SongKong 5.2 - Now with Free Manual Metadata Support
We are pleased to announce the latest version of SongKong with some major new features:- Manual Metadata Editing
- Status Report
- Support for reading the user edits made with Naim App for Naim Wav rips
We have now simplified SongKong/SongKong for Melco so the same download can be used and then the extra features of the Melco release are activated by simply installing the Melco license.
Manual Metadata Editing
The concept behind SongKong is that your songs can be identified automatically, and this gives you get a complete and consistent music library. However we realize that 100% music identification is not quite a reality for most of us just yet so SongKong also provides manual metadata editing as well.
Although there are tagger editors already available we realized that none of these allow you to tag remotely via a web browser, but Songkong now does. This is very useful if you have SongKong running on a less accessible machine such as a linux server.
If you are already using SongKongs remote matching then you can use a single
application for all your music metadata tasks, and manual edit understands the
same fields as automatic edit so there are no comparability problems.
After each manual edit session SongKong saves all changes to a database so that you can use Undo Fixes in exactly the same way as you can do for automatic edits, and SongKong
creates a report so you have an audit record of exactly what has been changed.
Status Report
Before when you ran Fix Songs it created a spreadsheet showing all your metadata, but how do you get a snapshot of the metadata before Fix Songs has made any changes ?The Status Report creates the spreadsheet showing exactly what metadata you currently have for your chosen folder, so you can take a snapshot of your metadata before making any changes.
But it does more that that.
It also has a Metadata Completeness summary, creating a bar chart showing the percentage of songs that have a given metadata field such as Album, Artist or in fact any of over one hundred fields, plus the percentage of songs that have album art of at least user defined quality. The metadata fields to be calculated are configurable.
Naim User Edit Rips
The Naim UnitiServe is a hi-end cd ripper and library store. When you use it to rip a CD the UnitiServe rips to Wav format, it then looks up metadata from the All Music Guide or Cddb but this metadata is stored in a file called amginfo.xml or cddbinfo.txt within the same folder as the Wav rips for the album rather than stored within the Wav files themselves. If you edit your music using the Naim App then these edits are stored in a UserEdits.xml file.SongKong with a Melco license could already embed the amginfo.xml and cddbinfo.txt metadata into the .wav files themselves, but now with this release it can also embed user edits.
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