We have added some important improvements to the ability of SongKong for Melco to read All Music Guide data from the Naim proprietary WAV metadata format and embed the metadata in the files themselves so that can be read by non Naim applications.
Fix Songs Report - All Music Guide section
We now have a separate section in the Fix Song report called All Music Guide, this works in a similar way to Matched to MusicBrainz Release and Matched to Discogs Release
Selecting All Music Guide opens up an alphabetical index:
Then selecting a letter lists the Album Artist of releases that have been matched to All Music Guide metadata, together with a count of the number of songs that had been matched.
Selecting an Album Artist updates the right hand side of the report with the All Music Guide album(s) that have been matched
Selecting one of these albums lists more information about the album together with a list of all the songs that have been matched on the album and file that has been matched for each track.
Unlike Matched to MusicBrainz Release and Matched to Discogs Release SongKong is not trying to search for a possible match it is simply taking the amginfo.xml file for the files in the folder, parsing this file and embedding the metadata in the files themselves. There should be the same number of music files in the folder as on the release and therefore all the songs on the release should be matched.
Please note we talk about the All Music Guide in this article but when the Naim UnitiServe rips a CD and it cannot find a match to the All Music Guide it does a lookup from CDDB instead and creates a cddbinfo.txt file. SongKong also parses and embeds these files as well, but they contain less metadata information than the All Music Guide.
Fix Songs Report - Song Change section
The song changes report now indicates for each song when they have been matched to the All Music Guide. In this example all songs have been matched to All Music Guide, MusicBrainz and Discogs !
On Friday 24th of February we jointly announced a new version of SongKong for Melco, simply called SongKong for Melco. Melco are recognised worldwide for their high quality music library
systems made with the highest quality audio specific components that
allow music to be stored in digital format and then streamed to a music
player or connected directly to a DAC
(Digital Audio Converter) for connection to a conventional hi-fi system.
This was announced at the Bristol Sound & Vision show, click here to view the press release.
Alan Ainslie from Melco, recognising the difficulty their customers had
with poor quality metadata from previously ripped and downloaded songs,
came to SongKong for help with devising a simple solution for customers.
In partnership with Melco we have already made many improvements for all
SongKong customers, especially those with large collections including
Classical and Jazz.
Additionally with SongKong for Melco we have
solved an issue for customers with collection of Naim wav rips. The
popular Naim Uniti defaults to ripping to Wav format, it then looks up
metadata from AllMusicGuide and Cddb. But this metadata
is stored in a file called amginfo.xml or cddb.txt within the same
folder as the wav rips for the album rather than stored within the Wav
files themselves. This is fine as long as
you only play them via Naim but if you copied the files anywhere else no
metadata would show up for the Wav files, regardless of if the
amginfo.xml or cddb.txt files
were copied as well since only Naim Uniti could parse them.
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When the above option is enabled if you have any Naim wav folders
that contain the Wavs and the Amginfo.xml/cddb.txt file then the
metadata can now be embedded into the Wav
files themselves, this can now be read and used by most applications
and players such as MinimServer and Foobar2000.
Of course
you can additionally use SongKongs standard MusicBrainz and Discogs
functionality to find additional metadata such as high resolution
artwork.
