Zap App Nap
Last night I ran SongKong overnight on a large collection of songs on my MacbookPro and I was surprised to find it hadn't finished, in fact it had got less through less than 10% of the songs...
View ArticleRules Based Music Tagging
With conventional music tagging there is lots of manual editing or semi-automatic tagging but SongKong is a rules based tagger. The basic idea is that rules define how you want your music collection to...
View ArticleSome more important requirements of an automatic music tag editor
Some more important requirements of a rules based music tag editorSince this post I realised I'd missed some other important requirements for a fully automatic music tagger1. There needs to be an audit...
View ArticleTuneUp Media ceases trading and Gracenote is sold by Sony
Without any notice TuneUp Media has ceased trading leaving their customers high and dry. Knowing that Tuneup had received venture capital investment my first thought was that the investors had pulled...
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Fixing files direct from iTunes
Originally SongKong was very much folder focused, you select a folder and SongKong would fix all the files and sub-folders of that folder. Customers generally went to two extremes, either picking their...
View ArticleRinse My Music Replacement
A few weeks ago I blogged about TuneUp Media going under and my suspicion that it was related to Gracenote being sold. I have not been able to confirm this but guess what, another Mac tagger Rinse My...
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Shazam for your computer
Many people use Shazam to identify songs they here in their local cafe or walking down the street, and its a great app for discovering new music, but I have also seen many people asking for Shazam for...
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Organizing music for Plex
I have been experimenting with Plex a media player system consisting of a player application with a 10-foot user interface and an associated media server, its available for all major operating...
View ArticleSolving the problem of updating iTunes from SongKong on OSX
Hots on the heels of SongKong 1.19 we have SongKong 1.20 because I have just discovered an important bug in a code library SongKong uses on OSX for talking to iTunes. SongKong uses Applescript to...
View ArticleA solution for finding split up tracks from compilation albums
The Problem A Mac customer wanted to use Jaikoz to only fix some compilation albums that had been broken up into different folders by another application, so typically each song was the only file...
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New Jaikoz release solves the iTunes update problem
A new release of Jaikoz is now available, the full list of changes can be found here .Updating iTunes on OSXThis release fixes an important problem with updating iTunes from OSX on some systems. Jaikoz...
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Why is SongKong not renaming my music ?
I had three different customers reporting that SongKong is not renaming their files for three completely different reasons so I thought it would be worth sharing this with everyone.Rename Files From...
View ArticleSecret genre option in SongKong
Genre support in SongKong is quite simple at the moment, it does not currently have the same genre options as Jaikoz because I'm looking for something simpler but more effective then we have in...
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Jaikoz versus SongKong
A few times I've been asked me the difference between SongKong and Jaikoz, a good question which I'll answer in this post. I've also been asked which is better,but there is no answer to this question...
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Opening Playlists with SongKong
Today we release a new version of SongKong with a number of fixes and improvements, the most important detailed below.PlaylistsIn addition to files and folders SongKong can now open M3U playlists, just...
View ArticleFinding split up tracks from compilation albums revisited
The Problem RevisitedA Mac customer wanted to use Jaikoz to only fix some compilation albums that had been broken up into different folders by another application, so typically each song was the only...
View ArticleIdentifying unknown songs in iTunes using SongKong
Just posted a new video showing how to fix an album in iTunes with no metadata using SongKong, I have purposely kept it nice and simpleAs you can see:The original files contain no metadata, and no...
View ArticleWhy does the Artist column in Jaikoz Column Browser not match the values of...
Today a customer asked why even though they had modified the artist field of some of their songs that Jaikoz still shows the old artists names in the column browser, even after removing the sort artist...
View ArticleWhy do we still call digital music taggers Mp3 Tag Editors ?
Browsing the web this morning I was surprised that most articles about tagging music still refer to software such as Jaikoz or SongKong as a type of MP3 Tag Editor or MP3 Tagger. Whilst MP3 is probably...
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How do iTunes options affect SongKong ?
If you are an iTunes user SongKong can automatically update iTunes with any changes it makes -but there are a couple of options in iTunes that can subtlely affect the interaction. I recommend they are...
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