Looking for Karaoke? Try YouTube

Karaoke or Sing-Along is gaining popularity these days; the scrolling lyrics display along with realistic background music makes it easy and fun to sing a song. Many people are enjoying Karaoke singing and some are doing stage performances with Karaoke music, and even recording their cover songs and posting them on YouTube.

Till recently, Karaoke singing required expensive equipment, specially created for this purpose, which was not easily affordable. Although selected Karaoke music was available on audio CDs, which could be played on ordinary music systems, there was no lyrics display for these audio CDs, and the song selection was very limited too. If you wanted to sing a particular song, it was really difficult to find a Karaoke track for the song.

The good news is that this situation has changed in recent years. Many passionate and generous music lovers have started creating and uploading Karaoke tracks as YouTube videos. The list of available good quality tracks is growing rapidly. As a result, YouTube is fast becoming your first source of free Karaoke music, whether you have an upcoming performance, a singing party, or just want to sing for fun.

It is simple to use these videos. Just find the Karaoke YouTube video you need and play it. Look at the scrolling lyrics and sing along with the music and have as much fun as you want. If you want to do a live performance with this track, play it on your cellphone and connect your phone to Bluetooth or Aux cable to amplify the audio.

I am listing below the top channels that have good quality tracks for Hindi film songs, whenever you are looking for your desired song, look on these channels first:

• Swar-Tarang - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeXaW_cgvar0iBVAt4vJfGQw7iOVszky2 
• Anil Chauhan - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsi4QwYvZDpnzEy2ug-4AtQ 
• Prabhashankar Tripathi - https://www.youtube.com/user/prabhashankarable
• Stephen C - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCts4RR6iRNNMpogL_lZaePQ
• Exclusive Karaoke - https://www.youtube.com/user/imtehazmunsi
• A  S CHATURVEDI - https://www.youtube.com/user/nimit123ful

If you want to sing a duet, but do not have a co-singer to sing with you, don’t despair, these creative people have also made tracks that already has one of the voice (male / female) in it. These tracks can be used to get the full fledged duet experience. The following two channels have a good collection of duet tracks:

• B 4 YOU - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGr2gYe4VPt6sX6KdRN0NmA
• Rajesh Gupta https://www.youtube.com/user/chunnumunnu123

You can also find the track of your interest by doing a direct search in YouTube. For example, if you want to sing Ek Pyar Ka Nagma Hai, just type the following in the YouTube search box, and it will show up in the results:

Ek pyar ka nagma hai karaoke

How to Download Audio

You may want to download the audio of Karaoke track as an mp3 file. Unfortunately, YouTube does not allow any easy means for downloading audio. However, you can download the audio using other helper websites. There are several websites and softwares that allow you to download videos from YouTube in a format of your choice. However, one of the easiest ways to download most songs is simply to type the letters “pp” right after “youtube” in the URL of that video and hit enter on your keyboard.
It will open up a new page in which you will be provided several options to download it in different formats, viz. .mp3, .mp4, .3gp, etc. in both video and audio formats.
Click on the download button next to the desired mp3 format.
Discard any pop-up browser window that may open.

I hope you will find this information useful as a singer. Have fun with Karaoke!