Karaoke with just Youtube?
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How run Karaoke with just Youtube?

The karaoke industry doesn’t want you to hear this: paying for “official” libraries is pointless when YouTube already has everything. The problem isn’t the music. It’s the madness—ads, wrong versions, stolen queues, and drunk people hijacking the laptop. We automated all of that.

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Here’s the truth nobody in karaoke wants to say out loud:

You don’t need a “karaoke system.”
You need YouTube… and a way to control the chaos.

Because let’s be real—YouTube already has every song. In every language. Every remix. Every weird version your drunk friend swears is the best one.
So why are venues still paying for “official” karaoke libraries that are missing half the songs people actually want?

The “illegal” (but not really) secret: karaoke with YouTube is already happening

Every bar has done it:

  • Someone connects a laptop to the TV

  • You open YouTube

  • People start yelling titles from across the room

  • Somebody types “DESPACITO KARAOKE”

  • Then… ads

  • Then… the wrong version

  • Then… the next person steals the laptop

  • Then… the queue is gone

  • Then… someone puts a 1-hour “lofi karaoke mix”

  • Then your staff wants to quit

So yeah, YouTube karaoke works… until it doesn’t.

And that’s where venues lose money, time, and patience.

What we did: we automated the “YouTube karaoke hack” so it actually works in a venue

Our system runs karaoke using YouTube like a pro setup, but without needing your own music library.

Instead of staff babysitting the TV and fighting with the queue, the software handles the whole flow:

✅ People add songs to the queue (without touching the laptop)

Guests choose what they want and add it to the queue like it’s 2026, not 2009.

✅ The queue is protected (no hijacking)

No one can grab the mouse and ruin the night.
No random people pausing, skipping, or putting memes on the screen.

✅ It plays the right content automatically

You’re not relying on “whoever is less drunk” to pick the correct karaoke version.

✅ It runs continuously like a real karaoke system

No awkward silence. No “wait… what’s next?”
It’s always flowing.

✅ It’s built for venues, not living rooms

Because YouTube was never designed for a crowded bar with 200 people screaming requests.

Why this is controversial

Because the karaoke industry is built on selling you the same thing over and over:

“Pay for the library.” “Pay monthly.” “Use our songs.” “Follow our rules.”

But YouTube already won.
The crowd already decided.

People want:

  • the newest songs

  • niche songs

  • Latino songs, K-pop, reggaeton, 80s, anime intros… everything

And YouTube has it.

So the real question is:

Do you want to keep paying for outdated catalogs… or do you want karaoke that people actually use?

The best part: your staff stops suffering

This is the part nobody talks about.

A lot of venues don’t “hate karaoke.”
They hate that karaoke becomes a second job:

  • managing the queue

  • dealing with drunk arguments

  • searching songs

  • fixing sound settings

  • explaining how to “add to queue” for the 500th time

Automation fixes that.

The night becomes smoother.
Customers stay longer.
More songs = more energy = more drinks sold.

If you want to run karaoke with just YouTube (without the chaos)

We built the software exactly for that.

If you want to try it or see how it works in your venue, DM us:

A screenshot of how does our app for for clients of a venue:

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