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Product Description:
kJams is a karaoke jukebox for Mac OS X! The project is currently in development, so new features will be added beyond what you see below.
In the Lite version, you can now rip (import), mix (make playlists) and play (from CD or from your hard drive), plug in a microphone and sing along, sort or search your library by name, artist or album, create custom playlists, show the graphics full screen on a second monitor or TV, change the pitch and tempo independently. Export the currently showing play list to an XML file (for integration with a web or database application), or copy the list to the clipboard (to paste into eg: Excel for printing song books). Export to your Video iPod too! The Pro version also allows individual singers to manage their favorites, history and their "tonight" que, and builds the Rotation smart playlist from the singers marked as "here", and lets you manage multiple Venues, each with it's own set of Singers.
Note: You must have a CD+G capable reader or writer for kJams to rip or burn.
In the Lite version, you can now rip (import), mix (make playlists) and play (from CD or from your hard drive), plug in a microphone and sing along, sort or search your library by name, artist or album, create custom playlists, show the graphics full screen on a second monitor or TV, change the pitch and tempo independently. Export the currently showing play list to an XML file (for integration with a web or database application), or copy the list to the clipboard (to paste into eg: Excel for printing song books). Export to your Video iPod too! The Pro version also allows individual singers to manage their favorites, history and their "tonight" que, and builds the Rotation smart playlist from the singers marked as "here", and lets you manage multiple Venues, each with it's own set of Singers.
Note: You must have a CD+G capable reader or writer for kJams to rip or burn.
What's new in this version:
What's new since last time?
- Ready for Leopard, including Burning!
- configurable sort columns: context-click (that's right- or control- click) the column headers to get a list to pick from! Lots of meta data now available!
- you can now play ALL QuickTime file types including AMR, IMA, MACE, mu-law, qdesign etc, mono, stereo, multichannel, they ALL work. you can also play .wma files
- iPod (Touch), iPhone, AppleTV exporters are now 100% reliable! Also 3GPP available in the Pro version!
- Now available in German!
- Pitch Bending has been perfected! No more warble!! (let me know if you have trouble)
- safer saving (less likely to lose your playlists or songs)
- the "remove duplicates" preset playlist function now works! and it is FAST!!
- deleting many songs from a very large library is now FAST!
- even more powerful meta data de-scrambling (song name interpretation), now use templates in enclosing folders, concatenate elements, ignore elements etc
- "Always On Top" an option to keep the lyrics window on top of every other window on your system, even when kJams is in the background
- new context menu item -> add to new singer
- file exporting is much expanded!
- completely customizable keyboard shortucts! (except for the space bar -> Play / Pause)
- diacritic insensitive searching (on Leopard, coming soon in Tiger)
- Plug in your Microphone!! Wow with volume control! (coming soon: effects). Also: you can now pick your audio output device.
- much more Unicode (international character) support
- a bazillion bugs were fixed!!
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3.9; burning requires 10.4
- QuickTime 7.1 or higher
- Compatible CD reader or writer
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.5) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Featured Reviews
There Is No Other - Version: 1.0d49, 5/8/2008 06:58AM PST
wgfinley
Long and short of it, I have used kJams for several years now, I was one of the early testers for Dave and his product, I've been a KJ for 15 years and I have used kJams professionally for karaoke as wells as for handling backtracks for a lounge act as well as my own online lounge act -- there is no other karaoke hoster, OS X or otherwise, period.
No other program offers the features, versatility, polish, presentation, intuitiveness or the capabilities of kJams. This includes the Windows platform as well where I used several hosting programs. No other program parses a massive library in not time at all. Screwed up your library or rebuilt your drive? Re-index the whole dang thing in minutes. Have a singer who sings the same 5 songs every time and is particular about the version? His favorites are in there waiting for you just to click on "here". Have a venue that's just once a month with a core group of folks who always sing the same thing every time? No problem, they're all right there with their favorites and they're not cluttering up the favorites from your weekly gigs.
Most of us spend half our lives ripping as well, I did too before I ripped with kJams. Most hosters won't even touch ripping and kJams gives you the best ripper there is period. Anal about your sound quality and want everything in AIFF or WAV? No problem. Like LAME at 128? No problem. Tired of zipping CDG files to compressed files, organizing folders, keeping them all sorted and named the same thing? No problem, kJams rips and sorts your library just like iTunes does. Did I mention integration with KJ Pro so you can keep your song book organized while you rip? Pure genius.
Dave is a diligent and attentive developer, he's constantly working on his product to make it better and he's there to fix it when something goes wrong. He communicates well with users finding out what we want in our karaoke program and doing what it takes to get those features integrated into the product.
As I stated earlier, there is no other hoster professional or otherwise, OS X or Windows, that measures up to kJams. Look no further.
kJams Beats Them All! - Version: 1.0d48, 4/7/2008 12:31PM PST
GeorgeBrown
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I have been using kJams Pro for over four years and have found this program to be the best KJ program for the Mac for running a Karaoke show. I have followed this program through most of it's developmental stages and it just keeps getting better and better. It plays Karaoke tracks with far superior fidelity and accuracy than the best hardware Karaoke machines on the market, even when the key is changed several steps, thus allowing the singer to hear his/her track undistorted in the key of his/her individual voice range.
The kJams interface keeps your library extremely well organized enabling the KJ to make playlists for individual singers and to play individual tracks with a single mouse click - far more efficient than hunting through CD folders for discs and placing in and removing from a Karaoke hardware machine enabling the KJ to "keep the show going" without any "dead air space."
Even more impressive than the program itself, is the technical support given by Dave Cotter, the software creator of this ingenious program. I have limited knowledge about computers and Dave has provided the most prompt and generous tech support imaginable, even three to four hours at a time in telephone and computer remote control tech support! I have never received such tech support from any other software vendor/developer! Dave's tech support is unsurpassed!
Therefor, I highly recommend kJams! You certainly will be amazed by it's wealth of features, quality of sound and phenomenal tech support!
I have been using kJams Pro for over four years and have found this program to be the best KJ program for the Mac for running a Karaoke show. I have followed this program through most of it's developmental stages and it just keeps getting better and better. It plays Karaoke tracks with far superior fidelity and accuracy than the best hardware Karaoke machines on the market, even when the key is changed several steps, thus allowing the singer to hear his/her track undistorted in the key of his/her individual voice range.
The kJams interface keeps your library extremely well organized enabling the KJ to make playlists for individual singers and to play individual tracks with a single mouse click - far more efficient than hunting through CD folders for discs and placing in and removing from a Karaoke hardware machine enabling the KJ to "keep the show going" without any "dead air space."
Even more impressive than the program itself, is the technical support given by Dave Cotter, the software creator of this ingenious program. I have limited knowledge about computers and Dave has provided the most prompt and generous tech support imaginable, even three to four hours at a time in telephone and computer remote control tech support! I have never received such tech support from any other software vendor/developer! Dave's tech support is unsurpassed!
Therefor, I highly recommend kJams! You certainly will be amazed by it's wealth of features, quality of sound and phenomenal tech support!
KJams Pro Customer Support - Version: 1.0d48, 1/31/2008 12:00AM PST
kessmariearwood
Wow, what incredible customer support! I purchased KJams Pro and because of MY lack of computer knowledge, I was having extreme difficulty with the program. I contacted Dave and within 10 minutes of taking over my computer, Dave had me understanding and working the program like a pro. I would purchase this program 100 times over again just for the customer support. Thanks Dave.
Sincerely,
Coni in Florida
Sincerely,
Coni in Florida
