I am running iTunes 10.6.1 on my Mac (Mac OS X Lion) and my library is working just fine. However, I would like to have proper tags and use Jaikoz to update them. I am afraid tho, that Jaikoz will mess up my library so that strange things will happen.
Has this been tested to work ok? How does it work anyway? And what do I need to do to make this work without error.
I would like to add, probably the most important question of all, is that I have iTunes manage my music. iTunes makes the file names and keeps things together in the Music folder.
In case I change the title tag with Jaikoz, the tags do not correspond with the filenames like iTunes normally manages.
Help!
Hi yes it does work and is tested with iTunes but you have to think about how you want it to work, also not because we dealing with a third party product that doesnt publish all details of its workings occasionally things dont work.
If you want iTunes to manage your music (which personally I dislike) then you shouldnt try and change filenames within Jaikoz. iTunes will be informed when you have saved metadata changes within Jaikoz and then iTunes should rename/move files itself based on the new metadata. One problem with this approach is that if you want to do further editing of these files within Jaikoz and iTunes has moved them since they were originally loaded in Jaikoz then Jaikoz will not be able to find them as iTunes does not inform Jaikoz that it has moved them so you would have to close and reopen the files in Jaikoz.
Alternatively disable managing your music within iTunes, then you can make use of Jaikox file renaming and moving options.
Ok.
I quit iTunes. Open Jaikoz. Open the files I would like to edit and change the tags. Quit Jaikoz. Open iTunes. Will iTunes recognize the edits and change the filenames according to the new tags if I work like this?
If you have Jaikoz configured to update iTunes (see Preferences:Save:iTunes Auto Update) then as you save your files in Jaikoz iTunes is informed at that point and should rename/reorganize files then as I described in scenerio 1.
What you have just described is scenerio 3. Disable updating iTunes from Jaikoz in the Jaikoz preferences then iTunes will not know Jaikoz has made changes at the time the changes are made, indeed iTunes isn’t running anyway and Jaikoz will not start iTunes. But when you then start iTunes having finished using Jaikoz it will not automatically reorganize them unless you right click on the songs within iTunes and select Get Info.
So the best way for me to do this is close iTunes, open Jaikoz, enable “iTunes Auto Update”, edit the files and save in Jaikoz, quit Jaikoz and open iTunes? iTunes will know something has changed and edit it’s own database and rename the files.
Yes if thats how you want to do it, but just so you are clear note that iTunes will rename/move the files as soon as they are saved in Jaikoz (because Jaikoz invokes iTunes with what has changed) not when you quit Jaikoz and start iTunes.
Ah so even when iTunes is fully closed, Jaikoz will launch some kind of script that starts iTunes and have it update it’s index + change the filenames. Did not know that!
Yes (if you have update iTunes enabled)