SongKong 2025: WishList

[paultaylor]

Last year we managed to do three of the top four tasks in the poll:

• Match Albums for bandcamp
• Live MusicBrainz Search in Match One Album
• Add Scripter Task

and also

• Add Convert Bad ID3 Encoding task

But we failed to do Support for Pdf booklets, we did look into it using MusicBrainz as a source but although MusicBrainz supports pdf most editors dont add them, we will look again and see if we can use the Internet Archive instead

So for 2025 we have a new list and some new ideas, please vote it really helps, what major feature/improvement would you most like to see in SongKong?

We have made a list of ideas I have but if your top requirement is not listed please post a reply.

• Add support for Custom Metadata fields
• Add Steps task that lets you run multiple tasks in one go, each step has its own report
• Add Reply Gain task
• Add Submit Album to MusicBrainz
• Add support for MusicBrainz Genres
• Add Create MinimServer Artist Index task so can add artwork to MinimServer index without having to add to music files
• Add Empty Folder Deleter task
• Add Match Albums from Beatport task, good for dance music
• Add Consistency Fixer task would so things such as artist disambuguation if have two different artists with same name
• Support for Pdf booklets, most useful for Classical Music
• Implement Dark Mode for WebUI and reports
• Support for other audio formats (e.g .ape)
• More advanced editing added to Manual Edit task such and Find and Replace as Capitalization
• Implement Field locking so cant be modified at song level
• Add SongKong to Apple app store
• Add support for reading artist photos from Discogs
• Add native qnap installers instead of using docker
• Add native synology installers instead of using docker

[Airtoklaus]

Unfortunately, the data in the music databases (e.g. Musicbrainz) is often incomplete (typical examples: “Work,” “Overall Work,”…) or not suitable (e.g. composer as “album artist”). Therefore, manual editing is always required. I currently have to use a second editing tool for this.
My wishes therefore concern the topic of “editing options” in the “Manual Edit” task:
• Copy/paste individual rows
• Copy and paste columns: entire column or block by block (from row “n”/to row “n”)
• Copy individual cell contents
• Adjustment of column width
• Show/hide columns
• Adjustment of column order
• Export/import as a “CSV” file - for example for editing in a spreadsheet program
• Option to call up “Tasks” using a shortcut

Best regards, Klaus.

[paultaylor]

No problem with improving manual editing, just a case of having enough time and priorities.

[Airtoklaus]

I know and understand this well, as the person responsible for IT in a large company.

Kind regards, Klaus