SongKong

[paultaylor]

Just released SongKong 8.3 Funeral
Please see https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-...2022/10728 for full details.

[paultaylor]

SongKong 8.4 Gold released, this releases includes

In this release we can now get high quality Artist and Band Photographs from https://fanart.tv

Additional New Artwork types can be retrieved such as Performer or Record Label Logo and stored in MinimServers indexArtwork folder



and then if you have MinimServer configured to use these as indexes they can be displayed by your control point.

e.g Composer Index showing in Linn Kinsky control point



e.g Record Label Index showing in Linn Kinsky control point



Full details at https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-...22/10926/6

[paultaylor]

Hi, SongKong 8.5 Faith is now available



This includes major improvements to Delete Duplicates plus many other fixes and improvements

Full details here

[paultaylor]

Hi, SongKong 8.6 Post now available



This release contains a number of major improvements to Delete Duplicates plus some important fixes

Preferred Deletion Criteria
We have added some new deletion criteria, Album with Most Tracks and Earliest Folder Creation Date. If you are matching based on album (any version) this would allow different versions of the same album to be marked as duplicates, and if they are differing versions and one is the Deluxe version with extra tracks it is probable you’ll want to keep this one, but until now there was not a way to chose this. Now with the Album with Most Tracks criteria you can keep the album with the highest value for Track Total in your tags, this would be the Deluxe version.

Often when you have duplicate copies of the same album it is common to want to keep the first version based on the file creation date of tracks. But if you have had to do any manual organization of files then the file creation date may be later for some files in the folder. With the new Earliest Folder Creation Date criteria it looks at the creation date of the folder, and this will be consistent for all files in a folder making it easier to keep them together.

Deletion of Empty Folders
We have a new option called When find duplicates delete folders and any sub folders if empty or only contain the following files

If this is enabled every time SongKong deletes a duplicates it checks the folder to see if it still contains any music files. If not it can consider deleting the folder and any files or subfolders if they are empty or only contain files in the configurable text field. You can edit this directly and it understands using * as a wildcard.

Also, when we actually delete a duplicate music file or non-music file or folder we now add to the Errors and Warnings tab to make it easier to track what SongKong has done.

Full details can be found here

[paultaylor]

Hi, SongKong 9.0 Drukqs released, this is major release



MinimServer users can get get a 20% discount on SongKong Pro using code WINDOWLICKER at checkout.

Full Details here

Major release includes:

- Taken some functionality out of Fix Songs and put into three new tasks Rename Files, Naim Import Metadata and MetaGrater (deletes metadata fields from files)
- Profiles are now per task, so each task has its own profiles and all tasks have at least a Default profile
- New Consistent Icons
- Web UI has had a makeover to make it more consistent.

[paultaylor]

Because of changes in the AcoustId api used for fingerprinting files earlier versions of SongKong can no longer consistently retrieve Acoustids, this will prevent the identification of some music files and albums.

We have released SongKong 9.1 Juju to resolve this issue, it is important that you upgrade to this latest version for automatic matching to continue to work optimally

https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-...2023/11504

[paultaylor]

SongKong 10.0 Nowhere released, includes new Match to One Album task

The original idea of SongKong was to allow fix of whole music collection with one click. But over the years we realized that many customers like to work one album at a time and with the existing solution you cannot check the match before it is saved to your files.

The new Match to One Album task works as follows:
▪ Select a folder representing an album to match
▪ Start task, select profile and check options
▪ SongKong now find some potential matches for all songs sorted with score out of 100, and lists them in order
▪ You can check details and mappings for any potential match
▪ Select preferred match and SongKong will apply the modification and now shows your songs with the metadata modified as per selected release and options
▪ Like the Edit Song Metadata task, you can edit the data before save or cancel if you don't like the changes

https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-...2023/11878

[paultaylor]

SongKong 10.3 Blur now available

This major release includes new task Auto Edit

Manual editing is useful for making changes to one album, but what about if we need to make an edit to many albums, then for this we have the new powerful Auto Edit tool. This actually comprises three tools Capitalizer , Find and Replace and Trim , and any or all of these tools can be applied to multiple fields in one go over your whole library if required

See https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-...2024/12157 for full details

And use promo code BEETLEBUM20 for a 20% discount.

[paultaylor]

We have a new release of SongKong with new Bandcamp Matcher task.

This release includes a new Bandcamp Match task that can identify albums from the Bandcamp website. Bandcamp is the premier website for self- released albums with over 15 million digital albums, the vast majority of these are not listed on the MusicBrainz or Discogs sites.

Bandcamp Match is a new task that works in a similar way to the existing Fix Songs task, and can be used on multiple albums at a time.

See here for full details

[paultaylor]

We have just released SongKong Parade 10.8 this includes a new Fix Charset Encoding task and major improvements to the Rename Files task

Please see here for full details.