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The Library is your personal collection of karaoke videos, ready to play at any time.

What Is the Library?

The Library stores finished karaoke videos separately from your editable projects. It is the collection you use for playback, saved playlists, the Queue, and offline preparation. Benefits of the Library:
  • Quick access to all your karaokes
  • Built-in video player with lyrics
  • Queue multiple songs
  • Save reusable playlists
  • Control playback from other devices

Adding Karaokes to Your Library

There are three ways to add karaokes:

1. After Exporting

When you export a video, click Add to Library from the export page.

2. From the Exports Page

  1. Go to Exports in the navigation
  2. Find the video you want to add
  3. Click Add to Library

3. Upload an Existing Video

  1. Go to Library
  2. Click Upload Video
  3. Select a karaoke video file from your device
  4. Enter a title and click Upload

Playing Your Karaokes

  1. Go to Library
  2. Click on any karaoke to start playing
  3. The video player opens with full controls

Player Controls

While playing:
  • Play/Pause — Start or stop playback
  • Progress bar — Seek to any point
  • Volume — Adjust audio level
  • Instrumental/Vocals — Toggle audio tracks
  • Fullscreen — Watch in fullscreen mode
Keyboard shortcuts:
  • Space — Play/Pause
  • M — Toggle instrumental/vocals
  • F — Fullscreen
  • Arrow keys — Seek forward/back

Using saved playlists

Saved playlists are reusable, ordered sets of Library Karaokes. You can create, rename, reorder, and play them from the Playlists tab. Follow Create and manage saved playlists.

Building a Queue

Build a temporary play order for the current session:
  1. Hover over a karaoke in your library
  2. Click Add to Queue
  3. Repeat for all songs you want to queue
  4. Songs play automatically in order
Manage your queue:
  • Drag to reorder songs
  • Click the X to remove a song
  • Click Clear to empty the queue
Starting a saved playlist replaces the current Queue with that playlist’s Karaokes.

Preparing for offline playback

Youka Desktop and the Youka Extension can save selected videos, your whole eligible Library, or future Karaokes on the current device. Follow Use Youka offline before disconnecting.

Deleting a Karaoke

  1. Hover over the karaoke
  2. Click the menu icon (three dots)
  3. Select Delete
  4. Confirm deletion
This only removes it from your Library. Your original project is still available.

Remote Control

Control your Library playback from another device: Learn more: Remote Control