KJams Music Folder

The "kJams Music" folder is the folder pointed to by the Advanced preference panel. This is where kJams stores any song files that you have manually ripped from CDs. This folder is organized and maintained by kJams. You do not own this folder, you can not change things inside this folder, you must not rename anything inside this folder. Also you should never place anything in this folder yourself. The contents of this folder correspond to the database that kJams maintains. For this reason you must not attempt to manage it yourself, otherwise the database would become out of sync.

Technically, you *can* place things into this folder, but only if you are intentionally and purposefully rebuilding your entire library from scratch. This means you will lose all your playlists, singers, venues, and all of your "Song ID's" will change (forcing you to re-print your song books if you use "Song ID" to identify songs. This is usually NOT what you want.

To rebuild your library, you throw out the "kJams Library" folder (inside your "user/Music/" folder), but not the "kJams Music" folder. Then, when you run kJams, it will scan your "kJams Music" folder and re-create a fresh new library based on what is found there.

If you manually place songs within this folder, then go to kJams and attempt to "Add To Library…" those songs, you will get an error telling you that the songs should already be there, and if not then you should pick the menu "Advanced->Special->Scan “kJams Music” folder for orphaned songs…". They should already be there because kJams expects that it already knows about every song in that folder, since that folder was created only by kJams ripping songs into it. It is saying that if there ARE songs in the folder that you are not seeing in the library, then most likely you have placed them there yourself, and that in order to see them you must instead scan that folder for orphaned songs.