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To consolidate you must have double the hard drive space available that your library takes up. ie: if your library takes 12 GB of space, to consolidate you will temporarily need 12 *free* GB available. Also note you will lose all your playlists and singers when doing this. This is a temporary workaround until i write the "consolidate" command, at which time you can freely consolidate without losing *any* information.

add to library all the songs you want to consolidate from different places (skip this step if you don't need it)
select your Library playlist
file->export->original playlist files, follow the directions, export to a folder with a new name, for example "kJams Consolidated"
wait for the export to complete, have coffee or something
still in your Libray, Edit->Select All, then Edit->Trash Original Files. Yes this will move your previous library files to the trash.
wait for the trashing to complete
quit kJams
in the Finder, go to your "kJams" folder probably at /Users/<you>/Music/kJams/
trash the "kJams Library" folder and the "kJams Music" folders. (note: NOT the "kJams" folder that contains them, and not the "kJams CDs" folder
Move or Copy the "kJams Consolidated" folder (or whatever you named it) to it's new *permanant* location, i suggest you put it into the "kJams" folder
run kJams, you will have an empty library
File->Add To Library, and pick "kJams Consolidated", pick "Tags" if a dialog asks you about it, then hit okay
wait for it
you're done!

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-== Pulling all Audio out of iTunes ==
+To consolidate you must have double the hard drive space available that your library takes up.  ie: if your library takes 12 GB of space, to consolidate you will temporarily need 12 *free* GB available.  Also note you will lose all your playlists and singers when doing this.  This is a temporary workaround until i write the "consolidate" command, at which time you can freely consolidate without losing *any* information.
-# select the Library
-# File->New Preset Playlist->Files in kJams but no Audio (will look in iTunes)
-# if a new playlist is created, click it, else skip to step 9
-# with the new playlist selected, go Advanced->Special->Pre-Fetch all paths from iTunes...
-# go have coffe or hang out at your local Genius Bar while you wait
-# delete that new playlist. Repeat steps 1-2
-# if there IS a second new playlist created, these are songs that somehow were not found in iTunes, and cannot be found. There's probably a bug here, you should report this to me. Be aware that these files will not play, you may as well delete them.
-# select the Library
-# File->New Preset Playlist->Files in iTunes Music Library (that's *eye* toons)
-# if a new playlist is created, click it, else skip to step 13
-# with the new playlist selected, go Advanced->Special->Pull all Audio out of iTunes...
-# you've just copied the files from iTunes into the kJams folder, and all the songs in your Library now reference the files in the kJams folder.
-== Pulling all external Zip files ==
+# add to library all the songs you want to consolidate from different places (skip this step if you don't need it)
-Coming soon
+# select your Library playlist
+# file->export->original playlist files, follow the directions, export to a folder with a new name, for example "kJams Consolidated"
+# wait for the export to complete, have coffee or something
+# still in your Libray, Edit->Select All, then Edit->Trash Original Files.  Yes this will move your previous library files to the trash.
+# wait for the trashing to complete
+# quit kJams
+# in the Finder, go to your "kJams" folder probably at /Users/<you>/Music/kJams/
+# trash the "kJams Library" folder and the "kJams Music" folders.  (note: NOT the "kJams" folder that contains them, and not the "kJams CDs" folder
+# Move or Copy the "kJams Consolidated" folder (or whatever you named it) to it's new *permanant* location, i suggest you put it into the "kJams" folder
+# run kJams, you will have an empty library
+# File->Add To Library, and pick "kJams Consolidated", pick "Tags" if a dialog asks you about it, then hit okay
+# wait for it
+# you're done!

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