Earning high praises for its ease of use, deep feature set, and enterpriselevel customer support, kJams has emerged as the most comprehensive karaoke application available for both Mac and Windows. SANTA CRUZ, CA – J– Metamuse Media today announced the 1.0 release of its popular karaoke platform, kJams, which allows professional KJs and home users alike to create and run their own customized karaoke shows. Groundbreaking karaoke software comes of age By bringing a simple USB mic from Rock Band 2 for Wii (or one from High School Musical, depending on how kitschy I want to be), I can set up karaoke in anyone's house within seconds. Now I keep all of my karaoke songs on my 11' MacBook Air, and use HDMI to plug into any modern HDTV.

In the past I've connected an older MacBook Pro to my Bravia TV using VGA, then plugged in the audio to a louder home stereo, and I've run Magic Window on the desktop for some visual flair. Even for people who are wary of karaoke, the home experience is a blast because unlike a karaoke bar, you're only making a fool of yourself in front of friends. I have used kJams Pro quite a bit with friends, and it's a ton of fun. The 1.0 version adds some foreign language support as well. There are also some welcome metadata tools, which is critical when you're dealing with hundreds of songs at a time. Of particular note is a 'ShowScreens' feature, which allows custom graphic overlays (venue logos, for example).

The update brings some important features, especially if you are going beyond karaoke hobbyist and are considering a PC-based karaoke solution in a venue.

KJams just went into proper beta this March, and now the venerable karaoke software has gone 1.0 as of June 21.

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