Rename not working and no Chinese songs can be matched.

[NaughtyK]

Hi Paul,

First I want to say you are doing good things with this software and hope you can continue your efforts

I just bought your software and I’m running the latest 2.1.2 registered version.

I hope it’s just me using it wrong and maybe you can help guide me in the right direction.

I have the following issues two issues:

1. Renaming the files keeps adding the track number to file rename. Even in the mask is correct.

2. I cannot get any Chinese songs to ever match. Does SongKong support Chinese?

Here are the details of the configuration.

Summary

Fix Songs Report 23 started at 2014-08-05 21:34:39

Options

For songs already matched to Musicbrainz releases:Update Metadata and Filename only
Update Artwork
Save changes to iTunes
Rename files based on metadata when matched
Update from Discogs
Search for a Discogs match
Preferred Release Countries:US
Translate foreign artist names to English where possible
Multi Disc Releases :Add Disc No to the release title if disc has title
When tracks contains featured artists:Add all contributing artists to the artist field
Replace Non Ascii Characters
Rename mask:AlbumArtistorArtist/Album/Track Artist - Title
Compilation rename mask:AlbumArtistorArtist/Album/Track Artist - Title
If song moved to another folder move\t:Everything
MP3 Metatag Version:Same as or v23
Save songs so they work best with iTunes
Disc / Track number padding:Pad with up to one zero
Summary

Selected Folder :/Volumes/data-1/Media/03 Mp3s/Mp3s/69 Watch List
Base Folder:/Volumes/data-1/Media/03 Mp3s/Mp3s/69 Watch List
24 songs loaded into SongKong
24 songs checked against MusicBrainz and Discogs
11 (45%) songs matched to MusicBrainz release
0 (0%) songs matched to MusicBrainz recording only
11 (45%) songs matched to Discogs
11 (45%) songs matched with Artwork
15 songs have had information modified and have been saved
Modified Songs added to iTunes playlist SongKong:2014-08-05 21:35
Songs matched in 54 seconds

[paultaylor]

[quote=NaughtyK]Hi Paul,

First I want to say you are doing good things with this software and hope you can continue your efforts

I just bought your software and I’m running the latest 2.1.2 registered version.

I hope it’s just me using it wrong and maybe you can help guide me in the right direction.

I have the following issues two issues:

1. Renaming the files keeps adding the track number to file rename. Even in the mask is correct.

2. I cannot get any Chinese songs to ever match. Does SongKong support Chinese?

Here are the details of the configuration.

Summary

Fix Songs Report 23 started at 2014-08-05 21:34:39

Options
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Rename mask:AlbumArtistorArtist/Album/Track Artist - Title
Compilation rename mask:AlbumArtistorArtist/Album/Track Artist - Title
[/quote]

Hi, thanks for your supoort.

1. The rename masks are editable and the mask name is just a name not the mask itself, I think the mask /Track Artist - Title part of the mask name is maybe misleading you this isnt outputting the the TrackArtist and then the Title its ouputiing the TrackNo, then trackArtist, then ‘-’ then Title.

Try editing the mask as we do not have a default that doesnt ouput tracknos because this can make it very difficult to sort your files correctly on your filesystem.

2. Yes, SongKong does support Chinese and in fact any language it is UTF8 compliant. Do you know if the releases it is not matching are actually in the MusicBrainz or Discogs databases though, coverage of Chinese and other Asian languages is not as good as English and other European languages. Also it may be that the release is in MusicBrainz but using its transliterated name rather than actual chinese characters which would make it harder to match if your existing metadata contains the chinese characters.

[mislaura7]

It turns out that the album title has a “/” in it and so SongKong created a folder for the artist with a sub-folder for the first part of the album title on the left side of the “/” and then a subfolder of that with the title text of the right side of the “/”. One thought that did occur to me, though I didn’t have a chance to test it, is what if the / had been in the artist field tag or in the song title tag? Would that also cause incorrect subdirectories? Another thought was what if the character had been a “\”?

[paultaylor]

I retested artist AC/DC and that correctly replaces the ‘/’ with a ‘-’ avoiding this issue, I tested this against OSX and Windows without problem, what OS are you on ?