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So after spending some time trying to figure out the whole Karaoke support in XBMC I could not get my Karaoke and Music to play nice with each other untill now. Not the perfect solution but works really well on my 20000 + collection.

In order to get my music and karaoke in the same library and play nice together... I played with the tags.

1. Rename mp3 and the accompanying cdg file %ARTIST% - %TITLE%.%EXT%
2. Tag all your Karaoke Songs as followes:
ARTIST = Karaoke
ALBUM = Karaoke
ALBUM ARTIST = <BLANK>
GENRE = Karaoke
3. Update your library

You should now have 1 Artist named Karaoke and 1 Album named Karaoke. From there you could now set a favorite to the either the Artist or Album and the add it as a custom menu item

After having this setup this way I felt there is only one thing missing. Pitch control / Transposing what ever you want to call it. I then did some searching and came across these pages. I believe they are the same thing. I do not know how difficult it would be to implement but I would think it could be done if one of the Dev's was a Karaoke nut.
http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libsoundtouch-ocaml

I'd say pitch control is something a hardcore Karaoke player should have. Still unsure whether it would be good addition to XBMC.

It could be fun to use pitch control even on your music collection. You would not have to buy any chipmunk albums ever again.