Everything people ask, answered straight.

Yes, all of it. There is no shop, no song packs, no subscription and no account to make. Download the installer, run it, sing. There is a tip jar if it earns you a good night, and that is the whole of it.

A Windows PC, a microphone of any description, and some songs on your drive. That is the list. No console, no plastic microphone, no camera, no second screen, no launcher and nothing to sign into.

No. It installs per user into your own profile, so there is no UAC prompt and nothing for IT to approve. Hand the installer to four friends and that is four installs and zero arguments.

No. A USB microphone, a gaming headset, a webcam mic or the one built into your laptop will all do. It is listening for the pitch you are singing rather than the quality of the recording, so cheap kit is not a handicap.

Only for the online rooms. Singing on your own works with the network unplugged. There is no launcher, no login and nothing phoning home.

Not yet. It is a Windows 10 and 11 build, 64-bit, and at the moment that is the only one there is.

Not at the moment. It comes straight off this site, or from itch.io if you would rather keep it alongside the rest of your library there.

Your own drive. Point it at a Clone Hero song folder, a pile of .sng archives or your Rock Band _rb3con packages and it reads the lot. Songs with nobody singing on them are quietly left out, so everything on the list has a part to sing. If you have not got a library yet, the Marketplace lists thousands of free charts that do.

No, and this is the one thing people expect that it does not do. A karaoke game needs to know which word lands on which beat at which pitch, and an MP3 carries none of that. It needs a chart. What it will read is the charts other rhythm games already use, which is why a Clone Hero library turns into a set list with nothing to convert. For a song that has no chart anywhere, there is FullVolumeCharter.

Clone Hero song folders exactly as they sit on your drive, .sng archives read straight out of the file, Rock Band _rb3con packages with no unpacking first, UltraStar .txt charts, and its own .fvchart files. Album art comes in with them, so the list looks like your record shelf.

The Marketplace on this site lists tens of thousands of free charts that have a vocal part, pulled together from the two big community catalogues, and downloads them for you. Nothing is hosted here and nothing is sold: they are other people's charts, linked where they live.

Almost always because the chart has no vocal part in it. A chart written for guitar has nothing to sing, so putting it on the list would only mean picking it and finding out the hard way. Rescan from Settings if you have added folders since; if a song you know has vocals is still missing, that is worth an issue.

As many as you have got, across as many folders and drives as you like. It reads through them once, tells you how it is getting on, and then remembers, so it opens on the list rather than on a loading bar from then on.

Yes. Drop a picture or a video into Documents\Full Volume\Custom\Backgrounds and it turns up in the backdrop carousel. The menus and the song each get their own pick, so you can have one for the lobby and another for the stage.

They stay put, along with your profiles, your backdrops and the song folders you added. All of it lives in Documents\Full Volume, which the uninstaller deliberately never touches. Reinstall it later and it picks up where you left off.

No, and that is rather the point. Sing the whole thing an octave down if that is where your voice lives and it still counts. There is an Easy setting that widens how close you have to be, for when the room has had a few.

Same idea, different source of songs. It is a spiritual successor to LIPS on the Xbox 360: hold the note, watch the score climb, hand the mic over. The difference is that nobody sells you the set list. It comes off your own drive.

By phrase. Hold the notes in a line close enough for long enough and the phrase lands, your streak climbs, and the multiplier goes up with it. Get every phrase in the song and you get a full combo and five stars, every time. Nothing else about how you sang it can take that away.

Not at all. It is listening for the note, not the octave, so singing a line an octave down scores exactly the same as singing it where it was recorded. Nobody has to be a tenor to get a full combo.

That is audio delay, and every PC has a different amount of it. Go to Settings, then Calibration, and press the button: it measures your delay for you in one go. If you would rather do it by hand, tap along for a few bars and let it work you out. Do this once and everything lines up.

Those notes are talkies, and they are scored on landing in time rather than on pitch. Rap charts and shouted choruses play properly rather than sitting there giving you nothing.

Yes, and it is the feature most people end up using most. Queue songs while somebody else is still singing, so the night runs itself instead of stopping dead between every track while four people argue over a song list.

Yes. Host a room from inside the game, put a code on it if you would rather keep it to yourselves, and send it round. Voice chat is built in, everybody's score is on screen at once, and the game says up front if somebody in the room has not got the song that is queued.

You need the one that is queued, and the room tells everybody who has not got it before it starts rather than after. The music itself never crosses the network: everyone plays their own copy, in sync, which is why it stays in time and why the scoring is fair.

Only when you hold your key. Microphones are open in the lobby, and once a song starts the room goes push to talk, so four open mics do not send everybody's singing back over the music they are already playing. Hold your key and you are heard; hearing other people is never affected.

Up to four. You say how many singers a room takes when you make it, and it holds the door at that.

Hosting from inside the game means other people are connecting to your machine, so depending on your router you may need to. If that is a nuisance, join one of the listed rooms instead: those run on servers that are already reachable.

Passing one microphone round a room works today, and it is how most people play it. Proper local multiplayer, with a scoreboard for several singers taking turns on one machine, is on the list rather than in the build.

The charting tool for this game. It takes a song's audio and walks it through seven steps - the words, the syllables, the timing, the pitches - and writes one .fvchart file the game plays. There is a whole page on it.

It ships alongside FullVolume 0.9.3. Everything on its page is the tool as it stands today, screenshots and all.

No. Same as the game: free, no account, nothing to unlock.

No. You never type a note name. The tool reads the sung pitch off the recording and draws it, you drag anything that looks wrong, and a guide tone plays what you are dragging so you can check it by ear.

They are your files, so that is your call. Bear in mind a .fvchart has the song's audio inside it, so passing one round means passing the recording round. Inside the game, a chart can be handed straight to somebody in your room who has not got it, which is what most people actually want.

There is not one, and that is not a sales line. It is one person's project. There is nothing to sell you because there is no music to sell you, no adverts, no data going anywhere and no account to hang any of that off. If it earns you a good night there is a tip jar, and if it does not, that is fine too.

Nothing you sing is written to disk or sent anywhere while you are playing on your own. Your microphone is read to work out the pitch and then thrown away. In an online room your voice is sent to the other people in that room so they can hear you, which is the entire point of voice chat, and the server relays it without ever decoding it. There is a privacy page that goes through all of it.

No analytics, no crash reporter, no identifier and no account. The only thing the game does over the network unprompted is ask GitHub whether there is a newer release, and you can switch that off in Settings.

The songs are. FullVolume ships with no music at all and reads what is already on your machine, so whether you are entitled to have those files is between you and the law where you live. The terms say this in more words.

Open an issue on GitHub and say what you were doing, what happened, and which version you are on. If it crashed, the log is at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\JURMR\FullVolume\Player.log; attach it and the problem usually names itself.