JiBA — Restore Original Language Titles in Apple Music (Japanese, Chinese, Korean Metadata)

Japanese is Back Again

Restore Original Language Titles in Apple Music

Apple Music often romanizes Japanese tracks and translates Chinese/Korean titles into English. JiBA solves this core problem, restoring original metadata for a pristine library.

Download
macOS Only (Syncs to iOS/Android/Windows via iCloud)
Install with Homebrew brew install --cask jiba
JiBA application interface showing metadata restoration for Apple Music tracks with Japanese, Chinese, and Korean song titles

Key Features

Japanese/Chinese/Korean Metadata Restoration

Automatically fixes Romanized Japanese and translated Chinese/Korean track names back to their original scripts.

Scheduled Automation

Set it and forget it. JiBA runs in the background to keep your library organized as you add new music.

Seamless Integration

Works directly with Music.app using secure AppleEvents. Changes sync to all your devices via iCloud Music Library.

Documentation

Complete JiBA GUI Guide

The website now includes a full GUI manual that walks through first launch, every major setting group, repair tools, advanced options, menu bar behavior, notifications, and recovery workflows.

  • First launch, Traditional vs Enhanced Mode, and target-language setup
  • Main window controls, run behavior, review flow, and scheduling
  • Repair tools, Web Player fixes, rollback, logging, and troubleshooting

Read Online

Option-by-option reference

Use this if you want the full explanation of what each control changes and when to use it.

Open Documentation

The in-app Help buttons open this guide directly.

Update History

Stable v1.5.1
  • Added the Neo colored-vinyl homepage style, with colors drawn from album artwork and an option to switch back to the original vinyl style.
  • Smoothed artwork transitions and record rotation during playback, pause, and window changes.
  • Improved original-language recovery for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese titles, artists, albums, and sort fields while preserving official English and Latin-script names.
  • Improved composer-credit recovery, including verified original names, mixed romanized credits, and classical music fields.
  • Strengthened cross-region catalog and release-edition checks to reduce mismatches, mixed-up credits, and missed matches when albums span processing batches.
  • Fixed false positives in metadata repair, distinguished unresolved catalog lookups from repairable items, and removed deleted library tracks from repair candidates.
  • Optimized full-library processing, batch queries, and cache reuse to reduce waiting and backend memory usage.
  • Improved progress and remaining-time estimates using actual run history and observed writes.
  • Strengthened write and restore protection: metadata writes stop if rollback records cannot be saved safely.
  • Fixed misleading network warnings and issues with incremental retries, cache rescans, and manual review windows.
  • Fixed cache compatibility between stable and Beta builds and refined sponsor restoration and interface details.
  • Requires macOS 14 or later.
Stable v1.5.0
  • Added Change History for reviewing and restoring tracks recently modified by JiBA.
  • Added an “Undo Last Change” action.
  • Refactored JiBA’s core matching engine to reduce accumulated technical debt and improve recognition accuracy for some tracks.
  • Improved song matching and multilingual recognition to reduce mismatches and missed matches.
  • Optimized query speed and reliability across different network environments.
  • Improved the workflow for dragged-in tracks: JiBA now waits for Music to finish syncing before running.
  • Improved reliability when running with the Mac’s lid closed.
  • Improved responsiveness in Settings, Manual Review, and Repair windows.
  • Fixed layout issues caused by overly long text in some languages.
  • Fixed incorrect button hit areas.
  • Adjusted and refined several Settings options.
  • Fixed inaccurate progress and estimated time remaining displays.
  • Added support for macOS 27.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented local track protection from taking effect, contributed by Sindou Kaede.
  • Fixed issues with metadata restoration, asset loading, and other related areas.
Stable v1.4.5
  • Fixed an issue where albums with the same name could be incorrectly merged under the same artist.
Stable v1.4.4
  • Improved recognition accuracy.
  • Added an option to prevent sleep after the lid is closed.
Stable v1.4.3 2026-04-10
  • Automatic tasks now support a trigger mode that detects newly added tracks. Whether you add songs to your library from iPhone, iPad, or Mac, JiBA running in the background will automatically complete the metadata correction flow without any manual action.
  • Added a drag-and-drop processing mode. Drag tracks from your library directly into the JiBA main window to process them immediately.
Stable v1.4.2 2026-04-06
  • Optimizations and stability fixes.
Stable v1.4.1 2026-03-29
  • Significantly improved processing speed, with up to 400% faster performance in the best cases
  • Further improved recognition accuracy for Japanese content
  • Added help documentation
  • Fixed stuttering when using manual write in large libraries
  • Added a Select All button to manual write
  • Added an option to skip local tracks
  • Other adjustments and fixes
Stable v1.4.0 2026-03-26
  • Introduced a new artist-list-based language decision pipeline, greatly improving metadata matching in Traditional Mode
  • Strengthened Chinese and broader Sinitic-region detection logic
  • Refined how high-risk candidates are escalated to manual review
  • CLI and GUI can now install langdetect automatically
  • Added full-library repair by target region
  • Cache and review state are now isolated between modes, making mode switches more stable
  • Damage Repair now preserves pending results
  • Added more complete rollback and original-metadata restoration support
  • Fixed an issue that could generate extra Damage Repair playlists
  • Improved Web Player cloud-album handling for in-car systems such as Tesla
  • JiBA's accent color now follows macOS, including support for the colorful MacBook Neo style
  • Fixed version-comparison compatibility issues to reduce upgrade errors caused by differing version formats
  • General stability improvements
  • Additional UI refinements
Stable v1.3.1 2026-03-09
  • Multiple stability fixes
Stable v1.3.0 2026-03-08
  • Enhanced Mode now uses a new v2 algorithm pipeline with improvements in both speed and accuracy
  • Introduced a fully redesigned Sinitic languages pipeline, with an option to unify all Sinitic-language songs as either Traditional Chinese or Simplified Chinese
  • Significantly improved processing speed for users in mainland China
Stable v1.2.2 2026-03-07
  • Rebuilt the UI
  • Improved the onboarding flow during first-time setup
  • Bug fixes and detail refinements
  • Improved recognition and handling for Gakumas tracks
  • Added more feature entry points on the Home page
  • Prepared for Enhanced Mode v2 (Beta)
Stable v1.2.1 2026-02-28
  • Resolved several unexpected localization results from Apple metadata
  • Improved stability and optimized UI performance
  • Home write-mode pill now supports direct switching (Auto Write / Manual Write)
  • Improved recognition and handling for Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! tracks
  • Partially mitigated P.R. China network-environment issues
Stable v1.2.0 2026-02-21
  • Added suspicious-data review before write in write-enabled runs
  • Added configurable suspicious review threshold in Settings
  • Reused Metadata Damage Repair as confirmation workflow with auto lookup
  • Added per-album and per-track lookup region overrides in repair tool
  • Improved repair lookup stability, progress responsiveness, and no-change handling
  • Improved lookup performance and fallback behavior
Stable v1.1.3 2026-02-16
  • Improved recognition for Japanese songs that have English titles
  • Added a Dock visibility control toggle
  • Added a toggle to prevent system sleep
  • Added Enhanced Mode activation via GitHub account sign-in
  • Adjusted settings UI and regrouped options
  • Expanded logging details
  • Improved default scheduled-task behavior
Stable v1.1.2 2026-02-13
  • Fixed issue where Various Artists albums were split during full library scan
  • Fixed issue where target language write-back did not work in traditional mode
  • Improved stability when processing across batches
  • Enhanced metadata extraction and caching stability
  • Other experience and update experience optimization
Stable v1.1.1 2026-02-10
  • Bug fixes and stability improvements
Stable v1.1.0 2026-02-10
  • Improved Album Protection accuracy with a new detection algorithm
  • Fixed an issue where some Japanese songs were incorrectly skipped
  • Fixed a bug where manual selected-tracks mode did not work properly
  • Minor UI adjustments for a more polished experience
Stable v1.0.1 2026-02-09
  • Fixed issue where writing was not possible in selected tracks mode
  • Fixed issue where Japanese and Korean songs were incorrectly skipped in some scenarios
Stable v1.0.0 RC1 2026-02-08
  • Japanese fully supported
  • Chinese/Korean languages are still in testing