Dumb, dumb, dumb question...

[WJW]

Here’s the deal…

I found Jaikoz about 6 months ago while looking for a tagger that didn’t lock up my older computer-slash-server that holds all my movies, music and tv shows. I made the mistake of spending (aka “throwing away”) money on Tune Up a couple of years ago. 'Nuff about that fiasco. Been hesitant to shell out money for all-in-one programs since. I then tried Jaikoz 5.6.0 and used it for the trial period. WOW! Went through a few hundred songs, 20 at a time, and these are some seriously clustershmucked groups of songs. Found pretty well all of them.

Finally got some time now to play with my 60-70,000 song library and want to clean it up.

Here’s the question. Do I uninstall 5.6.0 then request the registration code? Do I install 6.1.0 fresh? Register 5.6.0 then upgrade to 6.1.0? The quicker Paul answers the quicker Paul gets paid jk…

Jim

[paultaylor]

Either way should be fine as a Jaikoz license is valid for all versions

[WJW]

Perfect Paul, and thanks. Will send for registration key tonight if I have time…

Jim

[WJW]

Paul:

Just purchased the Jaikoz Upgrade key this weekend. After I paid, it was sent instantly. After using it to clean a couple of thousand of my 130,000 song library all I can say is…

Best

Program

Ever!

Thanks
Jim
Ottawa, Ontario
CAN

[WJW]

OK next issue…

I’ve gone through a good number of music folders that I have, and for the most part everything works well. Most of my music is in the “Artist/Album/Track” format although sometimes the music is originally improperly named. For the most part Jaikoz cleans everything up nicely.

Sometimes JK has No idea what to do. Examples would be in some of my folders where it’s simply “Jim’s Music Folder 1” and has 5000 or so songs in no particular order. Most music Jaikoz’d comes up with at least something in the Artist or Album field. I can then manually search to fill in the blanks.

Occasionally (maybe 1 in 10 times) it returns nothing. And I mean
nothing. No Artist, Album, Album Artist etc. What gets me is that under Summary I can see what easily is the name of the Artist and the name of the Track. Examples would be…

F:/Music/Jim’s Music/MessyFolder1/Prince - Let’s Go Crazy.mp3

or

F:/Music/Jim’s Music/MessyFolder1/Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noise.mp3

Is there a step I’m missing to point Jaikoz to re-scanning and tagging music based on the info provided in the filename? I can then manually check if it’s correct after Jaikoz has at least added some info. If I manually type in info to the Artist and Track it’s found.

Any ideas?

[WJW]

And bump…

[paultaylor]

Sorry for the late reply.

Yes Jaikoz doesn’t automatically use the filename for matching, however you can use Action:File and Folder Correct:Correct Metadata from Filename to fill in some of your metadata from your filename. But it will only work if the filename matches the mask specified in Preferences:File and Folder Correct:Correct Metadata from Filename

You say it doesn’t match anything in a folder of 5000 songs, could it be that you have Remote Correct:Group Songs by folder only or Match complete albums only enabled, these could limit choices.

Have you tried Remote Correct:Manual Correct from MusicBrainz on these files ?