PiKaraoke - Info

URL of PiKaraoke:

http://10.10.91.49:5555

Handy URL QR code to share with a pal:

System Info

Platform: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
OS Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.47-1+rpt1~bookworm (2025-09-16)
Youtube-dl (yt-dlp) version: 2026.06.09
FFmpeg version: 5.1.7-0+deb12u1+rpt1
Pikaraoke version: 1.19.0

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Splash screen settings

Disable background video

Disable background music

Disable the score screen after each song

Hide notifications

Show splash clock

Hide the URL and QR code

Hide all overlays, including now playing, up next, and QR code

Default volume of the videos (min 0, max 100)

Volume of the background music (min 0, max 100)

The amount of idle time in seconds before the screen saver activates. Set to 0 to disable it.

The delay in seconds before starting the next song

Score phrases

Add one phrase per line in each box and hit save.

LOW Score Phrases (score < 30)

MID Score Phrases (30 > score < 60)

HIGH Score Phrases (60 < score)

Save phrases

Language settings

Preferred language (requires restart)

Server settings

Normalize audio volume

Download high quality videos

Transcode video completely before playing (better browser compatibility, slower starts). Buffer size will be ignored.*

Enable CDG pixel scaling (crisper visuals for CDG files, may increase CPU usage)

Fix the audio and video synchronization in seconds (negative = advances audio | positive = delays audio)

Limit of songs an individual user can add to the queue (0 = unlimited)

Enable fair queue (round-robin mode ensures users take turns)

Buffer size in kilobytes. Transcode this amount of the video before sending it to the splash screen.

Browse page results per page (10-1000, default 500)

Clear preferences

Refresh the song list

You should only need to do this if you manually copied files to the download directory while pikaraoke was running.

Rescan song directory

YT-DLP update

If downloads or searches stopped working, updating youtube-dl will probably fix it.
The current installed version is: "2026.06.09".

Update youtube-dl

* This update link above may fail if you don't have proper file permissions. Check the pikaraoke log for errors.

Don't just pull the plug! Always shut down your server properly to avoid data corruption.

Quit Pikaraoke Reboot System Shutdown System

Expand Raspberry Pi filesystem

If you just installed the pre-built pikaraoke pi image and your SD card is larger than 4GB, you may want to expand the filesystem to utilize the remaining space. You only need to do this once. This will reboot the system.

Expand Raspberry Pi filesystem

Information

System Data

System Info

System stats

User Preferences

Splash screen settings

Score phrases

LOW Score Phrases (score < 30)

MID Score Phrases (30 > score < 60)

HIGH Score Phrases (60 < score)

Language settings

Server settings

Updates

Refresh the song list

YT-DLP update

Shutdown

Other

Expand Raspberry Pi filesystem