01.03.09
Using the ‘Online Karaoke Store’
Online Store choices for 'Summertime
Everything is still on hold with the house. The house is for sale, no one is looking at the place. So I’m continuing to write everyday and doing 2 karaoke shows each week.
Hey, I’ve just added a new feature to my karaoke. In the past, when folks have wanted a song, I’ve been putting it on a list along with their name, and then when I get enough songs, the American Legion has been ordering a disk of the new tunes. The problem is that there is a wait to get the songs and people often forget about the songs they wanted. Now I’ve got a better way of buying songs.
My MacBook Pro has WiFi and the American Legion venue here in Sanford now has wireless internet access. Recently the developer of the kJams karaoke software I’m using for my shows added an ‘online store’ feature. So now if someone wants a new song, they give me a couple $ and I go right on line and get it. The performer can be singing it in about 5 minutes.
Even at a couple bucks, the songs generally cost a lot more than buying a set from a karaoke publisher and having a disk mailed out to us, but for those that want to use the online store feature, the gratification is immediate. And it works well for me because I’m not paying for songs.
Pretty soon I’m hoping to have a set up where people with browsers on their cell phones will be able to log in to my kJams wirelessly and pick their owns songs that will then go automatically into the play list queue. The kJams software already rotates automatically from singer to singer and remembers what everyone performs. So folks returning from previous nights don’t need to look up their favorite songs again— they can just choose from their history and stored favorites. How cool is that?
