SongKong Jaikoz

SongKong and Jaikoz Music Tagger Community Forum

Where to Start ?

#1

Hey! Thanks for the forum…
I have apprx 15,000 songs that I had just finished organizing on my Mac. (took me 6 months!) Like an idiot, without backing up, I took a friends’ advice and clicked the box for my iTunes to organize my music folder. Somehow, all 15K songs, whick were organized by Artist, then Album, became a single folder with 15,000 songs in it listed seperately (alphabetically by name, no listing of artist!).

So, I just purchased your program. Now where do I start?

Can I import all 15K songs at once, Or do I have to do it a little at a time (like 15 runs of 1000 songs)?

If the latter, how will the artist/album folders merge once I save and copy to my external hard drive?

Thanks for your help =)

#2

[quote=munkeyluv]Hey! Thanks for the forum…
I have apprx 15,000 songs that I had just finished organizing on my Mac. (took me 6 months!) Like an idiot, without backing up, I took a friends’ advice and clicked the box for my iTunes to organize my music folder. Somehow, all 15K songs, whick were organized by Artist, then Album, became a single folder with 15,000 songs in it listed seperately (alphabetically by name, no listing of artist!).
[/quote]
The bigger question is why iTunes has organized your files as it has.

In Jaikoz to just correct the folder structure you need to:
-Load your files
-Display the Base Folder and Sub Folder Columns
-Jaikoz will autofix the value in subfolder when you run Action/File And Folder Correct/Correct SubFolders from Tags so check that the split between Base Folder and Sub Folder is correct. If not you can adjust it by selecting Action/File And Folder Correct/Shift Base Folder to Folder and Action/File And Folder Correct/Shift Sub Folder to Base Folder
-Run Action/File And Folder Correct/Correct SubFolders from Tags
-Run Save Changes

… but you probably want to get your files metadata in the best shape first, so the easiest way to do this for good results is to run Action/Autocorrect first.

if you increase the memory setings as specified in the Manual you probably can but I would limit to sets of 5000 to start. In fact I would advise you try out Jaikoz on a few albums and make sure you understand how its work before going any further, you dont want any more accidents !

#3

This depends on the memory you have. All othe things is up to you. Configure and Jaikoz does what you will.
For example at the folder correction, i have the string:

This gives me a folder structure like artist/album/

For filename the string:

artist - album - trackno - title

Make a plan how you want it and ask again. Make a backup before you start :wink:

#4

Edit:Sorry Munkeylov i accidently overwrote your message, that asked about merging folders

#5

If you are running Correct SubFolders from Tags , and the tags for all songs by Jimi Hendrix have the correct artist and album they are going to end up in the same subfolder aren’t they - no problem.

(If they were coming from a different location such as C: and D: drives then you could you use Save and Move to put them all in the same place whilst preserving subfolder structure but I dont think you have this problem.)

But you get slightly better autocorrect results if all songs from an album are available in one session so after doing the initial autocorrect/rename/save on 15,000 ofl your files I would do it again and the second run will improve the results because it be more likley to be loading complete albums (because the artist/album will have been created and folders are loaded alphabetically)