kJams Wiki - User contributions [en]

Server

2008-09-25T23:15:45Z

Nik:

In the Pro version, kJams allows the KJ to enable a web server that can act as the front end to kJams. This will allow singers to log in and manage their "Tonight", "Favorites", and "History" playlists. They can search the Library or any of their singer lists to find songs they can then put into their "Tonight" list. They can reorder their "Tonight" list so the songs come in the order in which they want to sing them.

Note: This feature is NOT complete and is not considered "ready for prime time". At the moment i'm only soliciting feedback and bug reports. Do not expect to be able to deploy this at your shows. Support for iPhone Safari is NOT working, that is coming soon, there will be full support for it but it is NOT available now. Also, the Web UI will not work in any version of Internet Explorer.

# To enable existing singers for remote login, right click on the singer and pick "get info" and enter a password.
# Hold down the option key and pick "Preferences"
# Click "Sharing".
# Check "Enable kJams Web Server"
# Enter a port number or keep the default eg: 12345
# find out the sharing name of your machine (in System Preferences->sharing, eg: "mymac.local")
# Go to a machine on your local network and enter the kJams Server url eg: http://mymac.local:12345

Send me some feedback on what works and what doesn't, and what you need to make it better. Thanks!

== Known Issues ==
* Any list (singers or songs) with more than 200 items will not load.
* A failed login (i.e., bad password) will not display an error; it will just display the login page again.
* The album selector doesn't actually do anything (yet).
* Updates made in kJams don't show up in the web UI until the playlist is refreshed. This will be addressed after 1.0.

Server

2008-09-25T18:28:51Z

Nik:

In the Pro version, kJams allows the KJ to enable a web server that can act as the front end to kJams. This will allow singers to log in and manage their "Tonight", "Favorites", and "History" playlists. They can search the Library or any of their singer lists to find songs they can then put into their "Tonight" list. They can reorder their "Tonight" list so the songs come in the order in which they want to sing them.

Note: This feature is NOT complete and is not considered "ready for prime time". At the moment i'm only soliciting feedback and bug reports. Do not expect to be able to deploy this at your shows. Support for iPhone Safari is NOT working, that is coming soon, there will be full support for it but it is NOT available now. Also, the Web UI will not work in any version of Internet Explorer.

# To enable existing singers for remote login, right click on the singer and pick "get info" and enter a password.
# Hold down the option key and pick "Preferences"
# Click "Sharing".
# Check "Enable kJams Web Server"
# Enter a port number or keep the default eg: 12345
# find out the sharing name of your machine (in System Preferences->sharing, eg: "mymac.local")
# Go to a machine on your local network and enter the kJams Server url eg: http://mymac.local:12345

Send me some feedback on what works and what doesn't, and what you need to make it better. Thanks!

== Known Issues ==
* Any list (singers or songs) with more than 200 items will not load.
* A failed login (i.e., bad password) will not display an error; it will just display the login page again.
* There is currently no way to remove songs from a playlist via the web UI (yet).
* The album selector doesn't actually do anything (yet).
* Updates made in kJams don't show up in the web UI until the playlist is refreshed. This will be addressed after 1.0.

Server

2008-09-25T18:26:24Z

Nik:

In the Pro version, kJams allows the KJ to enable a web server that can act as the front end to kJams. This will allow singers to log in and manage their "Tonight", "Favorites", and "History" playlists. They can search the Library or any of their singer lists to find songs they can then put into their "Tonight" list. They can reorder their "Tonight" list so the songs come in the order in which they want to sing them.

Note: This feature is NOT complete and is not considered "ready for prime time". At the moment i'm only soliciting feedback and bug reports. Do not expect to be able to deploy this at your shows. Support for iPhone Safari is NOT working, that is coming soon, there will be full support for it but it is NOT available now. Also, the Web UI will not work in any version of Internet Explorer.

# To enable existing singers for remote login, right click on the singer and pick "get info" and enter a password.
# Hold down the option key and pick "Preferences"
# Click "Sharing".
# Check "Enable kJams Web Server"
# Enter a port number or keep the default eg: 12345
# find out the sharing name of your machine (in System Preferences->sharing, eg: "mymac.local")
# Go to a machine on your local network and enter the kJams Server url eg: http://mymac.local:12345

Send me some feedback on what works and what doesn't, and what you need to make it better. Thanks!

== Known Issues ==
* Any list (singers or songs) with more than 200 items will not load.
* A failed login (i.e., bad password) will not display an error; it will just display the login page again.
* There is currently no way to remove songs from a playlist via the web UI (yet).
* The album selector doesn't actually do anything (yet).

Preset Playlists

2007-06-26T02:45:31Z

Nik: Fixed typo in the first sentence (to -> so) -Nik

Right now, Preset Playlists are NOT dynamically updated, so technically they're not "Smart" playlists. That is, after you create them, they are not automatically updated based on the criteria they filter for. If you have made changes to your library that may affect what a Preset Playlist would show, you will need to re-generate it.

Preset playlists are generated from the playlist that is currently selected. So if you want to operate on your Library, please select it first. Searching does not affect what is generated into the new playlist.

Here's an example:
Say I want to view duplicate files in my library, then remove any extras beyond the originals.
# Go to Library
# New Smart Playlist->Duplicate Files (if you have > 2000 songs, don't do it. you can't cancel and it'll take forever)
# go to newly created "Duplicates" playlist
# notice this holds EVERY copy of each duplicate song. What you want is a list that holds duplicates beyond the first one you imported, so you can delete them, leaving the first one you imported still in your library.
# Go New Smart Playlist->Cull Most Recent Duplicates (actually you could have jumped here from step 1)
# Go to newly created "Culled - Recent" playlist
# This list contains duplicates other than the first one you added to your library
# Select All (the next command operates on selection)
# Go Edit->Trash Original Files. This will not only remove them from your library, and all play lists, it will also move the original files on your hard drive into the trash, so you won't have them in your library ever again.

For an example of pulling all Audio out of iTunes, check out [[Consolidating]].