SongHub Settings and Scoring Explained

SongHub works fine the moment you install it, but ten minutes in the settings makes it work for you — your mic, your room, your library. This guide explains the settings that matter and how the scoring really behaves, in plain words. If your setup is not wired yet, start with the TV, mic and speaker setup guide and come back here after.

How SongHub scoring works

When you sing with a mic, SongHub listens to your voice and compares two things against the song: pitch (are you on the right notes?) and timing (are you on them at the right moment?). Sing the right note at the right time and the score climbs. Drift flat on the chorus or come in a beat late and it drops.

Two things follow from that. First, the score measures your match to the track, not the beauty of your voice — a loud, confident, slightly-off singer can score below a quiet, careful one. Second, the score only sees what the mic hears. If the mic also hears the speaker, the TV, and your cousin singing backup, the app is grading the whole room, not you.

Microphone sensitivity: the setting to fix first

If your scores feel random, this is almost always why. Sensitivity controls how much sound the app takes in through the mic.

Too high: the app picks up the speaker, echoes and other voices. Notes smear together and scores swing wildly between songs.

Too low: soft singing barely registers, and held notes drop out mid-line.

Set it in the middle, sing one test song at your normal party volume, and nudge from there. Change one thing at a time and re-test with the same song — a song you know well is your measuring stick. Sing close to the mic, a few centimeters away, and keep that distance steady; wandering around the room while scoring is a guaranteed score-killer.

Scoring difficulty

SongHub lets you adjust how strict the scoring is. A stricter setting punishes every wobble — great for a contest night with your family's serious singers. A friendlier setting rewards staying roughly on pitch and in time, which keeps casual guests smiling instead of staring at a brutal number.

House rule that works: friendly scoring for parties, strict scoring for practice. When you practice on strict, you hear exactly where you drift — usually the bridge, it is always the bridge — and party scores on the friendly setting feel like a reward.

Audio delay and calibration

Wireless audio adds delay. Bluetooth speakers and cast audio can push the track behind your voice, and the timing half of your score suffers even when you sing perfectly. If SongHub offers an audio delay or sync adjustment on your setup, use it: nudge the value, sing a line you know cold, and check whether the on-screen feedback lines up with what you hear.

Better still, remove the delay at the source. A cable from the device to the speaker or amp — the wired chain from our party setup guide — makes most sync problems simply disappear.

Lyric and display settings

On a phone screen, lyrics are a glance. On a TV across the room, they are the show. Set lyric size and display options so the current line is readable from the farthest seat, and test it from that seat, not from the sofa nearest the TV. If you use SongHub for practice, follow the highlighted line closely; it is also your best timing teacher, since it shows where the app expects each phrase to land.

Library settings

Your library settings decide which folders the app scans and how your songs list. Keep them pointed at your one main song folder — the tidy library from our guide on adding songs and building your library — and rescan after you add new files, so fresh songs show up without duplicates from stray folders.

If the app offers sorting or favorites, set the list to show favorites first. At a party nobody wants to scroll past 300 songs to reach the twenty everybody actually sings.

A sensible starter configuration

• Mic sensitivity: middle, then adjust with one test song.
• Scoring: friendly for parties, strict for solo practice.
• Audio: wired to the speaker or amp whenever you can; calibrate delay if you must go wireless.
• Lyrics: sized for the far seat when a TV is connected.
• Library: one folder, scanned, favorites first.

And if SongHub is not on the device yet, grab it first from the official source via our download page. Then set it up once, save the fiddling for rehearsal, and on the night itself just sing — the best setting of all is a room that has stopped thinking about settings.