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SongKong 4.8 released with improved iTunes and MinimServer support
SongKong 4.8 released with many new features for iTunes and MinimServerWe have some exciting new features in the latest SongKong release plus a number of fixes, here we list the highlights.Support for...
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MinimServer with SongKong: Part 4: Groups and Works
Go forward to Part 5: The Artist IndexGo back to Part 3:Sorting Conductor and other fields Groups and CompositionsMinimserver has the concept of Groups and Works (or Compositions). In its purest...
View ArticleBeware of 'God mode' on the latest Windows 10 release
Recently a long term user of Jaikoz found that it would not start, the only change he had made was to update Windows 10 to the latest version, build 1073.Usually Windows updates do not effect Jaikoz or...
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SongKong 4.8 updated to fix bug with Comment field
Unfortunately a regression worked its way back into SongKong 4.8. SongKong will fail to load any files containing a comment field larger than 1000 characters.We have updated the SongKong 4.8 and...
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MinimServer with SongKong: Part 7: Album Artist
Go back to Part 6: Classical Track ArtistThe Album Artist stored in MusicBrainz replicates what is written on the spine or front of the disc.This represents the the main people that the release is...
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JThink will be at Hi End Audio show at Munich with Melco
The Hi-End Audio show in Munich is one of the largest and most important in the World. Its runs from the 18th to 21st of May at the MOC in Munich, and has exhibitors showing just about anything...
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hi-fi News - SongKong King of Apps ?
We got a nice mention in the latest edition of hi-fi newsas part of a review of the second generation Melcos... with particular benefits for those whose collection goes beyond the usual...
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MinimServer with SongKong: Part 8: Configuring the Date Index
Go back to Part 7: Album ArtistThe Date field generally stores the release date of the album. Note ID3v24 formats also have a ReleaseDate field but it is not generally used. By default MinimServer...
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MinimServer with SongKong: Part 9: Is Classical and other boolean fields
Part 10: Multi Disc AlbumsPart 8 : Configuring the Date IndexProblem:Most of us have a mixed Classical/Non Classical music library and sometimes its nice to be able to simply browse one category or the...
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SongKong 4.9 Release with improved support for libraries with multiple...
SongKong 4.9 released 19th June 2017.Reports have got a little FunkierWe have split the Summary into a Summary section and an Options section.The Summary section now summarizes results using a bar...
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MinimServer with SongKong Part 10: MultiDisc Albums
Part 11: MinimServer ConfigurationPart 9: Is Classical and other boolean fieldsAll AlbumsMinimServer identifies songs to be part of the same album if they have the same value for the AlbumArtist field...
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MinimServer with SongKong Part 11: MinimServer Configuration
Part 10: MultiDisc AlbumsToday we provide a sample MinimServer configuration that provides the functionality discussed in parts 1 - 10.You should consider your existing configuration and your own...
View ArticleSongKong 4.9.1 Release, 26th June 2017
A bug was introduced into SongKong 4.9 that affected a few of you. If you have:Rename Files enabled Include album name as a part of your rename mask Have albums that contain '.' character in their...
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MinimServer with SongKong Part 12: Showing Composer in Group name using...
Part 11:MinimServer ConfigurationSongKong has an option to always add the composer name to the album, even if it not listed as part of the album name on the online databases that SongKong uses.So as...
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Organize songs by Original Release Year using a new SongKong Rename mask
I received the following request on the forum today:I am looking to take my entire collection and using SongKong fix, get rid of dups, and then finally end up with all songs characterized like this:...
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SongKong 4.10 Release, 19th July 2017: Support can now be sent directly from...
With this new release we have a mixture of small improvements and fixes.Create Support FilesNotably we had an ongoing issue with SongKong support files that they could be too large to send by email, so...
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SongKong, another way to install License
The usual procedure to install a SongKong License is toStart SongKongSelect File:Update License Copy/paste the three lines from your license email into the license dialog This is fine but with...
View ArticleJaikoz 9.2.0 released on July 31st 2017
Today we release a new version of Jaikoz.This has some important improvements and fixes. AcousticBrainz Direct LookupBefore this release Jaikoz always used a cached copy of all the AcousticBrainz...
View ArticleSongKong 4.10.1 released solving issue with new licenses
In the last release we moved the license information from songkong.properties to license.properties as a first step towards allowing customers to have multiple configurations. This worked fine for...
View ArticlePlease read:Jaikoz and SongKong currently incompatible with Apple High Sierra...
This affects all Mac users of Jaikoz and SongKong, Apple have recently released the beta of their latest mac operating system High Sierra. Unfortunately this update currently has a bug that means that...
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