I am seeing an issue where songkong will only ever add genres to the existing field instead of replacing. It adds // then the genre again. Doesnt matter which of the options to add/replace/remove I select, same behaviour.
As I only bought it to easily populate the genre field in the first place its a pain. 720 gig or so of files with a single bad field is a nightmare to sort.
Genres in general don’t seem to be handled well at all by SK. when using more than a single genre and style the text is arbitrarily added it seems.
For instance it will add “Rock; Stoner Rock” or “Stoner Rock; Rock” when using genre and style if I run the same files through twice. The fact it never replaces the field makes this a nightmare after I reran my collection through a few times.
I have ended up using songkong as a simple (if very configurable) final step file renamer and had to go back to picard to tag semi manually. A month later, 300 or so runs through SK and Picard my collection is finally back in shape except for the genres. I had decided to use a single genre and a single style, each in its own field, when I realised it wasnt replacing the tag.
Next is SKs also arbitrary duplicate handling… Just doesnt work. Doesnt even pick up a dupe if I just copy the same files into the same directory but will find dupes in an album with none. Doesnt seem to pick up on lossless over lossy. In a dir with the exact same album in say 192 and 320 it will leave a mix of both as the final result. The various options for dupe detection just give different arbitrary results.
Next is the artwork handling… Pretty much always picks the worst available art. Picard will add a perfect front cover, SK will add someones ebay picture of the LP or quite often the back sleeve rather than front.
All these and many more. As it goes I would still rate and recommend the software, especially once the genre and dupe handling is sorted, but it is very very buggy and should only be used as a final step and with a very well organised collection in the first place. Which kind of defeats the purpose. Its one single perfect feature is rollback. Having had to use it many times on the full collection I can say that part at least works 100% even with the large collection.
I’m sure a lot of the issues are with the MB and Discogs DBs themselves, but they arent issues I see with picard for instance.
Hoping the genre issue is sorted soonest, final step I need to make my collection 100%