Music Store/KaraokeCloud Pro
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Streaming
There are over 10 thousand songs available for streaming, and most of them can also be purchased a-la-carte. There are also several free songs (marked with the Green label (search for "label:2" in the store). You must create a free account with KaraokeCloud ahead of time to play the free songs, and of course you must purchase a streaming subscription to stream the rest. For home users, you must have an internet connection at the time you wish to stream. For KJs and fanatics, you can sign up for "Tethering", where you pre-download all the cloud data (encrypted), then you can "stream" from that, so you do NOT need an internet connection when you want to play any of the songs in the cloud library.
Currently there are three Tiers available: Free, Home, and KJ Tethering. Note that "Home" is NOT licensed for public performance, tho you're free to purchase it with the Pro version of kJams as long as you only use it at home. Note: If you are doing public performances then you must use kJams Pro and the "KJ Tethering" tier. Also note that "private" parties with more than 20 people are legally considered "public".
| Tier | kJams Lite | kJams Pro | Pre-Download | Public Performance | Price | Expiration | Auto-Renew | Purchase |
| Free | ✓ | ✓ | Free | Never | Built In! (Only 60 songs are free) | |||
| Home Streaming | ✓ | ✓ | $10 | 1 Month | ✓ | in-app purchase | ||
| KJ Tethering-Yearly | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | $1,200 | 1 Year | ✓ | in-app purchase |
Note that these tiers are only for a single installation and a backup. If your business has more than one KJ running shows (ie: working for you), you will need a separate license for each KJ. Sharing your Tier is strictly prohibited. Note that these Tiers are monitored closely and will be audited if it seems there are shenanigans going on.
To be clear: kJams Lite and/or the "Home" Tier can not be used in a public setting due to the License Agreement. If you are doing a public show (or large private show) then you must use kJams Pro and the "KJ Tethering" Tier. You can of course use the Pro version for private shows.
Downloads for Purchase
There are about 10,000 songs available for purchase / download (they can also be streamed). They are USD $1.99 each. Sort by price then scroll down a bit to see them all at once. To sort by some other column, search for "1.99" then sort however you wish.
Free Streaming Songs
There is also a set of about 50 songs that you can stream for free! I'm not sure if this set changes every month, so be sure to update your music store when kJams asks you to (or right before a show) to make sure you've got the latest list. These songs have been Labeled (colored) with Green so you can easily see them. To play them, you must have created a free account. To see the list in the music store, first show the "Label" column, then either a) sort by Label, then scroll down to the green section, or b) just search for "Label:2" (no quotes).
Voucher Credits
You can pre-purchase voucher credits somehow, i'm not quite sure where, but the code comes on a physical card. We'll try to get digital vouchers going soon.
Tethering
If you opt for the "KJ Tethering" Tier, kJams will automatically start downloading the entire song database to your kJams folder, in a folder called "KaraokeCloud Tethered Database". It will take about 80GB of space, so be sure you have enough before you start. It will take a long time too, on a good connection it may take a day to get it all. On a slow connection, it may take a couple days. If there are hiccups part way thru, you can just (optionally force) quit kJams and run again, and it will pick up where it left off. Do not worry about the songs that don't sync properly, we're working on it, they will be skipped and marked as "Missing" (you can show the Missing sort column if you like).
If you would prefer to use an external drive to store ALL your music, use the "Moving" procedure. If you just want to store the Cloud data on an external drive, follow these steps:
- quit kJams
- Go to your "kJams" folder
- if there is a "KaraokeCloud Tethered Database" folder already there, drag it to the external drive, then delete it from the kJams folder
- if there is NOT that folder there, then go to your external drive and create a folder called "KaraokeCloud Tethered Database"
- select that folder and make an alias (shortcut)
- Drag that alias (shortcut) back into the "kJams" folder
- rename it there so that it does NOT have the word "_alias" (or "_shortcut") at the end. Be VERY careful that you remove the space character (indicated by the underscore in the example here). The point is it must be named exactly "KaraokeCloud Tethered Database", so kJams will find it.
- you may now delete the alias (shortcut) from the external drive, as it is no longer needed
Now, when you sync the cloud data, it will go to the external drive.