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.

1. Download VideoLan Client, and install it in your Applications folder. You can ignore it thereafter. (HandBrake uses it's decoder behind the scenes)
2. Now download HandBrake, install it and run it
3. you will get the "Open" dialog, just select your DVD from the list on the left
   
4. if the "Presets" drawer is not showing (off the right side of the window), click the "Presets" button in the button bar
5. pick the iPod preset
   
6. in the "Source" area, for chapter choice, pick "Chapters 1 to 1" (to rip the first track)
7. 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.
8. in the "Video" tab, check "2-pass encoding" and "Turbo first pass"
   
9. click the "Picture Settings…" button, and set "Deinterlace" to "Fast"
   
10. 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)
11. in the "Track 1 Mix" set it to "Stereo"
12. in the "Sample rate" set to 44.1
    
13. Now save the preset by clicking the little plus button at the bottom of the presets drawer
    
14. name the preset "kJams" so you'll remember it, and use it next time, also set "Picture Settings" to "Currnet"
    
15. click the "Add to Queue" button
16. back in the "Source" area, for chapter choice, pick "Chapters 2 to 2" (to rip the second track)
17. type the song title like you did before, same format
    
18. repeat the above 3 steps for all the tracks you want
19. click the "Start" button
20. have coffee or lunch or whatever
21. store the results in their permanent location, where you will never move them again (ie: not on your desktop)
22. go to kJams and add them to your library
23. If the interpret dialog comes up, pick "L-T - R - S" and you're done
24. otherwise, select your new imports (all of them) and right click (control click) and pick "reinterpret names", then do the above and hit okay
25. Rejoyce!