Nervous Newbie

[lyster]

This seems to be the program I’ve been looking for since MusicIP was abandoned… I have over 70,000 songs - all in FLAC format. I’ve been using a combination of approaches to tagging and deleting duplicate files, including MP3Tag, MusicIP, Media Monkey, and EF Duplicate MP3 finder. I’ve found the MusicIP servers to be down, which is what prompted me to go to Amplifind’s website, which referred me to Jaikoz.

Now that I’m here, I’m excited about what this product can do. But, as my subject line states, I’m also nervous. I’ve spent literally years in tagging and cataloging all these files. Not perfect, mind you. Much information is still missing or inaccurate. But I would hate to lose all this by some foolish application of a new product. And I hope that my running all these files through MusicIP can still be of some use. (Media Monkey also writes signatures to the files.)

One last point - perhaps better addressed on the “wish list,” is that I use the Squeezebox Server for my home audio. It has an add-on for MusicIP and Spicefly Sugar Cube which help create playlists. With a catalog of so many files, it is really tough for me to remember what’s in there and what might complement other songs being played. Can Jaikoz help with this at all?

[MAzE5h1p69wB]

For the first point, automation will never be as accurate as manual.

Good news is, you can chose exactly which tags you want to automatically update.

Better yet, a one-time accustic fingerprinting of a song means you have identified the song and can mess around with it in order to try and update different tags.

Personally I have no problems with just feeding Jaikoz the files and let it do its stuff, but if you have 500 GiB of music you might want to just test it out a little and run a few thousand at a time.

[lyster]

I’m closer to 2 TB of files (!). Thanks for the tip on taking it a bit at a time. Will Jaikpz be able to use the fingerprints from MusicIP (or Media Monkey)?