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RobertR wrote:
I think, having the possibility to force Jaikoz to individual matching would help.
 

Possibly but I think most would prefer Jaikoz to check groups first, after all are all 7000 files really from different albums, Im sure you have at least some partial albums in there.

RobertR wrote:

I am sure you are right that the "complete mismatch" problem occurs very seldomly, though it depends on the data quality in the library. But as it happened with my first tests on the first files ("Accept" is at the very beginning of the artist-ordered list), I am concerned that this could happen too often.
 

You could take the pragmatic approach of letting Jaikoz do its worst, and then when listening to your music you find something incorrect tagged fix it there and then, Im sure this wont happen often.

Or take the ultra cautios approach and delete all your metadata so Jaikoz has to match by Acoustid only.

Or make a copy of your library, don't rename any files, and then you can always compare modified file with original.

Or you could use the Jaikoz export to spreadsheet feature to save all your metadata before matching so you have it to hand.


RobertR wrote:

I also understand the idea behind the Autocorrect feature. What I miss is an additional "interactive" autocorrect - optional, of course. So if someone does want a true Autocorrect, he still gets it in normal way.
 

I have considered this, and maybe it is a good idea but I am cautious about adding yet another option, task to Jaikoz as everytime I add a new feature it increases the perceived complexity (even though you don't have to use the new option). When exactly do you want it to ak for your input ?

RobertR wrote:

Because, let me explain my problems with the current function: You say, I should review any changes made by Autocorrect. But this is very hard to do.
 

Ah, for any particular song just select the Changes tab at the bottom and it lists all pending chnages for the song.

RobertR wrote:

And there is no column for the length of a song (why?),
 

Because its not editable so adding it could be confusing but people have requested it. It is visble for the selected song on the Summary tab, or if you have View/Show View Pane enabled it is a column in the View Audio Tab.

RobertR wrote:

(By the way: I would appreciate additional columns for AcousticID-Fingerprint and AcousticID-ID, which only show whether there is a Fingerprint or ID (like in Summary tab) for saving screen space - the actual Fingerprint or ID string is an information most users won't need, I guess. Optional, of course, so the user can choose and no one gets disappointed).
 

Again these checkboxes are shown on the Summary Tab.

RobertR wrote:

Also I think, there should be additional columns for the "original" values from the files, without remote correction. Because to check what has changed, one has to go to the Changes tab (which is a click).
 

Oh, so you know about the Changes tab, surely this is easier than scrolling horizontaly through the columns i the Edit Pane, but if you want the Original value that is what the View/Show View option is for.

RobertR wrote:

and then my mousewheel scrolling scrolls ~2-3 pixels down per "mouse wheel click" (not click, you know, when mousewheel snaps on next position). So it takes long time and feels horribly. So currently I have a workaround and click the General tab too see the original filename, which is the "original" title tag, because iTunes uses that information for file naming. But this is no good solution.
 

Can't you just use the scrollbar, sorry I never use Mouse click-wheel so Im not that sure about this.

RobertR wrote:

And the next problem is: lets say, I took 100 files out of iTunes to Jaikoz, and I am confident with what Jaikoz did to 90 files, but not to 10 of them. I have to select them individually (perhaps with Ctrl or Shift, but then I can't check them anymore, because I will loose the selection), and then manually "close" this files and tell Jaikoz not to save changes to these files. Click-click-click-click... and make no mistake! Isn't there an easier way to tell Jaikoz not to touch these files, when I am not confident with the lookup? Like right-click - dismiss, or a selection box in the first column which I can uncheck?
 

Select Files, Right Click, Close Files


What other basic interface customization options would you like.

Unfortunately I get requests for new features nearly every day and cannot possibly do them all, and this is the first time this has been requested, although I can see the usefulness of it.
No, but I suppose you could change the screen resolution to increase the size of fonts and everything else.
No, sorry not within Jaikoz itself at least.
Hi Robert

Jaikoz uses metadata and acoustid to match songs and in the first instance trys to match groups of songs to a release. If it fails to match songs as a group it will then try to match songs individually which I guess is happening here.

Now I understand your concerns but matching is not an exact science. Some Acoustids can match multiple songs (i.e sometime two completely different songs can can create the same acoustid) and sometimes the Acoustid is linked to a completely incorrect MusicBrainz Id, there is a also a time cost involved in checking every song by both metadata and acoustid. I have taken the view that whilst metadata maybe missing or inaccurate it doesn't normally comtain the metadata for a completely different song so if I get a good metadata match that is normally correct. However I take your point and there is always room for improvement, so Im going to look at examing this area again to see if I can tighten things up. I think you'll find that this problem occurs in a very small percentage of songs, so although not perfect in no way does this make automatic tagging useless.

It is not possible to give you the option to choose because the idea behind Autocorrect is that it can run completely unattended, if dialogs cam eup during the Autocorrect that would completely breaks things.

Here are some things you can do with the current version, if you are not happy with the existing metadata you can delete it before running autocorrect that will force Jaikoz to only use Acoustid, of course you may end up with less matches this way.

You could also match more cautiously by only matching complete albums and not doing individual matches by enabling Preferences:Remote Correct:Match:Only Match Complete Releases , but once again this will cut down the number of matches you get.

However you could then run Manual Correct from Musicbrainz for the songs that still fail to match, this presents you with possible matches allowing you to decide if any are a good match.

Of course nothing actually gets changed until you have save changes, so review before you save.
Hi, with default preferences Jaikoz doesn't rename or remove any files, but if you have Jaikoz configured to inform iTunes of changes (which is default on OSX but not WIndows) and you have iTunes configured to 'Keep iTunes Media Library Organized' (iTunes Preferences/Advanced tab) then iTunes will rename and move files as it is informed of changes by Jaikoz.

Could this be the problem ?
By default Jaikoz is just listing them as they are loaded , which is alphabetically by filename, so clearly a filename starting with '10' is going to come before a filename starting with '2'. But to sort by track no just click on the track number column, alternatively use a filename that works alphabetically, i.e label the second track as '02' rather than '2'.

BillG40 wrote:
I tried to embed my ISRC (I was just practicing at the time) into my mp3 file. All I had to do was right click on the mp3 file & go to "properties" and I could just delete the ISRC number. Obviously I was doing something wrong...
 

ISRC's are just metadata like anything else, not aware they can actually be embedded in an mp3.

BillG40 wrote:

I also loaded a couple of mp3 files that I downloaded legally from Amazon.com. These were both #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Neither song had an ISRC number when I loaded them in Jaikoz. How is that possible? Are they not being accounted for when people purchase the digital download? 

Im not aware that Amazon embed this information in the files you download, they do not need to they can just keep a record of who/how many times a files has been downloaded internally on their servers.
I wonder if each file is having to go via the local machine for some reason.

Are you using a wireless connection, if so could you hookup an ethernet connection just for this task I find my ethernet connection so much faster than my wireless one when moving files about.
If I drag some songs to VLC it just lists them in the order they were before being dragged, and within VLC it just has three columns

Name
Author
Duration

it doesnt have a trackno field

So isn't VLC just listing the files in the order they were selected ?
So you entered the MusicBrainz Release Id into the field displayed when you run Match Songs To A Specified MBz Release, it says it matches but the changed metadata doesn't seem to match the tracks in the release you were trying to match to.

This doesnt make much sense to me but it would help if you could email support@jthink.net your support files using Advanced/Create Support Files within Jaikoz and a screenshot showing the metadata before and after, this is listed in the the Changes tab on the detail panel.
This should work:

Code:
 artist +folderseparator + (album.length>0 ? album  : 'Unknown')
 
Great, yes please send me the file
Try following the instructions for Issue 4 on http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/1246.page
I think you need to reinstall Java
 
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