Jaikoz Music Tagger

[Lyster]

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.
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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.

I've been using Jaikoz since I last posted here (August of 2010) and would not be without it. I have not abandoned MP3Tag, however, as Jaikoz will not always keep the integrity of the albums it scans (especially compilation albums). I'll run MP3Tag after Jaikoz to clean everything up and finish the tagging as I like it.

If you have a large collection, and wish to use Jaikoz to sort through and tag them all, you'll need to run it in batch mode from the command line and add additional memory. It can use alot of memory, yes, especially when using it in this way.

[audiomuze]

Hi Erland, is there anything in particular you're curious about re jaikoz?

[erland]

Hi Erland, is there anything in particular you're curious about re jaikoz?

Nothing special, the main reason I asked was that all my laptop computers are Mac's these days and installing python on them (as needed by puddletag) is a bit of extra work while Java (needed by Jaikoz) is already installed.

[erland]

I have not abandoned MP3Tag, however, as Jaikoz will not always keep the integrity of the albums it scans (especially compilation albums).

This makes me a bit worried, are you saying that it won't write/read the tags correctly or did you mean something else with this statement ?

[Lyster]

This makes me a bit worried, are you saying that it won't write/read the tags correctly or did you mean something else with this statement ?

If you have an album with songs that appear in more than one album, Jaikoz will sometimes tag with another album's information. Same artist, same song, but not the album you are tagging. Easily fixed with MP3Tag. I also don't want to have "disk 1" reported when there is only one disk. (My preference.) So I use MP3Tag to fix that too.

[johnas]

If you have an album with songs that appear in more than one album, Jaikoz will sometimes tag with another album's information. Same artist, same song, but not the album you are tagging. Easily fixed with MP3Tag. I also don't want to have "disk 1" reported when there is only one disk. (My preference.) So I use MP3Tag to fix that too.

You can still fix this with jaikoz unless I'm not understanding? If you are using the auto tagging you can tell it to match one album which ime seems to eliminate matching to multiple albums.

Also with the disc issue I do believe you can tell it to ignore the disc or any other tag you don't want populated.

[Mycenius]

Hi All,

New here - quick question for experienced users: I have library of about 27k FLAC tracks. I have endeavoured to tag them as thoroughly as possible with MediaMonkey, getting dates, artists, titles, & lyrics (& publisher in most cases) as accurate as possible... I haven't specifically tagged anything else like Disc Number/Box Set info, or such. Given discussion above, what benefits would there be to running one of these apps across my library, would there be many other tags that would be automatically updated? I'm keen to get the files as up to date and accurate as possible...

Many TIA

[audiomuze]

I cannot comment on Jaikoz as I've not used it, but the benefit of running an automated tagged through your library is possible correction of errors, consistency of capitalisation and enrichment of metadata.

As an example you could push your collection through puddletag's masstagger to add musicbrainz track and album id's, get album, artist and title metadata and get genre metadata and album artwork from discogs in a single run. Proposed changes are generally presented for your approval prior to writing to your files and in the case of puddletag you can edit the suggested changes and reject individual field/ track or album level changes.

At the end of the day the usefulness or otherwise of these capabilities very much depends on what you want to get out of your metadata.