SongKong
6.5Organize and manage your music collection.
Overview
SongKong is an intelligent music tagger designed to make the task of managing, organizing, and cleaning up your digital music collection quick and easy. It's for those of us who care about music and need it properly cataloged with high-res artwork, but without much time to spend on accomplishing this. SongKong supports most audio formats, including MP3, MP4, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, Ogg, and WMA.
SongKong can identify songs and fix misspellings, add metadata such as as artist and album and album art, and rename songs based on the new metadata if you wish. SongKong uses intelligent acoustic-matching from Acoustid to listen to your songs and find matches, even when they have no information at all, but also takes advantage of existing file information to ensure you get the best album match. It can deal with large music collections as well as small ones. If you use iTunes, it can automatically update it with your modifications.
SongKong can also use Acoustids to find duplicate songs.
What's new in SongKong
Improvement:
- Song Only Matches ensure we use consistent AlbumArtist on group of songs matched to same album
- Add browseByFolder and browseByAlbumArtist to the StatusReport
- Consider only storing the resized image size instead of original size
- If Matched to MB or Discogs is less then songs in album then show badge as Orange (Warning) to differentiate it.
- Title should include release name (e.g Doolittle, Treasure etc)
- Separate Preview Modes
Bug:
- In SongChanges section if have folders that contain folders AND files cant see files
- Cancelled Class message in Errors section should be renamed to be more easily understandable
- Do not complain on Delete Duplicates if user has multiple folders and some (no longer) exist
- Remote:Keep FolderTree open to previous location when leave and return to Start page
- Unable to Create Dir, failed when renaming files but no reason given why
- If validateNewpath fails song is not renamed/moved but nothing written to Errors and Warnings
- Remote:Incorrectly aligned buttons and rendered error message if license expired
- SongOnly Match can sometimes set Album Artist to 'Various' but Sort Album Artist to Individual Artist
- Song Only Matcher not recognizing artwork already downloaded and hence redownloading
- Windows:Delete Duplicates shouldn't check Recycle Bin
- Do we need new primary key on CoverImage
- Remote Mode:Server Retries Exceeded Error Logged but did not cancel task
- Remote, Fix Songs# showed report 114% complete, should never be possible to be greater than 100%
- Dont set AlbumArtist for SongOnly matches if looks like a compilation
- Matched to MB & Discogs badges are not set if FixSongs set to Ignore if Already Match
- BrowseByAlbum duplicating songs if have one album with different values for artist/album artist
- Issue creating breadcrumbs
- Browse by Artist File page doesnt sort folders if more than one folder
- Browse by Folder only indexes folder.jpg by name not path, big problem if have Disc1, Disc 2
- Deal better with Albums not yet in Albunack db
- If Move Matched to Folder then we lose folder.jpg not shown in BrowseByFolder
- Existing folder.png/cover.jpg not shown in report but seems to prevent folder.jpg being created
- If HibernateException must ensure rollback transaction
- Report progress bar should go up in 1%s
- UndoChanges missing Browse by ArtistAlbum option
- Undo Changes Browse by Folder subsection incorrectly says Fix Songs Report
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1. Inaccurate: Numerous songs were mistagged and separated from the rest of the album from which they were extracted. This was so bad that I had to restore my entire (6000 song) library from a backup taking hours to accomplish. Also, the software does not seem to recognize compilations, as the one I had was separated into several different albums (the original ones from which they were extracted) even though the song metadata included the compilation album name as well as the song name.
Support: While the developer did make suggestions, he ignored my statement that I had followed his suggestions and got the wrong results a second time requiring another restoration of my 70 GB library. He insulted me for not reading the instructions for his interface (for which see below). The trial version did not write the changes so I had no way to see if it was working using iTunes. He refused to refund my money.
Interface: Probably the most complex interface I have ever seen (and I have been using purchased software since 1980). Starting fix songs brings up a set of preferences some very technical on which there are no fewer than 11 tabs! This requires reading a lot of documentation. I prefer intuitive software.
The developer will undoubtedly respond to this. He will say I insulted him, but he took my criticism and my request for a refund as a personal attack. All I've got to say I'm happy that some people are getting good results, because I certainly did not. For most people I recommend iTunes for artwork and duplicates (and accurate tags taken directly from Gracenote). SongKong does no more than does iTunes.
He first sent me an angry email and I requested the SongKong support files so I could investigate his issues. Unfortunately he only send me the contents of the last report together with the threat not the support files so I didn't have all the information I requested but I was able to explain most issues at that point.
1. Restore library, SongKong has a full Undo facility that can be used even after restarting so I dont understand why Bob couldn't use this,
2. Apart from the Adele issue Bob have given me no more evidence of songs incorrectly matched..
3. Adele issue, the settings were configure to Update Metadata and Filename Only and the first song already had a Musicbrainz id in the file whereas the others didn't so this file was not rematched. Why it still has a musicbrainzid after restoring I don't know but because Bob only sent me the last report and no logs files there was nothing else I could do except explain how to change the option to allow it to be rematched.
4. Compilation issue, bob complained that it messed up a homemade compilation, i.e a collection songs that doesn't actually exist as a commercial release. I don't really understand what Bob wanted SongKong to do with this release as clearly it was impossible to match this release to a real release and the purpose of Songkong is to try and match songs to real releases. I explained how the 'All Existing folders represent a single album' option could be enabled to prevent a folder ever bing split but it is not a sensible default as it prevents folders of random songs being matched.
5. The interface of Songkong is not complex, additional options have to be added in response to customer requests because not everybody wants exactly the same result, but in the majority of cases the defaults will work well with no adjustment needed.
6. Bobs complains both that there is not enough information about the options, and that the manual is too long so how do I square that circle.
7. Itunes can only identify songs at the time of burning the CD, and only adds the most basic of information its not a fair comparison.
Before the numbers, the first email was not angry and neither were insulting. I did get angry after he told me that he has a policy of not refunding money stating the trial version (which writes no results that can be inspected). So I paid for it under the impression that it would work.
1. As I said, I DID use the “undo” provided by SongKong. It did not correct any of the errors I saw in iTunes.
2. No, why should I have to when the Adele album had two errors associated with it? To me, just those errors warrant a refund.
3. That is a good question is it not? However, I am NOT his beta tester. I just want my money back; I do not want to know how to use or what is wrong with his software. The report showed the errors.
4. I answered that in the main review. Perhaps SongKong should respect some of the tags iTunes places into the metadata.
5. If 11 separate tabs of preferences is not complicated, well, what is?
6. No, I did not. I told him I would not read his manual just like I do not read the manual for any software I use. I do not want to be a “power user.” A human interface should be intuitive.
7. I do not see the relevance of this to the discussion in my review.
It really is unreasonable to just buy a product without making use of the trial then when you have an issue just expect a refund without providing any evidence. Whilst SongKong trial does not actually save changes to the files the report it generates shows exactly what has been matched and the metadata that will be added/modified so you could see exactly the results, you don't have to view the results in iTunes. If you had given me a chance to resolve the issues and I failed I would have happily refunded you but you did not give me this chance.
There are only three tasks in SongKong it really is not very complex, the options are just options, and I mentioned iTunes in response to your assertion that ' SongKong does no more than does iTunes.
But there is not much point in me trying to discuss these issues such as the Adele or Compilation because you are not listening to what Ive already said.
Its too late here for me to safetly do a new release tonight so instead the latest download on the Jthinkwebsite is now back to SongKong 3.21 I would advise you to download and install this until I have fixed the problem I expect to do this tomorrow and release as SongKong 3.23,. Alternatively if you not enable 'Rename Songs based on Metadata when Matched' the problem will not occur.
Aplogies again for the slip up
Wrt to performers, soloists and orchestras the Artist field would encompass some of these depending on how they are described on the sleeve notes but currently we dont automatically add all this information, partly because it is not clear where all this should be stored. However the generated report does provide a link to the matched album webpage on MusicBrainz/Discogs and this usually contains this information if you want to add this to your songs with a tag editing tool.
I'll say it again for the sake of clarity, SongKong isn't perfect but it's the best I have used.
The author is also responsive to support requests, if you report a problem with a tag he will look into it and fix it. I also helped track down a bug with him at one stage and I got a credit for it!
SongKong is updated regularly with improvements and fixes.
You may think the price a little steep but consider how much your time is worth to fix your tags manually.
It's a decent piece of software.