Jaikoz [Media Software Review]
With Diskwarrior, Little Snitch, XLD, Clam and a few others I cannot think of right now besides Logic, RX and Traktor and... This is one of the most important pieces of software I own and it has been with me for years.
Simply put and borrowed from Wikipedia, “Jaikoz is a Java program used for editing and mass tagging music file tags.” and from Jthink,
“Jaikoz uses MusicBrainz, an online database of over eleven million songs and Discogs another database of over 4 million releases. Many of the songs also have an Acoustic Id provided by Acoustid, allowing a song to be identified by the actual music, so it can do a match even if you have no metadata! These feature means that Jaikoz gives you the flexibility to lookup your songs by both the acoustic id and the metadata making Jaikoz a very accurate tool. But no identification system is 100% accurate so we have made it as quick and easy as possible to edit your data manually as well using a convenient spreadsheet view, with many auto-formatting features.”
The current release supports tagging of Mp4, M4a, M4p, Mp3, Wma, Flac, Aiff, Wav, Dsf and Ogg files. The latest release is Jaikoz 9.1.0, this was released on December 15th 2016.
A free trial is available and a video can be seen here
Over the six years I have been using it, it has saved me time and apoplexy more times than is worth describing. Jaikoz has been reviewed favorably around the world and “In 2006, Julien Chaveau of the University of Angers cited Jaikoz as an exemplar of an automated information extraction system, 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 analysing content”
Though the learning curve can be steep, if Jaikoz continued to develop and took on stuff like Traktor compatibility, I don’t think there is anything else I would use for media. Sometimes, it is frustrating to have to step out of it to do stuff elsewhere.
If you DJ digitally or collect vast volumes of music. Or have many odd mix CDs to transfer. Many libraries on old computers to consolidate, this is an essential piece of software.
If you even have a lot of your own media you need to bulk tag. This is the Killer Robot for that task.
If you don’t have this and have a large digital music library, this is almost like missing a screwdriver or hammer in a toolbox.
It is constantly being updated, tweaked, bug checked, features honed or new ones added and once you purchase it, you get updates for life.
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