HandBrake
HandBrake is a free program which will let you rip your karaoke DVDs into individual songs which you can then add to your kJams library.
- Download HandBrake
- you will get the "Open" dialog, just select your DVD from the list on the left
- if the "Presets" drawer is not showing (off the right side of the window), click the "Presets" button in the button bar
- pick the iPod preset
- in the "Source" area, for chapter choice, pick "Chapters 1 to 1" (to rip the first track)
- in the "Destination" area, type in the title of the song using "L-T - R - S" format. For info on what that means, Click here. Notice i did NOT use a dash in the disc title, nor in the artist title. Instead i used a dot in the disc title, and a tilde in the artist title. That's because the metadata scanner template uses dashes to differentiate the meta components and you don't want to confuse it. You can fix this later inside kJams if you wish.
- in the "Video" tab, check "2-pass encoding" and "Turbo first pass"
- click the "Picture Settings…" button, and set "Deinterlace" to "Fast"
- in the "Audio & Subtitles" tab, set "Track 1" to whatever audio channel has "instrumental" only (it should be marked which channel is instrumental on the DVD cover sleeve, on my disc it said channel 2, so i pick the 2nd entry in the menu)
- in the "Track 1 Mix" set it to "Stereo"
- in the "Sample rate" set to 44.1
- Now save the preset by clicking the little plus button at the bottom of the presets drawer
- name the preset "kJams" so you'll remember it, and use it next time
- click the "Add to Queue" button
- back in the "Source" area, for chapter choice, pick "Chapters 2 to 2" (to rip the second track)
- type the song title like you did before, same format
- repeat the above 3 steps for all the tracks you want
- click the "Start" button
- have coffee or lunch or whatever
- store the results in their permanent location, where you will never move them again (ie: not on your desktop)
- go to kJams and add them to your library
- Rejoyce!