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auto organize and rename files in utf-8?

I have purchased jaikoz and been using it for some time and love it! Thanks for such a great program!!! I do find that I use a few different programs to organize my collection and the more I use jaikoz and the more I learn about it, the less I have to use other applications for some of the additional tasks.

One program I still use for just 1 single task is media monkey. I am curious if the task I use it for can be replaced by jaikoz. Within media monkey they have an Auto Organize function. This allows me to select all the media and then have it auto organize it based on the criteria I give it. For example I have it setup to rename all my files and re organize them all into folders based off of the tag information. So it will create a folder named from the artist tag info, then a sub folder named from the album tag info, and finally rename the song by its track number - and then song title from tag info. Something like \ \ -

The other feature I really like is it will move the images with the songs. So if i have one folder that has only a single album with a album jpg it will allow me to move it with all the songs into the correctly created new directory.

Lastly if jaikoz has the ability to auto organize files, can it write all files as utf-8? I am finding some apps have some of the above functionality but they fail on keeping it utf-8 and universal and consistent.

Can these tasks be done with jaikoz? If so could you give me directions or point me to where some info on this may be? I would really like to do this all in jaikoz and consolidate everything down to it being the only app i need to organize my entire collection (as it is becoming very close to being) :slight_smile:

Yes Action/File and Folder Correct/Rename Subfolder from Tags, You set the mask to use in Preferences/File and Folder Correct/Rename Sub Folder from Tags/Rename mask. It helps to understand the difference between base folder and sub folder - which Ive explained in the help and the forums.

Doesnt do this (I always prefer to embed artwork myself so didnt think of this), but it has already been requested

I think so but it depends if the fileystem you are writing to supports UTF8 filenames

I am the same way. I embed all albums into the tags but I also like to have album artwork in the folders that have each album. Both to support some of the backwards player software that don’t support embedded album artwork, as well as I use them on my intranet site and its fun to view through them as well.

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Any idea on what charset Jaikoz would default to on a windows box? I am trying to figure out what the files charset are being encoded as so that I can get them to pass on an iconv php script match.

I think it uses windows-1252 actually which is what is normally expected.