Hi there,
I’m trying to sort out my database, but something goes weird: on some files, I put “various” in the “Artist” and “Album” fields, so that they are stored / sorted in the same folder. However, Jaikoz still shows different artists names in the top windows and I have no idea why. I even removed data from the “artist for sorting” and “album for sorting” fields, and made sure that the files are not read only, restarted Jaikoz etc.
Does anyones has a clue?
Thanks in advance
Baptistou
After you scanned your library and everything came up correct, you then changed a few Artist and Albums to “various”. Did you “File and Folder Correct”/"Correct Subfolders from Metadata (Ctrl-9)? That way the folders are categorized into Album Artist/Artist/Album/Song etc. Not sure if that will help you or not but we can start there. If you’re looking for more knowledgeable expert answers be prepared to wait a while. I posted a question last week and am waiting for it to be approved to be seen on the forum. It’s a fantastic program but the learning curve is freaky high.
Jaikoz uses the artists field in preference to the artist field for the Column Browser if the artists field is not empty. The artists field is only really used by Jaikoz and SongKong currently and only differs when a song is attributed to multiple artists in that case the artists are added seperately to the artists field allowing you to search for a song by just the first (main artist) involved in the song.
i.e ‘Jackson’ by ‘JohnnyCash’ & ‘June Carter’
ARTIST:JohnnyCash & June Carter
ARTISTS[0]:Johnny Cash
ARTISTS[1]:June Carter
so tag browser would have one entries in the artist column containing ‘Johnny Cash’, but if you delete the artists field you’ll then have one entry showing the artists concatenated together ‘Johnny Cash & June Carter’ so it is then harder to list all the songs involving Johnny Cash
Now actually when artists field in intact we want June Carter to be listed as well but that is not done yet, see http://jthink.net:8081/browse/JAIKOZ-783
Thank you, that solved my issue!
Best regards
Baptistou
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.
Thats great, but Jaikoz 5.6.0?
we are now on Jaikoz 8.1.0 ?