LYRX Karaoke App Version 1.6: Now Fully Compatible With macOS Catalina - Free Download!

LYRX 1.6 (for Windows & Mac) is ready for download!

We’re happy to announce LYRX is ready for macOS Catalina. The new 1.6 version of our newest and most popular karaoke software includes many under-the-hood updates and improvements — most notably the change over from the prior OpenGL API to Metal (macOS). As we wrote in a prior post, Catalina brought major changes to the macOS graphics API, moving from the OpenGL to Metal. This required our development team to refactor our graphics engine entirely. There will be notable benefits, especially as LYRX continues to grow.

Since our “code” is cross-platform the Windows version received the same graphics engine updates.

Development had to dig deep to make significant changes. As a byproduct, they were able to streamline some of the code for better overall performance. This benefits both the Windows & Mac versions, and will allow us to ‘build on’ to the existing LYRX platform with ease.

One other notable change is where LYRX stores your data. In prior versions we used “Documents” as the storage location for the LYRX data folder. This presented some problems with saving at times (largely due to permissions related issues, corrupt user profiles on Windows, Microsoft One Drive, and other security measures brought on by Catalina). When you install the new LYRX update it will migrate your existing user data to the new location so you will not need to start over. A new button has been added in LYRX’s options to access the new location of the LYRX data folder making for easy access.

Support for the new Music app (formally known as iTunes) is also included.

Now that this major maintenance release of LYRX is ready for live performance we can get back to the fun stuff! Quite a few features where shelved during the Catalina-specific re-write that we can get back to. Expect to see new features and other improvements soon!

As always, version 1.6 is a FREE upgrade for existing LYRX customers. Simply download and install the update with your existing version closed to update now!

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New, Changed, and Fixed in LYRX v1.6

• OpenGL to Metal (macOS version)
• Using new modern way to access Music (iTunes) library
• Moved Location of data (LYRX) folder to prevent various access/saving issues
• Added button to access user data folder in LYRX’s options
• Performance improvements and bug fixes

DOWNLOAD LYRX v1.6

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you receive this warning “lyrx-v1.6-installer_mac.pkg can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. this software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information” when installing to macOS Catalina please follow the steps on Apple’s website to install LYRX.

Have questions about the latest 1.6 version of our LYRX karaoke software? Please leave them in the comments section below!

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