SongKong Music Tagger now available for QNAP servers

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SongKong Music Tagger now available for QNAP servers

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I hope this is the right place to post, we are pleased to announce that SongKong music tagger is now available for QNAP servers that support Container Station.
The QNAP installation instructions are available here

Like Music Station SongKong makes use of MusicBrainz but we have our own dedicated MusicBrainz server called Albunack

If you are not aware of SongKong but are aware of Bliss then you could consider SongKong to be similar type of software, although in many ways it is very different. Its focus is automatic matching of your music via AcoustId/MusicBrainz/Discogs, it can then add very detailed (Roon level) metadata and artwork.

SongKong provides automatic song identification for your music, identifying songs, adding metadata and artwork, and also deletion of duplicate songs. It also provides manual editing and a completeness report totally free, and the automated matching can be run in preview mode so you can see the exact results and it can be fully controlled via a web-browser making it totally suitable for use on a QNAP server.

You may already be using a tagger application on your PC or Mac to access your QNAP music files, but there are a number of advantages to running your tagger on QNAP itself and accessing your music files locally.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
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Hi, SongKong Music Tagger has now been updated to 5.12 including some improvements for qnap version, full details at http://blog.jthink.net/2018/11/songkong ... ility.html
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Now updated to SongKong Music Tagger to 6.0 Fumes - http://blog.jthink.net/2019/03/songkong ... files.html

Includes:
- multiple configurations known as profiles
- reworked modern bootstrap reports
- better performance

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SongKong 6.1 Elephant now available.

This now includes support for finding artist images, these can be added to the music files themselves but also if you have your music organized by AlbumArtist/Album it can store the albumartist as a folder.jpg within each artist folder.

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For example using MinimServer and browsing by folder it can now pickup the folder images and display them instead of the default folder icon. Screenshot below shows Kinsky control point being served by MinimServer

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Full details at http://blog.jthink.net/2019/05/songkong ... rtist.html
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SongKong 6.2 Hunkpapa is now available with big performance improvements, please see http://blog.jthink.net/2019/06/songkong ... mance.html for full details.
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SongKong Music Tagger 6.3 Psychocandy is now available for Qnap

Reports now has Browse by Artist/Album
In this new release we have introduced a new section called Browse by Artist/Album. This group the songs by the album artist and album metadata and lets you browse the songs in this grouping. This shows all songs processed by Fix Songs, not only the songs that SongKong actually modified.

We show artist and album artwork if SongKong has it, and also add badges indicating how many songs exist for this metadata and how many change.

This new section of the report mirrors the kind of view you would expect to see in many music players and control points and should make it easier to manage your music.

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Reports Song Changes section revamped as Browse By Folder
The Song Changes section has now been renamed, and instead of showing a single tree it now uses tiles to let you browse by folder in a similar way to Browse by Artist/Album.

It now shows all songs processed, not only the modified songs. If a folder has a folder.jpg in the folder then this is displayed as the folder image.

Providing Browse by Artist/Album and Browse By Folder sections make it much easier to identify any discrepancies between file structure and metadata.

Also tiles rather than tree works better for mobile and small screen devices.

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SongKong 6.4 Treasure now available, please see http://blog.jthink.net/2019/09/songkong ... ember.html for full details.
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SongKong 8.1 Scar released 7th of January 2022

https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong ... 22/10400/2

Performer Credits


SongKong could already retrieve track level performer credits from MusicBrainz. But MusicBrainz can also store performer credits at release level and these apply to all tracks on the release, this new release can now retrieve these release level credits and add them to each track.


When a track has multiple credits for a particular role (such as two engineers) they are not stored by MusicBrainz in any particular order, so the order they were added to SongKong was random, this mean't that the order could change when the the Albunack database was rebuilt. Now to ensure consistency and remove needless modification to your SongKong music files these roles are always stored in alphabetical order SongKong correctly splits a single credit of multiple instruments into multiple credits, so a credit for Paul McCartney Vocals, Guitar is added to your music files as Paul McCartney (Vocals), Paul McCartney (Guitar), but it was also splitting single credits such John Lennon, Addtional Guitar incorrectly, this is now fixed.

The vocal performance of Vocal performers was previously being added to the Instruments field, this is not what most customers would like so now the instruments field is restricted to actual instruments


Original Release Date


When looking for the earliest or original release date SongKong was always selecting later release with country to earlier than one with unknown country. So this means it may not get the earliest release and it could actually be later than the release matched if song has been matched to a release with no country events, this is now fixed.


Improved Matching

When double checking album matches we now allow for existing data storing the featured artists in title rather than artist. This is quite common but MusicBrainz preferred formatting is for featured artists to be stored in artist credit so that when we double check artist/title for each match it was sometimes leading to valid matches being rejected.


So when matching we now check for artists in original metadata and strip out and when checking artist credits we should allow a match from name to just the one main name credit in artist credit.


Bug

SONGKONG-2275 1 Performer with instruments that use additional guest or solo just shows a credit as addtional guest solo

SONGKONG-2272 Performer role of additional vocals just shown as additional

SONGKONG-2271 Discogs Albunack Match double counts Discogs and album matches

SONGKONG-2267 Discogs Only Update can change SingleTrackNo field to zero

SONGKONG-2236 Composer Artist Credit can return different sortname variant for composer relation to trackartist from Albunack

SONGKONG-2134 Albunack: When looking for earliest/original release date will prefer later release with country to earlier than one with unknown country

SONGKONG-1723 Albunack:SongKong should consider MusicBrainz release level performer credits not just track level ones


Improvement


SONGKONG-2277 Store multiple composer/conductors/arrangers/performers for track ordered by name

SONGKONG-2274 Add Performer field alphabetically

SONGKONG-2273 Remove vocal performers from instrument field

SONGKONG-2270 When double checking release match check for metadata storing the featured artists in title field rather than artist field
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