newbie needing "how to" help

[mobilebeatz]

I just discovered Jaikoz a few days ago when looking for a way to avoid manually tagging folders from 248 burned “mix cds” and after playing with the trial version a few times I had to buy it! This program is so awesome! Now if I could just figure out how to use it…

I tried searching but decided it would be better just to post my questions so I could get the most up to date answers.

What would be the easiest way to combine and clean up my scattered music files?

I’d like to have one folder containing all mp3s, split into subfolders by artist with sub-subfolders for albums, keeping the best quality of each version of songs (clean, edited, remix etc) and deleting duplicates, one folder for Napter and one for Rhapsody.

I have 3 external drives (E:, F: & G:) that contain these audio folders:

E:mp3/ is a folder with mp3s ripped from my collection of CDs at 320kbps organized by subfolders artist/album

G:mp3/ has about the same folders/files as E:mp3 but ripped at 128kbps or 196kbps plus a bunch of assorted mp3s not saved in any subfolders.
G:mp3/bar is a folder where I saved mp3s ripped from a bunch of burned “mix” CDs with assorted songs and artists. When ripped these discs had no tag info so they were saved into numbered subfolders with only #'s for song names (ie 121/5 for the 5th song on disk 121)
G:naps/ contains expired DRM WMAs and mp3s purchased from Napster.
G:rhapsody/ has DRM WMAs from my Rhapsody subscription and the mp3s I have bought from there.

F: This drive was used as a mirror backup of G: but I recently used it instead of G: so it has additional files not found on the other drive.
F:mp3/bar has had Jaikos used to find fingerprint & tag info and rename files as artist/song title. Files were left in the original numered subfolders.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great!

[paultaylor]

I dont know how many files you have, or how much memory you have and this will decide whether you have enough capacity to process files in one go or whether they need to be split up. By default Jaikoz is okay with about 10,000 files loaded and uses 800mb but if you have a powerful machine you can increase the memory allocated and you can load alot more files, note Jaikoz cannot make use of extra memory unless you change its configuration as described in the help.

Taking the simplest case that you have enough capacity I would do the following

1. Load and Fix Songs
File/Open Folder and select E:mp3
Autocorrect
Check the Results
Save Changes

File/Open Folder and select G:mp3
Autocorrect
Check the Results
Save Changes

File/Open Folder and select F:
Autocorrect
Check the Results
Save Changes

2. Reload Songs
Now reload all three folders
File/Open Folder and select E:mp3
File/Add Folder and select G:mp3
File/Add Folder and select F:

3. Find Duplicates
Change Preferences:Local Correct:Delete Duplicates:Song is a Duplicate If to It has the same Mb Id, Album Id and Acoust Id as another song this is the most cautious setting for delete duplicater
Run Action/Delete Duplicates to mark duplicates (it will keep the highest quality one)

Check the Results

4. Correct filenames and folders from metedata
Action/File and Folder Correct/Correct Filename from Metadata
Action/File and Folder Correct/Correct Subfolder from Metadata

5. Change Base Folder
Action/File and Folder Correct/Change Base Folder and make sure its set to new folder you want to merge files to

6. Save Changes
The Rhapsody and Naps should be handled seperately but in a similar way.

[ramjam]

One more newbie here, who needs a little more information.
After I check the files, I typically get a range of albums when a compilation album is checked. How do I ‘tell’ the program which album I want for the whole album? I am doing batches of 10 albums at a time.

[rbhun]

I am having the same problem. I have a big and very cluttered database, but about 80% of the files show up as grouped albums when I load into iTunes and soft ‘album by artist’ the new option.

When I run jaikoz and save this, most albums get broken up into smaller one with two or three tracks. I spent a few hours on files that I know are in the same album, and manually selecting them to be put in a single album. Any way to force jakoz to put songs in one album as much as it can?

also I have the feeling that I am missing something on the acoustic fingerprint thing. I spent 20 minutes with Pink:Greatest Hits So Far. Jaikoz was unable to find them. I had to go to musicbrainz manually, look up the album, copy the ID to jaikoz and have it have a go. Seems that the problem was that the artist is really P!nk not Pink. But such a file should have been found by the acoustic fingerprint, right?

[paultaylor]

[quote=ramjam]One more newbie here, who needs a little more information.
After I check the files, I typically get a range of albums when a compilation album is checked. How do I ‘tell’ the program which album I want for the whole album? I am doing batches of 10 albums at a time.[/quote]

If your songs are already grouped one album per folder try enabling Preferences:Remote Correct:Group Songs by Folder Only and Preferences:Remote Correct:Only Match Complete Releases

Although its slower you can also match album by album using Action/Match to Release/Match to One MusicBrainz Release

[paultaylor]

[quote=rbhun]I had to go to musicbrainz manually, look up the album, copy the ID to jaikoz and have it have a go. Seems that the problem was that the artist is really P!nk not Pink. But such a file should have been found by the acoustic fingerprint, right?
[/quote]
If your song has metadata Jaikoz will not accept an acoustiod match if it bears no resemblence to your existing metadata (workaround if you delete existing metadata then it will) but Jaikoz should recognise Pink is nearly P!ink Ive raiased an issue on myself to look at it.

Even if you need to manually find the release in Musicbrainz you do not have to leave Jaikoz.

Run Action/Match to Specified MusicBrainz Release
Click on Search
Here a default search has been added, but you can enter any valid Musicbrainz Advanced Search then just click on the correct release and then ‘ok’ to use it in Match to Specified Musicbrainz Release.