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AcoustId Fingerprinter
A new fingerprint database tool is being developed by long time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský a little like AmpliFIND that Jaikoz may use in the future but currently its database of...
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Jaikoz is Global
Photo by Börkur SigurbjörnssonJaikoz had sales in 76 different countries last year:Andorra,Argentina,Australia,Austria,Bahrain,Belgium,Bermuda,Bolivia,Brazil,Bulgaria,Canada,Cayman...
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Why Google gains market share
When I released Jaikoz five years ago (!) Paypal was the sensible way to go for processing payment. A few years later and some potential customers did not want to use Paypal so I added Google Checkout...
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Why you should consider the database your tag editor is using to fix your songs
When you use a tag editor that automatically fixes your metadata you should really have a think about where that data comes from.Photo by Paul DowneyOpennessThere are a number of databases containing...
View ArticleIntroducing functions in rename masks
An important aspect of tagging your songs is renaming your songs so that they match the metadata within the song. Although most music players depend only on the metadata within the song itself, we all...
View ArticleBetter artwork matching in Jaikoz 5.3.0
Artwork has been improving steadily in Jaikoz over the last year, especially since the Cover Art Archive was introduced but with hew version of Jaikoz things have got even better.First some...
View ArticleBetter AcoustID matching in Jaikoz 5.4.0
How AcoustID worksWhen a song is analyzed and the fingerprint is submitted to AcoustID the AcoustID server returns an existing AcoustID if the fingerprint has been submitted before, or if the new...
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New Save Artwork to Filesystem option in SongKong 1.5
Pleased to announce the release of SongKong 1.5, this includes the ability to the save artwork to the filesystem. Fix Songs:Artwork Options:Save Artwork to Filesystem Artwork is automatically always...
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Updates iTunes from SongKong 1.6 for Windows
Despite its shortcomings iTunes is a massively popular music player, not least of all because its the official way to move music from your computer to your iPod. Windows users of SongKong can now get...
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Solving a bug in iTunes that prevents artwork being displayed
Occasionally I've seen artwork that displays okay in most applications failing to display in iTunes or the Finder within OSX, recently I had a nice example of this issue and looked into it further.How...
View ArticleBetter track matching when submitting new releases to Musicbrainz
For some time Jaikoz has allowed you to submit new releases to Musicbrainz, the selected songs in Jaikoz are used to open the MusicBrainz Release Editor with all the details filled in, so that you just...
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What is the point of the iTunes Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding...
SongKong 1.7 now has support for updating for iTunes on OSX, so it has feature parity with SongKong on Windows, and playing with this got me thinking about the point of certain iTunes options.Copy...
View ArticleFaster SongKong matching with the new Musicbrainz VM
To speed up matching it is possible to configure your own local MusicBrainz servers instead of using the official MusicBrainz servers and use this with SongKong. This avoids the requirement to only...
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SongKong 1.8 with new performance status bar and improved Virtual Machine...
Whilst SongKong works quicker when using a MusicBrainz virtual machine I confess it was not working quite as quick as I hoped, and I didn't know where the problem lay so I added some performance...
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New Song Changes Report in Songkong 1.9
With SongKong 1.9 we completely overhauled the song changes report, here is an example of such a report Song Changes ReportThe main aims were to increase its responsiveness for big reports, and...
View ArticleNew MusicBrainz Server release, time to update
Twice a year on a set date MusicBrainz do a server release that includes changes to their schema database. Changes to the database can be disruptive for MusicBrainz customers who keep their own copy of...
View ArticleUsing Jaikoz to modify the Release Time field on iTunes
iTunes has a Release Date field but you cannot actually edit the field in iTunes, at least not for music files,there is also a Year field and this is editable but sometimes it would be useful to use...
View ArticleFrom Music Players to Automated Tagging
A new version of SongKong has been released today with improvements in all areas, and I thought it would be worth giving a historical background of music tagging and its development as I see it.First...
View ArticleMoving Matched and Unmatched songs in SongKong in 1.17
As every song goes through the SongKongs pipeline the last stage is always the Save Song stage. At this point SongKong looks to see if the song has been matched to Musicbrainz or Discogs and if it has...
View ArticleThe Components of the Filename
There is sometimes some confusion about how SongKong views filenames so I'm going to try and explain with an example. The starting point of SongKong is to select a folder to process - we shall call...
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