KJams Music Folder

What it Is Not

Do NOT store these kinds of song and other media files:

• downloads from the web
• downloads from any software other than kJams
• media files (that have already been ripped into a common format) from any disk or storage device (hard drive, thumb drive, burned data disc, file transfer, email etc)

What it Is

Stores ONLY these kinds of (optionally) zipped Audio+G files:

• Songs you have personally ripped from CD or SuperCDG/NEOG disc
• Songs you have purchased thru any of the built in music stores.

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 or purchased in a kJams Music Store. 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. Likewise you should not change this preference to point it to a folder that contains files that you placed in there. 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.

If you manually place songs within this folder (DON'T YOU DARE), and then you 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 they have become orphaned by kJams itself, due to some bug, and that in order to see them again you must instead scan that folder for orphaned songs. DON'T DO IT. This doesn't work. PERIOD. You have been warned.

If you want to change the location of the "kJams Music" folder, say to an external hard drive, then i recommend simply copying the existing folder to the location you want it (then you know it has the correct name), then change the preference under Advanced to point to the same folder at the new location, then delete the folder from the original location. NEVER change it to point to a folder of "your music". Only point it to an empty folder, or a "kJams Music" folder that was created by kJams and optionally copied to some other location.

Adding Existing Music

If you are really trying to just add a folder of existing music to kJams, then just drag the folder onto kJams. That's it. If you want your music all in one place, then copy it to where you want first, THEN add drag it on to kJams. Don't put it in the "kJams Music" folder. Rather, you should make a NEW folder, NEXT TO the "kJams Music" folder, and put all your existing music in there, then add THAT folder to kJams (via drag and drop, or via "File->Add To Library…".