Jaikoz Music Tagger

[Lyster]

I just downloaded Jaikoz Music Tagger. It looks very promising, but with 70,000+ FLAC files that are already 99% tagged (perhaps not to the degree that can be obtained with Jaikoz Music Tagger) I am pretty nervous about trying to scan the whole collection.

Any comments about this product? All of my songs have already been through MusicIP. (I'm searching for a replacement for that product, which is how I found Jaikoz Music Tagger.)

[erland]

NEVER try a new tagging software on your real music files, copy a part of the library to a separate directory and try the tool on that and ensure it works 100% before trying it on the whole library.

An alternative is of course to use it on the real library and make sure you have a fresh backup copy somewhere before you start. However, restoring 70000+ FLAC files from a backup is going to take some time so you would instead try it out on a copy of a smaller part of the library until I was sure it worked correctly.

[Lyster]

I agree with your suggestions here erland, of course. I'll probably get a 2 TB drive (which will barely hold all these files, by the way) to back up everything first.... I just wanted to get some input here before venturing out on this project - to make sure the effort is going to be worth it.

[audiomuze]

Do yourself a favour and try puddletag, it's free, uses musicbrainz, amazon and freedb and won't write a thing unless you ask it to.

[Lyster]

Thanks for the recommendation of puddletag. I'm using Windows Home Server (with various Windows clients), and have been using MP3Tag. Jaikoz has the ability to do so much more - automatically - and was designed with large music collections in mind. I'm trying it out - purchased a license (as I did for MP3Tag years ago), and so far I'm liking what I see....

[Sounder]

I run Jaikoz on OS X, the interface is not the best but it gets the job done and you can commit changes until you are 100% satisfied with the results. The programmers put out an upgrade about every 4 weeks, this makes it worth paying for it.

Regards,

[grrman]

Will Jaikoz tag MP3s on OSX SL?

[erland]

I'm re-using this old thread since I basically have the same question as the original poster, just 1.5 years later.

Has anyone experience with the Jaikoz tagger ?
Does it work good ?
Is it reliable ?
How does it stand-up in a comparison with puddletag, MP3tag and similar solutions ?

[johnas]

I use Jaikoz. I originally bought it to retag my library approx 23k flac files. My library was a mess as I didn't pay much attention to tags when I started to rip. It did a great job auto tagging (scan say 5k files, I would then either accept, edit or discard suggestions).

I prefer it over puddletag, but primarily due to my own ux preferences, as functionally I think they are pretty similar.

[prabbit]

I also use Jaikoz. I have had it only a short time and am still gettting used to it. I used mp3tag on Windows for years and got very comfortable with its interface and filtering.

I have found Jaikoz to be a bit of a memory hog, but it is getting the job done for me so far, although I have not yet put it through the same paces like I did with mp3tag.

As someone who is torn between free software (saves money) and supporting developers (provides support and to encourage further development), in this case I decided to support a developer since it is a tool that I will use over and over. I'm sure you can appreciate that position. I have no experience with puddletag and cannot make a comparison.