Last night, as I sat watching Karaoke, I wondered if the emcee could get more mobile. Then he said it. “If you want to sing a song that’s not in the book, just come up and let me know. I have thousands of songs available.” Of course! He has a full database of songs that he can download as needed.
Here is a mobile extension of that. The emcee has a sign with a shortcode or web url. Users will be directed to a site on their phone that has automatic sign-up, including a lookup through the extensive library. They simply enter their name and what song they want to sing (and perhaps an email address or phone number – we would like to market these people, of course), and it gets added to the queue.
The emcee pretty much runs his show from the queue, including some management tasks. When someone comes up to sing, the already-downloaded song will be ready to play. The emcee starts it, and uses a web-based tool (he already has a computer, as we noted) to move the entry to the archives.
The downside is pretty easy to calculate. Johnny Troublemaker is sitting at home, a night after his karaoke experience. “Hey, wouldn’t it be fun to mess with the karaoke guy?” This is, of course, only a minor hindrance.
The benefits are pretty sweet for the emcee. Fewer songbooks to create and lug around. Less effort to download songs. An orderly line to sing. Stats on most popular songs. Stats on the audience.
