by Guest » Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:21 pm
There hasn't been much activity on this post, but I have to add my thoughts on Jaikoz, as I have been using it over a year now.
It is the single most effective, accurate, and efficient mass tagging tool I have ever used. Bar none. And once you get used to it, it is very simple and yet very powerful.
Yes, the UI is a little complex - until you "get it" - then it's very simple, efficient, and powerful: it's one big configurable table, 1 song=1 row, with proposed changes highlighted, and you can edit ANY field in the grid (ie you don't have to select the song first, then start editing it).
The auto-tagging is both incredibly powerful and accurate, as well as completely configurable - you can tell it to use (or not use) MusicBrainz, acoutsIds, and more. You can define words and punctuation to replace, how to capitalize, and how to name files using a scriptable pattern (yes, with logic!) - with separate scripts for single artist albums vs. compilations. You can define what tasks to auto-perform, or do each one separately yourself (ie lookup acoustids, match to MB, capitalize, replace words, rename file from metadata, lookup artwork, Discogs, etc, etc - there are 26 available tasks), and in what order.
More neat tricks:
- you can copy & paste cells - no need to select the text in the cell, just right-click/copy, and paste
this includes artwork!
- you can copy one cell and paste it to MANY (ie correct the artist name on one track, then copy/paste it to all the other tracks from the same artist)
- you can do a multi-value copy: ie copy 10 cells to another 10 cells
- it highlights leading & trailing spaces, so you can easily eliminate them - all in that grid, not 1 song at a time
- you can tell it to take the album year, or the EARLIEST year for the song, as found across all compilations: I use this to tag each song with the year it was originally released - GREAT if you have lots of "Best Of" discs - I like to know when the song ORIGINALLY came out - not that this is the 23rd copy of it
- it can submit your changes
It has cleaned up my collection far better, and FAR quicker than I could have with any other combination of tools. I am truly amazed at how well it works - it determines the right album, artist, and track the VAST majority of the time. It is also the model of highly efficient UI design for experts.
Download the trial, and give it some time to learn it - it is WELL worth the TIME and the MONEY.
There hasn't been much activity on this post, but I have to add my thoughts on Jaikoz, as I have been using it over a year now.
It is the single most effective, accurate, and efficient mass tagging tool I have ever used. Bar none. And once you get used to it, it is very simple and yet very powerful.
Yes, the UI is a little complex - until you "get it" - then it's very simple, efficient, and powerful: it's one big configurable table, 1 song=1 row, with proposed changes highlighted, and you can edit ANY field in the grid (ie you don't have to select the song first, then start editing it).
The auto-tagging is both incredibly powerful and accurate, as well as completely configurable - you can tell it to use (or not use) MusicBrainz, acoutsIds, and more. You can define words and punctuation to replace, how to capitalize, and how to name files using a scriptable pattern (yes, with logic!) - with separate scripts for single artist albums vs. compilations. You can define what tasks to auto-perform, or do each one separately yourself (ie lookup acoustids, match to MB, capitalize, replace words, rename file from metadata, lookup artwork, Discogs, etc, etc - there are 26 available tasks), and in what order.
More neat tricks:
- you can copy & paste cells - no need to select the text in the cell, just right-click/copy, and paste
this includes artwork!
- you can copy one cell and paste it to MANY (ie correct the artist name on one track, then copy/paste it to all the other tracks from the same artist)
- you can do a multi-value copy: ie copy 10 cells to another 10 cells
- it highlights leading & trailing spaces, so you can easily eliminate them - all in that grid, not 1 song at a time
- you can tell it to take the album year, or the EARLIEST year for the song, as found across all compilations: I use this to tag each song with the year it was originally released - GREAT if you have lots of "Best Of" discs - I like to know when the song ORIGINALLY came out - not that this is the 23rd copy of it
- it can submit your changes
It has cleaned up my collection far better, and FAR quicker than I could have with any other combination of tools. I am truly amazed at how well it works - it determines the right album, artist, and track the VAST majority of the time. It is also the model of highly efficient UI design for experts.
Download the trial, and give it some time to learn it - it is WELL worth the TIME and the MONEY.