Jaikoz Help

If you start Jaikoz and it cannot find your license you will see this dialog

Select Path to Open a File Dialog and find the license file that you should have recieved by email (license.jai) and select Open. Then select OK to verify the license.

If the license is verified Jaikoz will start

If you start Jaikoz and your trial license has expired you will see this dialog

The trial license is supplied at no cost for a period of 30 days from date of issue. Thereafter, the application is disabled and a permanent license must be purchased in order to use the application.

If you wish to purchase a license go to the Website and purchase, then install in the usual way

Select Path to Open a File Dialog and find the license file that you should have recieved by email (license.jai) and select Open. Then select OK to verify the license.

If the license is verified Jaikoz will start

If you start Jaikoz and there is a problem with your license you will see this dialog

Your license has been corrupted,retrieve the original license and reinstall it in the usual way

Select Path to Open a File Dialog and find the license file that you should have recieved by email (license.jai) and select Open. Then select OK to verify the license.

If the license is verified Jaikoz will start

If you are running Jaikoz you need to modify the value of -Xms within the Info.plist

If you are running Jaikoz you need to modify the value of -l and -m within the Info.plist

This displays a summary of the file including audio information such as the length of the track and the size of the file. If the file contains artwork you can view it fullsize by double clicking on the image itself.

This shows the most common editable fields such as Artist,Album and Genre, all these fields are likley to be understood and used by most music players and organisers. The Is Compilation option is not standard but is becoming a defacto standard and is likely to be better supported by other applications in the future.

This shows all the MusicBrainz Ids that can be used to lookup information from MusicBrainz, plus it shows other fields that have been populated by the MusicBrainz looku, that do not fit into a standard ID3 field.

This shows the most common fields together with their corresponding sort field. Sort fields are useful because they can be used to sort records in a more useful way than using the main field. For example sort fields can be used to sort individual artists by their surname, or can disregard 'The' in group names. Some of the Sort fields are only supported by iTunes and are unlikely to be recognised by other Music Players.

This shows relationships with websites such as Discogs and Wikipedia for the release or artist.

This shows the Lyrics associated with the file

This shows the artwork associated with the file. You can add additional artwork and delete existing Artwork.

The Console tab summarizes tasks you have done, plus any problems encountered. Everything written to the Console Panel, also gets written to the User Log, and everything will always be written to the User Log even if the Console Panel is not displayed.

The user log is stored in your ~/Library/Logs folder, the latest log is called jaikozuser-0-0.log, as it get larger it will be renamed jaikozuser0-1.log, and an empty jaikozuser0-0.log will be created. There is also a jaikozdebug-0-0.log that contains additional information useful to us if you have a support query with Jaikoz. You can view the logs using the /Applications/Utilities/Console application.

When enabled all Unique File Id fields that are the same as in at least one other record are highlighted.

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.

When enabled all User Defined Text fields that contain the same combination of Musicbrainz Id and MusicIP Id as at least one other record are highlighted.

The MusicBrainz Server field specifies what MusicBrainz server to use, currently there is only one but it is expected there will be mirror servers available in the future.

The Do not match online if already have a MusicBrainz Unique id option allows you to skip over tracks that have already had a Unique id. This is very useful if you reload records that you have already analysed, so you do not re-analyse them which could take some time if you are loading many records, it also allows you to skip over records you have just analysed if the online MusicBrainz match has timed out and you need to rerun it. This option is not enabled by default because you may want to re-analyse records because of improvements in your Metadata, which may give a more accurate match.

When Jaikoz finds potential matches for a track it doesn't have all the album information required to calculate exactly the rating a match should be given unless the album is in the Jaikoz album cache. For example it will have the album name but the not list of countries the album has been released in. To get this information it has to do another query for each album and this would slow down matching because MusicBrainz only allows one query per second so by default Jaikoz only retrieves the full album information for the track with the best rating although Jaikoz caches album information so it doesnt have to lookup the same album more than once in a Jaikoz session Enabling the Retrieve extended release details for more accurate ratings option will retrieve the extra album information for all potential matches, this will make matching slower but more accurate.

If Prefer releases that have been used by other tracks is enabled, releases that have been used by other tracks will have their rating increased by the Release has been used by other tracks score in the Match Score preference. Enabling this option helps minimize the number of albums tracks are spread over.

Musicbrainz categorizes all releases into either Official, Promo, Bootleg or Pseufo Release - most releases are Official. IfPrefer offical releases is enabled, Official releases will have their rating increased by Release is an Official Release score in the Match Score preference. Enabling this option helps prevents incorrect matching to live bootleg tracks.

If Prefer releases of the following types is enabled all the release types checked below it will cause tracks with releases of one of the checked types to have their rating increased by the Release is one of the preferred release types score in the Match Score preference. This option can be used to favour original abums, singles or compilations.

The selected Preferred Country of release will give tracks with releases in this country a rating increase by the Release released in preferred country score in the Match Score preference.

The Track Duration must be within this number of seconds options lets you specify that the duration of any matching tracks must be within x seconds of the actual duration for this track. Matches can be upto x seconds shorter or longer to account for slight differences in encoding or possibly song versions.

If the Possible matches must be within track duration option is enabled then no track will be returned based on a metamatch unless its track duration is within the range specified, if it is disabled then these track will still be returned as long as their total metamatch score is high enough. This option does not effect tracks matched based on their PUID.

Jaikoz find the best few ten possible matches for a track then calculates a rating out of 100 for each track, and the highest rating track is selected by the Autocorrecter if its rating is above the minimum rating accepted. You can decide how the rating is calculated by adjusting how the rating is allocated. Some ratings are not used if the associated checkbox is not enabled in the Match Preferences, for example the Release is an Offical release rating is only used if you have enabled the Prefer official releases in the Match Preferences.

The Do not match if unable to Acoustic Id Match option will only match tracks that have an acoustic id. This increases accuracy but reduces the number of matches.

The Minimum rating required if meta match only option allows you to balance the number of matches against accuracy. If your track has no acoustic id the match is done purely on the Metadata, the higher this setting the more likely it is that any match made will be correct, but less tracks will get matched at all. If your track has an acoustic id this setting is ignored because acoustic ids are so accurate it is very likely that if an acoustic match is made it will be for the correct track (even if it is not for the exact version), and forcing a check on Metadata as well would throw away accurate matches for tracks with poor or incorrect Metadata. The default value is 70.

If the Acoustic Id match must also have minimum meta rating option is enabled then matching tracks matched by their acoustic id must also have a Metadata match higher then the value in Minimum rating required if have an Acoustic Id Match. This option is not enabled by default.

If the Prefer to use acoustic id if exists even if rating is less than metamatch option is enabled Jaikoz will always use match based on MusicIp Id over a metamatch regardless of which has the best score. Using a MusicIP id is safer than a metamatch for identifying the correct title because it does not rely on your file having correct Metadata. But when a track appears on multiple releases metamatches can be better at ensuring all tracks from one release are all tagged against the same release.

This lists most of the values that can possibly be populated by MusicBrainz upon a successful match, this includes text fields and Artwork. By default all fields are populated on a MusicBrainz match if MusicBrainz has a value, but you can select to only populate the field if it is empty , or never to populate it.

When matching cover art Jaikoz will attempt to finest the highest quality image it can from a variety of sources, the image is added to the audio file automatically but will like all tasks the image will not be saved until you save changes.

A release may have multiple release events, these consist of a Country and a Release Date. The When selecting year and country of release prefer to use option lets you specify what is more important - the country or the date of release.

The Translate foreign artist names to english where possible uses the english version of latin names where possible. this is useful if youre system is Englisg/latin based but you are have some tracks by non lation artists such as Chinese or Japanese which would be difficult to use otherwise.

This is the current list of fields that can be auto populated

This lists additional values that can possibly be populated by MusicBrainz upon a successful match.

This is the current list of fields that can be auto populated

The Number of records to process before showing dialog sets how many records are processed before displaying the potential matches in a dialog when running ManualCorrect Tags from MusicBrainz.

This lists the values that can possibly be populated by Discogs upon a successful match, this includes text fields and Artwork. By default fields are only populated if they are currently empty but you can select to always populate the field, or never to populate it.

This is the current list of fields that can be auto populated

If you successfully create an Acoustic Id (MusicIP PUID) for a track and you have successfully found a match on MusicBrainz, and your track has a Music Brainz Unique File Id, you can submit the pairing to MusicBrainz the database. You should only submit a pairing if you have confirmed that the pairing has been correctly and identified and you should not submit the same pairing more than once.

Musicbrainz has a Folksonomy cloud that can be used to tag artists, releases and tracks with anything you like. Jaikoz uses this to add genres at releases and track level. Because genres are subjective this feature is going to become more useful as more people submit their genres, so please give it a go. Jaikoz also uses the folksonomy cloud to fix the genre field when correcting songs from Musicbrainz.

Musicbrainz can store a list of the release you own and inform you of new releases by your favourite artists. Submitting releases can be done via the website but Submit Musicbrainz Collection provides an easier way to submit all the releases loaded in Jaikoz in one go.

Many applications only show the first image, so you may decide to only add the first image.

You may want to set a limit to the size of images that can be added, very large images will make your audio files correspondingly large.

You can preserve or remove the trackNo/Total format where found

You can zerorise track numbers to enable sorting

Cross Referencing Correct works on a column by column basis,it identifies similar values and converts all similar values to the most common value. The procedure is as follows

You can decide on what the Correcter deems is similar when matching by selecting options from the Auto Match Preferences . The more options you enable the more matches the correcter will make but more false postives will also occur.

AutoFormat formats fields to save you from tedious typing , there are a number of options

Usually fields provides more accurate information than the filename of the Audio File. But sometimes the field information is less accurate or missing information that can be found in the filename. However although there are some informal conventions for naming Audio Files, files can be a named in any way the user wishes, for example

With other applications when you extract information from a filename into fields you have to specify the format of the filename and how parts combine. But as can be seen from above different filenames are often formatted in different ways so it is impossible to process a number of records in one go.

But Jaikoz uses a special algorithm based on the general AutoCorrecter method to work out the the parts by comparing the filename not only with its corresponding fields but also the fields of all the other loaded Audio Files.

Jaikoz assumes that filenames are made up only of

The correction will take the following steps

When using Correct Tags From Filename, you need to specify two word separators. The first is this one which is used to split the filename. The second one is used to compare the split parts of the filename with the other columns.

Each record is allocated a row number numbered in the order the records were loaded,this cannot be modifed by you..The Row Menu Popup can be started by clicking on the row number. If you mark records for deletion and then save changes the successfully deleted records will disappear from Jaikoz and the records will be renumbered

This represents the tag status, you cannot edit this field yourself.

Describes the tag versions in the file.

When you first load new files into Jaikoz it will check your Save Options. If your save options mean you want to save different tags then currently exist in the file, the version field and record status will be set to Changed. When editing this is a Selectable Combo .When saving the file it will create tag(s) of these version(s)

Warning if you edit fields which are not supported by the underlying version they will not be saved. For example if you add an Attached Picture and then select to only save a V1 Tag it will not be saved because ID3v1 does not support attached pictures.

In the Read Panel this is the root of where you loaded the files from. When you first start Save Folder Preferences/Read Folder is used as the default location to read Audio Files from, you can shift folders from the Base Folder to the Sub Folder with the Shift Base Folder to Sub Folder action. In the Edit Panel this is the root of where you will save your files to, upon loading the file it will always start the same as for the read panel but you can modify it to an existing folder location here AutoFix will check the folder exists

In the Read Panel this will indicate the subfolder the file is within if when loading you specified includesubdirs.

In the Edit Panel this will indicate the subfolder to write the file to, upon loading the file it will always start the same as for the read panel but you can manually enter any valid subfolder name for your operating system here. AutoFix will check the subfolder is a valid name for the operating system.

This is automatically populated by the Correct Sub Folder from Tags action, this uses output mask specified in Rename Sub Folder Preferences, you can shift folders from the Sub Folder to the Base Folder with the Shift Sub Folder to Base Folder action

In the Read Panel this is the name of the Audio File

In the Edit Panel this is the new name of the Audio File, upon loading the file it will always start the same as for the read panel, but you can manually enter any valid filename name for the operating system here. AutoFix will check the name is a valid name for the operating system, has a valid extension and does not have the same name as another loaded file.

This is automatically modified by the Correct Filenames from Tags action, you can specify an output mask for the filename in Rename File Preferences

The artist performing on the recording.

The album that this recording belongs. More accurately refers to the release that the tracks belongs, for example it may be a single or an E.P rather than an album

This the track number of the recording on the album.

In the Edit Panel you can enter the track number, there are four accepted formats

This is automatically populated by the Correct Track Nos Action, using options specified in Track No Preferences

This the name of the recording.

Displays the first genre this Audio File belongs to

In the Edit Panel editing the field will bring up an Editable Combo you can select one from the predefined list or enter your own. Genre support multiple values opening the Popup Window allow you to enter additional genres.

This is automatically populated by the Correct Genres Action using options specified in Genre Preferences.

Displays the Year, actually this displays the Recording Time that can be a full date and time, but most players expect it to be just a year. The Valid formats are here

You can AutoCorrect the Recording Time with the Correct Recording Times using options specified in Recording Time Preferences.

Displays a comment description. Comment is a multi value field with multiple attributes but Description is the one you are most interested.

In the Edit Panel you can edit the comment description of the first comment . A comment comprises the language it is written in,a short description of the comment, and the comment itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add extra comments

This is automatically populated by the Correct Comments Action using options specified in Comment Preferences.

The Artist for the album, this is most useful in Various Artist compilations. This field was originally defined by ID3 as the Accompanient but is rarely used for this purpose.

Defines the composer of a piece of music

Images can be attached to a recording such as album art. This is a multi value field with multiple attributes, a thumbnail of the first image is displayed in the View Panel

From the Edit Panel you can select Multi Field Count to add new images

An image consists of

The list on the lefthandside shows all images attached to this audio file. It shows additional attributes than cannot be modified.

Sometimes you may load an Audio File which contains an Image field but no actual picture because the tagging information was incorrectly created with another application. You can still edit this field with Jaikoz but wll not see a preview until you add a new valid image.

If may contain an image field with a picture in a format not supported by Jaikoz, in this case no preview will be displayed but you can still edit the other attributes of the image.

The supported Image Types are:

This allows you to link a number of tracks by giving them the same grouping value.

Identifies that this field is a part of a set grouped with other fields with the same set number. usually applies to a disc number within a multi disc release so is more commonly known as Disc No.

Beats per minute

The Music Brainz Artist Id allows you to access MusicBrainz Information on the Web for the associated artist.

The Music Brainz Release Id allows you to access MusicBrainz Information on the Web for the associated release/album.

The Music Brainz Release Artist Id allows you to access MusicBrainz Information on the Web for the associated album artist.

In Jaikoz upon a successful MusicBrainz match the Music Brainz Unique Id is added to this field allowing you to access Music Brainz Information on the Web.

The Music Brainz Disc Id relates the track to the physical recording that it was taken from such as a CD pressing

The MusicIP Id is a unique acoustic identifier for the file, as calculated by MusicIP.

Amazon Id is the Amazon Identification for the associated album/release.

Release status is a MusicBrainz category used to categorize releases statuses, the allowable values are.

Release type is a MusicBrainz category used to categorize releases types, the allowable values are

Country of release for the associated release.

lyrics

Defines that this track is part of a compilation, originally used by iTunes but now in widepread use

This defines a value which should be used instead of the artist for sorting purposes.

Defines the sort name for the album artist, this is currently only used by iTunes

This defines a value which should be used instead of the album name for sorting purposes. e.g. an album named "A Soundtrack" might preferably be sorted as "Soundtrack".

This defines a value which should be used instead of the title for sorting purposes.

Defines the sort name for the composer, this is currently only used by iTunes

The encoder that encoded the track. For some audio formats (Ogg,Flac,Mp4) modifying this field will affect the field in the Audio tab when reloaded, because they are both displaying the same field. MP3 files do not allow modification of the field in the Audio tab, so setting this field in the ID3 tag, will not affect the field in the audio tab.

International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) for the release, defined by ISO 3901, it is an international standard code for uniquely identifying sound recordings and music video recordings. IFPI has been appointed by ISO as registration authority for this standard. The ISO technical committee 46, subcommittee 9 (TC 46/SC 9) is responsible for the standard.

Record label that this release was released on.

Catalog no of the releases, this is allocated by the Record Label.

What format is the media, for example Vinyl or CD.

Can be used to describe the mood of the song.

Who wrotes the lyrics for the song.

Remixer of the track.

Url of a Discogs page that describes the release. Discogs may contain additional information that isnt currently held in Musicbrainz.

Url of a Wikipedia page that describes the release. Discogs may contain additional information that isnt currently held in Musicbrainz.

Url of an official webpage that describes the release. This may contain additional information that isnt currently held in Musicbrainz.

Url of a Discogs page that describes the artist. Discogs may contain additional information that isnt currently held in Musicbrainz.

Url of a Wikipedia page that descibes the artist. Wikipedia may contain additional information that isnt currently held in Musicbrainz.

Url of an official webpage that describes the artist. This may contain additional information that isnt currently held in Musicbrainz.

This is the size of the file

This shows the audio format. For example for MP3s this combines the MPEG Version and Layer. The version is related to the sampling rate the original file was sampled at. Most music and audio book tracks use Version 1 which can sample information at CD quality (44Mhz), whereas Version 2 and Version 2.5 can be used to sample at lower rates, typically they are used in niche applications such as sampling sound effects. For MP3 the layer will always be three, MP2 would have a value of two, and MP1 files would have a value of one.

This displays the sampling rate used to create this file,usually the higher the bit rate the better quality the encoding. If variable bit rate is used it will be shown in brackets after the average bit rate e.g 192kbps (VBR)

The length of the audio track in seconds

The encoder that encoded the track. For some audio formats (Ogg,Flac,Mp4) this fields can be modified by editing the Encoder field in the edit tab. MP3 files do not allow modification of this field, but you can set a corresponding field in the ID3 tag.

Emphasis

Channel Mode

This displays the sampling rate of the original audio source

Is this Audio File copyrighted (MP3 only)

Is this the original Audio File (MP3 only)

Is this the Audio File private (MP3 only)

Is this the Audio File protected (MP3 only)

Is this Audio File encoded using Variable Bit Rate this means that the sampling rate varies depending on the content. This allows better quality encoding in smaller files.

The unique file identifier is used by some online music databases to identify a track. In Jaikoz upon a successful MusicBrainz match the Music Brainz Unique Id is added to this field allowing you to access Music Brainz Information on the Web.

The artist performing on the recording.

The album that this recording belongs. More accurately refers to the release that the tracks belongs, for example it may be a single or an E.P rather than an album

This the name of the recording.

This the track number of the recording on the album.

In the Edit Panel you can enter the track number, there are four accepted formats

This is automatically populated by the Correct Track Nos Action, using options specified in Track No Preferences

Images can be attached to a recording such as album art. This is a multi value field with multiple attributes, a thumbnail of the first image is displayed in the View Panel

From the Edit Panel you can select Multi Field Count to add new images

An image consists of

The list on the lefthandside shows all images attached to this audio file. It shows additional attributes than cannot be modified.

Sometimes you may load an Audio File which contains an Image field but no actual picture because the tagging information was incorrectly created with another application. You can still edit this field with Jaikoz but wll not see a preview until you add a new valid image.

If may contain an image field with a picture in a format not supported by Jaikoz, in this case no preview will be displayed but you can still edit the other attributes of the image.

The supported Image Types are:

Displays the first genre this Audio File belongs to

In the Edit Panel editing the field will bring up an Editable Combo you can select one from the predefined list or enter your own. Genre support multiple values opening the Popup Window allow you to enter additional genres.

This is automatically populated by the Correct Genres Action using options specified in Genre Preferences.

Displays the Year, actually this displays the Recording Time that can be a full date and time, but most players expect it to be just a year. The Valid formats are here

You can AutoCorrect the Recording Time with the Correct Recording Times using options specified in Recording Time Preferences.

Displays a comment description. Comment is a multi value field with multiple attributes but Description is the one you are most interested.

In the Edit Panel you can edit the comment description of the first comment . A comment comprises the language it is written in,a short description of the comment, and the comment itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add extra comments

This is automatically populated by the Correct Comments Action using options specified in Comment Preferences.

Displays a User Defined URL, this should be used to specify a URL which does not fit into any of the other fields. This is a multi value field with multiple attributes

In the Edit Panel you can edit the URL of the first URL. A User Defined URL comprises a short description of the it, and the User Defined URL value itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add urls.

Any other text information not covered by any of the other fields.This is a multi value field with multiple attributes

In the Edit Panel you can edit the text of the User Defined Text Information. User Defined Text Information comprises a description of which cateorises the text, and the text itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add extra information. MusicBrainz stores values in this field when there is not a suitable alternative.

Defines the composer of a piece of music

Copyright for the piece of music

The name of the application used to encode the track into an MP3. This field can be modified but it will not affect the value held in the Audio tab.

The original artist if this Audio File is a cover version

Beats per minute

The Date/Time when the original music file was encoded to MP3. The Valid formats are here

The Date/Time when the recording was originally released if this recording is a rerelease. The Valid formats are here

The Date/Time when the original music file was released. The Valid formats are here

The Date/Time when the Audio File was tagged The Valid formats are here

Songwriter of the recording.

The format of the encoded recording, should always be MP3

The Edit Panel provides a combo box specifying a list of encoded recording file types.

Other people involved in the recording.

This allows you to link a number of tracks by giving them the same grouping value.

Further subcategorisation of title

The key the recording is keyed in.

The language the recording is sung in.

The Length of the recording. THis is not normally used because normally the length can be accuraely determined from the audio header

Musicians playing on the recording.

The format of the original recording that the Audio File was encoded from such as LP or CD

In the Edit Panel provides a combo box specifying a list of media types.

The mood of the recording such as 'Sad'

If the recording was part of a filem soundtrack, the film should be specified here.

Original name of the encoding of the recording.

Original Lyricist(s)/text writer(s)

Who owns this file.

The Artist for the album, this is most useful in Various Artist compilations. This field was originally defined by ID3 as the Accompanient but is rarely used for this purpose.

The name of the conductor on a recording

The name of the musician who Interpreted, remixed, or otherwise modified recording

Identifies that this field is a part of a set grouped with other fields with the same set number. usually applies to a disc number within a multi disc release so is more commonly known as Disc No.

Produced notice

Publisher of the recording

This contains the name of the internet radio station from which the audio is streamed.

This contains the name of the owner of the internet radio station from which the audio is streamed.

This defines a value which should be used instead of the album name for sorting purposes. e.g. an album named "A Soundtrack" might preferably be sorted as "Soundtrack".

This defines a value which should be used instead of the artist for sorting purposes.

This defines a value which should be used instead of the title for sorting purposes.

ISRC (international standard recording code) for the recording

Specific values used in the encoding

Set subtitle

This is a URL pointing at a webpage with information such as where the album can be bought.

This is a URL pointing at a webpage where the terms of use and ownership of the recording is described.

This a URL pointing at a file specific webpage.

This a URL pointing at the artists official webpage.

This a URL pointing at the official webpage for the source of the audio file, e.g. a movie.

This is a URL pointing at the homepage of the internet radio station.

This a URL pointing at a webpage that will handle the process of paying for this file.

This a URL pointing at the official webpage for the publisher.

How many times has this recording been played.

Defines that this track is part of a compilation, originally used by iTunes but now in widepread use

Defines the sort name for the album artist, this is currently only used by iTunes

Defines the sort name for the composer, this is currently only used by iTunes

This lists all fields that are found within a tag which are recognised by Jaikoz but are not fully supported, Jaikoz recognises all fields specified in the ID3 Specification. Jaikoz supports all fields that are easy for uses to edit but some fields are very specialized and of limited use. These are the fields recognised but editing is not supported. Jaikoz displays the identifier and trys to display the field value

From the Edit Panel although you cannot edit these fields you are able to remove them. If you select the Popup Menu and select Delete all unsupported fields are marked for removal. If you select the Multi Field Count you can elect to delete individual fields. Deleting fields will not effect the encoded recording but they may be required by an application you use to play Audio Files.

ID3 allows users and application to define their own fields, this lists all fields that are not standard and hence not recognised by Jaikoz

From the Edit Panel although you cannot edit these fields you are able to remove them. If you select the Popup Menu and select Delete all unsupported fields are marked for removal. If you select the Multi Field Count you can elect to delete individual fields. Deleting fields will not effect the encoded recording but they may be required by an application you use to play Audio Files.

Date Time fields formats are as follows, you can enter dates in any of these formats

where

The rarely used encryption scheme is not currently supported

ID3v1 supports the following fields only, and the fields have maximum fields lengths.

When saving changes the values in the Edit Panel only predefined Genres will be saved. Only one Comment is allowed. Recording Time will only save the Year part of the recording time. Characters that are not part of the Standard European Character set will not be stored

ID3v2.2 does not support sort fields, but iTunes does provide extended ID3 Tag fields. So when Sort Fields are saved to a ID3v2.2 the iTunes fields are used.

ID3v2.2 does not support the following fields, they will not be saved.

ID3v2.3 does not support sort fields, but iTunes does provide extended ID3 Tag fields. So when Sort Fields are saved to a ID3v2.3 the iTunes fields are used. Jaikoz also recognizes the alternative fields used by MusicBrainz (XSOP and XSOT).

ID3v2.3 does not support the following fields, they will not be saved.

Describes this version of Jaikoz, the user license agreement and acknowledges the third party products used.

Show the Jaikoz preferences window.

Jaikoz does not provide any OSX Services at the moment.

Hide the Jaikoz application.

Hide all visible application.

Show all open application.

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

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.

Copies the selected items from the Edit Pane

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

Deletes the currently selected fields in the edit pane

Find and Replace in the edit pane

Change the case/capitalisation of the selected fields.

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

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 artwork

Available if you have one track selected with a MB Unique Id see View this Track at MusicBrainz