We are pleased to announce the release of SongKong 11.8 Violator, this release has a number of improvements and fixes
Work and Movement from Discogs
When our songs are not matched to a MusicBrainz but are matched to a Discogs album we can now automatically extract the Work and Movement fields from the match for Classical Releases.
Inconsistencies Summary now has hyperlinks
The inconsistency tabs are only shown if inconsistencies are found and are highlighted in red to indicate there are potential problems worth checking, with links in the text to the relevant subtabs.
New Replaces Slashes With Option
The Replaces Slashes With option decides what character should replace forward ( / )and backward slashes ( \ ) in metadata to prevent additional unexpected folders being created when metadata contains slashes. We process both backward and forward slashes so that rename masks work consistently on different platforms.
For example if artist name was AC/DC and artist was used in filename mask if we did not deal with slashes specially we would end up with two folders AC and DC . So we replace instances of / with the character specified, by default this is the hyphen character.
New Saved album artist filename option
Save album artist artwork to each Artist folder can be useful if using UPnP server and like to browse music by folder. By default the album artist will be stored as a folder.jpg file within the each Artist folder but it is possible to specify a different folder name by using this new option.
Full Release Notes
Improvement
SONGKONG-1218 iTunes:Option to make composer/sortcomposer single ‘;’ value for iTunes users
SONGKONG-2264 Albunack:Rewrite Discogs TrackMapper to make better use of parent and sequence fields
SONGKONG-2762 Add Undo to Edit Filename and Scripter masks
SONGKONG-2775 Add Saved Album Artist Filename option to Fix Songs Other Artwork tab
SONGKONG-2782 For Filename Masks add Replace Slashes With option, currently defaults to hyphen
SONGKONG-2789 Add warning hyperlinks to the status report overview page
SONGKONG-2790 Add Support for working out Work and Movements for Discogs Album Matches
SONGKONG-2791 Fix because Wikipedia derivation of Url from WikiData page incorrectly converting underscore to space
Bug
SONGKONG-2626 Albunack:Handle Work headings for multi disc albums for Discogs albums
SONGKONG-2766 Issue with MusicBrainz Releases that have been merged with another Release and changed their ReleaseId
SONGKONG-2778 When Opening Secondary Windows should ensure all visible on screen
SONGKONG-2786 Bad file descriptor error not handled correctly
SONGKONG-2787 Regression:java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “String.startsWith(String)” because the return value of “com.jthink.songkong.reports.fixsongsreport.MetadataAllChanges.getDiscogsRelease()” is null
