Consolidating
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->Entire Playlist: All Files..." files, follow the directions. If you want to match the "kJams Music" folder style, pick "Heirarchic", then "Artist". 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".
- Optional: If you exported to a folder structure that matches the "kJams Music" folder, you *MAY* at this point try to rename this new folder to "kJams Music".
- run kJams. Did you skip the previous step? you will have an empty librar, otherwise kJams will now your consolidated library automatically.
- If you did skip that step, then go 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!