Hello Paul. Recently, I have been considering purchasing an automated audio file tagger for my music collection, and while looking at the options which are available to me from different companies, I learned about Jaikoz and SongKong.
I was reading a comment in another section of your forum – I don’t remember where now – and I have a few questions regarding your two products. Answering these questions will assist me in determining whether or not Jaikoz or SongKong is right for me. You wrote as follows:
The other key difference is that matching with SongKong does
not require you to check the modifications before saving
because songs are saved as matched but the changes can be
rolled back easily at a alter stage - even after restarting
your computer. (And you get a very detailed report showing
exactly what has been changed)
Does rolling back the changes revert the metadata of one’s entire music collection at once, or does this option allow a person to select an individual song – or perhaps a group of songs – and then just roll back the changes that were made to that song, or songs? In other words, does the roll back mean all or nothing at all, or can changes be made to specific songs entry by entry?
I couldn’t help but notice that there is no large Excel-like spreadsheet with the SongKong demo, as occurs with the Jaikoz demo. I found the Jaikoz spreadsheet format to be very informative, and I would hope that SongKong has one as well.
In absence of such a spreadsheet, does this mean that an individual song or album metadata cannot be manually edited/corrected if SongKong should make some mistakes, as it appears can be done with Jaikoz?
SongKong also allows you to monitor a folder and fix songs
as folders are added to that folder.
That is a very nice feature. Does Jaikoz likewise possess the ability to monitor a folder, or perhaps even multiple folders which are located on different parts of one’s hard drive?
SongKong also has more advanced Delete Duplicates options
and some additional Fix Songs options but these are all
planned to be added to Jaikoz.
Oh gosh! And to think that I just purchased Dupe Away a day ago! Have the aforementioned options been added yet to Jaikoz? If not, how soon do you anticipate adding them?
This has probably been suggested to you before, but have you ever considered combining the features of both of your programs into just one powerful app? It seems to me that having just one program with all of the functionality would be a lot easier for your end users. It would certainly help to avoid the current confusion that some of us experience when trying to decide which of the two apps is best for us. And, of course, it would give users everything they need in one solid program.
Let me also mention that while you suggest in a few of your comments that some people may be interested in purchasing both programs in order to meet all of their tagging needs, I hope you understand that this is not possible for all of us.
In my case, I happen to be a retired old man who lives on a fixed income, so watching my pennies is very important to me. In fact, I am really not even a regular music listener. The whole reason why I became interested in your products is because I recently became engaged in a project for my newborn granddaughter. I have been collecting some songs to use with SoundSpectrum’s amazing G-Force visualizer. The music, bright colors and constantly-changing patterns attract her attention, and will help her to develop her eye coordination, head movement, attention skills, etc. It was while expanding this music collection for her that I realized the need for an app such as yours.
Anyway, as of today, I still haven’t made a decision regarding which program I am going to purchase, or from which online company I will buy it, so your responses will hopefully help to steer me in the right direction.
Thank you.