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SongKong 12.8 Gish Released 17th of August 2028

This is a major release with 24 improvements and 9 fixes. This releases focuses on the Remote UI, Reports and Manual Edit.

Dark Mode for Remote UI and Reports

The Remote UI has been upgraded to Bootstrap 5 and now supports Dark Mode, respecting the values in Preferences:Appearance, this applies to both the Web UI and when the task reports are created.

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Improvements to Spreadsheet View

Spreadsheet View now has the column headers set as AutoFilters, and a new Changed column has been added to make it easy to filter songs with changes

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And we have added a new Changes tab that list all the changes made song by song, showing the old and new versions.

Improvements to Manual Edit

There are a large number of improvements to Manual Edit in both Remote UI and and Desktop UI including improvements to navigation, new popup menus and popup editors.

Full details at can be found in the links below.

Remote UI
Desktop UI

Excluded Folders

Preferences:Save:Excluded Folders now lets us configure folders to ignore when running tasks.

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Bypass Genre Grey List

Now when matching Genres from Discogs the grey list can be bypassed by disabling the Use the Genres Grey List option

Improved Translations

We now have completed translations for 20 languages as follows:

  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish
  • Swedish

Full List of Improvements and Fixes

Improvement

SONGKONG-1392 Add Changes sheet to View Metadata spreadsheet

SONGKONG-1421 Desktop Existing Reset option is really Restore Defaults, and the Reset Option we have in Remote mode is missing

SONGKONG-1455 Fix Songs Completion Summary should have two bars for each metric, BEFORE and AFTER

SONGKONG-1662 Edit Metadata:Add Find and Replace

SONGKONG-1892 RemoteUI:Add option to Folder Selector to Create new folder

SONGKONG-1920 Remote:support for Dark Mode in Remote Mode and Reports

SONGKONG-2114 Provide init.d startup script for starting SongKong automatically and running continually

SONGKONG-2189 Remote:Add support for Bootstrap v5

SONGKONG-2330 Extend spreadsheet view to show artwork sizes for different types of artwork not just Front Cover Art

SONGKONG-2362 How do we deal with folders that look like Recycle folders but are not

SONGKONG-2415 RemoteUI:Should use Bootstrap tabs

SONGKONG-2529 Remote Edit Metadata, add multiple field selection for tasks such as Copy/Paste

SONGKONG-2774 Add Popup Text Editor to Edit Songs

SONGKONG-2852 Add Legend page on the spreadsheet explaining colouring and the tabs

SONGKONG-2854 Add a simple “boolean” field for “Row has changes” so can easily show only modified items

SONGKONG-2959 Improve Translations

SONGKONG-3010 Give option to bypass Genres Grey list entirely and allow all genres

SONGKONG-3012 Some General Preferences affect task so should be listed in Options Tab of Report

SONGKONG-3014 Manual Edit:Add a way to easy add track numbers as a sequence

SONGKONG-3015 Spreadsheet:Lock Header row and enable Auto Filter

SONGKONG-3018 Remote:Reset Factory Defaults option Missing

SONGKONG-3023 Desktop:Manual Edit:Add popup Delete options for deleting selected fields

SONGKONG-3024 Add Clear Column to the ManualEdit pages in table header popup

SONGKONG-3025 RemoteUI:Improve navigation of Manual edit and Match to Album Edit pages

Bug

SONGKONG-2165 RemoteUI:Problem with using Reset on field lists such as Never Modify

SONGKONG-2870 RemoteUI:Manual Edit/Match to One Album ignores when boolean fields are added to Never Modify if Empty and add them anyway

SONGKONG-3009 When stop Report the Create Report bar does not start immediately so user may think not worked

SONGKONG-3016 StatusReport doesnt do anything when select Restore Defaults

SONGKONG-3017 Naim Import:createCoverArtFromCoverImage:ResizedDataKeyIsNull

SONGKONG-3019 Match to One Album Only goes down to one Folder Level but Checker and Count Files is Fully Recursive

SONGKONG-3020 Arm32 build stopped working

SONGKONG-3021 Improve SongKong Tutorial so it is more like a tutorial and less like a User Manual

SONGKONG-3022 AlbumComposer not respecting Never Modify/Modify If Empty options

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