{"id":2814,"date":"2009-03-31T21:13:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2009-03-31T21:13:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T12:13:15","slug":"train-your-singing-with-iphone-under-cherry-trees-and-attend-myspace-japans-karaoke-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/train-your-singing-with-iphone-under-cherry-trees-and-attend-myspace-japans-karaoke-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Your Singing With iPhone Under Cherry Trees, And Attend MySpace Japan&#8217;s Karaoke Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2816\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/xing_logo.gif\" alt=\"Xing's Logo\" width=\"107\" height=\"35\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2817\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/joysound_logo.gif\" alt=\"Joysound's Logo\" width=\"189\" height=\"33\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2818\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/myspace_karaoke_logo.jpg\" alt=\"MySpace Karaoke's Logo\" width=\"221\" height=\"60\" \/><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s third largest karaoke company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xing.co.jp\">Xing[J]<\/a>(pronounced &#8220;eksing&#8221;) started Monday <a href=\"http:\/\/karaoke.jp.myspace.com\/\">the free karaoke service[J]<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.myspace.com\/\">MySpace Japan(MSJ)[J]<\/a>, which enables to record your karaoke performance on video or audio.\u00a0 Twenty five brand new tunes will be added to the lineups every week, the video recording your performance can be shared with your friends on the SNS.\u00a0 In association with the business partners, MSJ plans to have a karaoke contest soon specifically designed for the MSJ users to mimic the artist performance.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2822\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/myspace_karaoke.jpg\" alt=\"MySpace Karaoke - Screen\" width=\"450\" height=\"420\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><em>MySpace Karaoke[J] <\/em><\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/karaoke.jp.myspace.com\">http:\/\/karaoke.jp.myspace.com<\/a>)<br \/>\nFurthermore, Xing introduced the iPhone karaoke app in early March, which allows you to enjoy singing with seeing lyrics and background picture slides on your palm.\u00a0 In this season, sakura (cherry blossom) will be in full broom very shortly.\u00a0 The Japanese celebrate that time of the year with hanami (cherry blossom viewing) parties under the blooming trees in the parks, have alcoholic beverages and sing popular songs.\u00a0 (Some parties bring a generator or battery kit for running the karaoke set.)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2815\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/karaokeiphoneapp.jpg\" alt=\"Karaoke iPhone App\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Karaoke iPhone App:\u00a0 <strong>Joysound Karaoke Organizer<\/strong><br \/>\n(Joysound is Xing&#8217;s service brand.\u00a0 The app is available at Japansese iPhone AppStore &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=302891446&amp;mt=8\">Link<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\nFor the first time in Japanese history, you may witness the people in many parks, who sing songs with\u00a0holding the iPhone in\u00a0hand as though\u00a0it were a\u00a0microphone.<br \/>\nXing Inc. was co-founded by the Nagoya-headquartered sewing machine manufacturer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brother.com\">Brother<\/a> in 1992.<br \/>\nNote: Due to the music copyright conditions applied, your access from outside Japan to the software and the website shown above could be blocked.\u00a0\u00a0 Karaoke company Xing has nothing to do with the German-based business SNS having the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s third largest karaoke company Xing[J](pronounced &#8220;eksing&#8221;) started Monday the free karaoke service[J] on MySpace Japan(MSJ)[J], which enables to record your karaoke performance on video or audio.\u00a0 Twenty five brand new tunes will be added to the lineups every week, the video recording your performance can be shared with your friends on the SNS.\u00a0 In&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/train-your-singing-with-iphone-under-cherry-trees-and-attend-myspace-japans-karaoke-contest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Train Your Singing With iPhone Under Cherry Trees, And Attend MySpace Japan&#8217;s Karaoke Contest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,11,17,23],"tags":[1732,1930,2493,4141],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-event-report","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-iphone","tag-karaoke","tag-myspace","tag-xing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}