Moving

Preliminary

These instructions are for moving your music files from your *internal* drive to an *external* drive. If you're moving from an external to a new external, just clone the external drive and that's it.

Also keep in mind that the below only applies to music you have ripped from your CD collection or purchased from the built-in stores. That is, it does not work for files you have "Add to library..."'d. In other words, if you have imported pre-existing MP3+G files, this procedure will not help you. In that case, use the "Easy Hard Way" below

Just The Music

Advantage: All your actual music files are on an external volume, saving space on your internal drive. You can run kJams even if the volume is offline, creating playlists, setting pitches, creating / editing singers, edit meta info, or any other editing or management.
Disadvantage: You can't rip, play or burn, and your settings (songs & meta info, playists, singers etc) won't transfer automatically if you plug the external drive into another machine.

1. In the Finder, go to ~/Music/kJams/, inside that you'll find "kJams Music" folder
2. Drag that folder wherever you want. If you copy it to an external volume, it will be copied, so be sure to delete the original after you make the copy.
3. in kJams, go to preferences->advanced, and click the "Change..." button to set the library location to the new place (pick "kJams Music" from wherever you placed it in the previous step).

Music Plus All Library Settings

Advantage: You can take your drive to a different machine and plug it in, and the kJams on THAT machine will now be up to date with all your playlists, singers, venues, rotation, songs and related meta info.
Disadvantage: You can not run kJams with the volume offline.

1. In the Finder, go to ~/Music/kJams/
2. Drag that entire folder (the one called "kJams") to your external volume. Delete the original afterwards.
3. On that other volume, select the newly copied "kJams" folder and make an alias.
4. Drag that alias into your ~/Music/ folder, make sure you rename the alias so it just says "kJams", not "kJams alias"
5. Now, on all the machines you plan to use this library with, plug in the drive then launch kJams. Go to preferences->advanced, and click the "Change..." button to set the library location to the new place (pick "kJams Music" from inside the "kJams" folder, from where you placed it in step 2)

Cloning a setup

Advantage: You maintain a fullly working ready-to-run backup of your entire setup
Disadvantage: You must manually maintain sync between the two systems.

To see the instructions see Cloning.

Serving Music Remotely

You can serve your music from one computer to another. Using either of the above methods, you can mount your music volume from your network before you launch kJams. If you store your music on a FAT32 or DOS volume (which is reasonable if you share your karaoke library with a Windows computer), you will need to share your music with SharePoints using SMB, and mount the volume using smb:// in the connect dialog in the finder.

The Easy Hard Way

1. Quit kJams
2. download and install PathFinder
3. drag and drop the root folder from the source location to the dest location
4. delete the folder from the source location
5. using PathFinder, make a Symbolic Link (File->Alias->Make Symbolic Link) of the folder at the dest location
6. drag it to the source location, so it *seems* that the files appear to be in the source location, at the same path
7. run kJams, open your tasks window, wait for any tasks to finish
8. do a Forced Save (⌘⇧⌥⌃-S) -- this will update all the paths in the DB to the new location
9. delete the symbolic lik