How to Add Songs to SongHub and Build Your Karaoke Library

Open SongHub for the first time and you get an empty library. That surprises people, but it is by design: SongHub is a player, and you stock it with your own karaoke files. This guide takes you from zero songs to a tidy, working library — the same process we sum up on the songhub2.online home page, in full step-by-step detail.

Step 1: Make one folder for everything

Start on your phone or tablet. Open your file manager and create a single folder for SongHub songs, somewhere easy to find — for example a folder named SongHub Songs in your main storage. Everything goes in this one folder. Scattered files across Downloads, Music and three subfolders are the number one reason songs "go missing" inside the app.

If your karaoke collection lives on an SD card, put the folder there. An SD card has a bonus: when you change phones, the card and your whole library move with you.

Step 2: Get your karaoke files

SongHub plays karaoke files you already own or obtain from sources you have the right to use — files from your home videoke setup, karaoke discs you ripped years ago, or karaoke tracks you made or bought. A lot of Filipino households already have a drive or folder of karaoke files sitting on the family PC from the old videoke player days. That collection is gold here: it is exactly the format this kind of app was built around.

We cannot hand you songs, and you should only use files you have the right to use. Respect the artists and songwriters whose work fills your library.

Step 3: Copy the files to the device

You have three practical options:

USB cable. Plug the phone into a computer, set the USB mode to file transfer, and copy your files into the SongHub Songs folder. Best for big batches — a few hundred songs move in minutes.

Flash drive or SD card reader. Copy the folder from the computer to a drive, plug the drive into the phone (most Android phones accept a small OTG adapter), and copy it over with the file manager.

Straight onto the device. If a file lands on the phone some other way, move it into the SongHub Songs folder right away with the file manager. Future you says thanks.

Step 4: Point SongHub at the folder

Now open the app. If you have not installed it yet, get it from the official source through our SongHub download page first — the app is free and takes a minute to install.

In SongHub, grant the storage permission when asked. Without it, the app cannot see your files at all, and the library stays empty no matter how many songs you copied. Then use the app's library or folder option to select your SongHub Songs folder and run a scan. The app reads the folder and builds your song list. Give it a moment — a big folder takes a little while on the first scan, and later scans are faster.

Step 5: Name files so humans can find songs

Your library list is only as good as your file names. The pattern that works: Artist – Song Title. "Aegis – Halik" beats "track_017_final2" every single time, especially when a guest is scrolling your list looking for their song.

Renaming is boring for ten minutes and saves you for years. If you are copying from a PC, rename there with a mouse and keyboard before the transfer — it is far quicker than tapping names out on a phone. Many file managers can also rename several files in one go.

Step 6: Organize by how people actually sing

Flat lists get long fast. Think about how a karaoke night flows and sort for that:

• Favorites first. Star or pin the songs your household sings every time. At a party, the first twenty picks come from this short list.
• Group by singer or genre. OPM ballads in one pile, 80s and 90s hits in another, duets together. When someone says "give me a duet," you want them in one place.
• Keep a party set. A short, proven list of crowd pleasers stops the endless scrolling between singers. Our karaoke party setup guide has a checklist for exactly that moment.

Step 7: Back the library up

Your library took effort to build, so protect it. Copy the SongHub Songs folder to a computer or a spare drive once, and again after big additions. Phones get lost, dropped and reset. A backup turns that disaster into a ten-minute restore instead of a lost collection.

Quick fixes when songs do not show up

The library is empty after copying. Check the permission first — storage access off means the app sees nothing. Then check you scanned the folder your files are actually in, not its parent.

Only some songs appear. A file may be in a format the app cannot read, or the copy may have been interrupted. Re-copy one problem file and scan again to test.

Duplicates everywhere. The same song probably exists in two folders and both got scanned. Consolidate into the one folder and rescan.

One last tip: after your library works, leave it alone for a week and just sing. You will quickly learn which twenty songs your house actually loves — and those deserve the front of the list, fresh batteries in the mic, and the best seat on the sofa. If scores start feeling strange once the mic comes out, that is a settings question, and our guide to SongHub settings and scoring covers it.