Paul Taylor Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) SongKong is an automated music tagger that can be fully controlled via a web browser. It can automatically identify your music and add metadata to your audio library (using MusicBrainz and Discogs) including artwork and artwork for artists (artist, composer, conductor etc), as well as finding duplicate files. SongKong also offers manual metadata editing, creation of metadata reports, and metadata export to spreadsheet for free. If you use SongKong on your music files you will then get much better results when using a media server like plex, roon or logitech. Have any questions, please ask here for unRAID specific issues, and we also have our forums at https://community.jthink.net/c/songkong/24 Full install instructions at http://www.jthink.net/songkong/en/install_docker_unraid.jsp SongKong Start Page Some of the options available when matching: An example of the Fix Songs Report Summary Edited January 7, 2022 by Paul Taylor fixed forum url Quote Link to comment
alohakepeli Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 very nice app, thanks for sharing. is it required to purchase pro license ($50) to update files? Quote Link to comment
stefer Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Hi. I have an issue with the files that are sorted out by SongKong. They are now owned by root and not the user nobody. Is there a way to fix that? I can change ownership with tools or command line... but it'd be nice if the moved files get the right access from the get go. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 On 6/22/2019 at 2:01 PM, alohakepeli said: very nice app, thanks for sharing. is it required to purchase pro license ($50) to update files? For any automatic update yes it is, although the Web based Manual Edit which allows you to modify your metadata with a webrowser is available free as part of SongKong Lite. Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 19 hours ago, stefer said: Hi. I have an issue with the files that are sorted out by SongKong. They are now owned by root and not the user nobody. Is there a way to fix that? I can change ownership with tools or command line... but it'd be nice if the moved files get the right access from the get go. Thanks! I think this must be for a particular file format since usually SongKong modifies existing file rather than create new one and so ownership of existing file should not usually be changed. But I have already raised an issue for this https://jthink.atlassian.net/projects/SONGKONG/issues/SONGKONG-1757 and I will be looking at this next, what audio format are your files ? Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 SongKong 6.2 Hunkpapa has now been released, this includes major performance improvements - http://blog.jthink.net/2019/06/songkong-62-hunkpapa-performance.html And we are offering 15% discount for unRAID customers on SongKong Pro for a limited time, just enter UNRAIDSPECIALX as promo code at checkout Quote Link to comment
stefer Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 4 hours ago, Paul Taylor said: I will be looking at this next, what audio format are your files ? MP3 and FLAC but I use the feature where it moves the file to another folder once they are tagged. Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 51 minutes ago, stefer said: but I use the feature where it moves the file to another folder once they are tagged. Okay, didn't think of that. Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) SongKong 6.3 Psychocandy now released, discount still available using code UNRAIDSPECIALX This includes fix for permissions problem described in this thread. Now includes Browse by Artist/Album and Browse By Folder sections in report, making it easier to manage your metadata Edited July 22, 2019 by Paul Taylor Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted September 8, 2019 Author Share Posted September 8, 2019 SongKong 6.4 Treasure now released, named after the seminal Cocteau Twins album. This release contains more than twenty bug fixes, but we have also added a number of nice improvements. Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 (edited) We have just released SongKong 6.5 Doolittle Music Tagger with over thirty fixes and improvements - http://blog.jthink.net/2019/10/songkong-65-doolittle-released-october.html Edited October 6, 2019 by Paul Taylor Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 SongKong 6.6 Red is available http://blog.jthink.net/2019/10/songkong-66-red-released-october-23rd.html Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted November 26, 2019 Author Share Posted November 26, 2019 SongKong 6.7 Closer is now available http://blog.jthink.net/2019/11/songkong-67-closer-released-november.html Quote Link to comment
Sic79 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) Hi @Paul Taylor, I have issues where I can´t for example delete/edit songs that SongKong has proccessed. I always have to "chmod" the files manually afterwards so that I can edit them. Is it something that is there on purpose or is it something that you pls can fix (umask maybe)?? Edited December 10, 2019 by Sic79 Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) Sorry for the delay in replying, I forgot to check and we have new forums at https://community.jthink.net/ I guess this problem only occurs when you use SongKong to rename or move files, and the default permissions created are incorrect. We tried to fix this previously with umask but it didnt work - https://jthink.atlassian.net/projects/SONGKONG/issues/SONGKONG-1757 so I will try again in the next few days Edited January 30, 2020 by Paul Taylor Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted January 30, 2020 Author Share Posted January 30, 2020 SongKong 6.8 Rumours released, full details at https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-6-8-rumours-released-29th-january-2020/8540 Quote Link to comment
mgranger Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 How do i revert back to a previous version Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) Hi, that is not possible with Docker version, but should not be necessary. Edited March 8, 2021 by Paul Taylor Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted March 8, 2021 Author Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) SongKong 7.2 Cassdaga now available We are please to announce the release of SongKong Cassdaga, named after the 8th album by Bright Eyes This release is a complete rewrite of the SongKong’s renaming feature. There are no new options and only minor changes to the Errors and Warnings tab but it should do renaming considerably better. Especially when SongKong has to shorten the name because the Windows 259 character limit is enabled, and when you have duplicate copies of the same song so that the duplicates have to be renamed. Full details at https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-7-2-cassadaga-released-march-8th-2021/9882 Edited March 8, 2021 by Paul Taylor Quote Link to comment
ibasaw Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) how to revert back to previous version ? https://hub.docker.com/r/songkong/songkong/tags?page=1&ordering=last_updated no previous version on dockerhub i need pro version from march 2020 Edited August 29, 2021 by ibasaw Quote Link to comment
raf7913 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Yeah, I'd like to get the old version back as well, as I paid for a subscription that expired but want to keep using the old verison I paid for Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) Sorry not possible, it is not possible for me to support multiple versions. But a small upgrade payment of £10 allows you to download all the new versions released in the next year. We do release a new version of SongKong every couple of months and you get a much better product if you keep up to date with the newest version Edited January 7, 2022 by Paul Taylor Quote Link to comment
Paul Taylor Posted January 7, 2022 Author Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) SongKong 8.1 Scar released 7th of January 2022 https://community.jthink.net/t/songkong-8-1-scar-released-7th-of-january-2022/10400 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 Edited January 7, 2022 by Paul Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment
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