Jaikoz Help

If you start Jaikoz and it cannot find your license you will see this dialog

Select Path to Open a File Dialog and find the license file that you should have recieved by email (license.jai) and select Open. Then select OK to verify the license.

If the license is verified Jaikoz will start

If you start Jaikoz and your trial license has expired you will see this dialog

The trial license is supplied at no cost for a period of 30 days from date of issue. Thereafter, the application is disabled and a permanent license must be purchased in order to use the application.

If you wish to purchase a license go to the Website and purchase, then install in the usual way

Select Path to Open a File Dialog and find the license file that you should have recieved by email (license.jai) and select Open. Then select OK to verify the license.

If the license is verified Jaikoz will start

If you start Jaikoz and there is a problem with your license you will see this dialog

Your license has been corrupted,retrieve the original license and reinstall it in the usual way

Select Path to Open a File Dialog and find the license file that you should have recieved by email (license.jai) and select Open. Then select OK to verify the license.

If the license is verified Jaikoz will start

If you click on a column you can sort it in ascending order, click on it again and it will be sorted in descending order. if you click on the Row Number column the records will be sorted by row number this will be the same order as when they were originally loaded into Jaikoz

The size of a column can be increased or decreased by selecting the right hand side of the column and dragging it inwards or outwards

The column order can be changed by selecting the middle of the column header and dragging it to the new location

Jaikoz can look for values that sound the same when spoken (based on English) but are spelt differently. For example Audio Bullies and Audio Bullys

If a field contains multiple words this option will ignore the order. This is particulary useful for Solo Artists because some MP3 Encoders specify surname then firstname. For example 'Kate Bush' and 'Bush Kate' would match.

Ignore case when matching values. For example 'Flaming Lips' and 'Flaming lips' would match.

Certain common words in a Language are often used without much thought especially in group names. In English the biggest culprit is 'The'. This option allows to specify a Word Remover to use. For example 'Flaming Lips' and 'The Flaming Lips' would match.

Earlier we looked at word order, but what defines a word. The Space character separates words but other characters such as '.' and ',' also separate words. Here you can specify a Word Separator which define show to break up words

Usually fields provides more accurate information than the filename of the Audio File. But sometimes the field information is less accurate or missing information that can be found in the filename. However although there are some informal conventions for naming Audio Files, files can be a named in any way the user wishes, for example

With other applications when you extract information from a filename into fields you have to specify the format of the filename and how parts combine. But as can be seen from above different filenames are often formatted in different ways so it is impossible to process a number of records in one go.

But Jaikoz uses a special algorithm based on the general AutoCorrecter method to work out the the parts by comparing the filename not only with its corresponding fields but also the fields of all the other loaded Audio Files.

Jaikoz assumes that filenames are made up only of

The correction will take the following steps

When using Correct Tags From Filename, you need to specify two word separators. The first is this one which is used to split the filename. The second one is used to compare the split parts of the filename with the other columns.

Each record is allocated a row number numbered in the order the records were loaded,this cannot be modifed by you..The row Menu popup can be started by clicking on the row number.

If you mark records for deletion and then save changes the successfully deleted records will disappear from Jaikoz and the records will be renumbered

This represents the tag status, you cannot edit this field yourself.

Describes the tag versions in the file.

When you first load new files into Jaikoz it will check your Save Options. If your save options mean you want to save different tags then currently exist in the file, the version field and record status will be set to Changed.

When editing this is a Selectable Combo .When saving the file it will create tag(s) of these version(s)

Warning if you edit fields which are not supported by the underlying version they will not be saved. For example if you add an Attached Picture and then select to only save a V1 Tag it will not be saved because ID3v1 does not support attached pictures.

In the Read Panel this is the root of where you loaded the files from. When you first start Save Folder Settings/Read Folder is used as the default location to read Audio Files from, you can shift folders from the Base Folder to the Sub Folder with the Shift Base Folder to Sub Folder action

In the Edit Panel this is the root of where you will save your files to, upon loading the file it will always start the same as for the read panel but you can modify it to an existing folder location here AutoFix will check the folder exists

In the Read Panel this will indicate the subfolder the file is within if when loading you specified includesubdirs.

In the Edit Panel this will indicate the subfolder to write the file to, upon loading the file it will always start the same as for the read panel but you can manually enter any valid subfolder name for your operating system here. AutoFix will check the subfolder is a valid name for the operating system.

This is automatically populated by the Correct Sub Folder from Tags action, this uses output mask specified in Rename Sub Folder Settings, you can shift folders from the Sub Folder to the Base Folder with the Shift Sub Folder to Base Folder action

In the Read Panel this is the name of the Audio File

In the Edit Panel this is the new name of the Audio File, upon loading the file it will always start the same as for the read panel, but you can manually enter any valid filename name for the operating system here. AutoFix will check the name is a valid name for the operating system, has a MP3 extension and does not have the same name as another loaded file.

This is automatically modified by the Correct Filenames from Tags action, you can specify an output mask for the filename in Rename File Settings

The unique file identifier is used by some online music databases to identify a track. In Jaikoz upon a successful MusicBrainz match the Music Brainz Unique Id is added to this field allowing you to access Music Brainz Information on the Web.

The artist performing on the recording.

The album that this recording belongs to.

This the name of the recording.

This the track number of the recording on the album.

In the Edit Panel you can enter the track number, there are four accepted formats

This is automatically populated by the Correct Track Nos Action, using options specified in Track No Settings

Images can be attached to a recording such as album art. This is a multi value field with multiple attributes, a thumbnail of the first image is displayed in the View Panel

From the Edit Panel you can select Multi Field Count to add new images

An image consists of

The list on the lefthandside shows all images attached to this audio file. It shows additional attributes than cannot be modified.

Sometimes you may load an Audio File which contains an Image field but no actual picture because the tagging information was incorrectly created with another application. You can still edit this field with Jaikoz but wll not see a preview until you add a new valid image.

If may contain an image field with a picture in a format not supported by Jaikoz, in this case no preview will be displayed but you can still edit the other attributes of the image.

The supported Image Types are:

Displays the first genre this Audio File belongs to

In the Edit Panel editing the field will bring up an Editable Combo you can select one from the predefined list or enter your own. Genre support multiple values opening the Popup Window allow you to enter additional genres.

This is automatically populated by the Correct Genres Action using options specified in Genre Setting.

Displays the Recording Time, this is more commonly shown in most taggers as Year but a full date and time can be held if desired. The Valid formats are here

You can AutoCorrect the Recording Time with the Correct Recording Times using options specified in Recording Time Settings.

Displays a comment description. Comment is a multi value field with multiple attributes but Description is the one you are most interested.

In the Edit Panel you can edit the comment description of the first comment . A comment comprises the language it is written in,a short description of the comment, and the comment itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add extra comments

This is automatically populated by the Correct Comments Action using options specified in Comment Settings.

Displays a User Defined URL, this should be used to specify a URL which does not fit into any of the other fields. This is a multi value field with multiple attributes

In the Edit Panel you can edit the URL of the first URL. A User Defined URL comprises a short description of the it, and the User Defined URL value itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add urls.

Any other text information not covered by any of the other fields.This is a multi value field with multiple attributes

In the Edit Panel you can edit the text of the user defined text Information.User Defined Text Information comprises a description of which cateorises the text, and the text itself. Selecting Multi Field Count allows you to edit these other attribute or add extra information.

Defines the composer of a piece of music

Copyright for the piece of music

The name of the application used to encode into a Audio File

The original artist if this Audio File is a cover version

Beats per minute

The Date/Time when the original music file was encoded to MP3. The Valid formats are here

The Date/Time when the recording was originally released if this recording is a rerelease. The Valid formats are here

The Date/Time when the original music file was released. The Valid formats are here

The Date/Time when the Audio File was tagged The Valid formats are here

Songwriter of the recording.

The format of the encoded recording, should always be MP3

The Edit Panel provides a combo box specifying a list of encoded recording file types.

Other people involved in the recording.

Further Categorises a piece of music.

Further subcategorisation of title

The key the recording is keyed in.

The language the recording is sung in.

The Length of the recording.

Musicians playing on the recording.

The format of the original recording that the Audio File was encoded from such as LP or CD

In the Edit Panel provides a combo box specifying a list of media types.

The mood of the recording such as 'Sad'

If the recording was part of a filem soundtrack, the film should be specified here.

Original name of the encoding of the recording.

Original Lyricist(s)/text writer(s)

Who owns this file.

Band/orchestra/accompaniment who played on the recording

The name of the conductor on a recording

The name of the musician who Interpreted, remixed, or otherwise modified recording

Identifies that this field is a part of a set grouped with other fields with the same set number

Produced notice

Publisher of the recording

This contains the name of the internet radio station from which the audio is streamed.

This contains the name of the owner of the internet radio station from which the audio is streamed.

This defines a value which should be used instead of the album name for sorting purposes. e.g. an album named "A Soundtrack" might preferably be sorted as "Soundtrack".

This defines a value which should be used instead of the artist for sorting purposes.

This defines a value which should be used instead of the title for sorting purposes.

ISRC (international standard recording code) for the recording

Specific values used in the encoding

Set subtitle

How many times has this recording been played.

This is a URL pointing at a webpage with information such as where the album can be bought.

This is a URL pointing at a webpage where the terms of use and ownership of the recording is described.

This a URL pointing at a file specific webpage.

This a URL pointing at the artists official webpage.

This a URL pointing at the official webpage for the source of the audio file, e.g. a movie.

This is a URL pointing at the homepage of the internet radio station.

This a URL pointing at a webpage that will handle the process of paying for this file.

This a URL pointing at the official webpage for the publisher.

This is related to the sampling rate the original file was sampled at. Most music and audio book tracks use Version 1 which can sample information at CD quality (44Mhz), whereas Version 2 and Version 2.5 can be used to sample at lower rates, typically they are used in niche applications such as sampling sound effects

This display the MPEG layer, for MP3 it will always be three, MP2 would have a value of two, and MP1 files would have a value of one.

Emphasis

Channel Mode

This displays the sampling rate used to create this file,usually the higher the bit rate the better quality the encoding.

The length of the audio track in seconds

This displays the sampling rate of the original audio source

Is this Audio File copyrighted

Is this the original Audio File

Is this the Audio File private

Is this the Audio File protected

Is this Audio File encoded using Variable Bit Rate this means that the sampling rate varies depending on the content. This allows better quality encoding in smaller files.

This lists all fields that are found within a tag which are recognised by Jaikoz but are not fully supported, Jaikoz recognises all fields specified in the ID3 Specification. Jaikoz supports all fields that are easy for uses to edit but some fields are very specialized and of limited use. These are the fields recognised but editing is not supported. Jaikoz displays the identifier and trys to display the field value

From the Edit Panel although you cannot edit these fields you are able to remove them. If you select the Popup Menu and select Delete all unsupported fields are marked for removal. If you select the Multi Field Count you can elect to delete individual fields. Deleting fields will not effect the encoded recording but they may be required by an application you use to play Audio Files.

ID3 allows users and application to define their own fields, this lists all fields that are not standard and hence not recognised by Jaikoz

From the Edit Panel although you cannot edit these fields you are able to remove them. If you select the Popup Menu and select Delete all unsupported fields are marked for removal. If you select the Multi Field Count you can elect to delete individual fields. Deleting fields will not effect the encoded recording but they may be required by an application you use to play Audio Files.

Use this to load your Audio Files into Jaikoz, selecting the option will start a file browser that you can use to select the folder you want to load Audio Files from. Selecting the Include Sub Folders when searching for Audio Files checkbox will also load any files in the subfolders of the chosen folder. The Specify the number of folders above this selection to set the Base Folder to setting decide how the path selected is split between the Base Folder and the Sub Folder. When set to zero the path selected will be set as the Base Folder (any other folders below will be set as the Sub Folder), as the value is increased more of the path will be put into the Sub Folder field and less put into the Base Folder field. This becomes more important if you want to use the Correct Sub Folders from Tags option because you wil want the folders you want to modify to be in the Sub Folder field, typically you should set the setting so that folders that match metadata such as Artist are placed in the Sub Folder field, and those that are general names such as /Music or /DataFiles are placed in the base Folder field. This becomes important if you want to use the Action/Correct Sub Folders from Tag action to rename subfolders based on metadata.

If you are attempting to load a large number of files a Progress Monitor will display showing the file loading progress, if you want to stop loading click on Cancel and no further files will be loaded. You cannot start editing until the load has completed.

Use this to load further Audio Files into Jaikoz, without replacing currently loaded files.

Use this to load Audio Files into Jaikoz, you can use this option to select one or more individual files from a directory without having to load all the files in the directory, any currently loadd files will be discarded.

Use this to load additional Audio Files into Jaikoz, without replacing currently loaded files.

Use this to close the files within Jaikoz. If you have modified the file you will be given the chance to save your changes.

This can be used to install a full license before your trial license has expired, once a full license has been installed this option is permanently disabled.

This will save any changes you have made to your settings through the Settings Menu or Action Settings Menu to file so they will be preserved the next time you start Jaikoz

This will save changes you have made to all Audio Files,including marking files for deletion.

If there were any problems applying changes to some files you will see the following Popup Window

Once the save has completed for all records successfully saved the View Panel will be updated to show the tag information as is currently held in the record, the Edit Panel will show the same as the Read Panel. Any records not successfully saved will still have a status of Changed or Deleted and the records data will be the same as before the editing was done

Exit Jaikoz. First of all it will check if you have made modifications to your settings but not saved them. If you have you will see

click Yes to save settings or No to not.

It will then check if you have modified any records. if you have you will see

click Yes to save changes or No not to.

After saving if neccessary Jaikoz will then exit

Copies the selected items from the View Pane, multiple cells within a single column can be copied. This data can be pasted into another applications outside of Jaikoz if you wish.

Copies the selected items from the Edit Pane

Pastes the previously copied values to the currently selected fields in the edit pane. If the copy area was larger than the selected paste area, then only the required number of cells are pasted, if the copy area was smaller than the the selected paste area, we reuse the copied cells in order to populate the paste area.

Pastes the previously copied values (including multiple values if they have them) to the currently selected fields in the edit pane

Deletes the currently selected fields in the edit pane

From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the View Pane. By default the View Pane is not shown because hiding it provides a simpler interface,providing more space for editing right away. But showing the View Pane allows you to identify the ID3v1,ID3v2 and MPEG fields and identify the modifications that you have made.

From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the Edit Pane. By default the Edit Pane is shown, you may wish to hide the Edit Pane if you are not planning to make any modifications, and hence provide more space for the View Pane.

From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the Console Pane. By default the Console Pane is shown, you may wish to hide the Console Pane to provide more space for editing. Everything written to the Console also gets written to the user log file regardless of whether the console is visible for the View Pane.

From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the Toolbar. By default the Toolbar is shown.

Runs the AutoCorrecter over all records performing the tasks as specified in your AutoCorrecter Settings in the order they were specified. If the task takes a while to complete a Progress Monitor will display showing the Auto Correcter progress,

if you want to stop the Auto Correcter click on Cancel and it will not complete the remaining tasks

This menu is for performing corrections that effect the metadata but not the filename, and do not require access to the Internet. All these local corrections run very quickly.

Mark Files for deletion, the files will only actually be deleted if you run Save Changes.

Mark Files for undeletion

Jaikoz can perform a number of corrections automatically these can be batched up into the Auto Correcter task. Here we can specify which tasks to perform and in what order. Jaikoz comes with a default list that performs all local auto corrections, some corrections are performed twice this is because the output from one task can effect the input of another task. For example we do the following order:

Correct Artist will find matches between Artist fields, Tag from File will populate missing Artist fields if possible from the filename it will use the values currently in the Artist column to get as accurate a match as possible. We then run Correct Artist again to take into account of any new matches, we then write the updated Artist fields to the filename with Correct Artist from Tags

The left hand side lists all the Available tasks, the right hand side your current Auto Correcter Tasks

To add tasks to your Auto Correcter Tasks select the task from Available Tasks you want to add then use either Add to or drag them over to the AutoCorrecter tasks.

To remove tasks from your Auto Correcter Tasks selecting an item(s) and select Remove.

To sort tasks in your Auto Correcter Tasks select the item you want to move and either use the Up and Down buttons to move it in the list or simply drag and drop it.

The items in this sub menu allow you adjust the settings used when you run the associated local Correct task

Here we specify settings to be used with MusicBrainz and MusicIP, a full understanding of these sections can be found here

The Read Folder specifies the location Jaikoz will look in by default. You can either type in a folder or use the Select Folder button to open a file browser to find the folder you require. If Include Sub Folders when searching for Audio Files is selected Audio Files within the subfolders will also be loaded. The Specify the number of folders above this selection to set the Base Folder to setting decide how the path selected is split between the Base Folder and the Sub Folder. When set to zero the path selected will be set as the Base Folder (any other folders below will be set as the Sub Folder), as the value is increased more of the path will be put into the Sub Folder field and less put into the Base Folder field.

If Load from this Folder on Startup is selected when Jaikoz starts it will automatically load audio files from this folder

Specifies the default tag versions to save. What tags you save depends upon how you use the Audio Files. ID3v1 is supported by most Audio applications however it is a very limited system, most applications now support ID3v2 tags in some form so there is a strong case for removing your ID3v1 tags from your file so you do not have two datasets to maintain. If your application supports ID3v2.4 you should save your tags to this version as it is the latest and greatest version, however many applications only support ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.2 so you need to take this into account when making a decision.

For ID3v1 tags you can elect to remove them, always write a particular tag version or to keep the existing tag version and provide a default if the tag does not exist.

For ID3v2 tags you can elect to always write a particular tag version or to keep the existing tag version and provide a default if the tag does not exist.

Within the general tab you can decide whether to automatically deletes folders that are now empty because the audio files that were in there previously have been renamed or moved. This is powerful way of housekeeping you filesystem but may not always be desired so it is disabled by default.

This allows you to set how the data tables look and work

This will allow you to specify what language is used in the interface. English and Spanish are currently supported.

Word Removers are used by AutoMatch, they ignore words listed in a word remover when comparing field values. From here we can specify one or more word remover lists and the words they contain. The Window is split horizontally, the top half specifes the Word remover lists (a default called 'Default ' is provided) when you select a list the bottom half of the window shows all the words that will removed. Use the Add,Rename and Delete buttons in the half to create, rename or delete new word lists. use the Add,Rename and Delete in the bottom half to create, rename or delete a value from the word list

You may wish to define multiple word removers for different columns or for different dataset. For example if you are dealing with Audio Files in a different language you could define a word remover specifically for that language .

Word Separators are used by AutoMatch to identify when a word ends, words are separated by the values. From here we can specify one or more Word Separator lists and the Word Separators they contain. The Window is split horizontally the top half specifes the Word Separator lists (a default called 'Default ' is provided), when you select a list the bottom half of the window shows all the characters that are used to separate words. Use the Add,Rename and Delete buttons in the half to create, rename or delete new Word Separators. use the Add,Rename and Delete in the bottom half to create, rename or delete a value from the word list, only single characters are allowed.

You may wish to define multiple Word Separators for different columns or for a different dataset. For example two Default Word Separators are provided,one is used by the FileName to tag correcter to split a filename into seperate components. In this case we do not want to include the ' ' character because this would break up song titles into different words whereas we want to keep the Title as a single word for this auto correction.

Word Replacers are used by AutoFormat to replace words with another word. From here we can specify one or more word replacer lists and the words replacers they contain. The Window is split horizontally the top half specifes the Word Replacers lists (a default called 'Default ' is provided) ,when you select a list the bottom half of the window shows all the words that will be replaced and by what they will be replaced by. Use the Add,Rename and Delete buttons in the half to create, rename or delete new word replacers. Use the Add,Rename and Delete in the bottom half to create, rename or delete a valuepair from the word list, you have to specify what the word is and what you want to replace it by.

You may wish to define multiple word replacers for different columns or for a different dataset. For example if you are dealing with Audio Files in a different language you could define a word replacer specifically for that language.

Punctuation Removers are used by AutoFormat to remove characters we do not want. From here we can specify one or more Punctuation Removers lists and the Punctuation Removers they contain. The Window is split horizontally the top half specifes the Punctuation Removers lists (a default called 'Default ' is provided) , when you select a list the bottom half of the window shows all the punctuation that will be removed. Use the Add,Rename and Delete buttons in the half to create, rename or delete new punctuation removers. use the Add,Rename and Delete in the bottom half to create, rename or delete by a value from the list, only single character are allowed.

You may wish to define different punctuation removers for different columns or for a different dataset. For example if you are dealing with Audio Files in a different language you could define a punctuation remover specifically for that language.

Specifies the External Application used to process from the 'Run External App' option.

Jaikoz will try to find and use the Default Browser but this is not always possible. This setting allows you to specify the path of the browser that you would like to use and overrides any browser Jaikoz finds automtically.

Jaikox provides two 'Look and Feels'. By default Jaikoz runs as you would expect on the operating system you are using. But if you use Jaikoz on more than one computer (For example an Apple Mac and a Windows PC).there is a generic Look which makes Jaikoz look the same on all operating systems (Windows,Linux,Mac OS X) called Cross Platform If you change this option changes will not take place until you restart Jaikoz. Below we show the default 'Looks' available on Windows XP.

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Cross Platform

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