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Cover artwork does not sync to "music" app mac os

#37

hello again!
been a long time, but now i used both of your apps again and found out, that two things are not working in my constellation.

  1. drag and drop is not possible on both apps, which makes impossible to put all files from one mix into mthe apps after the names were recognizes, because then “music” puts them in different folders.
  2. it still recognizes only the songs by name and album, but the cover artwork wont sync to the “music” app.
    i use mac os 12.2.1 and all your apps are up to date.
    i import a selfmade cd, then i set up a playlist and then i put all the songs in your apps in order to find the titles and covers.
    should i send you a detailed report?
    thanks again for your time!
    freakthemighty
#38

Hi, so I have responded to issue 1 in your other post.

I dont really understand issue 2, can you explain in more detail please, and perhaps run a SongKong status report on a problem playlist and then run Create Support Files

#39

yes, im saw your respond and answered you.

usually i make a mix compact disc on my hifi and import it to “music”.
then i give the mix a name like “play me” and make a playlist out of it.
then i put all the nameless tracks to songkong and jailkoz in order to get the title and album and cover artwork.
songkong found most of the titles and albums and saved them in music.
but not one cover artwork was saved.
i tried severall options before i wrote you.
i will also send a report to you, but now i already filled up the empty covers by myself.
maybe the report helps anyway.
thanks

#40

Thanks for the report, the main thing here is that you are asking SongKong to identify an album, but it isn’t actually a real album just your own rip of a collection of songs. To be fair you do set Nur dann Entsprechung, wenn alle gruppierten Songs einem Album zugeordnet werden können (Only allow match if all songs in grouping match to one album) to Nein to allow partial album matches, but still working against the SongKong way of doing things. Songs can appear on many albums and if you only have one song there is not much to help identify the song and then even less to help SongKong get the original album.

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And that is the main reason that in this report artwork is only found for 60% of the songs.

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So notice here that there are three songs that could not be identified to an album at all so these don’t have artwork

One (You’ll never Walk Alone) was matched to an album with no artwork

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However the match to The Longest Johns does link to a release with artwork but SongKong does not have it and logs show

01/03/2022 10.47.59:MEZ:MusicBrainzUpdateSong:lookupDirectArtworkForRelease:WARNUNG: Unable to create BufferedImage:http://coverartarchive.org/release/9ff59752-ae14-436d-9cfa-538c3a277a49/front

When I loaded it in browser the images redirected so my guess is SongKong cannot handle the redirect, have raised this issue

So is this what you mean when you say it doesnt sync to music app, or do you mean there are files with artwork in SongKong but not shown in Music app ?

#41

From latest Create Support Files

this song was not found by songkong (no titles no cover).
it`s a song by curtis harding (i wont let you down).
but songkong found the song before, when i first put it in the “music” app.

SongKong it not designed for matching one song at a time, there may be an issue with SongKong here but it is not top priority because you are not using it in a way it is designed to be used, do you get a match if you use Jaikoz instead ?

#42

ah, ok. good to know, but i still believe i can use songkong and jaikoz for my advantage, because in the end it finds most of the songs and some of the artworks.
i did not try to match the last song with jaikoz, but i‘ll do this evening.
songkong identifies the songs and even if i play a song it shows the thumbnail artwork next to it, but if i go on „information“ the artwork is missing.
sometimes jaikoz puts the artwork to the „music“ app, but haven‘t found a reason why and sometimes not.

#43

If you would like me to resolve it yo need to give me one issue and then some evidence, currently I have

  • artwork not added for song in SongKong
  • artwork added to SongKong but only visible as thumbnail in Music

these are very different issues I think I have explained the first issue, but for second issue I need a status report showing the songs that have artwork in SongKong but then another screenshot to show the situation for the same songs in Music app so I can see the discrepancy.

#44

hello!
i think mainly it is “artwork added to songkonk but only visible as thumbnail in music”.
i will send you an report and a screenshot about this theme right away.

thanks for caring again,

philipp

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#45

Okay thanks I can see in SongKong report there is artwork could you send me the file (using email or dropbox)

#46

sure. what file exactly do you mean?

#47

I meant the audio file - /Users/creasy/Music/iTunes/Music/Unknown Artist/before the piece of surf - test/16- Audiospur.aiff

But actually just realized (because I was looking at your report in German and misunderstood what I was looking at) that you are not renaming the files into artist/album folders. I think that may be the issue, could you try rerunning against that folder with Rename Filesnames based on Metadata set to Yes for all files and see if that resolves it.

#48

we got it!!

cover artwork and songs were recognized now. i changed two settings. the one you want me to change and one setting in "format" which says "let there be changes in meta data even if its just the song that accords".

thanks for everything. now i save a lot of time with your app,
philipp

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#49

we don`t got it.
in the new version of songkong 8.2 M1 version, the same problem appears again.
songkong recognizes the songs (most of them) and the thumbnail of the cover artwork appears when i play it, but it is not showing up in “information” of the song and it is not synced to the music app.

#50

Is your Mac one with the new M1 chip ?

#51

yes! i use the new macbook pro 16,2 inch

#52

There may an issue with the new SongKong M1 build and the integration with Apple Music.

Could you:

  • Uninstall SongKong
  • Download SonKng 8.2 Intel version (this will run using Rosetta 2 as previous vesions did)
  • Update an Album, and see if it works with Music app
#53

There seems to be problems with both MacOS with M1 chip and MacOS version 11 and later, I am looking at this now.

#54

so thank you for caring about this problem.
i can uninstall songkong and install tge intel version later today snd tell you whether it‘s working better (if still needed)….otherwise i‘ll wait snd see if you can solve the problem.
philipp

#55

No there is no point in doing that now, please will just have to wait for 8.2.1, in meantime if files are already in Apple Music app try selecting them and then Refresh.

#56

Hi, fixed in SongKong 8.3