HandBrake

HandBrake is a free program which will let you rip your karaoke DVDs into individual songs which you can then add to your kJams library.

1. first time only:
   1. Download the DVD CSS library.
   2. In your "Downloads" folder, run the installer, and complete the installation.
      
2. Download HandBrake, install it and run it
3. you will get the "Open" dialog, just select your DVD from the list on the left
   
4. in the "Source" area, for chapter choice, pick "Chapters 1 to 1" (to rip the first track)
   
5. in the "Destination" area, type in the title of the song using "L-T - R - S" format. For info on what that means, Click here. Notice i did NOT use a dash in the disc title, nor in the artist title. Instead i used a dot in the disc title, and a tilde in the artist title. That's because the metadata scanner template uses dashes to differentiate the meta components and you don't want to confuse it. You can fix this later inside kJams if you wish.
6. Your window should look like this:
   
7. click the "Picture Settings" button
   
8. click the "Filters" tab
9. slide the knob from "Decomb" to "Deinterlace" (slide it to the right"
10. from the "Deinterlace" menu, pick "Fast". The panel should now look like this:
    
11. you can close the "Picture Settings" panel.
12. Back in the main window, click the "Audio" tab
13. In the "Track" list, set the first track's popup menu to whatever audio channel has "instrumental" only (it should be marked which channel is instrumental on the DVD cover sleeve, on my disc it said channel 2, so i pick the 2nd entry in the menu)
    
14. in the "Mixdown" list set it to "Stereo"
15. The window should look something like this:
    
16. Now save the preset by clicking the little plus button at the bottom of the presets drawer
    
17. name the preset "kJams" so you'll remember it, and use it next time, also set "Picture Settings" to "Currnet"
    
18. click the "Add to Queue" button
19. back in the "Source" area, for chapter choice, pick "Chapters 2 to 2" (to rip the second track)
20. type the song title like you did before, same format
    
21. repeat the above 3 steps for all the tracks you want
22. click the "Start" button
23. have coffee or lunch or whatever
24. store the results in their permanent location, where you will never move them again (ie: not on your desktop)
25. go to kJams and add them to your library
26. If the interpret dialog comes up, pick "L-T - R - S" and you're done
27. otherwise, select your new imports (all of them) and right click (control click) and pick "reinterpret names", then do the above and hit okay
28. Rejoyce!