Yes i have received it, not reviewed it yet.
Split albums will be fixed by the new version?
Had a look, it has made some improvements but it cannot match everything.
I suggest you select Browse by Album and then set Matched to Album Filter to Without Full Album Match, then you can see all the albums that SongKong could not match to a MusicBrainz or Discogs album, these are albums you may need to manually edit or use another tool to identify.
Your split albums are likely to be in this list, whereas they are very unlikely to be in the With Full Match Filter. Also worth noting even if your album is not physically split if songs in an album have a different value for albumartist/album then when you view the music in a music player based on metadata they will be shown as different albums. You have shown me albums physically split but Im not sure if these are the only albums you have a problem with when you actually play music, or if you are confusing these albums with albums that are not physically split but have inconsistent album metadata
e.g So its obvious from the screenshot below that the first three albums are all actually one album but SongKong is listing as three albums, we can see the album name is the same so the difference must be the AlbumArtist field.
If you click on one of these albums you can see the folder(s) the songs are currently in.
And if we go into each and look at the data of each album we can see the following values for album artist
- No AlbumArtist
- AlbumArtist = Pepe Romero & Angel Romero & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & N.Marriner
- AlbumArtist = Pepe Romero, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
If you opened the E:\Music\Pepe Romero & Angel Romero & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & N.Marriner_M. GIULIANI J. RODRIGO (24x96) Pentatone folder with the Edit Songs task and edited the Album Artist field so all songs have the same value then the album would be shown as a single album in SongKongs browse view and more importantly should show as a single album in your music player.
Being pragamatic about this I would recommend scanning the albums and just concentrate on fixing those albums that you actually listen to.
And of course I still have improvements to make to SongKong
Another easy one to spot is when you have the same album listed many times with only one track such as in the ABC (AUDIOPH) Special Sampler - Ultimate Demo Disk album shown in the screenshot below. This almost always means SongKong was unable to match and the Album Artist is incorrectly set to the Artist for each track (and the artist is different for each track)
So this can easily be fixed with Manual Edit for the folder.
Thank you so much!! I will practice this manual edit and use it for the albums I discover to be split while choosing to listen, in the meantime, while I wait for your improvements!!!
I hope the time you spent with me give you new ideas for songkong new versions…
Best
Luis
So I have made a number of changes for SongKong 6.9.4 Mercury released May 29th 2020 to improve SongKong when it cannot do a full MusicBrainz album match, some of these changes should help with your issues.
Also take note that the Browse by Artist/Album and Browse by Album sections of the report now only group songs by the Album Artist . Previously if the Album Artist was missing they would group by the Artist field instead, but this was confusing because it then looked like the album had been split when in fact the issue was that there was no value for Album Artist.
Hello; now I seem to have a worse case, not knowing if an album is actually split or if songs are really missing; how can I try to find missing songs if I do not know in which (wrong) album they would be?
Of course, just artist and composer search did not work; maybe by some tagging info that I do not see?
Is there a “reverse” way to search? if I have the discogs or musicbrainz release known?
Listening these days I found many of those most irritating cases; this example has tracks 8 and 10-13 missing (gounod or danel did not help…):
I think the best thing to do would be install Jaikoz, load your songs and run Reports:List Missing Songs for Albums you can then see Albums that seem to be incomplete. (You can do this with the free Lite version)
