SongKong 11.5 Tindersticks released, ths is major release that makes significant improvements to the Status Report and Fix Songs Report
Analysing Possible Issues
The reports now analyses our metadata and identifies potential issues, a summary written report is created that summarizes the completeness of our metadata, finds inconsistencies in our basic metadata, and inconsistencies in how songs have been matched to MusicBrainz and Discogs.
This is free with SongKong Lite and can be used to analysing matching by other tools, including MusicBrainz matching done by Picard or MP3tag
So for example here is a summary report and we can see there is good coverage, but some issues have been found.
So it states that No Basic Metadata found for any songs in 46 folders, and there are 2 folders containing songs with no Album field. If we select the Basic Metadata Inconsistencies tab we can see further details
The first tab shows all these folders with no basic metadata, this is the minimal metadata required for any audio player to work well and consists of the Title, Album, Artist, Album Artist and Track No fields. We can select the folder to see details of all songs in a folder.
The second tab shows songs with no Album field, and if we click on a folder we can clearly see the issue
The MusicBrainz Inconsistencies analyses MusicBrainz matches, this also works with metadata added by other tools such as MusicBrainz Picard so that we can search for issues caused by other tools. The section says:
We assume your folders represent an album or disc of a multi-disc album and consider if they have been successfully matched to MusicBrainz releases. Out of 1778 folders, there are 1674 folders fully and consistently matched, there are 2 folders partially matched, there are 4 folders with their songs split between a mix of different albums, and there are 98 folders with no songs matched to a MusicBrainz album.
So if we select the MusicBrainz Inconsistencies then the Incomplete Folders tab we can see the 2 partially matched folders and if we select one we can see that one song does not have a MusicBrainz Release Id. When there are differences in the values of MusicBrainz and Discogs we group the rows
so that ones with the same value have same background colour, so it is clear where the differences lie.
We can also look at the four split folders, this is where all songs in folder have been matched to MusicBrainz but not to the same release.
And we can select a folder to see what they have been matched to
The next section of the sumary says
We group your songs by Album Artist and Album fields into albums and consider if they have been successfully matched to MusicBrainz releases. Out of 1556 albums, there are 1500 albums fully and consistently matched, there are 2 albums partially matched, there are 6 album with their songs split between a mix of different MusicBrainz albums, and there are 48 albums with no songs matched to a MusicBrainz album.
This grouping lets us pick up some different issues, for example on the Split Albums tab, we see the Phadera album is split
and if we select it we see it is a multi disc release, and each disc has been matched to a different version of the same album
We then approach this from the other direction looking at MusicBrainz releases that have been matched by our songs but not completely, from the report:
We look at MusicBrainz releases that have been matched to by your songs and consider if they have been completely matched or not. There are 30 MusicBrainz releases that have multiple discs but only some discs have been matched, indicating that you may have discs missing. There are 260 MusicBrainz releases that have only one song matched indicating likely to be the wrong release. There are 248 MusicBrainz releases that have only being partially matched, indicating you may be missing some songs.
The Discs Missing tab shows where whole discs are missing, this highlight potential missing discs in your music collection.
If we click on the link we can how the songs are matched to MusicBrainz, and it also shows all missing songs, for example here we only have Disc 2
The One Song Only tab shows cases where only one song has been matched form the release, these are likely to be incorrect matches
again we can see the missing songs
and hide them by unchecking the Show Missing Songs checkbox.
The Discogs section works in a similar way to the MusicBrainz section.
Improvements to the Browse By section of Report
We have now extended the filters so that we have
No Album Match (White badge)
Full Album Match (Green badge)
Split Album Match (Red badge)
Partial AlbumMatch (Orange badge)
Improvement
SONGKONG-1142 Add a Missing Songs report
SONGKONG-2402 Add Field consistency to Reports
SONGKONG-2494 In Matched to MusicBrainz/Discogs report when listing songs for the album it should show the missing tracks as well
SONGKONG-2502 Make Report Summary Page tabbed so easier to go to to Song Matching Summary , Song Metadata Completeness Summary exctera
SONGKONG-2709 Change Default rename mask selection
SONGKONG-2710 Review list of rename masks
SONGKONG-2711 Add natural language summary to Status Report
SONGKONG-2723 Default for Rename Files:Rename Files from Metadata should be Yes if matched a Release
SONGKONG-2727 For Matched to Release would be good if we could go straight to Browse by Folder view for a match
SONGKONG-2728 Status Report Field List missing the SONGKONG_ID field
SONGKONG-2731 Matched and Browse pages should show total counts
SONGKONG-2737 When rename or clone profile start with existing name
Bug
SONGKONG-2724 Status Report barchart is misleading for boolean fields
SONGKONG-2725 View as Spreadsheet Is Not Totally Alphabetical
SONGKONG-2726 Should be easier to see when files split between multiple albums
SONGKONG-2730 Matched to MusicBrainz album view doesnt sort tracks correctly if underlying disc/track no not padded
SONGKONG-2734 Move Folder inconsistency requires ReleaseId and TrackId but filters only require ReleaseId
SONGKONG-2735 Status Report Show All Field profile not showing all fields
SONGKONG-2741 Matched to MusicBrainz Song Only section always empty for Status Report
SONGKONG-2742 Matched to Naim Import section badges, file count dont seem correct
SONGKONG-2743 Matched to… sections should show message if nothing matched
SONGKONG-2744 Would be useful if the Browse by filters distinguished between partial MB/Discogs match and no match at all.
SONGKONG-2745 In Song Details page if songs are matched to different Releases then should be different colours
SONGKONG-2746 In Web/Remote mode making changes to Genre file has no effect.