Chapter 1. Introduction

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1. Summary of features

Are you fustrated by missing information in your audio files? Are you unable to play back your favourite tracks? Maybe you are a recording artist and need to improve the information in your distributed audio files? Whether you need to regain control of your music collection or simply make some refinements Jaikoz offers an effective music management solution. The missing information in your files is known as metadata and is stored in a Tag. The Jaikoz MP3 Tag Editor is a powerful yet simple to use tool that allows you to organize, edit and correct thousands of these tags with ease.

Jaikoz has powerful automation features designed to do the hard work for you. Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz, an online database of over 5 million songs. MusicBrainz is a community based database with contributions by over 200,000 people and its system of moderation ensures the data is extremely accurate. Many of these songs also have associated Acoustic Ids provided by MusicIP, allowing a song to be identified by the actual music, so it can do a match even if you have no metadata! This feature means that Jaikoz gives you the flexibility to lookup your songs by both the acoustic id and the metadata making Jaikoz a very accurate tool. Jaikoz also provides easy access to look up your matching song on MusicBrainz using your default web browser.

No identification system is 100% accurate so we have made it as quick and easy as possible to edit your data manually as well. Jaikoz uses a convenient spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information very quickly and provides many autoformatting tasks. For example it compares your files to each other and using this information it can correct missing information and spelling mistakes. Jaikoz can extract information from a filename into the tag without you having to specify the format for the filename, and can rename filenames and folders from your metadata in your chosen format.

Some applications hide multi-complex fields away but Jaikoz allows you to access the first field of every one from the main view. For example if you have an album cover tag in one file and you want to copy it to another file just copy and paste it. Jaikoz provides access to many more fields than just the popular ones like artist and album, in fact you can modify ninety fields such Official Artist Web Page or ISRC code and Play Counter. Jaikoz also provides a split screen view letting you view the the original file(s) and the changes you have made at the same time

Jaikoz transparently supports tagging of Mp4, M4a, M4p, Flac, Ogg Vorbis files and Mp3 files with ID3v1,ID3v2,ID3v2.2,ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags, and allows easy conversion between them.

Jaikoz is written in Java this means you can use it on Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X, and it works the same way on each.

1. Summary of features

Acoustic matching using MusicBrainz and MusicIP to match tracks based on the actual music