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SongKong doesnt write Dungeon Synth to my Genre tags

#1

Hello,

I added Dungeon Synth to the list of overall styles, but for this release
https://www.discogs.com/release/13845329-Mortiis-Blood-And-Thunder-Remaster-Bonus?redirected=true
which it matches to. It doesnt want to add the Dungeon Synth style, only Darkwave…
All the settings that multiple genre fields and so on are activated or set to a edaquate number…

Is there also an option to select which fields from discogs it should write to the file, as now its
writting so much metadata i dont really need…

#2

I cannot see a problem with that release., please run Create Support Files then i can properly check your settings.

In Fix Songs on the Format tab there is the Never Modify or add these fields option

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You can also use the Metagrater task to remove particular fields that have already been added to files.

#3

I sent you the support files, as I cant get multiple genres on any files/albums.

Thanks for answering, is there a way to also tell songkong which discogs meta information
should go in which tag -> as i have with my foobar discogger - i really want to
have things equally tagged.

For example “DATE” for the master release date and “DATE RELEASE” for the release date (if its a repress or whatever). Is songkong in the .properties files configurable like that?

As this is my base tag layout in the picture and I want to have that as batches.

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#4

Thanks, okay a few problems here I’m afraid. You have hit this bug which prevents report being fully created if disable search MusicBrainz/Discogs (and you have disabled MusicBrainz) matching. The bug was a regression and is already fixed for next version but that is not available yet.

Also, another bug come to light, the genre list which is stored as genrelist.txt is missing from the support files, I have raised a bug to fix this.

So where does this leave us, there is not enough Information for me to resolve the issue. If you could do the following it would be a big help:

  • Re-enable Search for a MusicBrainz match and enable Preview Only and rerun Fix Songs, this will allow report to be created correctly. Because we don’t use MusicBrainz for genres this wont mess up the genre logic, assuming a match to MusicBrainz will link to the right Discogs album this will then allow us to check the genre stuff.
  • Then run Create Support Files again
  • And email support@jthink.net the genrelist.txt file

So the automatic identification always writes metadata to particular fields, you can stop it writing certain fields but not specify a different field. This is because we want to encourage consistent use of field names and compatabiltiy with other tools such as Picard and secondly the search and match algorithm is comparing existing data with data from MusicBrainz/Discogs so if we dont know where the metadata is stored it cannot be done accurately.

However, after running Fix Songs you can use Scripter to assign different values to fields

e.g
Add Album disambugation to Album title
if(mb_comment.length>0 && !album.contains(mb_comment))
{
album = album + ’ (’ + mb_comment + “)”;
}

But you can currently only use this for known field names, you cannot create custom fields names. I do realize this needs to be done sometimes and it is a high priority issue but not done yet. We also want to add something called Steps so that you can chain different multiple tasks together.

Looking at your list I want to point out a couple of things.

  1. We dont currently make use of Discogs Masters
  2. Our primary database is MusicBrainz, the information stored in MusicBrainz is alot more complete and more structured then Discogs so we only use Discogs as a secondary source.
  3. For dates for VorbisComments you are using DATE and DATERELEASE , SongKong uses ORIGINALRELEASEDATE and DATE, it also has ALBUM_YEAR. and you are using GENRE and DISCOGS_META_GENRE, SongKong uses GENRE and GROUPING