vanBasco's Karaoke Player is a freeware product that plays Karaoke (.kar) and standard MIDI (.mid, .midi, .rmi) files.

Features include:
Fully customizable Karaoke window: change font, colors, number of lines (up to four), background image; Lyrics can be displayed in a resizable window or full-screen Comes with the ability to change tempo, volume, key of song; changes can be saved to playlist so that they are remembered in the future It can mute or play solo individual (i.e., arbitrary) selections of instruments.
Real-time MIDI output: shows notes, volumes, and instruments.
Piano view: displays notes on a big piano keyboard. Integrates with Netscape and Microsoft web-browsers through plug-in.

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