Features
Main Principles
Jajuk fundamental principles are :
- Maximum usability: Jajuk is designed to be intuitive, fast and provide multiple ways to perform the same operation
- Maximum features: Jajuk is made for advanced users looking for powerful functionalities
- Maximum portability and desktop integration
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Player functions
- Digital DJ: Let Jajuk make your playlist based on your own rules
- Ambience management: ask for a soft playlist in two clicks maximum!
- Advanced rating system : banning system, clever rating based both on user preference (set in one click) and automatic analysis (see Rating system for more).
- Configurable cross-fade
- Find duplicate tracks: inbuilt feature to find duplicate tracks across your audio collection
- Alarm clock: start/stop Jajuk at a preset time
- Prepare Party: allows to quickly copy a selection of tracks to an external device
- File management: cut/copy/past/rename; create/delete files/directory in the files perspective from within Jajuk
- Recursive play/repeat/shuffle/push in directories/sub-directories or by genre/artist/albums…
- “Shuffle” smart function to play shuffled selection, track by track, inside an album or album by album
- “Best Of” smart function to play your favourite tracks
- “Novelties” smart function to play your collection newest albums
- “Finish album” smart function to finish current album even in the middle of a shuffled playlist
- Push into player queue
- Planned tracks: foresee your selection
- Various startup modes: none, last one, last one keep position, specified, shuffle, novelties, bestof
- Intro from a track position and specified length
- Repeat / Repeat all, shuffle, intro, fast forward/rewind, mute, karaoke etc.
Supported formats
Jajuk supports most audio formats (MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, WMA, APE, etc…) and tags.
Format | Extension |
---|---|
MP3 | .mp3 |
OGG | .ogg |
FLAC | .flac |
AAC | .aac, .m4a |
Audio Interchange File Format | .aiff |
WAV, SPEEX | .wav |
AU | .au |
RealAudio* | .ram, .ra, .rm |
WMA | .wma |
MPEG 2 | .mp2 |
Monkey’s Audio (under Jajuk 1.6, no seeking, no cross fade) | .ape, .mac, .apl |
Musepack (Jajuk 1.6 and later) | .mpc, .mp+, .mpp |
Wavepack (Jajuk 1.7 and later) | .wv |
(*) Under Linux, requires w32codec package along with mplayer.
Playlist formats
Jajuk uses M3U (.m3u) Playlist format.
Cover formats
Jajuk supports following image formats for covers (limited to 1Mb):
- PNG (.png)
- JPEG (.jpg)
- GIF (.gif)
Tags formats
Jajuk supports following tags formats:
- OGG
- Flac (from Jajuk 1.7)
- ID3 V1
- ID3 V2
- WMA
- M4A / AAC (from Jajuk 1.7)
Engine
- Automatic indexing: Jajuk uses an XML database to store collection tags. It allows a fast startup even for very large collections. Moreover, you can continue to use jajuk when the collection is refreshed in background.
- Devices synchronization: unidirectional or bidirectional, full or partial
- Custom properties support: create custom attributes on any item to store personal data such as your own tag
- Disconnected devices support: navigate into unmounted devices (CDs for example) to get a complete view of your collection at any time (nice feature if you have plenty of music CDs)
- Collection reporting in HTML or XML
- DBus support (Linux only)
Search functions
- Web navigator-like history bar
- Instant search box to perform quick searches
- Table filters
- Lyrics grabbing from the web, read/write to tags
Tag support
- Most tags supported (Ogg,ID3 V1/V2, WMA, Flac…)
- Tag edition (single and multiple tracks)
- Online(CDDB) retagging
- Collection reorganizer using tags and a pattern
- Create your own tag using the custom properties
Graphical Interface
- Dockable perspectives and views
- Full keyboard controls
- Look and Feel support
- Files / Tracks separation: navigate into physical directories or into tags like genres, artists, albums…
- Collection charts and stats
- Wikipedia view displays artist discography
- Artist biography from Artist view
- Multi-language
- Full-featured and ultra-light slimbar
- Full screen mode
- Toast or balloon playing track notification
Covers support
- Visual catalog of all albums by covers
- Auto-covers grabbing from the web with possibility to store them on your disk or make them your default cover
Playlist support
- Dynamic playlist creation by drag and drop
- Best-of automatic playlist
- Bookmarks automatic playlist
- Novelties automatic playlist
Requirements
- Java 1.7 +
- MPlayer (bundled with Jajuk under Windows and OSX)
Supported languages
(Last update : Jajuk 1.10)
- Catalan (ca)*
- Chinese (zh)
- Czech (cs)
- Dutch (nl) **
- English (en) [Default language]
- French (fr)
- Galician (gl)*
- German (de)
- Greek (gr)*
- Italian (it) **
- Korean (ko) **
- Portuguese (pt)
- Russian (ru)
- Spanish (sp)* (*): outdated (**) : very outdated