Detection of opera works

[paultaylor]

Now added to SongKong

SongKong 12.4 Bloom Released 17th April 2026

We have a new release with plenty of improvements and fixes Classical Works Have made lots of improvements to how SongKong works out the Movements and Works for Classical releases, with particular improvements for multi level Opera style works. If your collection consists of primarily Classical music then it is very much recommended to update to this release. Classical Album Composer Another request made by some customers is to be able organize their Classical music by Composer rather than Alb…

[kr]

Songkong 12.4 is making quite a nice job of tagging Handel’s “Messiah” now. There’s one tweak which would be nice: SK is tagging with

WORK — Messiah, HWV 56
GROUPING — Messiah, HWV 56: Part I

It would be nice to strip the leading WORK name from the text of GROUPING as is done for TITLE and leave just “Part I”. Is there a switch for that too? (As it is, Lyrion presents this text twice, and I might guess that other servers behave similarly). This is a minor point of refinement of course!