SongKong Fix Songs Stalled

[Neth]

Hi Paul
Using the Add Artwortk Only profile as you suggested has pulled in artwork for individual songs as expected
I do have a couple more questions and then I will try and stop pestering you since I’m probably in danger of starting to obsess about metadata that no one but me will ever look at!
Firstly some songs have pulled in Front Cover artwork that I would not expect
Example:
D:\Music\Compilations\John Peel Torrent Compilation 2 of 17\Festive Fifty\1976(Complete)\15. #36 - led zeppelin - kashmir.mp3
The Front Cover artwork for this song is "Latter Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two but I would have expected this to be “Physical Graffiti”
This would also explain why the year entry on this song is 2000 and not 1975
Same for 19. #32 - bob marley - no woman no cry.mp3 which has been cover arted to “songs of Freedom” which was released in 1992 although the song Year data is 2002
I know this song has featured on many albums and releases but since this particular recording is part of a collection named “1976” I would have expected an earlier release to be tagged
I did tick “Use original release date” under Album Format but we’re not actually fixing albums here are we?

Then some songs are missing Year data
Examples:
D:\Music\Compilations\John Peel Torrent Compilation 2 of 17\Festive Fifty\1976(Complete)\01. #50 - yes - you and i.mp3 (Name should be “and you and i.mp3” is correctly cover arted to the Yessongs album since it’s a live version and NOT the versiuon from the Close to The Edge album
However the Year field is empty for this song?
Same for 22. #29 - the who - won’t get fooled again.mp3

As I say I may be getting bogged down a bit - could be the source material is mis-named, could be the way MB links songs to releases?

Uploading Support Files anyway - Reports 10 and 11 (although I think SongKong is compressing and sending all reports)

[paultaylor]

@Neth

Firstly some songs have pulled in Front Cover artwork that I would not expect
Example:
D:\Music\Compilations\John Peel Torrent Compilation 2 of 17\Festive Fifty\1976(Complete)\15. #36 - led zeppelin - kashmir.mp3
The Front Cover artwork for this song is "Latter Days: The Best of Led Zeppelin Volume Two but I would have expected this to be “Physical Graffiti”

So because this collection is not actually a real album we are only trying to match one song at a time to an album, and of course most songs are now available on many albums, and if it is the right version of the song then that is a valid match, however we do prefer to try and match to original albums rather than compilations

I have looked at your log files and i can see it matching to both this album and versions of Physical Graffitti, but unfortunately there is not enough debugging info to see why it is matching to do this release. But please realize there is not much for SongKong to go on for these collections except Acoustid since the existing metadata is wrong for finding album match (e.g album = John Peel Festive Fifty 1976, and albumartist = John Peel Festive Fifty 1976)

@Neth

Same for 19. #32 - bob marley - no woman no cry.mp3 which has been cover arted to “songs of Freedom” which was released in 1992 although the song Year data is 2002

For the Bob Marley song, the acoustid links to https://acoustid.org/track/7076d84e-9128-478b-9e1b-0566a7bb0fa0 and because your song track length is 7:12 the best match for the linked mb songs by track length is this recording https://musicbrainz.org/recording/fc6b9cfe-9b03-4dbb-a5b1-e4d0229a2ec8 and this is only found on the Songs of Freedom album. It does seem that the mb recordings id linked to this acoustid are a bit messed up as it seems to be matching to both live and non live versions. It can be a problem with super popular songs that there are links to incorrect versions, but usually these can be filtered out because we are matching whole albums not just single songs.

@Neth

I know this song has featured on many albums and releases but since this particular recording is part of a collection named “1976” I would have expected an earlier release to be tagged

So your ‘album name’ is John Peel Festive Fifty 1976 but this is just a pseudo album name that doesnt exist, so there is no match to the correct album with 1976 in title so it is irrelevant. We dont parse album names to try and work out the release year.

@Neth

I did tick “Use original release date” under Album Format but we’re not actually fixing albums here are we?

Correct, we are matching to an album but only updating the Album Artwork (and Id) fields

By Default the Add Artwork only profile does only that, add artwork. It doesn’t add other metadata except key identifiers such as MB Release Id and MB Release Group Id required for smooth running of SongKong.

and due to a minor bug the Album Composer because this field was added to SongKong after I created the Add Artwork Only profile and is not listed in the Never modify these fields option.

@Neth

This would also explain why the year entry on this song is 2000 and not 1975

So actually this is not really the reason for the Year field being wrong, the Year was already set to 2000 before using SongKong as can be seen by looking at your original Status Report

@Neth

Then some songs are missing Year data
Examples:
D:\Music\Compilations\John Peel Torrent Compilation 2 of 17\Festive Fifty\1976(Complete)\01. #50 - yes - you and i.mp3 (Name should be “and you and i.mp3” is correctly cover arted to the Yessongs album since it’s a live version and NOT the versiuon from the Close to The Edge album
However the Year field is empty for this song?
Same for 22. #29 - the who - won’t get fooled again.mp3

Likewise we are not adding Year field as part of Add Artwork Only profile but you can modify your profile to allow this (and other) fields to be added by removing them from Never modify or add these fields on the Format tab

@Neth

Uploading Support Files anyway - Reports 10 and 11 (although I think SongKong is compressing and sending all reports)

SongKong uploads the last five reports of each task, we do have two issues related to this, one to allow deletion of individual reports, and one to inspect and modify support file before it is sent.

[paultaylor]

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