What is Karaoke?
Karaoke Equipment Needed to Start Business
Where to Get Music to Start a Karaoke Business
Karaoke Software Needed to Start a Business
Getting a Karaoke Mixing Board for Your Business
How to Get Karaoke Microphones for Your Business
How to Use a Karaoke Monitor Screen
Hardware Needed to Start a Karaoke Business
How to Set Up & Use Karaoke Speakers
Karaoke Equipment Cases Needed to Start Business
Karaoke Business Marketing & Promotion Tips
Picking a Name & Logo for a Karaoke Business
Internet Advertising for Your Karaoke Business
Merchandising for Your Karaoke Business
Using MySpace to Promote a Karaoke Business
Video Taping Karaoke for Your Karaoke Business
How to Get Karaoke Business Cards & T-Shirts
Using Word of Mouth to Promote a Karaoke Business
Knowing What to Charge for Karaoke Services
Free Karaoke Shows to Help Your Karaoke Business
How to Introduce a Karaoke Show
How to Maintain Karaoke Equipment for a Business
Adding Pizzazz to a Karaoke Show & Business
Summary: Learn where and how to get karaoke music for your own karaoke business in this free instructional video on starting and running your own karaoke business.
Richard Buccola is an entrepreneur and investor. He is also the owner of several popular food & spirits establishments in Queens, NY, including the former PJ's Bar & Grill, and The Ivy...read more
"Hi, my name is Richard Buccola of Starlite Karaoke here in New York City and on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to show you how to start and run a successful karaoke business. Okay I want to talk about how you're actually going to get your music onto your computer. I was fortune enough from starting this business 7 years ago I did everything on CD's and I bought CD's, it's expensive and you can find that if you go online, type in karaoke.com, great site. For just learning about karaoke which I recommend definitely going online doing your homework and learn it and read a lot about it. But getting your music I was able to take the CD's that I bought and rip them to a file so I can play on my computer and then what I did was put in all my music of all the years of buying CD's I put them on an external hard drive. I recommend an external hard drive because it elevates pressure on your processor. If you do too many things while you're trying to do a karaoke show you're going to see the program will shut down and it will freeze and you don't want that. So don't have internet running, in fact don't have anything running when you're running your show. Just keep the one program that you're going to use. The program I use to run my show is copy host, copy host is a great site. Also to rip your CD's or your CBG's, they're called CBG's because they have graphics. To rip them you're going to need CBG rip, it's a program. You can go to cbgrip.com to learn more about that. You're also going to need winzip, winzip.com, both of these programs will help you rip your CBG into a file so that you could find it on your computer and just type in. I just type in a song or an artist and it comes right up for me."
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revengekaraoke said
on 2/4/2009 During this video, Mr. Buccola mentions that you should read about karaoke and doing your homework. Mr. Buccola, OBVIOUSLY, did not do HIS homework and he is misleading people who might want to get into the karaoke business. At this point in time, it is illegal to format shift (as in ripping your discs into your computer). At this time, there is NO karaoke manufacturer that allows downloading or ripping of their songs for commercial purposes. If you go to any of the download sites online and read their terms of use, they all state that the downloads are for personal, HOME use only and not for commercial purposes. If you talk to the manufacturers and the RIAA and the publishers of the original works, they all confirm that it is illegal, at this time to run a show for profit from a computer. You MUST have and USE the original manufactured disc at any commercial venue. By telling people to rip their files to a computer, Mr. Buccola is, effectively, telling people to break a federal law that carries a fine of up to $250,000.00 per SONG and possible PRISON time of up to 5 YEARS. In "doing his homework," Mr. Buccola should have read the copyright laws of the United States. Eventually, the manufacturers hope to come up with a way to use computers as it is easier on set-up and less discs will get damaged, but, AT THIS TIME, it is illegal and anytime you see someone running karaoke from a computer, you should report them to www.karaokeantipiracyagency.com or www.illegalkaraoke.com because most (not all) of them are actually ripping ONE selection into several rigs and killing off the karaoke industry as a whole. Many manufacturers have already gone out of business because people are getting their music illegally. Money has to keep going into the industry for it to survive. If no one is putting money into it, it WILL fail. Doesn't anyone wonder why there aren't very many new discs out there anymore and the ones that DO come out are not as high quality as they used to be? Think about it. If you really like karaoke, turn in ANYONE doing it on a computer. Thank you.