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> Adjustable vocals: Users now have control over a song’s vocal levels. They can sing with the original artist vocals, take the lead, or mix it up on millions o

> Adjustable vocals: Users now have control over a song’s vocal levels. They can sing with the original artist vocals, take the lead, or mix it up on millions of songs in the Apple Music catalog. Everyone I know would call that karaoke. And I assume will when telling their friends about this new feature. If I search for Apple Sing on google news, the first 5 articles all call it "karaoke-like" or just "a karaoke feature". Whatever reason they have for not saying the word karaoke, I don't think it's that it's not what most people consider karaoke.

Destitute 4y ago
When I think karaoke, I think microphone. It appears this makes no use of a microphone or captures the singer's vocals in any way, it just isolates the instrumental tracks and eliminates or reduces the vocal track. A microphone (and ideally having your own vocals mixed with the audio output) is the core feature of karaoke, not playing an instrumental version of the song.
- tsimionescu 4y ago
  The whole point is that you can sing with it, which implies it can capture your voice in some way, even if you aren't holding a microphone.
  - dkonofalski 4y ago
    Singing with something doesn't imply anything about capture. It's just saying that I can sing along to songs without the original vocal while I'm washing the dishes in the kitchen or whatever.
- anigbrowl 4y ago
  Which will be your phone in version 2, with a little software magic to retune discordant voices prior to the reverb.
- jrochkind1 4y ago
  And yet most media coverage I can find of the Apple Music Sing release uses the word karaoke to describe it, thinking that will be clear to their readers. I would feel safe saying your opinion is a minority one. But this has become a pretty silly "debate". Me, I'm still curious why Apple did not use the word karaoke, and do not myself think it's becuase they don't think people will consider it karaoke, but I understand you do, cool.

Destitute 4y ago

When I think karaoke, I think microphone. It appears this makes no use of a microphone or captures the singer's vocals in any way, it just isolates the instrumental tracks and eliminates or reduces the vocal track. A microphone (and ideally having your own vocals mixed with the audio output) is the core feature of karaoke, not playing an instrumental version of the song.

tsimionescu 4y ago
The whole point is that you can sing with it, which implies it can capture your voice in some way, even if you aren't holding a microphone.
- dkonofalski 4y ago
  Singing with something doesn't imply anything about capture. It's just saying that I can sing along to songs without the original vocal while I'm washing the dishes in the kitchen or whatever.
anigbrowl 4y ago
Which will be your phone in version 2, with a little software magic to retune discordant voices prior to the reverb.
jrochkind1 4y ago
And yet most media coverage I can find of the Apple Music Sing release uses the word karaoke to describe it, thinking that will be clear to their readers. I would feel safe saying your opinion is a minority one. But this has become a pretty silly "debate". Me, I'm still curious why Apple did not use the word karaoke, and do not myself think it's becuase they don't think people will consider it karaoke, but I understand you do, cool.