SongKong 6.12 Bizarro released 6th January 2021

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We are pleased to announce SongKong 6.12 Bizarro, named after The Wedding Present’s second album.

Lots of improvements in this new release, please see

Improvements to Date fields with SongKong 6.12

New Album Year and Original Album Year Fields Before SongKong 6.12 there were two date fields: Year Original Year Original Year held the date of the earliest release the song could be found on, this could be an earlier version of the album the song had been matched to, or a completely different release such as a single. It was very useful for Various Artists compilation albums because it could store the release date of each song, whereas the Year field would by default store the date of the …

Support for reading Naim UnitiCore Metadata files added

Naim does not store metadata for Wav files in the files themselves making it difficult to transfer the files for use outside of a Naim system. For many customers SongKong with a Melco license has made it very easy to read the metadata added with UnitiServe systems (amginfo.xml, cddbinfo.txt & useredits.xml) and add it to the wav files themselves. Now with SongKong 6.12 we can also read the metadata added by the newer Naim UnitiCore systems (meta.naim), and Naim also use this system for Flac f…

SongKong 6.12 Improvements to Filename Masks

We have made some improvements to filename masks in SongKong 6.12 Added New Filename Masks for splitting music collection into Classical/RockPop sections We have added 4 new filename masks to help with organising your music collection, at the top level they split albums between Classical and Non-Classical (RockPop). [image] This is especially useful if you are using MinimServer on Melco because you can then match the Classical songs with MinimServer SongKong Classical profile and the PopRock …

SongKong 6.12 Delete Duplicates Improvements

A number of improvements have been made to Delete Duplicates in this release. We have added a new preferred deletion criteria - Compilation Album [image] If one song is matched to a compilation album and the other is not and this new criteria is in use the song that is part of compilation is deleted (this is determined by looking at the Is_Compilation field). This is most useful if the user is looking for duplicates at song level only so they do not care too much about albums but would pref…

Full list of improvements and fixes is:

Improvement

• [SONGKONG-17] - Create set of predefined Javascript functions for filenaming similar to that used by Foobar2000
• [SONGKONG-317] - Warn if you enable 'Use Original Date' option and use Year in filename mask
• [SONGKONG-563] - Add Clone Filename Mask option
• [SONGKONG-568] - Add Clone Javascript functions
• [SONGKONG-834] - Add 'Not compilation' as an option to Delete Duplicates/Advanced/Preferred Criteria
• [SONGKONG-1715] - Album based Original Release Date for Original Albums rather than Track Based
• [SONGKONG-2074] - Give option to only specify YEAR part in fields such as YEAR, ORIGINAL_YEAR and ALBUM_YEAR
• [SONGKONG-2079] - Add support for Naim Uniticore meta.naim json files
• [SONGKONG-2089] - Add Play link to files when run Delete Duplicates
• [SONGKONG-2120] - Ability to delete a folder using remote UI
• [SONGKONG-2122] - Add reason for why song was deleted to Delete Duplicates report
• [SONGKONG-2123] - Add filename masks for splitting into Classical/Non-classical and also combine with HD/NonHD
• [SONGKONG-2129] - On Filenaming tab delete parent of parent folders if now just contain artwork and no other files or folders
• [SONGKONG-2130] - Delete Duplicates delete parent folders that become empty because child folder deleted as duplicates are deleted
• [SONGKONG-2133] - Add Overall Work to Edit Songs tab

Bug

• [SONGKONG-2066] - Delete Duplicates hanging (due to failure to add audio because of artwork ?)
• [SONGKONG-2118] - Delete Duplicates in remote mode not respecting preview option
• [SONGKONG-2119] - Incorrect match to Spamatron
• [SONGKONG-2125] - In report summary Duplicates always shown as blank and Deleted shown as number of duplicates
• [SONGKONG-2127] - addCompilations() javascript function not working properly
• [SONGKONG-2128] - Edit Songs cant handle corrupted images, just gives up
• [SONGKONG-2131] - is_hd field added after rename from metadata so FixSongs must be ran twice to move hd files to hd folder
• [SONGKONG-2132] - iTunes rename mask is out of date