<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en_US"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en_US" /><updated>2026-03-08T12:53:05+00:00</updated><id>https://vocaluxe.org/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Vocaluxe</title><subtitle>Vocaluxe is a free and open source singing game, inspired by SingStar™ and the great Ultrastar Deluxe project for up to six players.</subtitle><author><name>Vocaluxe Team</name></author><entry><title type="html">Bugfix for Blue Sunrise is released!</title><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/2020/03/08/blue-sunrise-bugfix-is-released.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Bugfix for Blue Sunrise is released!" /><published>2020-03-08T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2020-03-08T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://vocaluxe.org/2020/03/08/blue-sunrise-bugfix-is-released</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://vocaluxe.org/2020/03/08/blue-sunrise-bugfix-is-released.html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="/img/posts/release-0.4.png" alt="Release of Vocaluxe (Blue Sunrise)" class="post-banner" /></p>

<p>Today we released Vocaluxe 0.4.1, which brings some bugfixes to Vocaluxe 0.4.0, released 2017.</p>

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<h3 id="whats-new-in-this-version">What’s new in this version?</h3>
<p>Some changes to the PortAudio backend, which prevented starting Vocaluxe on some Windows systems. Also some more smaller bugs was fixed.</p>

<h3 id="what-will-happens-next">What will happens next?</h3>
<p>Development of new features just started: There will be a new theme, a rating bar and maybe more - Just try out nightly builds, follow our development on GitHub or give us a ‘like’ on facebook. Another thing might be proper linux support, if someone could help us: We would appreciate this. Our plan is to release new versions more often and more continously, but time is expensive and we will we see what the future brings…</p>

<p>And now: Grab your mics, start singing and have fun with our newest Vocaluxe. You can find all downloads <a href="/#download">here</a>.</p>

<h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2>

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<a href="/img/posts/release-0.4_webserver.png" class="swipebox" title="Control Vocaluxe with your smartphone or tablet"><img src="/img/posts/release-0.4_webserver.png" alt="Remote control" class="img-responsive" /></a></p>]]></content><author><name>Stefan1200</name></author><category term="release" /><category term="0.4.1" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Today we released Vocaluxe 0.4.1, which brings some bugfixes to Vocaluxe 0.4.0, released 2017.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-0.4.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-0.4.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Preview: New theme and multimonitor support</title><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/2017/11/06/multimonitor-preview.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Preview: New theme and multimonitor support" /><published>2017-11-06T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2017-11-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://vocaluxe.org/2017/11/06/multimonitor-preview</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://vocaluxe.org/2017/11/06/multimonitor-preview.html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly.png" alt="Preview: New theme and multimonitor support" class="post-banner" /></p>

<p>We’ve just merged initial multimonitor support to our dev-branch!</p>

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<p>For now, you just can have up to six monitors and use them to have individual sing screens for every player (as you can see in attached screenshot). More exiting features will come in future, but if you like, you can test this current state in our latest nightly.<br />
There are some more new things in our <a href="/#download">current nightly</a>: A new theme, called genius, and a small rating bar for every player that shows how good he or she is currently singing.
We’ve got some bug reports for our latest stable version, so we’re currently preparing a bugfix version…</p>

<p>As you can see: There is much to do - Stay tuned.</p>

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<p class="post-gallery"><a href="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly-new-theme.png" class="swipebox" title="The new theme: Genius"><img src="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly-new-theme.png" alt="Multimonitor" class="img-responsive" /></a>
<a href="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly-multimonitor.png" class="swipebox" title="Support for up to six monitors"><img src="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly-multimonitor.png" alt="New Theme" class="img-responsive" /></a>
<a href="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly-ratingbar.png" class="swipebox" title="The new rating bar"><img src="/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly-ratingbar.png" alt="Rating bar: Challenge" class="img-responsive" /></a></p>]]></content><author><name>flokuep</name></author><category term="nightly" /><category term="features" /><category term="multimonitor" /><category term="preview" /><category term="theme" /><category term="rating bar" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We’ve just merged initial multimonitor support to our dev-branch!]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/multimonitor-nightly.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Blue Sunrise is released!</title><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/2017/09/28/blue-sunrise-is-released.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Blue Sunrise is released!" /><published>2017-09-28T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2017-09-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://vocaluxe.org/2017/09/28/blue-sunrise-is-released</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://vocaluxe.org/2017/09/28/blue-sunrise-is-released.html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="/img/posts/release-0.4.png" alt="Release of Vocaluxe (Blue Sunrise)" class="post-banner" /></p>

<p>More than 200 downloads of the release candidate and just one (now fixed) bug. We think our upcoming version is ready now - And here it is: Vocaluxe 0.4 ‘Blue Sunrise’. Before you download our windows portable builds or installer versions, you might have some questions…</p>

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<h3 id="whats-new-in-this-version">What’s new in this version?</h3>
<p>A lot. Really a lot. But it’s hard to say what’s new for <em>you</em>. Since our last stable release in december 2012, there are 2006 commits and and 708 files changed in our git repository. We’ve added party modes, added the possibility to control Vocaluxe with your smartphone or tablet, generate some shiny cover if they are missing in your song library - These are the most visible things, but there are for sure more smaller and bigger improvements, just test it and sing some rounds. In the background there are also a lot of changes: Code was cleaned up and restructured, our audio and video libraries got an update - Some parts should be more stable/faster now and make it easier to add new features. More ‘improvements’: we now have nightly builds and a cool new website.</p>

<h3 id="where-is-version-03">Where is version 0.3?</h3>
<p>This answer is quite simple: We’ve skipped it. There were too many changes, too much time was gone and there were some changes in our dev team - So we decided to express this in a bigger version step.</p>

<h3 id="what-will-happens-next">What will happens next?</h3>
<p>Development of new features just started: There will be a new theme, a rating bar and maybe more - Just try out nightly builds, follow our development on GitHub or give us a ‘like’ on facebook. Another thing might be proper linux support, if someone could help us: We would appreciate this. Our plan is to release new versions more often and more continously, but time is expensive and we will we see what the future brings…</p>

<p>And now: Grab your mics, start singing and have fun with our newest Vocaluxe. You can find all downloads <a href="/#download">here</a>.</p>

<h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2>

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<p class="post-gallery"><a href="/img/posts/release-04_generated_cover.png" class="swipebox" title="Generated covers for categories and songs"><img src="/img/posts/release-04_generated_cover.png" alt="Generated covers" class="img-responsive" /></a>
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<a href="/img/posts/release-04_challenge_mode.png" class="swipebox" title="Sing against your friends in challenge mode"><img src="/img/posts/release-04_challenge_mode.png" alt="Party Mode: Challenge" class="img-responsive" /></a>
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<a href="/img/posts/release-04_tic_tac_toe.png" class="swipebox" title="Sing in two teams some funny rounds with Tic-Tac-Toe"><img src="/img/posts/release-04_tic_tac_toe.png" alt="Party Mode: Tic-Tac-Toe" class="img-responsive" /></a>
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<a href="/img/posts/release-0.4_webserver.png" class="swipebox" title="Control Vocaluxe with your smartphone or tablet"><img src="/img/posts/release-0.4_webserver.png" alt="Remote control" class="img-responsive" /></a></p>]]></content><author><name>flokuep</name></author><category term="release" /><category term="0.4" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[More than 200 downloads of the release candidate and just one (now fixed) bug. We think our upcoming version is ready now - And here it is: Vocaluxe 0.4 ‘Blue Sunrise’. Before you download our windows portable builds or installer versions, you might have some questions…]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-0.4.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-0.4.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Second version released!</title><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/2012/12/21/second-release.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Second version released!" /><published>2012-12-21T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2012-12-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://vocaluxe.org/2012/12/21/second-release</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://vocaluxe.org/2012/12/21/second-release.html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="/img/posts/release-02.png" alt="Release 2" class="post-banner" /></p>

<p>Dear Vocaluxe fans,</p>

<p>we’ve finished Vocaluxe v0.2 after 8 months of development.<br />
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<p>The new version has the following new features:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Support for up to 6 microphones.</li>
  <li>Medley mode</li>
  <li>Short Song mode (short version of a song)</li>
  <li>Playlists: Create, Save, Edit by keyboard or mouse (drag&amp;drop). You can adjust the sing mode for each song of the playlist individually (normal, medley, duet, short song).
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  <li>Introduced popup controls. You can control the background music by a control panel that appears at the top border of the screen if you press <kbd>TAB</kbd> or reaches it by mouse. You can even start singing of the currently played background song.</li>
  <li>Webcam support:
    <ul>
      <li>Activating/deactivating by pressing <kbd>W</kbd> in the sing screen.</li>
      <li>You can use your WebCam to take profile pictures in the profile screen. Activate your camera before you start the program. If Vocaluxe detects the camera a button “Webcam” appears in the profile screen.</li>
    </ul>
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  <li>WiiMote support:
    <ul>
      <li>Vocaluxe supports the Wiimotion remote control from Nintendo. Connect it with your bluetooth connection manager and start Vocaluxe. If a Wiimote is recognized it will perform two short rumbles and the third LED will lighten up.</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Improved keyboard navigation</li>
  <li>Improved mouse navigation</li>
  <li>Improved pitch recognition</li>
  <li>You can specify the duet singer names in the song <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">.txt</code> by #P1 and #P2. Afterwards you can assign that names to the players in die name selection screen.</li>
</ul>]]></content><author><name>flokuep</name></author><category term="release" /><category term="0.2" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Dear Vocaluxe fans, we’ve finished Vocaluxe v0.2 after 8 months of development.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-02.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-02.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">First final release!</title><link href="https://vocaluxe.org/2012/07/04/first-final-release.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="First final release!" /><published>2012-07-04T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2012-07-04T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://vocaluxe.org/2012/07/04/first-final-release</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://vocaluxe.org/2012/07/04/first-final-release.html"><![CDATA[<p><img src="/img/posts/release-01.png" alt="Release 1" class="post-banner" /></p>

<p>Dear Vocaluxe fans,</p>

<p>just in time for the holidays we’ve compiled our first final release after roughly one year of development time - Vocaluxe 0.1 final is ready to be unleashed!
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So don’t think twice and download it from Sourceforge. How about a round (or two?) of Vocaluxe between the egg hunt and the lamb roast?</p>

<p>You don’t want to wait for the next final release and want to follow the latest edge of development instead? Just follow the developers on the Github Vocaluxe repository!</p>

<h2 id="gallery">Gallery</h2>

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<p class="post-gallery"><a href="/img/posts/release-01_Screenshot_SongSelection.png" class="swipebox" title="Song Selection"><img src="/img/posts/release-01_Screenshot_SongSelection.png" alt="Song Selection" class="img-responsive" /></a></p>]]></content><author><name>flokuep</name></author><category term="release" /><category term="0.1" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Dear Vocaluxe fans, just in time for the holidays we’ve compiled our first final release after roughly one year of development time - Vocaluxe 0.1 final is ready to be unleashed!]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-01.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://vocaluxe.org/img/posts/release-01.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>