SongKong

[paultaylor]

We have just released SongKong Stumpwork 10.9 please see here for full details.

[paultaylor]

SongKong 11 now supports new Scripter task for setting tagfields to other tags using Javascript Expression Language.

e.g

Code:

if(albumversion.length>0 && !album.contains(albumversion))
{
      album = album  + ' (' + albumversion + ")";
}

[paultaylor]

SongKong 11.2 Souvlaki is now available makes major improvements to performers

[paultaylor]

We have just released SongKong Tindersticks 11.5 and this is a very interesting update because we have added analysis to the Status Report and Fix Songs Report so that it finds inconsistencies that point to likely issues in the metadata in your files.

The reports now analyses our metadata and identifies potential issues, a summary written report is created that summarizes the completeness of our metadata, finds inconsistencies in our basic metadata, and inconsistencies in how songs have been matched to MusicBrainz and Discogs.

For example it detects inconsistencies such as inconsistent album artist for a folder representing an album, or a folder split between different MusicBrainz releases.

This is totally free with SongKong Lite no license is required and can be used to analysing matching by other tools, including MusicBrainz matching done by Picard or MP3tag

Please give it a try and see what you think, feedback welcome.

[paultaylor]

Songkong 11.6 Nebraska

Just wanted to share in SongKong we have added the ability to add missing albums to MusicBrainz. And this feature is completely free and will work if your songs have been tagged with other MusicBrainz enabled taggers such as Picard.

The task goes through our selected folders(s) looking for folders that have not been matched to MusicBrainz but do appear to represent a complete release, so it should only be used after we have run Fix Songs or used another tool such as MusicBrainz Picard to match our songs to MusicBrainz. Then for each album found (upto user specified limit) SongKong opens a MusicBrainz Add Release tab in our web-browser seeded with the data from our album folder

Advantages over Other Methods

Other implementations of MusicBrainz release seeding from our songs require us to find the albums to add in the first place, and only work one album at a time so can be a slow and laborious process.

And these implementations do not make any adjustments to allow for Classical albums, and the differences in the style guidelines for adding Classical releases. SongKong calculates if the album is a Classical album and if it is makes additional adjustments.

Methods that add a release directly from a website such as Discogs require us to add a custom Grease Monkey script to our web-browser. And have the added disadvantage that the website may not record track lengths, whereas if we use our actual files we are always guaranteed to have track lengths.

Please see here for full details.

[paultaylor]

SongKong 11.7 Mezzanine has now been released, this includes updates for Dela. the new name for the Melco brand.

[paultaylor]

Hi, SongKong 11.8 Violator is now available