vanBasco's Karaoke Player is a freeware product that plays Karaoke (.kar) and standard MIDI (.mid, .midi, .rmi) files.
Features include:
Fully customizable Karaoke window: change font/colors, number of lines (up to four), background image; lyrics can be displayed in a resizable window or full-screen
Ability to change tempo, volume, key of song. Changes can be saved to playlist so that they are remembered in the future
Can mute or play solo individual (i.e., arbitrary) selections of instruments
Real-time MIDI output: display of notes/velocities/patches
Piano view: e.g. useful for people interested to learn new songs
Integration with Netscape and Microsoft web-browsers, if desired
Easy-to-use intuitive graphical user-interface with skin support
Complete install & uninstall support makes setup of software straightforward even for novices
In this version:
Fixed a bug that caused the player to omit lyrics with certain, less common lyric file formats
In v2.50, some keyboard shortcuts would not work as expected when the playlist window was open. These shortcuts have been replaced with new ones that don't 'clash' with the playlist window - please consult the online help file included with the player to see which keyboard shortcuts have changed
In Internet Explorer 5.50, the browser plugin would occasionally jump back and forth indefinitely - not anymore