Table of Contents
- 1. Main Menu
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- 1.1. Jaikoz
- 1.2. File
- 1.3. Edit
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- 1.3.1. Copy from View Pane
- 1.3.2. Copy from Edit Pane
- 1.3.3. Paste
- 1.3.4. Paste All Values
- 1.3.5. Paste to Start
- 1.3.6. Paste to End
- 1.3.7. Remove Whitespace
- 1.3.8. Remove Widespace
- 1.3.9. Delete
- 1.3.10. Find and Replace
- 1.3.11. Capitalizer...
- 1.3.12. Swap Columns...
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- 1.3.12.1. Swap Artist with Album
- 1.3.12.2. Swap Artist with Title
- 1.3.12.3. Swap Artist with Track No
- 1.3.12.4. Swap Artist with Comment
- 1.3.12.5. Swap Album with Title
- 1.3.12.6. Swap Album with Track No
- 1.3.12.7. Swap Album with Comment
- 1.3.12.8. Swap Title with Track No
- 1.3.12.9. Swap Track No with Comment
- 1.3.12.10. Swap Title with Comment
- 1.3.13. Swap
- 1.3.14. Prepend to Left
- 1.3.15. Prepend to Right
- 1.3.16. Renumber Track Nos
- 1.4. View
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- 1.4.1. Show View Pane
- 1.4.2. Show Tag Browser
- 1.4.3. Show Detail Pane
- 1.4.4. Show ToolBar
- 1.4.5. Show ID3 Tabs
- 1.4.6. View Artwork Full-size
- 1.4.7. View this Track at MusicBrainz
- 1.4.8. View this Artist at MusicBrainz
- 1.4.9. View this Album at MusicBrainz
- 1.4.10. View this Acoustic Id at MusicBrainz
- 1.4.11. View this Track at Amazon
- 1.4.12. View this Release at Discogs
- 1.4.13. View this Release at Wikipedia
- 1.4.14. View this Artist at Discogs
- 1.4.15. View this Artist at Wikipedia
- 1.5. Action
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- 1.5.1. Auto Correct
- 1.5.2. Local Correct
- 1.5.3. File And Folder Correct
- 1.5.4. Remote Correct...
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- 1.5.4.1. Retrieve Acoustic Ids
- 1.5.4.2. Autocorrect Tags From MusicBrainz
- 1.5.4.3. Cluster Albums
- 1.5.4.4. Correct Lyrics
- 1.5.4.5. Submit MusicBrainz/PUID Pair
- 1.5.4.6. Submit MusicBrainz Genres
- 1.5.4.7. Submit MusicBrainz Collection
- 1.5.4.8. Manual Correct Tags From MusicBrainz
- 1.5.4.9. Update Tags From Existing MusicBrainz Id
- 1.5.4.10. Update Tags From Discogs
- 1.5.5. Delete Files
- 1.5.6. Undelete Files
- 1.5.7. Empty Cache
- 1.5.8. Create Support Files
- 1.6. Filters
- 1.7. Reports
- 1.8. Help
- 2. Preferences
- 3. Popup Menu
Describes this version of Jaikoz, the user license agreement and acknowledges the third party products used.
Quit Jaikoz. If you have outstanding modifications to your prteferences but not saved them, you will see
click Yes to save preferences or No to not.
It will then check if you have modified any records. if you have you will see
click Yes to save changes or No not to.
After making any requested saves Jaikoz will exit.
If you are attempting to load a large number of files a Progress Monitor will display showing the file loading progress, if you want to stop loading click on Cancel and no further files will be loaded. You cannot start editing until the load has completed.
Use this to load further Audio Files into Jaikoz, without replacing currently loaded files.
Use this to load Audio Files into Jaikoz, you can use this option to select one or more individual files from a directory without having to load all the files in the directory, any currently loadd files will be discarded.
Use this to load additional Audio Files into Jaikoz, without replacing currently loaded files.
Use this to close the files within Jaikoz. If you have modified the file you will be given the chance to save your changes.
This can be used to install a full license before your trial license has expired, once a full license has been installed this option is permanently disabled.
This will save any changes you have made to your preferences to file so they will be preserved the next time you start Jaikoz. By default preferences are automatically saved when you exit Jaikoz anyway unless yo have disabled this option.
This will save changes you have made to all Audio Files, including marking files for deletion.
Once the save has completed, for all records successfully saved the View Panel will be updated to show the tag information as is currently held in the record, the Edit Panel will show the same as the Read Panel. Any records not successfully saved will still have a status of Changed or Deleted and the records data will be the same as before the editing was done. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes
This will save changes you have made to all files currently listed and move them to a different folder that you select. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes
The moved files will no longer be open in Jaikoz
This will save changes you have made to all files currently listed and copy them to a different folder that you select. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes
This will save changes you have made to all Audio Files, regardless of whether you have made any changes, including marking files for deletion. This can be useful if you wish to resave a file because you want to modify the way it is saved. For example you may wish to save a file with unsynchronization either enabled or disabled.
Once the save has completed for all records successfully saved the View Panel will be updated to show the tag information as is currently held in the record, the Edit Panel will show the same as the Read Panel. Any records not successfully saved will still have a status of Changed or Deleted and the records data will be the same as before the editing was done. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes
This Menu provides access to basic editing functions.
Copies the selected items from the View Pane, multiple fields within a single column can be copied. This data can be pasted into another applications outside of Jaikoz if you wish.
Pastes the previously copied values to the currently selected fields in the edit pane. If the copy area was larger than the selected paste area, then only the required number of fields are pasted, if the copy area was smaller than the the selected paste area, we reuse the copied fields in order to populate the paste area.
Pastes the previously copied values (including multiple values if they have them) to the currently selected fields in the edit pane
Pastes the previously copied values to the start of the currently selected fields in the edit pane, (separated by a space character).
Pastes the previously copied values to the end of the currently selected fields in the edit pane, (separated by a space character).
This removes whitespace at the start or end of the currently selected fields in the edit pane.
Widespace is when there is more than one space between words, this option removes the additional spaces so that there is only one space between words in the currently selected fields in the edit pane
Change the case/capitalisation of the selected fields.
Change the case to Title case. The lteers for most words is capitalized except for a list of words that should not be capitalized
Swap the data between two predefined columns. Swapping between the most popular columns are defined in this submenu, laternatively you can use the Swap to swap data between fields in two arbitary columns
This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in two separate columns,selecting it will swap the contents of the fields from one column with the other
This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in two separate columns,selecting it will copy the contents of the fields in the right column into the start of the fields in the left column (separated by a space character)
This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in two separate columns,selecting it will copy the contents of the fields in the left column into the start of the fields in the right column (separated by a space character)
This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in the track no column,selecting it will renumbers the fields starting from the value of the first field (based on the current sort order), or starting from one if the first field has no value. The renumbering is based on the current order of the files, the numbering takes into account your Track No Preferences
This menu allows you to hide or show various components, your configuration is always automatically saved between invocations of Jaikoz without you having to save preferences.
From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the View Pane. By default the View Pane is not shown because hiding it provides a simpler interface,providing more space for editing right away. But showing the View Pane allows you to identify the ID3v1,ID3v2 and MPEG fields and identify the modifications that you have made.
From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the Tag Browser ,by default the Tag Browser is shown
From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the Console Pane. By default the Console Pane is shown, you may wish to hide the Console Pane to provide more space for editing. Everything written to the Console also gets written to the user log file regardless of whether the console is visible for the View Pane.
From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the Toolbar. By default the Toolbar is shown.
From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the ID3 tabs in the View and Edit panels. The ID3 tabs are only useful for MP3 files and are intended for users with an understanding of the ID3 format.
Available if you have one track selected with a MB Unique Id see View this Track at MusicBrainz
Available if you have one track selected with a MB Artist Id see View this Artist at MusicBrainz
Available if you have one track selected with a MB Release Id see View this Album at MusicBrainz
Available if you have one track selected with a MusicIP Id see View this Acoustic Id at MusicBrainz. Some tracks may have an acoustic id that isnt actually in the Musicbrainz database so this option may open an empty page.
Available if you have one track selected with an Amazon Id see View this Amzon Id at Amazon
Available if you have one track selected with an Release Discogs Url
Available if you have one track selected with an Release Wikipedia Url
Available if you have one track selected with an Artist Discogs Url
This Menu is for performing auto correcting tasks.
Runs the AutoCorrecter over all records performing the tasks as specified in your AutoCorrecter Preferences in the order they were specified. If the task takes a while to complete a Progress Monitor will display showing the Auto Correcter progress,
if you want to stop the Auto Correcter click on Cancel and it will not complete the remaining tasks
This menu is for performing corrections that effect the Metadata but not the filename, and do not require access to the Internet. All these local corrections run very quickly.
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Artist column. More information about the Artist Column can be found here
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Album column. More information about the Album Column can be found here
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Title column. More information about the Title Column can be found here
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Genre column. More information about the Gnre Column can be found here
Perform a Local Correct on the Track No column. More information about the Track No Column can be found here
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Recording Time column. More information about the Year Column can be found here
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Comment column. More information about the Comment Column can be found here
Perform a Cross Referencing Correct on the Composer column. More information about the Composer Column can be found here
Perform a Local Correct on the Artwork column. More information about the Artwork Column can be found here
This shifts the last folder in the base folder over to become the first folder in the Sub Folder field, this is normally used in conjunction with the Correct Sub Folder From Tags action.
This shifts the first folder in the sub folder field over to become the last folder in the Base Folder field, this is normally used in conjunction with the Correct Sub Folder From Tags action.
Renames your subfolder from the information in your tags and the rename mask that you have provided. More information available from here
Renames your filename from the information in your tags and the rename mask that you have provided. More information available from here
Extract information from your filename into your tags, more information from here
Retrieve acoustic ids for the tracks. Your track is compared acoustically with the MusicIP database, and if a track is found that is acoustically the same the acoustic id is retrieved, allowing your track to be matched with the MusicBrainz Database. More information is available from here
Matches your tracks against the MusicBrainz Database, using the audio fingerprint and/or the track Metadata. More information is available from here
Tries to mimimize the number of MusicBrainz Release Ids that your albums are spread over, more details at Cluster Albums
Automatically retrieves lyrics for your songs, more details at Autocorrect Lyrics
Submit your matches back into the MusicBrainz Database, more information available from Submit MusicBrainz/PUID pair
Submit your track and release genres to the MusicBrainz Folksonomy, more information available from Submit MusicBrainz Genres
Submit your collection (list of releases) to MusicBrainz, more information available from Submit MusicBrainz Collection
Matches your tracks against the MusicBrainz Database, using the audio fingerprint and/or the track Metadata, and provides a list of possible matches that you can select. More information is available from Manual Correct tags from Musicbrainz
Updates the Metadata from the MusicBrainz Database, for tracks that already have a MB Unique Id, or a MB Release Id, see Updates Tags from MusicBrainz for more details.
Updates the Metadata from the MusicBrainz Database, for tracks that already have a Discogs Release url, see Update Tags from Discogs for more details.
Mark Files for deletion, the files will only actually be deleted if you run Save Changes.
Empty the database cache. The database stores the details of Artists,Albums and tracks that have been downloaded from Musicbrainz, this allows subsequent lookup to be done locally and much more quickly, but you may wish to empty the cache to ensure that Jaikoz gets any updates to Musicbrainz since the information was originally downloaded.
This Menu is for filtering and highlighting songs. Filtering restricts the songs that are displayed in the Edit window, subsequent menu options are only applied to the songs still available in the edit window. Highlighting changes the colour of fields to indicate they meet a particular condition.
Menu items within this menu highlight fields in particular columns based on some predefined conditions
When enabled all Unique File Id fields that are the same as at least one other records are highlighted in orange
When enabled all User Defined Text fields that contain a MusicIP PUID (Acoustic Id) that is the same as in at least one other record are highlighted in orange
When enabled genre fields that contain a non-standard genre are highlighted in orange
When enabled only records containing a Musicbrainz id and MusicIp id combination that is the same as at least one other records are displayed, filter status is also shown in the status bar. This function is very useful for finding and possibly deleting duplicate versions of the same song.
Menu items within this menu filter records to only show those that meet predefined conditions
Menu items within this menu filter records to only show those that meet predefined conditions
When enabled only records containing a Unique File Id field that is the same as at least one other records are displayed, filter status is also shown in the status bar. This function is very useful for finding and possibly deleting duplicate versions of the same song.
When enabled only records containing a Unique File Id field are shown. This function is useful for checking tracks corrected by MusicBrainz.
When enabled only records containing a MusicIP PUID (Acoustic Id) field that is the same as at least one other records are displayed, filter status is also shown in the status bar. This function is very useful for finding and possibly deleting duplicate versions of the same song.
When enabled only records containing a MusicIP PUID (Acoustic Id) are shown. This function is useful for listing tracks that have been matched by MusicIP.
This will create a list of albums from the tracks that you have selected that have been successfully matched to MusicBrainz, and the list the tracks within each album that you dont appear to have, more details from here
This menu contains access to information about Jaikoz and a number of 3rd party websites that may be useful to you.