Jaikoz
Java tagging program
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::summary Java tagging program ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Jaikoz |
| screenshot | Jaikoz351screenshot.jpg |
| caption | The main tagging window |
| developer | Jthink |
| latest release version | 9.3.0 |
| latest release date | |
| operating system | Mac OS X, Windows, Linux |
| platform | Java 1.5 |
| genre | Tag editor, acoustic fingerprinter |
| license | Shareware |
| website | |
| :: |
| name = Jaikoz | screenshot = Jaikoz351screenshot.jpg | caption = The main tagging window | developer = Jthink | latest release version = 9.3.0 | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = | operating system = Mac OS X, Windows, Linux | platform = Java 1.5 | genre = Tag editor, acoustic fingerprinter | license = Shareware | website = Jaikoz is a Java program used for editing and mass tagging music file tags.
Jaikoz generates acoustic fingerprints from music files using the AcoustID service,{{cite web | title = AcoustId | url = http://www.acoustid.org | title = Tagging The Untagged | publisher = The Cat Came Back | url = http://blog.automated.it/2008/09/21/tagging-the-untagged/ | title = The Ins and Outs of Jaikoz Audio File Meta Data Program | date = 6 April 2009 | publisher = Lost in Technology | url = http://www.lostintechnology.com/software/the-ins-and-outs-of-jaikoz-audio-file-meta-data-program
Jaikoz uses a relatively unusual spreadsheet metaphor for both viewing and editing data, and allows editing of over fifty fields using this spreadsheet interface, the underlying jaudiotagger tag library is released under LGPL and is used by various Java applications.{{cite web | author = JThink | url = http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/apps.jsp | title = JAudiotagger Library | publisher = Jthink.net | date = 2007-05-29 | access-date = 2010-04-12
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.
History
Originally released in 2006 as a standalone music tagger without any MusicBrainz support, but support for MusicBrainz was soon added. Changes in Jaikoz have always reflected changes in MusicBrainz, for example Jaikoz was the first application to make use of the new web service released as part of the MusicBrainz NGS release in 2011, and the first application to use the MusicBrainz seeding mechanism for adding new releases.
Summary of features
- Acoustic matching using MusicBrainz and AcoustId 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.
- 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 Musicbrainz Id and/or Acoustic Fingerprint
- 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
- Adding releases to MusicBrainz
Reviews and awards
Jaikoz has been favorably received worldwide. Jaikoz was recommended in a LifeHacker article for automatically correcting your metadata. | title = Start to Finish Guide to Whipping Your Music's Metadata into Shape | publisher = LifeHacker | date = Spring 2010 | url = http://lifehacker.com/5511473/start-to-finish-guide-to-whipping-your-musics-metadata-into-shape | doi = | access-date = May 5, 2010 Jaikoz version 1.1.3 was distributed by Macworld Italy magazine with its Spring, 2006 supplement "Everything iPod".{{cite web |title = Macworld on CD Supplement Spring 2006 |publisher = Macworld Italy |date = Spring 2006 |url = http://www.macworld.it/showPage.php?template=in_edicola&id=9272 |doi = |access-date = December 12, 2009 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20060603120851/http://www.macworld.it/showPage.php?template=in_edicola&id=9272 |archive-date = June 3, 2006 |url-status = dead | last = Weiss | first = Thomas | title = Titles, Text, Metadata: Jaikoz knows almost everything about your music | publisher = Macnews | date = July 15, 2008 | url = http://www.macnews.de/news/109739.html | doi = | access-date = December 12, 2009 |last = Zehden |first = Matthias |title = Jaikoz |publisher = iPhoneWelt |date = March 13, 2009 |url = http://css.macwelt.de/artikel/_News/701276/tools_fuer_iphone_ipod_und_itunes/12 |doi = |access-date = December 12, 2009 |archive-date = February 6, 2013 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130206194759/http://css.macwelt.de/artikel/_News/701276/tools_fuer_iphone_ipod_und_itunes/12 |url-status = dead
Academic notice
In 2006, Julien Chaveau of the University of Angers cited Jaikoz as an exemplar of an automated information extraction system,{{Cite journal |last = Chauveau |first = Julien |title = Automatic information extraction system for music files |journal = |volume = |issue = |pages = |publisher = University of Angers |location = Angers, France |date = June 23, 2006 |url = http://julien.chauveau.online.fr/m1info/stage/assets/ProjetMP3-Rapport.pdf |issn = |doi = |id = |access-date = December 12, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100331213744/http://julien.chauveau.online.fr/m1info/stage/assets/ProjetMP3-Rapport.pdf |archive-date = March 31, 2010 |url-status = dead | last = Albassuny | first = Badawia M. | author-link = | title = Automatic metadata generation applications: a survey study | journal = International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies | volume = 3 | issue = 4 | pages = 260–282 | publisher = InderScience Publishers | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1504/IJMSO.2008.023574 | url = http://inderscience.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&issn=1744-2621&volume=3&issue=4&spage=260 | issn = 1744-2621 | id = | access-date = December 12, 2009 | url-access= subscription
References
References
- [http://blog.jthink.net/2008/08/discogs.html blog.jthink.net]
- [http://www.jthink.net/jaudiotagger/tagmapping.html jthink.net]
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