Jaikoz- Discussion Forum

In case anyone was wondering.

paultaylor wrote:

Remember there are Rename SubFolder and Rename Filename masks, you need to edit both.

There is no advanced if yet, but I have worked out how to support a full javascript syntax in the rename masks and am keen to get that released very soon, hopefully in 4.2.0 (but 4.1.1 is coming first)

Oh my....i think this warms the cockles of my heart.

Since it is an OS specific request, I expect it would be lower on priority. All I want it for is to have Jaikoz notify my phone when a job is finished.

(Growl can send SMS)

It's not even a major request. I'm just finding it is taking over an hour to Jaikoz these 75 songs with 4.1 NG which is a long time.

As title says, I wish for a new Delete duplicate option when Title, Artist, and Album are the same, pick one of them to delete.

obviously, one would use sparingly but this happens a fair amount of time

I just realized sorting by date may help.

If I export to excel and sort by Title, artist, and Year, it might help some.

Okay, after multiple passes with Jaikoz and not a small amount of eyeballing and by-hand work, I have an issue and need some suggestions about how to proceed.

When in iTunes, I click the "show duplicates" menu option and I get a list of about 21K files. Some of these are easy to see are duplicates in a fashion, but others I have no idea why itunes thinks it's a duplicate to "something".

Anyway, those mysteries aside...(unless you know how to tell what criteria iTunes is using...)

For some files, it appears the amplifind ID is different and the MBID is different, therefore it is a different song, even though it is the same. I already have "Prefer Original Release even if Better Match with compilation" checked.

Some of these files are live versions so it makes sense to have a different AmpID and MBID but others from what I can tell their only difference is one came from a greatest hits album.

Short of listening....any other suggestions?

Also any automagically way of having Jaikoz get rid of the live versions, if an original version exists? Any info I can look to to help decide?

I guess in your mind, each main branch of my main folder structure, the folders labeled [A-C], [D-G], etc would be a "collection" and the files I am working on would just go there automatically.

But when using jaikoz, I typically work on a large folder of varied artists and album combinations in a location other than where I ultimately want them to reside and so in a typical session I would be saving to multiple "collections". Direct control over where the files get saved to is critical.

Maybe I am confused over your meaning but here is a typical scenario for me.

I have a folder named "To Be Jaikoz'ed" on my main drive. The path to this folder is "The Vault/Downloads/To Be Jaikoz'ed". Inside, there may be folders of files all in one album/artist combination or some loose files.

Let's say in that path I have a folder of the band Infected Mushroom's Converting Vegetarians double CD release and a folder with Laura Marling's latest album, both of which that need tagged, artwork, and lyrics.

Ultimately, the paths I want the Jaikoz'ed files to be are:

/Volumes/Jukebox/Music/[Sorted]/[G-I]/Infected Mushroom/Converting Vegetarians/<tracks>.mp3

and

/Volumes/Jukebox/Music/[Sorted]/[J-L]/Laura Marling/I Speak Because I Can/<tracks>.mp3

If the current way is flawed, how does this work in what you are proposing?

Alfg wrote:

What @wynlyndd wrote is about the same what I suggested in Forum Index --> Question --> Update only one column

It's a solution for many issues I think and why I keep bringing it up.

Alfg wrote:

And I would suggest, to use as Max no of Genres = 1 when Jaikoz is really new installed (no previous version installed)

I'd agree with that.

i know the base folder thing can confuse some people, but it seems necessary for the way I work.

When I choose "Fix Subfolders from Metadata" it puts in in a very traditional "/Artist/Album/" folder structure.

Then I select all the subfolders that begin with letter A,B, or C and change their base folder to Volumes/Jukebox/Music/[Sorted]/[A-C]/

and so on for each group of three letters (roughly).

It's just too unwieldy to dump all artists into one huge folder.

I believe you still have to use the bat file on windows.

As for the rest of the information, still seems valid, although I note the beta defaults the MaxPerm to 200 now instead of 150.

I just opened 100K+ files on my 6GB machine today with these settings

<string>-Xms300m -Xmx4200m -XX:MaxPermSize=300m</string>

and was running a few other apps and still had over a GB of RAM left. It was still fairly reactive (a little delay but that is expected) and I had it chugging on a couple of thousand files. (autocorrecting)

(This is OSX)

I see in the prefs for the new beta, there is much more control over the Genre tag in that we can use MusicBrainz or Discogs like before but now can set either to use the Genre or Styles of Discogs and in what order.

There is also a preference for how many Genres to set.

Ultimately, how did you implement the multiple Genres? Multiple tags or a delimiter in a Genre tag?

How does iTunes interpret it? (Right now I have the checkbox for "Save Genres in iTunes-friendly format checked")

Edit: Reading http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/1291.page
for some insight.

Weird. I don't have the same problems you have with title.

Genres are all over the place though. I wish allmusic.com had an API. While I do not 100% agree, it seems to be one of the places I would use for an authoritative baseline source.

get your logs and send them in.

Hey RPM,

Read this thread (http://www.jthink.net/jaikozforum/posts/list/851.page)

Should be pretty informational.