Exporting to Quicktime Temp

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This feature allows you to export to an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV.

  1. First set your preferences to the format you want.
    1. Go to Edit → Preferences → Exporting.
    2. Select the encoder that you want.
    3. Pick the preset that you want or create a new one. Press the Edit button to edit the preset. (kJams ships with several presets defined for each encoder.)
  2. Select the song(s) you want to convert to QuickTime. (You can export directly from a CD or from Audio+G tracks from your library.)
  3. Go to File → Export → Selection as [format] ...
  4. If there are songs already currently exporting, the new songs will go to the same folder, else you will be asked to pick a folder for the destination.
  5. Each song will then be exported using your chosen exporter.
  6. You can then double click the resulting files to open in QuickTime Player or iTunes, depending on which encoder you chose in the QuickTime Export Preferences pane.

Caveats

  • You must use the FPS menu in the Preferences window. If you use the one INSIDE the QuickTime Settings dialog, it will be ignored.
  • Meta data is stored only in QuickTime .mov and MPEG-4 (iPod, AppleTV, iPhone) files. If you export to any other format, meta info is set using Xattr tagging. You can optionally export the XML file, which has all the meta data.
  • You can only export Audio+G files. That is, you can't export a song whose source is a QuickTime movie, divx file, mpeg file, etc. Please request this feature if you want it.
  • There is no limit to the number of songs you can export simultaneously. However, your computer will probably start to get really slow if you're exporting a bunch at once. If this is an issue for you, let me know and I'll put in a Preference to let the user specify the maximum number to export at once. That way, you can cue up 100 songs for export, but specify the number that will actually export at one time.
  • If you choose iPhone (Cellular) as the Movie Encoder, the resulting file will be about half the size (MB), but audio quality is greatly reduced.