Jaikoz

Infobox Software
name = Jaikoz



caption = The main tagging window.
developer = Jthink
latest release version = 2.5.2 Build 1048
latest release date = [15/5/2008]
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating system = Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
platform = Java 1.5
genre = tag editor, acoustic fingerprinter
license =
website = http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp

Jaikoz is a Java program used for editing and mass tagging music file tags. Jaikoz performs acoustic fingerprint matching and metadata lookups. Accuracy is determined by the completeness of the database being used and the quality of the recording. Jaikoz uses the MusicBrainz service. It generates fingerprints (MusicIP's MusicDNS PUIDs) of your files and compares them with the data from the MusicBrainz server.

Additionally Jaikoz matching algorithm compares the metadata files to each other, and performs an analysis on the sameness of values. If sufficiently similar, the values are changed to the most popular value. This mechanism allows automatic correction of typos. For example, if there were fifty records with the artist name "The Beatles" and ten with the artist name "The Beetles," the sameness of the two values would indicate they were the same and all values would be modified to the most popular (the correct) value "The Beatles".

Jaikoz is commercially licensed software, written in Java 1.5. 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.

ee also

* ID3
* MusicBrainz
* Tag editor

External links

* [http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp Jaikoz homepage]
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