The first thing you have to do with kaiDJ is to create a database:

1. click on the "Add folder to Db" button to open a file browser.
2. browse your disk and select the folder where your songs are located. Click on "Ok" button.
3. kaiDJ starts scanning your folder to add all songs in its database. After that, all your songs should be displayed in the left list with [UNKNOWN] titles and authors
4. kaiDJ starts analyzing ID3 tags of each song file to find its title, author and duration
5. when all songs are properly displayed with their titles and authors, kaiDJ is ready to play

You can add new songs to the database at any moment using the above procedure.
Click on the "Erase Db" button to clean the whole database and create a new one.

Songs:

• double-click on the song you want in the database list (left songs list) to add it at the end of the playlist (right songs list).
• ctrl-click on the song you want in the database list (left songs list) to add it after the current selection or the current playing position in the playlist (right songs list).
• press the "Suppr" key to remove a selected song from the playlist.
• click and drag a song to move its position in the playlist.
• ctrl-click on a song to move it after the current selection or the current playing position.
• click on the green spot of a song to disable / enable it in the playlist

Groups:

• click on the "Add named group" button to add a group around the selected song
• click and drag the open line of the group to move the whole group in the playlist
• click and drag the close line of the group to extend or reduce the group size
• you can set / change the name of a group by selecting its open line and then enter a name in the text field above the playlist
• ctrl-click on the open line of a group to move it after the current selection or the current playing position.
• click on the green spot of a group to disable / enable all songs it contains in the playlist

Shuffle:

• when the "Shuffle selection" button is selected, each time a new song starts, a new song is randomly pick from the database list and added at the end of the list

Double-click on the song you want to play in the playlist (right) to load it on a player and start it toplay.
If a song is already playing on a player, kaiDJ will load it in the other one, and will automatically start to mix them.

• you can pause/resume a player by one click on it.
• you can adjust the volume by clicking in the vertical volume bar at right
• you can change the playing position by clicking in the horizontal advance bar at bottom

When you click on a song, it is automatically loaded in the pre-listen player (top-left). As for other players :

• you can pause/resume a player by one click on it.
• you can adjust the volume by clicking in the vertical volume bar at right
• you can change the playing position by clicking in the horizontal advance bar at bottom

Enter a text in the text field above the database list. All songs containing this text either in the title, the author or the folder disk path will be displayed in the database list.

You can load / save playlists as standard m3u or m3u8 (Unicode lists) preserving kaiDJ's groups definitions. But, if these playlists are updated by another software, the groups definitions can be lost.
You can load / save playlists using the dedicated kaiDJ's XML format to be sure to preserve all informations.

• click on the "Save playlist" button to open a file browser. Choose the place on your disque, enter a file name, and press the "Save" button. Without extension, the playlist will be saved as a ".kaiDJ" file.
• click on the "Open playlist" button to open a file browser. Choose the place on your disque, click on the playlist file you want to load, and press the "Open" button.
• click on the "Clear playlist" button to erase the content of the playlist and start with a new empty one.

You can classify your songs by categories to find them faster. You can create as many categories you want. A song can be in several categories at the same time.

• click on the "Show/hide categories" button to display the categories panel below the database panel.
• enter the name of a new category in the selector above the category list
• double-click on a song in the database list to add it in the category
• press the "Suppr" button to remove the selected song from the category. When a category is empty, it is removed from the categories list
• use the categories selector to display the songs list of a category
• double-click on a song in the category list to add it to the playlist