2.5.0 Beta out now

Jaikoz v2.5.0 beta is out now please give it a go. One of the most exciting developments is support for fixing genres from Musicbainz folksonomy tags, and adding your own genres back to Musicbrainz. Unlike the majority of Musicbrainz data Folksonomy Tags are subjective rather than factual so it will be interesting to see how the folksonomy tag cloud develops.

Jaikoz is the first application to support submitting genres back to Musicbrainz. Before this release Musicbrainz Users had to enter tags using the website or write their own scripts to do this.

Jaikoz roundtrip processing of genres

I now have Jaikoz retrieving tags as genres from Musicbrainz, but not only that it can submit genres back to Musicbrainz. This means you can easily help build the Musicbrainz folksonomy, and you can use Musicbrainz to backup genres for your tracks. With a little bit of fiddling around it to easily tag your tracks with non genre information - such as the 'owned' tag.

The retrieve genres algorithm is as follows:
Get all tags for track
If any exist strip out any one we dont want using configurable blacklist
Favour tags that match Winamps genre list
If there are multiple matches pick the most popular tag one
If there are no tags that match Winamps genre list pick the most popular
If there are no matching tags repeat at release level.
If there are no matching tags repeat at artist level.

Only one genre is picked at the moment because most media players and audio formats only support a single genre so adding multiple genres doesnt seem to help much, but if you disagree let me know.