I reassessed OpenKJ, which I did not like before, and I am warming up to it. Give it a try.

https://openkj.org/software

This looked promising but I was quickly disappointed… You cannot pick a library path on another volume. Drat. Still worth a bookmark, thanks for mentioning it.

I’ve tried a bunch of karaoke software including trials of the commercial products. So far my favorite for house parties is Karafun for Windows. You need to dig up the v2 edition. They REMOVED the ability to play your own files in the new v3.

https://www.karafun.com/karaokeplayer/

Karafun isn’t perfect, it can act up if you have a large library… Even freezing or crashing. But that generally happens at startup or shutdown, not during use. Imperfect as it is, it’s still the best I have found.

We do serious parties, if I could pay someone for awesome karaoke software I would totally do it, but all the commercial versions are really hateful to use. (I guess I should take another look, it’s been a couple of years.)

Edit to add:

I just re-tried Kanto Karaoke, it looks so promising… But as with every app I have tried it has some usability issues that are fairly devastating, for me anyway. I think it is worth a look if you are exploring the free and affordable options, though.

Thanks a bunch, I did not think about looking at YouTube. I have only ever used the MEGA archive and didn’t know where else the dude hung out. I’ll keep an eye on it and hope for the best.

Those were fun times. Raise your hand if you made a $100 mistake and got your sat box killed by an ECM, haha.

Thanks for sharing that post. That’s genuinely new info to me. Very interesting.

Thanks to the two of you I tried 11 IoT LTSC and it’s been great. I had no problems adding the store as you suggested. The Titus tool I already knew, it delivers.

Thanks again for encouraging me to give it a try.

I’m posting this from my new system, running 11 IoT LTSC as you and some others vouched for. It’s great, whatever IoT LTSC is missing, I haven’t needed any of it yet!

Getting the store and winget installed was easy enough, too. I’m very pleased.

uniget ui

Juat grabbed it, looks great!

New stuff to me, thank you!

Good stuff, thanks.

Honestly the biggest problem with those is they tend to go hog wild and remove too many things so you have to be careful with them and not just blindly click “remove everything possible”.

Facts. They are useful tools, but even though I thought I was being careful I wiped out some useful features like URL autocomplete when I experimented with the Titus tool.

That’s a bingo.

Correct. I know plenty about Linux and other OSes, but for this system, I’m choosing to use Windows anyway.

I should have known I’d get my ass beat for asking a question on the internet, right? Haha.

Thank you kindly for the confirmation. I’ll check out StartAllBack too.

I had not considered that LTSC would eliminate the store, which is definitely useful at times. Thanks for that link!

Ahhhh I get ya now, sorry.

Yeah with a free account I think you can still get low quality MP3s, not worth it.

Deemix still works for me.

The radio doesn’t play the kind of music that I like, but fortunately there are people online who do.