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Get Youtube Karaoke Version

This shortcut does a search on Youtube for a karaoke version of a song you choose.

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Get Youtube Karaoke Version

How to use

How to use

  1. When you run the shortcut, you will get a choice: Enter in the name and artist yourself, pick a random song from your phone's music library, or use the currently playing song if there is one.
  2. The shortcut will search Youtube for a karaoke version of that song and open up the results.

How it works

How it works

The first thing the user does is choose where to get the information to search from.

The first thing the shortcut does is figure out if a song is currently playing or paused on the phone. If so, it gives the user the option to select it.

If that's what the user chooses, it uses that information plus the word "karaoke" to search.

If the user selects "Pick for me", the shortcut chooses a random song from the phone's music library and uses that information plus the word "karaoke" to search.

Or the user can input the artist and title using the keyboard.

Then the shortcut passes along the search terms to the Youtube app if it's installed or Safari if Youtube isn't installed.

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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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Some shortcuts will automatically show up in your phone’s Share menu under “Shortcuts”.
  4. 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.
  5. 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".
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Tara Devlin
FIRST POSTED:
March 9, 2020
LAST UPDATED:
September 25, 2020
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