Get Karaoke Version
Have you ever been listening to a song on your phone and thought, I wonder if there's a karaoke version of this? This shortcut searches the iTunes store for karaoke versions of music. You can choose if you want it to search using the current song, or a specific song, or pick a random song from your music library.
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Get Karaoke Version
How to use
How to use
Run the shortcut. The shortcut will first ask if you want to search for the current song that's playing, or a specific song, or pick a random song from your phone's music library.
The first thing the shortcut does is determine what song you want to get a karaoke version of. You can choose a specific song, get the currently playing song if there is one, or pick 25 random songs from your phone's library and search for each of them.
If any results are found, you can preview or purchase the music right from within the shortcut. That's it!
How it works
How it works
The shortcut basically performs an algorithm I wrote to search the iTunes store.
First the shortcut asks the user what they want to use the search the iTunes store:
- The currently playing song
- An artist and song title they choose
- Search 20 songs selected from the user's music library on their phone
Then the shortcut collects two different search terms for the requested music:
- "song name" by "artist" "karaoke" and
- "song name" "album name" "karaoke"
Then the shortcut searches the iTunes store.
It removes any results that don't have the word "karaoke" in them somewhere to remove false positives.
Then it presents the results for the user to review.
How to get started with Shortcuts
If you have iOS 13, you already have the Shortcuts app. That means that if you're on your iPhone or iPad right now, you can just click the Download button to download a shortcut. If you're not on your phone, you can email the link to yourself to download it later.
You can can start using most shortcuts right away, unless they work with another app that you need to have installed. That will be indicated on the in the post above. Once you have downloaded a shortcut, it belongs to you and you can make any changes you like. The shortcuts I make and publish here don't send any data back to me and I don't make any money from publishing them.
Once you have download a shortcut you can choose how to run it. These are your options:
- When you want to run a shortcut, open your Shortcuts app and all the shortcuts in your library will be there to choose from. Just tap on it.
- To save the step of navigating to your Shortcuts app you can add a shortcut to your iPhone’s home screen so it’s easily accessible.
- Some shortcuts will automatically show up in your phone’s Share menu under “Shortcuts”.
- In the shortcut’s settings you can “Add to Siri” by recording a phrase that will trigger it. Later you can say “Hey Siri” followed by that phrase and Siri will run that shortcut for you.
- You can also set up shortcuts to run automatically in the Automations tab in the Shortcuts app. You can select from a good variety of triggers such as "When my wake up alarm stops" or "When I arrive at work".