I’ve noticed recently that for many albums there is a populated field for Total Tracks in Release (or named something like that) so comparing the number of files in that folder to the number of tracks that should be in the release would be a good start, even if you are missing the last track of that release.
However, this assumes that people only organize files in folders by album/release.
With Jaikoz’s flexibility and the weird (weird to me) ways people will dream up to organize their files, this might not work too well.
Of course, though, any feature can come with caveats.
“In order to use this feature thou shalt organize your files in one folder per album.”
I dig it and would love this feature.
What I would really love is if it could tell if a missing file really exists in my collection by the same (or similar) artist but on a different album (so I could potential fix the metadata and make it a part of the other release.
For example: Jaikoz tells me “Hey! You are missing this track from the studio album, but you have it over here in the Greatest Hits album!”
However to really make that work well I think, Jaikoz would need to maintain a DB of the collection which kinda goes against the idea of Jaikoz not being a music manager and just a tagger.
I can still see it working though if Jaikoz could do the search for the wayward file within the files it has open at the time, since I tend to open files in large groups that include all my files by a particular artist.
In fact, I’d donate some cash if others wanted to join in, to get that idea implemented sooner than later.