Avoiding re-work

[pablo216]

Hi guys, first of all I want to congratulate you on such a great program. I’ve used many programs before, but with just 5 minutes of using Jaikoz I decided to buy it!

One thing that I need is a way of telling Jaikoz to avoid checking certain songs when I add an entire folder. For example, I have all my music in a single folder while I finish sorting it, and run Jaikoz from that folder. The thing is that I carefully sort, lets say 500 songs, and continue some other day. When I come back and want to continue, I don’t want the program to do re-work on those songs (also because it isn’t always accurate and I manually edit minor details on most of them).

I read somewhere that an older version had a “C” somewhere to distinguish from processed songs and “untouched” ones.

Do you guys know any way of achieving this? Any tips?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english, I know my explanation is all over the place!

[paultaylor]

Hi, if you add the ‘Status’ column using the dropdown in the eight hand corner of the main edit window yo can see whether or not songs have been modified, but now uses icons instead of ‘C’ for changed. But this just shows pending changes in Jaikoz, once you actually save the changes the status will be reset so I’m not sure this is what you want.

If you just want to work in batches I would suggest you just load batches into Jaikoz in the first place, you can select multiple folders. Or use ‘Close’ to close some files, or use the context menu to only work on selected songs.

Hope that helps.

[pablo216]

Paul, thanks for your reply… this doesn’t quite solve my problem.

I guess I’ll just have to do as I did with past programs. I’ll use the comment field (which I consider useless) and put something like “Checked-Jaikoz” in it and then filter it out of my next batches!

Great support guys!

[dkoh]

I do pretty much what Paul already suggested.

I load up about 1000 files at a time. I do bulk edits (AcoustID, delete non-supported fields, etc), save everything, then I match to one release or do my detailed edits on a per-album basis. I save and close what I’ve already done and leave the rest up for later. I work on them in between other apps or if I’m bored. Sometimes I’ll work on the same 1k set for over a week!

Doesn’t really solve your problem, but IMO it’s easier than writing extra fields to keep track of things.

[paultaylor]

A couple more suggestions.

Use Save and Move to move the fixed songs to a new location, so only the unfixed songs are in the old location.

Make a decision that a song is not fixed until it has a Musicbrainz Id then you can use the filters to only show songs that do not have a Musicbrainz Id. Now some of your songs may not be on Muiscbrainz currently but the great thing about Musicbrainz is that it is a community website/database that you can add to yourself