SongKong is deceptively powerful, in fact some customers say it is perhaps too powerful !
So it is sensible to understand how it works before diving in and setting it to work on a music collection.
Status Report
Before starting to make changes with SongKong we recommend running the Status Report task over your complete music library, the first icon on the toolbar. This does a few things:
- Creates a summary,. summarizing the status of our metadata
- Creates a section showing basic, MusicBrainz and Discogs inconsistencies
- Creates a bar-chart giving us a summary what metadata the files currently contain
- Groups the songs in a number of ways including by album and folder metadata and lets us see your existing metadata
- Creates a spreadsheet showing the location of our music files and all the metadata they contain.
and it doesn’t take very long to run.
The Default profile will show a subset of the most common metadata fields in the summary but we can modify that, or use the Show all fields profile instead, this shows everything.
Once the report has been created it shows us the Summary page, this can contain upto six different tabs:
- SongKong Metadata Completeness Summary
- SongKong Artwork Metadata Completeness Summary
- Basic Metadata Inconsistencies
- MusicBrainz Metadata Inconsistencies
- Discogs Metadata Inconsistencies