Opening Playlist Contents
In Jaikoz 2.8.2 I added support for opening Winamp Playlists, the most widely accepted playlist format. But I knew that what many of you really wanted is to drag and drop iTunes playlists, well you can...
View ArticleBugs, Enhancements or Testing
Jaikoz 2.8.4 now out with a few enhancements and a host of bugs fixes, some introduced in earlier versions, and there lies the rub. I've been concentrating on bug fixes recently and small enhancements...
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Export Songs to Spreadsheet
Working on an Export feature which is simple and effective. It will allow you to export the details of your loaded Songs to a comma seperated file. You can then use this file as an archive of your...
View ArticleJaikoz 2.9 released
The Export feature has been added, and I think this could be very useful for some of you power users. Remember you can use it for: backing up your metadata editing of metadata within a spreadsheet...
View ArticleUnable to find 'is this it' album bug solved - almost
There is a longstanding bug in Musicbrainz that makes it difficult to find songs that contain a number of common stop words such as the,is,that,a . This is because these stop words have been removed...
View ArticlePerformance testing Musicbrainz Search Index
Musicbrainz have been looking at improving the performance of their search server. When search queries are sent to Musicbrainz they do not access the database, instead they access a Search Index that...
View ArticleJaikoz 2.9.2 available
Fixed a couple of problems including a regression in 2.9.0 wherby Jaikoz was incorrectly matching tracks with no album name with albums in the local cache causing a slow down for those of use with...
View ArticleJaikoz Future Roadmap
Okay here are the priorities for the next few months.1. Fix memory management so memory consumption isn't tied by number of songs loaded by use of database. This should allow you to load your complete...
View ArticleFulfilling The Roadmap
Jaikoz 3.2.2 out now fixing the remaining problems in 3.2.0. 3.2 goes someway towards the roadmap with a simpler interface and simpler matching options. But I didn't manage the last option , more...
View ArticleBetter Searching in Jaikoz
I've been working hard with Musicbrainz over the last couple of months rewriting the Search Server to give better results, and I'm pleased to say its been a success and has now been released !This will...
View ArticleNew version of Jaudiotagger
I've just released the new version of Jaudiotagger, the tagging library used by Jaikoz and quite a few other applications. I've been happily removing code from the project and we now have a crisper,...
View ArticleMusicbrainz Developments
I went to the yearly Musicbrainz summit in Nurenberg a couple of weeks ago, a good time was had by all , and the old town is certainly a lovely place We discussed future developments, and their plenty...
View ArticleBetter matching in Jaikoz 3.4.2
Automatic matching is difficult but I've made a number of changes to improve the matching in Jaikoz in the latest release.Jaikoz searches for possible matches in Musicbrainz then rescores them taking...
View ArticleThe best duplicate song deleter around ?
Most of you try out Jaikoz for getting more metadata for your songs, but one of its less advertised features is duplicate song deletion.The way Jaikoz find duplicates is very powerful because it uses...
View ArticleMatching to a different song version
Progress on the new version of Jaikoz with release orientated matching is progress well but I came across an interesting problem today. As well as release matching, Jaikoz has the 'Prefer Do not match...
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iTunes can now export m3u playlists !
Smoother integration with iTunes is always something I endeavour to achieve, but iTune's doesn't make it easy. One longstanding problem was that iTunes playlists could only be exported in iTune's...
View ArticleNew fields added to Jaudiotagger
Jaikoz uses my open source Jaudiotagger library for reading and writing tags, so if I want to add a new field to Jaikoz it has to be added to jaudiotagger first.Ive just added a bucket load of new...
View ArticleSongbird buggy and they dont seem to care
In Jaikoz 3.8.3 a user was complaining that Jaikoz couldn't open their mp4s. Turns out the problem was that they had been edited in Songbird, and Songbird save track no differently to every other mp4...
View ArticleWhats going to be in Jaikoz 4.0 ?
With 3.9.0 out the door its time to think about the next release. I'm hopeful that the long delayed Musicbrainz NGS will be released soon, and if that is the case Jaikoz will be updated to use the much...
View ArticleJaikoz 4.0 NGS Beta now available
The Beta release is now available http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/beta/start.jsp configured to run against the Musicbrains NGS Test Database. This test database is configured just like the production...
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