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    Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Read about this little program this morning.

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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    This looks like what the doctor ordered for my messy music library.

    Has anyone here used SongKong? Is it friendlier than say Yate?
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    I'm going to try today or tomorrow. I've used TuneUp in the past, but by all reports, SongKong is better.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    This looks like it could be the holy grail for digital music collection organization, I look forward to reading about your evaluations of it! TIA

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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    I'm going to try today or tomorrow. I've used TuneUp in the past, but by all reports, SongKong is better.
    Yes Mike, please do report back to us on your experience with SongKong.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Thanks Mike, that does look like a great program. I don't have much of a collection yet but that would be very useful.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Nice program, but......
    Does not get multiple composer fields right. Could be a problem with MusicBrainz.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    I'd like to know if it'll access folders on a server or will it only work on files on a local hard drive.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Big View Post
    I'd like to know if it'll access folders on a server or will it only work on files on a local hard drive.
    Worked with my NAS no problem. Started running it late last night. Will report back on findings.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    I wish you found this a few weeks ago, sorted all my album art out manually! :¬)

    No tagging though, this may help there.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Worked with my NAS no problem. Started running it late last night. Will report back on findings.
    I'd be interested in your final say on this software. I would like to run something on my NAS to clean it up.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    It seems to be working just fine for me... I'm only having the program download artwork. It's accessing music on my server and it's taken close to 20 hours and it'll probably take another few hours to finish the job.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Finished it. I would give it a 7.5/10. It didn't crash, worked quickly, but left some albums (roughly 25%) untouched. Accuracy was very good. Excellent.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Does it work with the L-1?
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Quote Originally Posted by Ritmo View Post
    Does it work with the L-1?
    My L1's are out on loan!
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Edit resulted in duplicate post.

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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    From what I've read on the SongKong website and forums it doesn't currently support DSD files, and on some large collections can take a day or more to run!

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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Tried it. Took a couple hours and managed to find most missing artwork. I'd say 20% still unchanged with no artwork. Not bad.


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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Quote Originally Posted by tunes View Post
    Tried it. Took a couple hours and managed to find most missing artwork. I'd say 20% still unchanged with no artwork. Not bad.


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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Besides artwork, I heard it finds tags for untagged music? Does it canonize tags (e.g. David Bowie, Bowie, David and Bowie end up tagged in te same category)? Does it reorganize folders or just tags? Rename files? Does it suppress duplicates? Does it handle non-canonic tags (e.g. conductor, composer, disc number, etc.? Can you set a format preference (e.g. if you have AIFF and MP3 versions of the same music, keep only AIFF)?

    Those are some of the things my ideal library manager would do. Ideally it would also sync it between different discs and have a cloud backup.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Anyone have experience tagging classical music? ( not concerned about art )

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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

    Quote Originally Posted by Julot View Post
    Besides artwork, I heard it finds tags for untagged music? Does it canonize tags (e.g. David Bowie, Bowie, David and Bowie end up tagged in te same category)? Does it reorganize folders or just tags? Rename files? Does it suppress duplicates? Does it handle non-canonic tags (e.g. conductor, composer, disc number, etc.? Can you set a format preference (e.g. if you have AIFF and MP3 versions of the same music, keep only AIFF)?

    Those are some of the things my ideal library manager would do. Ideally it would also sync it between different discs and have a cloud backup.
    Hi, this is the developer of SongKong, thankyou for the postive comments I know this is an old thread but I just came across it and wanted to give you an update.

    The answers to the above questions are all yes, SongKong can use Acoustic fingerprinting to identifdy music without any tags, it does use standard artist name (from MusicBrainz) even when the name appears lightly differently on different releases, it can rename folders and files based on metadata, there is a Delete Duplicates function that can can work on combinations of AcoustIds/Textual Metadata/MusicBrainz Ids, you can specify format preference and can also only search for duplicates within a format type in case yo have multiple versions of your library encoded in different formats. It can auto-add over 100 fields including composers/conductors ecterta and has special support for Classical music.

    Performance wise its now 4x faster then it was a couple of years ago, we also now also provide a full web control ui and support QNAP NAS, Synology NAS and Melco N1 server.
    Manual Edit via web browser is has been added and this comes free without a license.

    Please give it a whirl and tell us what you think.
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    Re: Missing Album Art, MetaData? Try SongKong!

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