Moving
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.
- In the Finder, go to ~/Music/kJams/, inside that you'll find "kJams Music" folder
- 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.
- 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.
- In the Finder, go to ~/Music/kJams/
- Drag that entire folder (the one called "kJams") to your external volume. Delete the original afterwards.
- On that other volume, select the newly copied "kJams" folder and make an alias.
- Drag that alias into your ~/Music/ folder
- 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)