Jaikoz

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Jaikoz
Developer(s) Jthink
Stable release
9.3.0 / 17 October 2017;5 years ago (2017-10-17)
Operating system Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
Platform Java 1.5
Type Tag editor, acoustic fingerprinter
License Shareware
Website jthink.net/jaikoz/

Jaikoz is a Java program used for editing and mass tagging music file tags.

Contents

Jaikoz generates acoustic fingerprints from music files using the AcoustId service, [1] it can then look up the metadata from MusicBrainz using the AcoustId, additionally it can match based on metadata to MusicBrainz or Discogs. [2] Matching is first applied at album level, falling back to track level where a match at album level could not be made. This allows Jaikoz to automatically fix most of a users song collection. [3] [4]

Jaikoz uses a relatively unusual spreadsheet metaphor for both viewing and editing data, and allows editing of over fifty fields [5] using this spreadsheet interface, the underlying jaudiotagger tag library is released under LGPL and is used by various Java applications. [6]

Jaikoz is commercially licensed software, written in Java 1.5 by Paul Taylor. A shareware version, in which changes can only be saved to 20 files during one use, is also available as a 30-day free trial. 10% of every sale is paid to the MetaBrainz Foundation to support MusicBrainz development.

History

Originally released in 2006 as a standalone music tagger without any MusicBrainz support, but support for MusicBrainz was soon added. Changes in Jaikoz have always reflected changes in MusicBrainz, for example Jaikoz was the first application to make use of the new web service released as part of the MusicBrainz NGS release in 2011, and the first application to use the MusicBrainz seeding mechanism for adding new releases.

Summary of features

Reviews and awards

Jaikoz has been favorably received worldwide. Jaikoz was recommended in a LifeHacker article for automatically correcting your metadata. [7] Jaikoz version 1.1.3 was distributed by Macworld Italy magazine with its Spring, 2006 supplement "Everything iPod". [8] Version 2.5 was favorably reviewed in 2008 by Thomas Weiss, senior editor of Macnews Germany. [9] Macworld Germany editor Matthias Zehden concurred in his 2009 iPhoneWelt review of Jaikoz. [10]

Academic notice

In 2006, Julien Chaveau of the University of Angers cited Jaikoz as an exemplar of an automated information extraction system, [11] and in 2008 Badawia Albassuny of King Abdulaziz University included Jaikoz in his survey of automatic metadata generators for its ability to generate metadata by analyzing content. [12]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "AcoustId".
  2. ↑ blog.jthink.net
  3. ↑ "Tagging The Untagged". The Cat Came Back.
  4. ↑ "The Ins and Outs of Jaikoz Audio File Meta Data Program". Lost in Technology. 6 April 2009.
  5. ↑ jthink.net
  6. ↑ JThink (2007-05-29). "JAudiotagger Library". Jthink.net. Retrieved 2010-04-12.
  7. ↑ "Start to Finish Guide to Whipping Your Music's Metadata into Shape". LifeHacker. Spring 2010. Retrieved May 5, 2010.
  8. ↑ "Macworld on CD Supplement Spring 2006". Macworld Italy. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on June 3, 2006. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
  9. ↑ Weiss, Thomas (July 15, 2008). "Titles, Text, Metadata: Jaikoz knows almost everything about your music". Macnews. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
  10. ↑ Zehden, Matthias (March 13, 2009). "Jaikoz". iPhoneWelt. Archived from the original on February 6, 2013. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
  11. ↑ Chauveau, Julien (June 23, 2006). "Automatic information extraction system for music files" (PDF). Angers, France: University of Angers. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 31, 2010. Retrieved December 12, 2009.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. ↑ Albassuny, Badawia M. (2008). "Automatic metadata generation applications: a survey study". International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies. InderScience Publishers. 3 (4): 260–282. doi:10.1504/IJMSO.2008.023574. ISSN   1744-2621 . Retrieved December 12, 2009.
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