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SongKong 1.22 with new matching improvements
Today we release a new version of SongKong as well as a number of bug fixes it includes some important improvements.Match song to recording onlyIn previous versions of SongKong we try to matching...
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Getting Discogs Cover Art with SongKong
Discogs Image Authorization SongKong uses various sources for finding cover art. Its primary source is the cover art provided by MusicBrainz via the Cover Art Archive, but the second most important...
View ArticleMy first Sonos system
Last week I purchased a Sonos Connect to connect Sonos to my separates system and to find out what Sonos requires for the perfect metadata experience for users.Here are some details about the...
View ArticleSongKong 1.24 appears - Discogs Authorisation disappears
Discogs Authorisation Disappears This new release of Songkong removes the short lived requirement to create a Discogs account and authorise SongKong to use that account. However, unfortunately Discogs...
View ArticleSharing filename masks between SongKong and Jaikoz
A longtime customer of Jaikoz and SongKong asked on the forums whether you can share filename masks between SongKong and Jaikoz,well yes you can but with a couple of adjustments.Both applications use...
View ArticleA new Discogs Image Archive
New Discogs Image Archive with SongKong 1.25SongKong and Jaikoz both use the Cover Art Archive as their primary resource for artwork but a very important secondary resource has always been the cover...
View ArticleMusicBrainz adds Series support
MusicBrainz have just done their bi-yearly schema update release, although MusicBrainz do releases every two weeks throughout the year they can only make changes that modify the database schema (such...
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Improvements to Match to Recording Only section of the report in SongKong 1.26
SongKong 1.26Today we release SongKong 1.26 this has a number of refinements to the matching process, testing has shown some very nice improvements to matching accuracy and coverage.Full details...
View ArticleMusicBrainz releases new Virtual machines of Search and Database
For faster matching with SongKong and Jaikoz you can run it against a local copy of the MusicBrainz database, these are provided as virtual machines that can be run on most hardware. MusicBrainz have...
View ArticleSongKong 2.0 is here
Self hosted Discogs Server Pleased to say that SongKong 2.0 is now available. There are a host of improvements in this release but the most significant is that Discogs requests are now served by our...
View ArticleFeatured Artists option now working in SongKong 2.1 release
Last week we released SongKong 2.0 with masses of improvements, unfortunately as is de riguer we also introduced a few bugs and the new When Tracks contain Featured Artists option didn't actually...
View ArticleFinding more artwork by looking for similar releases
Hot on the heels of SongKong 2.1 we have SongKong 2.1.1 and this includes an important fix to the artwork finder.Some BackgroundWithin MusicBrainz different versions of the same release can all be...
View ArticleSongKong 2.1.2 with some final fixes for the new features introduced in...
I am now back from holiday and have a new release of SongKong that solves issues with the new Discogs Matching, Genre grey lists and Featured Artists option introduced in SongKong 2.0 - full details...
View ArticleJaikoz 7 introduces self hosted Discogs server
Quicker than planned I'm pleased to announce Jaikoz 7 has been released, it only has one new feature but its an important one, all of the Discogs matching of Jaikoz is now done via the same self-hosted...
View ArticleNew Jaikoz 7.1 Music Tagger release
Jaikoz 7.0 was a major release that completely rewrote the Discogs matching to use jthinks own version of the Discogs server. We got it mostly right, but didn't get it quite right so today we release...
View ArticleJaikoz 7.1.1 Release
A few more issues remaining after the Discogs rewrite for Jaikoz are now fixed in this release.There was a problem that was preventing good matches to Discogs being found because Jaikoz was submitting...
View ArticleNew version of self-hosted server deployed today
A new version of JThinkServer deployed today The local JThink server has now been updated with the latest data from Discogs, the JThink server processes requests from both Jaikoz and SongKong. We have...
View ArticleNew Super Fast SongKong 3.0 has Arrived
Today we release SongKong 3.0 is now available.The reason for the increase in the major version numbering from 2 to 3 so soon after version 2 was released it that this a very significant release that...
View ArticleThe Problems with Hyphens
There are some six different hyphens within the Unicode Standard listed below:‐–‒—−-As you can see there is not much difference between them, and when they are used within MusicBrainz and Discogs they...
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Music tagging with iTunes
Music tagging with iTunesEven after all these years iTunes is still an essential application for purchasing and playing music for many. Because of that SongKong and Jaikoz have always supported...
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