Jaikoz
 The main tagging window. |
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| Developer(s) | Jthink |
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| Stable release | 4.5.3 NGS / [17/01/2012] |
| Operating system | Mac OS X, Windows, Linux |
| Platform | Java 1.5 |
| Type | tag editor, acoustic fingerprinter |
| License | shareware |
| Website | http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp |
Jaikoz is a Java program used for editing and mass tagging music file tags. Jaikoz generates acoustic fingerprints AcoustID of your files and looks up the AcoustID and the existing metadata from the MusicBrainz or Discogs service.[1] Potential matches are scored according to an algorithm[2] and if the highest score is greater than the user determined threshold the track is selected. This allows Jaikoz to automatically fix most of a users song collection.[3][4] Jaikoz uses a relatively unusual spreadsheet metaphor for both viewing and editing data, and allows editing of over fifty fields[5] using this spreadsheet interface, the underlying jaudiotagger tag library is released under LGPL and is used by various Java applications.[6]
Jaikoz is commercially licensed software, written in Java 1.5 by Paul Taylor. A shareware version, in which changes can only be saved to 20 files during one use, is also available as a 30-day free trial. 10% of every sale is paid to the MetaBrainz Foundation to support MusicBrainz development.
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[edit] Summary of Features
- Acoustic matching using MusicBrainz and AmpliFIND to match songs based on the actual music
- MetaData matching using MusicBrainz and Discogs to match tracks from the metadata in your files either automatically or manually
- Fixes artwork and lyrics as well.
- Supports Multiple Audio formats and different audio formats can be edited the same easy way
- Export/Import metadata to/from a spreadsheet.
- Delete Duplicates based on Musicbraizn Id and/or Acoustic Id
- Powerful Find And Replace feature that can be used to find and replace values in all/any column
- Intelligent FileName to Tagger can extract information from the filename into the tag without having to know the format of the field
- Configure batch operations using AutoCorrect
- Full Unicode support allow any character from any language to be used
- Easy conversion of tags between ID3 versions
[edit] Reviews and awards
Jaikoz has been favorably received worldwide. Jaikoz was recommended in a LifeHacker article for automatically correcting your metadata. [7] Jaikoz version 1.1.3 was distributed by Macworld Italy magazine with its Spring, 2006 supplement "Everything iPod".[8] Version 2.5 was favorably reviewed in 2008 by Thomas Weiss, senior editor of Macnews Germany.[9] Macworld Germany editor Matthias Zehden concurred in his 2009 iPhoneWelt review of Jaikoz.[10]
[edit] Academic notice
In 2006, Julien Chaveau of the University of Angers cited Jaikoz as an exemplar of an automated information extraction system,[11] and in 2008 Badawia Albassuny of King Abdulaziz University included Jaikoz in his survey of automatic metadata generators for its ability to generate metadata by analyzing content.[12]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://jaikoz.blogspot.com/2008/08/discogs.html
- ^ "Jaikoz Scoring Weightings". Jthink.net. 2009-10-29. http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/1141.page. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Tagging The Untagged". The Cat Came Back. http://blog.automated.it/2008/09/21/tagging-the-untagged/.
- ^ "The Ins and Outs of Jaikoz Audio File Meta Data Program". Lost in Technology. http://www.lostintechnology.com/software/the-ins-and-outs-of-jaikoz-audio-file-meta-data-program.
- ^ http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/tagmapping.html
- ^ JThink (2007-05-29). "JAudiotagger Library". Jthink.net. http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/apps.jsp. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Start to Finish Guide to Whipping Your Music's Metadata into Shape". LifeHacker. Spring 2010. http://lifehacker.com/5511473/start-to-finish-guide-to-whipping-your-musics-metadata-into-shape. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
- ^ "Macworld on CD Supplement Spring 2006". Macworld Italy. Spring 2006. http://www.macworld.it/showPage.php?template=in_edicola&id=9272. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ Weiss, Thomas (July 15, 2008). "Titles, Text, Metadata: Jaikoz knows almost everything about your music". Macnews. http://www.macnews.de/news/109739.html. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ Zehden, Matthias (March 13, 2009). "Jaikoz". iPhoneWelt. http://css.macwelt.de/artikel/_News/701276/tools_fuer_iphone_ipod_und_itunes/12. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ Chauveau, Julien (June 23, 2006). Automatic information extraction system for music files. Angers, France: University of Angers. http://julien.chauveau.online.fr/m1info/stage/assets/ProjetMP3-Rapport.pdf. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ Albassuny, Badawia M. (2008). "Automatic metadata generation applications: a survey study". International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (InderScience Publishers) 3 (4): 260–282. ISSN 1744-2621. http://inderscience.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1744-2621&volume=3&issue=4&spage=260. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
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