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Show the Jaikoz preferences window.

Jaikoz does not provide any OSX Services at the moment.

Hide the Jaikoz application.

Hide all visible application.

Show all open application.

Quit Jaikoz. If you have outstanding modifications to your preferences but not saved them, you will see

click Yes to save preferences or No to not.

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

click Yes to save changes or No not to.

After making any requested saves Jaikoz will exit.

Use this to load your songs into Jaikoz, selecting the option will open a file dialog that you can use to select the folder you want to load songs from. Selecting the Include Sub Folders when searching for songs checkbox will also load any files in the sub folders of the chosen folder.

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 songs into Jaikoz, without replacing currently loaded files.

Use this to load songs 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 loaded files will be discarded.

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

Use this to open all the files specified in a playlist. Currently the popular M3U format is the only playlist format supported.

Use this to open all the files specified in a playlist, without replacing currently loaded files. Currently the popular M3U format is the only playlist format supported.

Use this to reopen files/folders or play-lists that have been recently opened, maintains a history of the last ten items opened.

Use this to close songs currently opened within Jaikoz. If you have modified any of the files you will be given the chance to save your changes.

Play the selected song(s) using your default player or an alternative specified in the preferences.

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 preferences to file so they will be preserved the next time you start Jaikoz. By default preferences are automatically saved when you exit Jaikoz anyway unless yo have disabled this option.

This will save changes you have made to your songs, including files that are marked for deletion.

Once the save has completed, for all songs successfully saved the View Panel will be updated to show the metadata information as is currently held in the record, the Edit Panel will show the same as the Read Panel. Any songs not successfully saved will still have a status of Changed or Deleted and the songs saved metadata will be the same as before the editing was done. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes

This will save changes you songs and move them to a different folder that you select. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes

After save the moved files will no longer be open in Jaikoz

This will save changes you have made to your songs and copy them to a different folder that you select. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes

This will re-save songs, regardless of whether you have made any changes, including marking files for deletion. This can be useful if you wish to re-save a file because you want to modify the way it is saved. For example you may wish to save a file with unsynchronization either enabled or disabled.

Once the save has completed for all songs 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 songs not successfully saved will still have a status of Changed or Deleted and the songs data will be the same as before the editing was done. For more details about how save works see Saving Changes

Undo any changes to fields in the song, so it is the same as when originally loaded.

If any songs contain embedded artwork the first artwork for each song will be saved as folder.jpg in the songs folder overwriting any existing folder.jpg. This is useful for some players that look for artwork on the file system instead of within the artwork itself.

Undo any changes to selected fields.

Redo any changes to selected fields previously undone.

Copies the selected items from the View Pane, multiple fields 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 (including multiple values if they have them) 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 fields are pasted, if the copy area was smaller than the selected paste area, we reuse the copied fields in order to populate the paste area.

Pastes the previously copied values (only pasting first value if field has multiple values) to the currently selected fields in the edit pane

Pastes the previously copied values to the start of the currently selected fields in the edit pane, (separated by a space character).

Pastes the previously copied values to the end of the currently selected fields in the edit pane, (separated by a space character).

This removes whitespace at the start or end of the currently selected fields in the edit pane.

Widespace is when there is more than one space between words, this option removes the additional spaces so that there is only one space between words in the currently selected fields in the edit pane

Deletes the currently selected fields in the edit pane

Set the value of the selected fields to any text that you enter into the pop-up dialog.

Find and Replace values in the edit pane

Change the case/capitalization of the selected fields.

Swap the data between two predefined columns. Swapping between the most popular columns are defined in this sub menu, alternatively you can use the Swap to swap data between fields in two arbitrary columns

By using the submenus you can empty all the visible fields in a particular column, you can also empty any column by selecting this option from the column header menu.

This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in two separate columns,selecting it will swap the contents of the fields from one column with the other

This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in two separate columns,selecting it will copy the contents of the fields in the right column into the start of the fields in the left column (separated by a space character)

This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in two separate columns,selecting it will copy the contents of the fields in the left column into the start of the fields in the right column (separated by a space character)

This menu is available whenever you have selected some fields in the track no column,selecting it will renumbers the fields starting from the value of the first field (based on the current sort order), or starting from one if the first field has no value. The renumbering is based on the current order of the files, the numbering takes into account your Track No Preferences

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 Tag Browser ,by default the Tag Browser is shown

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.

From here you can toggle between showing/hiding the ID3 tabs in the View and Edit panels. The ID3 tabs are only useful for MP3 files and are intended for users with an understanding of the ID3 format.

Available if you have one track selected with artwork

Available if you have songs selected with a MB Unique Id see View this Track at MusicBrainz

Available if you have songs selected with a MB Artist Id see View this Artist at MusicBrainz

Available if you have songs selected with a MB Release Id see View this Album at MusicBrainz

Available if you have songs selected with an Acoustid see View this Acoustic Id at MusicBrainz. Some tracks may have an acoustic id that isn’t actually in the MusicBrainz database so this option may open an empty page.

Available if you have songs selected with an Amazon Id see View this Amazon Id at Amazon

Available if you have songs selected with an Release Discogs Url

Available if you have songs selected with an Release Wikipedia Url

Available if you have songs selected with an Artist Discogs Url

Available if you have songs selected with an Artist Wikipedia Url

Runs the AutoCorrecter over all songs performing the tasks as specified in your AutoCorrecter Preferences in the order they were specified. If the task takes a while to complete a

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

This menu is for fixing release information for just a single release.

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.

Delete duplicates songs based on their MusicBrainz Id and/or Acoustic Id, more details at Delete Duplicates.

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

Mark Files for undeletion

Menu items within this menu highlight fields in particular columns based on some predefined conditions

Menu items within this menu filter songs to only show those that meet predefined conditions

Menu items within this menu filter songs to only show those that meet predefined conditions

When enabled only songs containing a MB Recording Id and Acoustid combination that is the same as at least one other songs are displayed, filter status is also shown in the status bar. This filter is very useful for finding and possibly deleting duplicate versions of the same song.

Export the songs to a spreadsheet file so the details can be archived or modified outside of Jaikoz. More details at Export

Import song information from a spreadsheet file replacing any modified values with the ones in the spreadsheet. More details at Import

Empty the database cache. The database stores the details of artists, albums and tracks that have been downloaded from MusicBrainz and songs that have previously been loaded into Jaikoz. This allows subsequent lookup to be done locally and much more quickly, but you may wish to empty the cache to ensure that Jaikoz gets any updates to MusicBrainz since the information was originally downloaded. It also speeds up the reloading of files into Jaikoz from your computer.

If you have a problem with Jaikoz please use this option to create a zip file containing all the important information that will help to fix the problem, please use this option whenever you have an unexpected error occurring within Jaikoz.

This will create a list of albums from the tracks that you have selected that have been successfully matched to MusicBrainz, and the list the tracks within each album that you do not appear to have, more details from here

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