ATTN: Toqer and all autoK users

As I was watching Toqer's video feed/show, an idea popped into my head, but I don't know how feasable it would be it terms of networking and organization.. i need you're guys feedback on wether

a)it would work at all
b)wether or not it would be worth the effort required.

So here's my idea: North American Karaoke night/TV

Let's say there are several kj's who host their own show just for simplicity we'll call them venue A,B,C,D

Venue A is in California
Venue B is in High River, AB ;)
Venue C is somewhere in ohhh Texas
Venue D is in Vancouver, Canada


So each venue is allowed X number of songs total, which will be qued in a master songlist/databas so that each venue has the EXACT same rotation and names etc. and when the venue's singer is up, they broadcast the feed over the internet so that all the other venues, plus the rest of anyone in the world is watching can watch that particular person sing.

Of course there are lots of other things to work out... *liscening for one* but as a general idea, what do you think?

-James

Hey it could help when you havent got a line up of singers at your gig. You could merely access the individual and have walla a virtual singer. Groovy idea Baby!!!

As I was watching Toquers video feed/show, an idea popped into my head, but I don't know how feasable it would be it terms of networking and organization.. i need you're guys feedback on wether

a)it would work at all
b)wether or not it would be worth the effort required.

So here's my idea: North American Karaoke night/TV

Let's say there are several kj's who host their own show just for simplicity we'll call them venue A,B,C,D

Venue A is in California
Venue B is in High River, AB ;)
Venue C is somewhere in ohhh Texas
Venue D is in Vancouver, Canada


So each venue is allowed X number of songs total, which will be qued in a master songlist/databas so that each venue has the EXACT same rotation and names etc. and when the venue's singer is up, they broadcast the feed over the internet so that all the other venues, plus the rest of anyone in the world is watching can watch that particular person sing.

Of course there are lots of other things to work out... *liscening for one* but as a general idea, what do you think?

-James


With what toqer is doing it requires a lot of Bandwidth to do... so there would be your first hurdle...

Second would be coordination of the effort... I'm assuming that viewers and the venues themselves would view the broadcast from the same URL address... that would mean that each venue would have to broadcast and get off so that the next one could hop on and do the same.... The other option might be that each venue broadcasts to its own URL and then the broadcasts be viewable on a collective webpage hosted by someone... toqer would know better how that would work if at all.

My question is what would the purpose of this be?

With what toqer is doing it requires a lot of Bandwidth to do... so there would be your first hurdle...

Second would be coordination of the effort... I'm assuming that viewers and the venues themselves would view the broadcast from the same URL address... that would mean that each venue would have to broadcast and get off so that the next one could hop on and do the same.... The other option might be that each venue broadcasts to its own URL and then the broadcasts be viewable on a collective webpage hosted by someone... toqer would know better how that would work if at all.

My question is what would the purpose of this be?

What is one thing that drives most karaoke singers? As Toqer once said.. EGO. That's why his video feed gets a lot of hits.

How cool would it be to say to one of your friends in the UK or anywhere overseas "Come watch me sing on the internet live, it's going to be awesome!"

But if that doesn't grab you, then how about money.. We prebook the thing as a special event, and make our normal gig fee to host a show BUT each person pays $5 cover or $10 to sing. Get a sponsor to provide a couple of kickass prizes, maybe include a couple of drinks for free and some munchies.

Split the profits with the venue to make some extra cash over and above what you make for a normal night. Granted it might night be a LOT extra, but as the saying goes.. Every little bit helps. plus who knows maybe those singers will order a disc of themselves singing when that part of the program is realeased. Maybe they want to sound good so will spare a few extra bucks to buy a song they REALLY want to sing.

or as someone else says.. use it as filler/something really different on a dead night..

take care

-James

Hey it could help when you havent got a line up of singers at your gig. You could merely access the individual and have walla a virtual singer. Groovy idea Baby!!!

I can sort of do that now. I have years worth of singer footage if you count the archives I keep on CD.

So basically, i've tried it. When it's dead, I've tried popping on video of past singers. It doesn't really excite people that much. I think they get a bigger kick out of karaoke genre neutral music like taiko drums or house. (I stay away from playing anything that could possibly be in my songbooks during dead time)

As far as actually getting down to trying this, yah, it *could* be done, but I don't see much potential for billing it as a special night. What I do boils down to a webcam in a karaoke bar, with some chat. It might have been rocket science in 2004, but it's standard fare these days.

OK... Here's how it gets done.

Everyone get a webcam. Everyone signs up for stickam.com or justin.tv accounts. We hold a private webchat between sites.

My NSV broadcast machine signs in as a stickam user, does it's standard camtasia capture the screen stuff, and broadcasts the stickam video out to the AOL NSV server.

Only thing I don't like about stickam is the poor video quality.

I can sort of do that now. I have years worth of singer footage if you count the archives I keep on CD.


As far as actually getting down to trying this, yah, it *could* be done, but I don't see much potential for billing it as a special night. What I do boils down to a webcam in a karaoke bar, with some chat. It might have been rocket science in 2004, but it's standard fare these days.

OK... Here's how it gets done.

Only thing I don't like about stickam is the poor video quality.

Well if there isn't much marketing potential, or the accounts you can get have crappy video, then there isn't much point in bothering.

Which is what i wanted to know, so now I do.

i know that the technology is very old, but I don't think there is anyone in Canada that is using it for karaoke, so I thought it might be new to them.

But hey, not every idea you get is a winner.. thanks for the input Toq.. :)

-James

James stick around I like folks with new ideas thanks for the thought.