If you’re like me, you’ll wind up buying the full version. How valuable would that be? In the meantime, I’d urge you to check out the free trial version of SongKong and give it a go. While Roon does a great job of organizing our music libraries, it’s unable to identify and write missing metadata. I think if somehow SongKong could be incorporated into Roon, this could provide an enormous benefit to Roon users. If for any reason you’re unhappy with the results, they can be undone with the push of a button. SongKong replaced the faulty data with the corrected data. I’ve had tracks that I thought had the right title, only to run them thru SongKong and discover they were misidentified. It’s like employing a bank of copy editors to research, enter and cross-check the metadata of your music files. This is managed by a rich user interface on a network connected Tablet or PC / Mac connected to the web server at http::4567 (where is the IP address of the Melco). While I’ve only used it’s most basic features, SongKong is incredibly flexible & powerful. SongKong can be controlled to perform metadata management and directed to the location of the music within the library that is to be processed. Other great apps like SongKong are MusicBrainz Picard, TagScanner, Album Art Downloader and Meta. The best alternative is Mp3tag, which is free. It also utilizes MusicBrainz & Discogs databases, ensuring more accurate results. There are more than 25 alternatives to SongKong for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Android Tablet. It’s a slick and easy to use program that listens to your songs using Acoustid, and finds matches, even when they have no information. Recently I’ve been using a program called SongKong. What it can’t do is find and write the metadata, so the tracks remain unknown. Fortunately Roon is able to resolve most of these issues and reorganizes the discs into a single album and re-numbers the tracks. In many cases a single album shows in Roon as being composed of 20+ discs, all with a single track, and all tracks with the same track #. Of the hundreds of music tracks, none have metadata. I’ve got a fair number of compilation discs made by a friend, which I ripped to my music server. It’s a valuable and powerful software program that can bring order and much added value to your music library artwork from fanart.I just wanted to give a shoutout to SongKong. SONGKONG-2312 Get better quality artist/composer/conductor. SONGKONG-2313 Add support for getting artwork for performers, very useful if using MinimServer Perfromer index SONGKONG-2314 Get Label images from - useful for MinimServer Label index SONGKONG-2316 Add support for reading back cover from Cover Art Archive SONGKONG-2324 Split Artwork tab into Album Artwork and Artist Artwork to give enough space for new artwork options SONGKONG-2325 Allow to set max/min image size for artist artwork independently to cover art SONGKONG-2304 On Windows incorrectly labels iTunes as MacOS Music app Improvement SONGKONG-2306 Naimmatcher:Cannot invoke "String.equals(Object)" because "trackArtist" is null SONGKONG-2307 Cannot invoke "String.toLowerCase()" because "attributes" is null SONGKONG-2308 Replace remaining references to with SONGKONG-2311 Not always possible to get Artist artwork from Wikipedia if artist name contains non ascii characters So if you have defined indexes for Conductors/Composers/Performers/Record Labels ectera you can use SongKong to save images to this folder using the Other Arwork:Add all artwork to MinimServer indexArtwork folder option, then MinimServer will read the values as they will be displayed by your uPnP Control Point I stopped my songkong docker container, I deleted the docker container, i then download version 6.8 pro of Songkong and ran the following docker create code to create a new songkong docker container. This becomes really useful if you are using MinimServer uPnP server because MinimServer can define an artworkIndex folder that can be used to find matching images for index elements. But now we can also get artwork for other Performers and also the Record Label Logo We have extended the types of artist artwork we retrieve, we could already get artwork for Artist, Album Artist, Composer, Conductor, Lyricist and Orchestra fields if the album was identified. We can now get high quality artist artwork from, before this release we only got artist artwork (e.g artist/composer. We can now get back cover as well as front cover album images, these are stored in the music files and can also be written as a back.jpg in the album folder. There is more discussion on SongKong with Roon on this thread. Added support for retrieving the Back Cover Then for a limited period we are offering Roon customers a 20 discount on SongKong Pro and SongKong for Melco, just use discount code roonpromay at checkout. This is a major release with important improvements to artwork. We are pleased to announce the release of SongKong 8.4 Gold Artwork Improvements
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