You can change the following options the Preferences/MusicBrainz/Acoustid window.

The Save Acoustic Ids to file as retrieved save the acoustic id to the file as it is retrieved. This protects you from losing your work against a system crash, because acoustic ids are always correct, no verification is required by the user

Once you have matched your songs to MusicBrainz you can submit your fingerprint/MusicBrainz Id pairings to Acoustid to help build the database. But to do this you need to get a (completely free) Acoustid key, enter that into the Acoustid keyfield

The Do not match online if already have a MusicBrainz Recording id option allows you to skip over songs that have already had a Recording id, this option is enabled by default.

If the matching MusicBrainz song has a match to a Discogs Release Jaikoz can use Discogs to retrieve additional information for the song, if you do not wish to do this then check Do not update from Discogs when matching

These preferences apply to both matching from MusicBrainz and matching from Discogs

The Prefer do not match to Various Artist Compilations and Prefer do not match to Single Artist Compilations options will give preference to matching a song on an original release such as original album or single, and will only match to a compilation album as a last resort.

The selected Preferred Country of release will give song linked to a releases in this country an improved score.

The selected Preferred Media Formats will give songs with releases of this type an improved score.

If Preferred Release Date is set to Earliest Release Date this will boost scores of releases with the earlier release dates, you can also specify Latest Release Date and No Preference

The Only match if all songs on album were matched option is useful if you have a collection that already had good metadata and you want to ensure that only really good matches based on your groupings are made but it does also mean if you have any partial albums they will not be matched to a MusicBrainz or Discogs release.If you have only this option enabled it means that any album that is matched must be completely matched but this doesn't have to be on a folder by folder basis, so for example if you have a folder containing 10 songs that failed to match any album but existing metadata in the songs creates two groupings of 5 each, then one of those grouping could be matched to a 5 track release that would be okay.If this option is enabled individual song by song matching to the best album does not take place.

You can get safer matching if Only allow match if all songs in grouping match to one album is enabled. If your songs are already organized one folder per album then songs in the folder will only be matched to a release if all songs in that folder can be matched to the same release. Usually Jaikoz is clever enough to recognise when you have a multi disc release and have created separate folders per disc as well, in this case it will only allow a match if songs in each subfolder are matched to a disc of the same release.Usually this option should be enabled because although it prevents album folders being broken up but allowances are made if Jaikoz identifies you have some have folders containing a random assortment of files, and it also identifies when you have duplicate file sin the same folder. If you disable this option then if Jaikoz fails to match the folder to an album it will then try and group the songs in the folder into smaller groupings based on their existing metadata, if this fails and matching to Discogs fails as well it then does individual song by song matching and will match each song to the best album it can find with the limited information available.

If both Only match if all songs on album were matched and Only allow match if all songs in grouping match to one album are enabled then all the songs in a grouping must match to same album and all songs on the album must be matched, so if there are 10 songs in a folder it can only match a 10 song album. If your music collection is already well organized and you have complete albums this ensures that only very high quality matches will be made to MusicBrainz and Discogs but it does also mean if you have any partial albums they will not be matched to a MusicBrainz or Discogs release.

If neither options are enabled then Jaikoz willl eventually match each song individually so if the song can be identified it will be matched. This works very well if you have a very messed up collection and just want to identify each song, it also works if you use your songs as a jukebox and are not interested in the album that the song belongs to.

This lists most of the values that can possibly be updated by MusicBrainz upon a successful match, this includes text fields and Artwork. By default all fields are populated on a MusicBrainz match if MusicBrainz has a value, but you can select to only Replace if empty or Never Alter the field.

When matching cover art Jaikoz will attempt to finest the highest quality image it can from a variety of sources, the image is added to the audio file automatically but like all tasks the image will not be saved until you save changes.

The Romanize non-Latin script artist names whenever possible uses the Latin versions of non-latin names where possible. If the artist names is in a non-Latin script such as Chinese, Japanese or Cyrillic its Latin equivalent will be used if available. This is very useful for Western speakers who typically only can only pronounce Latin script but may have music from other cultures because then it allows them to pronounce the names of any of the artists in their collection. The Latin name is often stored as an additional alias within the original MusicBrainz database, it maybe a transliteration of the original name or an alternative Latin based name that the artists is known by in the Western world. The JThink Music Server additionally links Discogs artists to the corresponding MusicBrainz artist if it exists so that now you can often get Latin names even when your songs only match a Discogs release and not a MusicBrainz release.

This is the current list of fields that can be auto populated

The Put Original Year into Year field can be used when the original album is found so that the original year is stored in the year field. When creating play-lists in some players you may want to create date based play-lists i.e. Songs from the 60's and only some players provide access to the original release year.

This lists additional values that can possibly be updated by MusicBrainz upon a successful match.

You can specify options for genres, because most players only understand the first genre linked to a song some customers put a list of genres in the grouping field as a single field to make it easier to create multiple genre based play-lists. So with Jaikoz you can also specify whether to write genres to the grouping field as well, independently of the values added to the genre field.

These preferences apply to both matching from MusicBrainz and matching from Discogs

Add EP and Single release types to release title is useful for distinguishing between a release and a single of the same name, it is common for a release to have the same name as a song on the album and if that song is released as a single there is nothing to differentiate between them.

Sometimes a recording artist may use a different name on some of their releases, this can me it harder to manage your collection. If you enable Use standard Artist name instead of name displayed on cover then the artist name will always be used in your songs metadata.

Sometimes a recording is given another name on a different release, to force a consistent name to be used enable Use standard song title instead of title displayed on cover

The Disc No field is very useful in multiple disc releases, for example to distinguish between the first track on disc 1 and the first track on disc 2. But not all applications provide access to this field so it can be useful to add to the release title by setting this option to Always Add Disc No Information to the release title. Multi-disc releases sometimes give an actual name to each disc and this can be added to the release title by setting the option to Add Disc No to the release title if disc has title.Or you can elect to do nothing special for multi-disc release by setting the option to Never add Disc No information to the release title.

This looks at the Release Id of the selected song, it then checks all the other potential matches for the other songs and selects any match that has the same Release Id. This is a nice easy way of matching a whole album of songs just by finding the best match for one song.

Displays the selected songs album details in MusicBrainz using your Web Browser

Displays the selected songs details in MusicBrainz using your Web Browser

By default songs are processed in batches of ten, after the first ten songs are processed the matches are displayed in a dialog. Whilst you are reviewing the options the next batch of songs is processed in the background. If you select OK the songs are updated to your matches. This continues until there are no more songs to process, unless you select Cancel. You can select Reset to undo any changes you have made in the current batch that you are reviewing.

The Number of songs to process before showing dialog sets how many songs are processed before displaying the potential matches in a dialog when running Manual Correct Tags from MusicBrainz.

The MusicBrainz Server field specifies what MusicBrainz server to use for lookups, this is usually http://www,musicbrainz.org, but you may want to access the beta server or setup a local server you can configure Jaikoz to use it here.

In order to submit data to MusicBrainz you need to have a user account, these are completely free and can be created at the MusicBrainz Website. If you have a user account specify your username and password in this tab in the MusicBrainz Username and MusicBrainz password fields. By submitting data to MusicBrainz you are helping to improve this open source database and maintain the most accurate music resource in existence. By submitting information for songs that you own you create an archive of information that will never be lost even if your own files get damaged. Currently the majority of information that is contributed to MusicBrainz is via their website, but you can contribute some information automatically via Jaikoz. if you do this please ensure the information you submit is accurate and of a high quality.

If you successfully create an Acoustid fingerprint for a track and you have independently found a match on MusicBrainz you can submit the pairing to the Acoustid database, so should use this task AFTER matching your songs. This helps build the Acoustid Database and means that subsequent users will be able to match to the correct MusicBrainz Id if their song has the same fingerprint even if they have no metadata. All displayed/selected pairing will be submitted.

MusicBrainz has a Folksonomy cloud that can be used to tag artists, releases and tracks with anything you like. Jaikoz uses this to add genres at releases and track level. Because genres are subjective this feature is going to become more useful as more people submit their genres, so please give it a go. Jaikoz also uses the folksonomy cloud to fix the genre field when correcting songs from MusicBrainz.

If you successfully matched a track to MusicBrainz and you have independently found the bar code for the release you can submit the pairing to the MusicBrainz database, this helps build the MusicBrainz Database. For example you may have matched a release to MusicBrainz but MusicBrainz does not contain the Bar code, however if you have the original release you can read it from the cover add it to the Bar code fields for the songs and then submit to MusicBrainz with this task.

You can rate your songs in MusicBrainz and then submit the ratings to MusicBrainz, this helps others identify the best songs for an artist they may not know so well.

You can submit a new release to MusicBrainz, either ensure a single album is listed or use the context menu to submit a new release to MusicBrainz. Your release details will be opened in your browser with most of the information completed making it much quicker than adding the release manually.

MusicBrainz can store a list of the release you own and inform you of new releases by your favourite artists. Submitting releases can be done via the website but Submit MusicBrainz Collection provides an easier way to submit all the releases loaded in Jaikoz in one go. You can have multiple MusicBrainz collections and Jaikoz allows you to submit your songs to your chosen collection.

MusicBrainz can store a list of the release you own and inform you of new releases by your favourite artists. You can remove previously added releases from your collection.