If you like karaoke as much as I do, you might have been to a karaoke bar. Singing karaoke is pretty fun, any I wanted a free method to do that at my house. After some research, I came across PiKaraoke. PiKaraoke is a free open-source Python program, originally designed to run on a Raspberry Pi. To install it you need to run 1 very simple command in your computer terminal, shell, or command prompt.
Installing Python
Personally, I like to have Python pre-installed on my machine before doing stuff like this. If you want to use other tips from me, you might as well install Python. For this tool, you need Python 3.10+ minimum, but I would install the latest.
How to install PiKaraoke
For Windows
- Open PowerShell as Administrator
Run the below command
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vicwomg/pikaraoke/master/build_scripts/install/install.ps1 | iex
For MacOS / Linux
Open the terminal
Run the below command
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vicwomg/pikaraoke/master/build_scripts/install/install.sh | bash
To update PiKaraoke
Open the terminal or PowerShell
Run the command that was shown in step 2 of your installation.
How to open / run PiKaraoke
And now for the fun part. Doing Karaoke! To run it you need to open the Terminal, PowerShell, or Command Prompt app for your system. Then run the command pikaraoke. This will run the base PiKaraoke app. The PiKaraoke app gives everybody who connects administrator permissions of your karaoke. To lock it down, instead of running pikaraoke you can run pikaraoke --admin-password YOUR-PASSWORD. Replace YOUR-PASSWORD with whatever admin password you would like. To unlock admin permissions, press the PiKaraoke button at the corner of your screen (it might be in the menu at the corner of your screen). Then enter the admin password you set when you ran the pikaraoke --admin-password YOUR-PASSWORD command.