We are pleased to announce the release of 11.2 Souvlaki, this release focuses on Performers
MusicBrainz Performers
Before we were putting all types of engineers into the ENGINEER field but now they have their own fields as follows:
- Engineer
- Audio Engineer
- Balance Engineer
- Mastering
- Recording Engineer
- Sound Engineer
These can all be added to the INVOLVEDPERSON field as well
MusicBrainz credits can contain attributes e.g these are all Producer credit roles
- Producer
- Executive Producer
- Co Producer
- Assistant Producer
In previous releases we ignored these relations with these attributes (co, executive,assistant) but now we
allow them to be added by using the Allow roles with these attributes to be added to their role field option. They are always added to the InvolvedPeople field if the relation is listed in the Add technical roles with their own field to InvolvedPeople field option reagrdless of what attributes the relation has.
For example, if our source data has the following three producers:
- Person1 (Executive Producer)
- Person2 (Associate Producer)
- Person3 (Co Producer)
and we add associate and executive to the list, and include producer in the Add technical roles with their own field to InvolvedPeople field the end result would be
PRODUCER field
- Person1
- Person2
INVOLVEDPEOPLE field
- Person1 (Executive Producer)
- Person2 (Associate Producer)
- Person3 (Co Producer)
Discogs Performers
Discogs does not distinguish between musical credits and technical credits but we only want to add musical credits to the Performer field. We have made improvements to recognise performers but now we also add the full list of Discogs credits to the CREDITS field, so then we can then use Scripter task to do further processing if required.
Bandcamp
Now when we match to MusicBrainz we also add Bandcamp Artist Url and Bandcamp Album Url if they exist within matching MusicBrainz release, and these will be used by the Bandcamp task instead of having to search for a match.
Naim UnitiCore Wav Files Importer
We have made two improvements to this process:
- We now recognize user edits made to Genres
- We make use of preferredAuthority to decide if to use Rovi or MusicBrainz, before this release we always assumed the user was always using Rovi metadata if existed.
Full List of Fixes
Improvement
SONGKONG-2055 Should have In Progress indication when closing the app
SONGKONG-2530 Update SongKong Runtime for Docker to use Java 21
SONGKONG-2597 Add Engineer Subtypes to Own Engineers field
SONGKONG-2637 When match from MusicBrainz if it has link to Bandcamp artist or album add the linked url
SONGKONG-2665 Support reading Genre user edits from meta.naim file
SONGKONG-2671 For Naim Import make use of preferredAuthority to decide if to use Rovi or MusicBrainz
SONGKONG-2672 Consider Artist Relations Types with Attributes
SONGKONG-2673 Handle Discogs Roles that seperate multiple tracks with &
SONGKONG-2674 Add Discogs Credits to CREDITS field
SONGKONG-2678 Add a Validate Script button for Preferences:Filename masks and Preferences:Scripter
SONGKONG-2681 Update Linux runtime to Java 21
SONGKONG-2682 Add Identification for Melco N1 S38 model
Bug
SONGKONG-2276 Albunack:Ordering Multiple Performer attributes by attribute name rather than correct order
SONGKONG-2390 Some fanart.tv images cannot be processed
SONGKONG-2668 RemoteUI:Delete Reports not working
SONGKONG-2669 Remove Genre list from bandcamp Genres tab because moved to Preferences
SONGKONG-2670 When change appearance light/dark in preferences help text colour is not updated
SONGKONG-2675 Discogs Performers not add to Involved People field if have other roles
SONGKONG-2679 Issue when rematch and have Discogs and MusicBrainz match but only roles to InvolvedPeople added by Discogs
SONGKONG-2680 Not parsing discogs roles with mutiple instruments in square brackets correctly