YARG sings. Here is what FullVolume adds.

Same library, so this costs you nothing to try

Start here, because it is the part that makes the rest of this page easy. Both read exactly the same things:

• Clone Hero song folders, as they already sit on your drive
• .sng archives, straight out of the file
• Rock Band _rb3con packages, with no unpacking first

So you point FullVolume at the same folder YARG already uses. Nothing is copied, converted, moved or duplicated, you are not maintaining two libraries, and YARG carries on exactly as it did. Every song you have charted or collected is already there when you open it.

Sing together when you are not in the same room

This is the big one, and it is the reason most people end up with both installed. YARG's multiplayer is local: everybody round one machine, one screen, one living room. Wonderful when that is the evening you are having. No use at all on a Tuesday when your mates are in four different houses.

FullVolume is built the other way round.

• Host a room from inside the game. Give it a name, put a code on it if you want it private, or leave it public and let people wander in from the in-game room list.
• Voice chat is part of the game. Open mics in the lobby, so nobody is sat in silence between songs. The gap between songs ends up being half the fun.
• Everybody stays in time, wherever they are, and everyone's score is on screen at once, which is rather the point.
• It checks the room has the song before you start, and says up front who is missing it, so nobody discovers it thirty seconds in.

It is built as a karaoke night, not a setlist

• A queue. Anyone can line up songs while somebody else is still singing, so the night runs itself instead of stopping dead after every track while four people crowd round the keyboard.
• Only songs you can actually sing. Charts with no vocal part never appear in the list, so you never pick something and find there is nothing to do.
• An easy setting that widens how close to the note you have to be, for later in the evening when the room is louder and less accurate.
• Sing it an octave down. Scoring does not care which octave you are in, so nobody sits out because a song is pitched for a voice that is not in the room.
• A proper results screen. Stars, how many phrases you landed, and a full combo banner when you get there.

Make it look like somewhere you would want to sing

• Your own backdrop. Drop a picture or a video in a folder and it turns up as a stage you can pick. Give the menus one and your songs another.
• Every last bit of it is hand drawn, which is a daft thing to put on a feature list and also the reason it feels like a night in rather than a benchmark.
• A song browser with your album art down the side, your best score on every row, and search and sort by title, artist, album or year.
• Profiles, so scores belong to whoever actually sang them, or play as a guest and skip it entirely.

Nothing to set up but a microphone

No instruments, no controller mapping, no timing windows to reason about before anybody can sing. A USB mic, a gaming headset, a webcam mic or the one in your laptop all work, because what is being measured is the pitch you land on rather than how flattering the recording is.

Audio delay gets sorted with one button, or you tap along for a few bars and let it work you out. If you have ever had a game mark every note late all evening, that is what this fixes.

And 40,000 more songs when you want them

The Marketplace on this site lists every chart from Chorus Encore and Rhythmverse that has a vocal part in it, which is currently over 40,000 songs. Search it, download one, drop it in the same songs folder, rescan. They work in YARG too, because it is the same library.

If YARG vocals are not working for you

Worth covering, since people land here looking for it. The usual culprits are the same in anything that listens to a microphone, and none of them are the game's fault:

• The wrong input device. Laptops especially will happily listen to a different microphone than the one you are singing into.
• The level is too low. Pitch detection needs a usable signal. Raise the input level in Windows sound settings first.
• Audio delay. If every note reads late, all night, for everyone, that is latency rather than you, and it is worse over HDMI to a television doing its own picture processing.
• Bluetooth microphones. Do not. The wireless hop adds delay on top of everything else.

For anything specific to YARG itself, its own documentation and Discord are the right place, and the people there know that software far better than this page does.