Version2.5
Revision6
Size348.6 MB
LicenseLGPL-3.0-only
Confinementstrict
Basecore24
CategoriesMusic and Audio

Host karaoke shows with rotation, requests and multi-screen playback

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SongBoss is a karaoke hosting application for KJs (karaoke jockeys). It
manages a rotation of singers, plays karaoke tracks across separate singer,
audience and host screens, and keeps the show moving between songs.

Features:

- Singer rotation with drag-and-drop reordering and per-singer queues
- Separate singer view, crowd/audience view and host control window for
multi-monitor setups

- Library management for karaoke video and MP3+CDG tracks
- Break music playlists that fill the gaps between singers
- Song requests collected from a request server, with an on-screen QR code
and ticker

- Per-song key change (pitch shift) using FFmpeg
- Play history and session save/restore
- English and Spanish interface translations

Playback is handled by a bundled copy of libVLC, so no separate media player
installation is required.

SongBoss forces the Qt "xcb" platform plugin because libVLC embeds its video
output into a Qt widget via XEmbed; on a Wayland session it therefore runs
through XWayland.

Update History

2.4 (5) → 2.5 (6)
12 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC
2.3 (4) → 2.4 (5)
11 Oct 2026, 14:02 UTC
2.2 (3) → 2.3 (4)
9 Oct 2026, 01:46 UTC
2.1 (2) → 2.2 (3)
5 Oct 2026, 03:45 UTC
1.3.9 (1) → 2.1 (2)
1 Oct 2026, 04:45 UTC
1.3.9 (1)
11 Sept 2026, 05:30 UTC

Published11 Sept 2026, 05:20 UTC

Last updated12 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC

First seen11 Sept 2026, 05:30 UTC