Song books are important, but making them can be a pain in the neck. Here’s the simplest way to make a karaoke songbook on a Mac using kJams:
Cnce you’re music’s in kJams, hide all columns except the ones you want, select all your songs, copy/paste them into TextEdit, and use find and replace to turn the tabs into hyphens.
If that sounds like a mouthful, read more for step by step instructions…
For Windows, see this post: The easiest way to make a karaoke song book on Windows (or Linux).
- Get kJams and import your music
- Ctrl-click on the “Song Name” column heading and a dropdown will appear.
- Uncheck everything except “Artist” and “Song Name” to make all other columns disappear.
- If the artist info is mixed in with the song name, uncheck Artist as well.
- Click column titles to search by Artist or Song Name
- Hit Cmd-A (Select All) and Cmd-C (Copy)
- Open TextEdit (it’s in your Applications folder) and hit Cmd-V (Paste). Your song list should appear.
- If the Artist info was mixed in with the song name, you’re done! Print it!
- If not, you’ll want to turn those white spaces (tabs) between artist and song name into hyphens
- Double click on the blank space between the artist and the song name. The blank space should highlight blue.
- Hit Cmd-C (Copy) and Cmd-F (Find) and Cmd-V (Paste). That should paste a similar blank space into the “Find” field.
- Click in the “Replace” field, hit spacebar, type a hyphen, and hit space bar (” – “)
- Click “Replace All”.
Voila. You now have something that looks like a song list. Just paste that into Word or OpenOffice and add columns, adjust the margins, the font-size etc.
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The method you outline above is so much easier than the one I have been using. Thank you so much for sharing this, it has saved me so much time and frustration!
Excellent. What method were you using before, just out of curiosity?
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If you just want to print a list from a mac, an easy way is just to use grab, icluded as standard on a mac osx leopard, look for it in apps.
You can just do a screen dump of your library, hide all the colums you don´t want, select > capture > selection, drag and drop over you library and it creates a tiff file. Don´t know if this may help anyone.