Nightingale karaoke app
Karaoke app in Audio
Free, open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer, though critics say it downloads its own binaries and can fail to start.
Free, open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer, though critics say it downloads its own binaries and can fail to start.
40 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 26
- criticize it
- 14
- approval share
- 65%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 26 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free and open source, no premium tier
“The whole stack is open source. No premium tier, no "open core" - just the app.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “Open source, local and passion driven.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” Works with almost any song
“Being able to go to a party with just the deck and a microphone and have a karaoke with any song people want sounds good.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “Processed Kenny Rogers' The Gambler perfectly - took out the lead vocal but left the backing vocals.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “The beauty of the approach is that you don't have any limitations.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Downloads its own runtime and binaries
“How come this is trying to install its own vendored dependencies, including executable binaries, instead of checking for what's already installed?”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “the application didn't work because it couldn't find the Python interpreter that it itself downloaded”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “This app should have probably bundled the runtime instead of downloading a new one though.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” - Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer”
Vibecoded with questionable tradeoffs
“"Why does this new software do X?" is probably answered by "the vibe worked on my system"”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “Because the person who vibecoded this had no idea they should have been doing that.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “The app is vibecoded. The author isn't making decisions about these tradeoffs”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” - Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer”
Lyrics fail to sync on some songs
“Just tried it with B.E.D - Walk Away, unfortunately it lost track of the lyrics after 30 secs”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “It fetched the lyrics but didn't seem to be able to align them so no lyrics show up.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” Leaves vocals on some songs
“it's not removing the singing at all”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “when there are multiple singers harmonizing it only removes one”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer” “Just tried No_4mat's 1992... unfortunately it didn't work :(”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer”
What people said
40 of the 51 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“it took 10-15 minutes trying to scan it”
“It fetched the lyrics but didn't seem to be able to align them so no lyrics show up.”
“It's not open source if it has to download binaries from the internet to run.”
“The app is vibecoded. The author isn't making decisions about these tradeoffs”
“Thanks for the cool project!”
“"Why does this new software do X?" is probably answered by "the vibe worked on my system"”
“This app is really amazing”
“doing dependency management in such an unusual and risky way”
“It's a useful tool and I built it myself, with my own ten fingers, using my brain.”
“This app should have probably bundled the runtime instead of downloading a new one though.”
“it is not perfect, especially for non-major languages, but it works.”
“since then I've added lyrics lookup and tweaked a bunch of parameters, so it is worth trying!”
“i'm at the homepage of this project and i like it!”
“they're polluting the open source space with AI slop”
“Where this author went wrong was not in vendoring the app's exact dependencies”
“the application didn't work because it couldn't find the Python interpreter that it itself downloaded”
“Just tried No_4mat's 1992... unfortunately it didn't work :(”
“come up with idiosyncratic and experimental methods for invoking bog-standard libraries and language interpreters”
“Cool, but on Firefox no lyrics are displayed on the website's demo.”
“Processed Kenny Rogers' The Gambler perfectly - took out the lead vocal but left the backing vocals.”
“Nice work! If you are looking for ways to enhance this or complementary routes”
“Because the person who vibecoded this had no idea they should have been doing that.”
“The pitch scoring sounds really interesting as both a competitive and maybe also a training tool.”
“How come this is trying to install its own vendored dependencies, including executable binaries, instead of checking for what's already installed?”
“Being able to go to a party with just the deck and a microphone and have a karaoke with any song people want sounds good.”
“pitch scoring is now pretty simplistic and the feature you're describing is not implemented”
“I am getting a virus detected error when downloading from Chrome.”
“There are very limited options for Karaoke, especially in the FOSS space.”
“Really nice project, I'm looking forward to trying it!”
“Looks amazing. I've been using Karafun”
“The beauty of the approach is that you don't have any limitations.”
“when there are multiple singers harmonizing it only removes one”
“need more pioneers to try it out and spread the word!”
“it's not removing the singing at all”
“surprised this isn't talked about more”
“Just tried it with B.E.D - Walk Away, unfortunately it lost track of the lyrics after 30 secs”
“Impressive, very nice. Now let's see my death metal collection.”
“Open source, local and passion driven.”
“This looks like awesome awesome fun!”
“The whole stack is open source. No premium tier, no "open core" - just the app.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.