A Singer is someone who goes to one or more [[Venues]]. They can keep a list of songs they want to sing Tonight, and also maintain a list of Favorite songs. Automatically kept for them is a list of songs they have sung in their History.

To create a new Singer and immediately add songs for them, search out the first song, right-click it, Add to Singer -> New Singer. Done! Now this Singer is in Target mode (see below), ready for assigning additional songs if you so desire.

To create a new singer without adding songs right away, choose New Singer from the File menu, or press the New Singer button (the plus sign with the little "user" icon next to it, at the bottom left).

Click the disclosure triangle next to the singer to reveal their 3 playlists, "Tonight", "Favorites" and "History". You can browse any playlist to find songs you want, and drag the songs you want into Tonight or Favorites, or just drag it onto the Singer icon itself (that way, you don't really need to click the disclosure triangle to reveal the playlists). Songs dropped onto the Singer will go into their Tonight list.

Alternately, you can double click the Singer, which sets that singer as the [[Target_Mode|"Target"]]. Now, when browsing any playlist (including the Library) for songs, when you find a song you want, just double click it and it will be added to that singer's Tonight list.

If you set the pitch, tempo or rating for any song under a singer, it will be permanently remembered for that singer.

If there is a singer that goes to more than one venue, you can use finder aliases to have them show up at each venue. For more info on that, see [[Venues]].

Singers

2008-05-17T10:20:21Z

Randyj: added paragraph #2 about right-click in Search results for New Singer and Target mode

A Singer is someone who goes to one or more [[Venues]]. They can keep a list of songs they want to sing Tonight, and also maintain a list of Favorite songs. Automatically kept for them is a list of songs they have sung in their History.

To create a new singer and immediately add songs for them, search out the first song, right-click it, Add to Singer -> New Singer. Done. Now this singer is in Target mode (see below), so it's ready to assign additional songs.

To create a new singer without adding songs right away, choose New Singer from the File menu, or press the New Singer button (the plus sign with the little "user" icon next to it, at the bottom left).

Click the disclosure triangle next to the singer to reveal their 3 playlists, "Tonight", "Favorites" and "History". You can browse any playlist to find songs you want, and drag the songs you want into Tonight or Favorites, or just drag it onto the Singer icon itself (that way, you don't really need to click the disclosure triangle to reveal the playlists). Songs dropped onto the Singer will go into their Tonight list.

Alternately, you can double click the Singer, which sets that singer as the [[Target_Mode|"Target"]]. Now, when browsing any playlist (including the Library) for songs, when you find a song you want, just double click it and it will be added to that singer's Tonight list.

If you set the pitch, tempo or rating for any song under a singer, it will be permanently remembered for that singer.

If there is a singer that goes to more than one venue, you can use finder aliases to have them show up at each venue. For more info on that, see [[Venues]].

Rotation

2008-05-12T07:09:57Z

Randyj:

2008-02-24T16:59:52Z

Randyj: double-clicking .m4v and .3gp files; iPhone (Cellular) export consideration

==Preparation==
You must select the output format in the QuickTime Export Preferences pane:

http://www.kjams.com/screenshots/prefs/exporting.png

In the Lite version, simply pick the iPod preset that you want. In the Pro version, First pick the encoder you want, then under that, pick the preset you want, or create a new one. You can edit the preset by pressing the "Edit…" button. kJams ships with several presets defined for each encoder, (or just one when only one really makes sense). You can pick the encoder and preset only once if you like, and never worry about it again, until you want to export a different format. The four buttons, "New…", "Duplicate", "Rename…", and "Delete" apply to the preset files. Your presets are stored in the kJams preferences folder (currently ~/Preferences/kJams/Export/).

==Caveats==
* You can't do anything other than 15 frames per second. 
* You can't do multi-pass encoding. 
I'll try to fix the above two problems, but for now that's the way it is, even if you try to set these in the setting dialog, the settings will be ignored.

* AVI export is disabled: output does not seem to produce audio, also seems related to 10.4. But then if you try to then import, first it won't import until you change the ".avi" extension to ".mov", but then when you try to play you'll get the "Can't move to background thread" error. These too will be fixed by the "Helper App" thingie, eventually.
* Meta info is stored only in QuickTime .mov (QT Meta Info, Unicode) files. If you export to any other format, currently meta info is set using Xattr tagging.
* You can only export Audio+G files (ie: you can't export a song who's source is a QuickTime movie, divx file, mpeg file etc, please request that feature if you want it)

==Export==
You can export directly from a CD, or Audio+G Tracks from your library. 
Select the song(s) you want to convert to QuickTime, then go:

File->Export->QuickTime...

If there are songs already currently exporting, the new songs will go to the same folder, else you will be asked to pick a folder for the destination.

Each song will then be exported using your chosen exporter.

You can then double click the resulting files to open in QuickTime Player or iTunes, depending on which encoder you chose in the QuickTime Export Preferences pane.

== Special Considerations ==
There is no limit to the number of songs you can export simultaneously, however your computer will probably start to get real slow if you're exporting a bunch at once. If this is an issue for you, let me know and I'll put in a pref to let the user specify the maximum number to export at once, that way you can cue up 100 songs for export, but only say 5 will actually export at a time (or however many you specify)

If you choose iPhone (Cellular) as the Movie Encoder, the resulting file will be about half the size (MB), but audio quality is greatly reduced.

== To get it onto your Video iPod ==
# Go to Preferences->Export and (in Pro:) pick "MPEG-4" as the encoder, and (In Lite or Pro:) pick a preset that starts with "iPod".
# Select the song(s) you want to export
# File->Export->QuickTime
# Select the resulting movie(s), right click and pick "Open With->iTunes"
# Inside iTunes, locate and Get Info on the song(s)
# In the "Info" tab, type in the Artist name, Album name, and whatever else you want
# In the "Options" tab, in the "Video Kind" popup, choose "Music Video", press OK
# Drag the video to your iPod