Jaikoz is a Java program

Computer program

A computer program is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer. A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor. The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute...

 used for editing and mass tagging

Tag editor

A tag editor is a piece of software that supports editing metadata of multimedia file formats, rather than the actual file content...

 music file tag

Tag (metadata)

In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information . This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching...

s. Jaikoz generates acoustic fingerprints (MusicIP's MusicDNS

MusicDNS

MusicDNS is an acoustic fingerprinting service and a software development kit provided by MusicIP. MusicDNS is used by MusicIP Mixer, MusicBrainz Picard, and Jaikoz. According to MusicIP, the fingerprint database contains over 22 million fingerprints as of August, 2006. MusicDNS has nothing to do...

 PUIDs

Portable Unique IDentifier

PUID or Portable Unique IDentifier is a unique identifier used by MusicIP and given by MusicDNS to identify a song.- How it works :To identify songs stored in digital format, an acoustic fingerprint of the song is required. This fingerprint can be generated using the Open Fingerprint Architecture...

) of your files and looks up the PUID and the existing metadata from the MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open content music database. Similar to the freedb project, it was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the CDDB...

 or Discogs

Discogs

Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...

 service. Potential matches are scored according to an algorithm and if the highest score is greater than the user determined threshold the track is selected. This allows Jaikoz to automatically fix most of a users song collection. Jaikoz uses a relatively unusual spreadsheet metaphor for both viewing and editing data, and allows editing of over fifty fields using this spreadsheet interface, the underlying jaudiotagger tag library is released under LGPL and is used by various Java applications.

Jaikoz is commercially licensed software, written in Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 1.5 by Paul Taylor. 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. 10% of every sale is paid to the MetaBrainz Foundation

MetaBrainz Foundation

The MetaBrainz Foundation is a 501 tax-exempt non-profit based in San Luis Obispo, California, that operates the MusicBrainz project.With the creation of the MetaBrainz Foundation on 2005-04-19, the MusicBrainz project entered its second phase of life...

 to support MusicBrainz development.

Summary of Features

• Acoustic matching using MusicBrainz and AmpliFIND to match songs based on the actual music
• MetaData matching using MusicBrainz and Discogs to match tracks from the metadata in your files either automatically or manually
• Fixes artwork and lyrics as well.
• Supports Multiple Audio formats and different audio formats can be edited the same easy way
• Export/Import metadata to/from a spreadsheet.
• Delete Duplicates based on Musicbraizn Id and/or Acoustic Id
• Powerful Find And Replace feature that can be used to find and replace values in all/any column
• Intelligent FileName to Tagger can extract information from the filename into the tag without having to know the format of the field
• Configure batch operations using AutoCorrect
• Full Unicode support allow any character from any language to be used
• Easy conversion of tags between ID3 versions

Reviews and awards

Jaikoz has been favorably received worldwide. Jaikoz was recommended in a LifeHacker article for automatically correcting your metadata.

Jaikoz version 1.1.3 was distributed by Macworld

Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California...

 Italy magazine with its Spring, 2006 supplement "Everything iPod". Version 2.5 was favorably reviewed in 2008 by Thomas Weiss, senior editor of Macnews Germany. Macworld

Macworld

Macworld is a web site and monthly computer magazine dedicated to Apple Macintosh products. It is published by Mac Publishing, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California...

 Germany editor Matthias Zehden concurred in his 2009 iPhoneWelt review of Jaikoz.

Academic notice

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

King Abdulaziz University

King Abdulaziz University was founded in 1967 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Designed by English architect John Elliott, it had 2,000 teachers and more than 37,000 students in 2000/2001....

included Jaikoz in his survey of automatic metadata generators for its ability to generate metadata by analyzing content.

External links

• Jaikoz homepage