Status Report is much, much quicker than Fix Songs, and yes since the underlying metadata for your songs is already in the database it will read the metadata from the database rather than having to read directly from the files.
Is is possible to "analyse only" when licensed and does that preclude writing changes without rerunning scan?
Great, I’ve triggered the report incorporating most tags and I’ll upload support files again when I get home later this afternoon.
There a way to limit the scanner’s scope to that inventory e.g. inventory the exiting db rather than hit the entire shooting match again?
You can select particular folder(s) but I dont think that is what you mean but im not really clear what you are asking?
But in your case since there are probably only a small number that are incorrectly matched one approach would be go through the potential inconsistencies in the report and where it looks like there was a bad match rematch just that folder using Fix Songs or even better Match to One album
But the inconistencies can be caused by a number of different problems, for example if I look at your report and the Multiple Values in Album Artist tab and the first three listed
A/Angel Snow - Secret (Acoustic
The two tracks in that folder have been matched to different albums, so i assume there is a version of the release that contains both songs, or if not they should be in different folders.
A/Anna Elizabeth Laube - Annamania folder
The issue here is you simply have some duplicate tracks, so this would be run resolved by using Delete Duplicates task.
A/Anna Ternheim - The Night Visitor [2021 Remaster]
Here you have 14 tracks, the first 12 have been matched to an album, the last two have not. the 12 tracks had been matched to the 12 track version by Picard, but they should have been matched to the 14 track version
Hi, i havent recieved a new support file yet was there an issue?
Also, I noticed SongKong seems to have only partially matched the A/Avantasia - Lost in Space, Vol. 2 folder, this should not happen with the options you have could you please send me the files in that folder so I can investigate.
It’s generated, will upload shortly
Thankyou received, frankly I am surpised it took so long for the Status Report to be generated since it is only creating the report (and there is no internet access) but Im wondering if this task is not optimized for multiple cpus I wil have to look into this.
There are also some interesting results when compared to the Fix Songs report I am going to do some further analysis.
I discovered one bug in the the Inconsistencies Report when ran as part of Fix Songs. The Basic Metadata Inconsistencies sub tabs that say Missing Album, Missing Album Artist ectera are based on the values before Fix Songs task was run so dont take into account fixes made by Fix Songs. e,g we can see that on Status Report on the Missing Album Artist Field tab it says there are missing values for Album Artist for some folders
and if we select the first one we can see analysis is correct, only the first track has a value for Album Artist
The if we the look at the Fix Songs report it again says there is the same problem
but if we look at the details we can see that it has now been added for all tracks (is actually a Various Artist album)
So this folder should never have been liated in the Missing Album Artist Field tab for the Fix Songs run, only the Status Report run, this bug already fixed for next release
Interesting to see MusicBrainz matches were increased by Fix Songs from 17% to 85%.
Hi, I don’t actually need those Lost In Space songs now I have worked out the issue there is some interplay between Picard and SongKong, if we look at Status Report we see Multiple Values for Album:14 folders but after Fix Songs run Mutiple Values for Album is now 86 folders seems worse, what has happened ?
The issue is for these folders Picard has matched some but not all of the songs to MusicBrainz so when SongKong looks at the folder because configured For songs already fully matched to Update Metadata Only it splits the already matched and not matched. Then for the already matched it updates them from MusicBrainz, possibly changing some values so for this example it changed album title from Lost in Space, Vol. 2 to Lost in Space, Part 2. In many cases the album title is changed because your values include the sample rate (e.g /qnap/qnap1/D/Deerhoof - Mountain Moves [2448.0 kHz]) so the update songs get the sample rate removed (because not part of official title) but the remaining songs do not.
Now, what happens to the unmatched songs. Now because they are in their own group they can be matched to an album so there is potential for them to be matched to the same release as the already matched songs, but only if the already matched songs have actually matched to the right release in the first place. In many cases Picard has matched to the wrong album which is why only some songs have been matched e.g qnap/qnap1/A/Anna Ternheim - The Night Visitor had only 12 or 14 songs matched.
But actually they cannot be matched to the right release because you have enabled the Only allow match if all tracks in album were matched option, so for example the right album for the Night Visitor Folder is a 14 track album, but SongKong is only trying to match two tracks so not possible.
So what has happened here is that Fix Songs has exposed errors in the existing metadata that were already there (incomplete matches) but not so easy to see (although they would also be listed in MusicBrainz Inconistencies:Song Missings/One Song Missing/Discs Missing)
To fix this, setting For songs already fully matched to Rematch would allow rematch of all songs in these folders and would probably fix most of these, since only 17% of your songs aready matched to Picard I would be tempted to run with Rematch over the whole collection, alternatively you could do folder by folder for folders in this list.