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Typically a customer started ripping their collection using iTunes or WMP, then moved to another program, then another as the software and ripping accuracy improved. One common theme I often come across is a customer with an extensive ripped CD collection that may go back quite a few years. For reference, if you connect an optical drive like a D100 to a Melco directly, the look-up database the Melco uses is Gracenote. None of them are necessarily wrong, but I see lots of music libraries on the my travels and inconsistencies can be substantial. Unfortunately, the various databases can quite often use different parameters to one another and the results can vary wildly. Whenever you rip a CD using one of these programs it looks to the Internet at one of several databases to gather information on the CD you are your ripping – it is this information which is the Metadata.

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There are lots of different computer based programs that can be used to rip your music, such as iTunes, dBPoweramp, Exact Audio Copy, Windows Media Player, XLD and many more. In this age of digital music libraries and streaming content accurate Metadata is more important than ever, but unfortunately it is very easy to have incorrect or inaccurate Metadata which can really make finding specific artists and/or albums very difficult when browsing your library on an iPad or phone. Music Metadata (which sometimes get referred to as ID3 tags) is the information that is embedded into digital audio files which help you identify what the file actually is.

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Some of the info below is from an older post but I’ve updated it with some fresh information plus a before and after example of editing something that wasn’t quite right (or more not to my liking!).

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I’ve written about SongKong before in previous blog posts, it’s an incredible useful program and is very powerful when you know how to fly it.

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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.“What is SongKong?” is a question I get asked on a reasonably frequent basis, more so than ever since the launch of the EX series of Melco machines and the release of 3.92 software for the mk1 and mk2 Melco’s as a version SongKong (Lite Edition) is included as standard.Įssentially, SongKong is an intelligent music metadata editor which can help you organise your music library just the way you want it, it can find missing artwork, correct inconsistencies and all you to fine tune how you music is displayed.

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. When double checking album matches we now allow for existing data storing the featured artists in title rather than artist. 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. When looking for the earliest or original release date SongKong was always selecting later release with country to earlier than one with unknown country. 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 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. 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.

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. SongKong could already retrieve track level performer credits from MusicBrainz. SongKong 8.1 Scar released 7th of January 2022