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So you rip your CD to server/computer CDs don’t store artist, album ectera Tools such as iTunes, dbPoweramp lookup CDs based purely on no of tracks and track lengths Can return totally wrong album with coincidentally same track lengths Total fail for releases with less than five tracks CD based not album based so no consistency over discs in multi disc album Doesn’t set Disc No, Disc Total fields because single disc based Sources such as freedb, poor quality Better sources as Gracenote still have errors no, way to fix them. Sometimes lookup returns the Artist Sort Name (Beatles, The) rather than their Display Name (The Beatles), another source of inconsistency Sometimes Sort Name are shoe-horned into main name Hard work entering sort names Cannot derive sort names automatically, e.g Josquin des PrezĪgain, artist is an entity, and each entity has a Sort Name We have sort fields for all people/group fields including Artist Album artist Composer Conductor Orchestra Choir Performer Arranger Lyricist Ensemble So you can display as Kate Bush, but sort as Bush, Kate Johnny Cash & June Carter Johnny Cash June Carter Ed Sheeran So each collaboration, or featured by involving an artist ends up as a separate artist in your browse listĪgain it comes now to entities, when we lookup it is decoded as So we know we have two artists and a connector, so we can store as We can do the same with featured artists, we can also drop the featured artist altogether if they are not of interest. Johnny Cash and June Carter Featured artist e.g.
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Understands Artists as entities ( we store an Artist Id we know who they are) Artist Canonical Name, instead of using name on release we can use their main name If their main name is not in Roman script (eg Пётр Ильич Чайковский) we can use their Roman/English version of nameĬollaborations e.g.
#Songkong rename mask manual
Пётр Ильич Чайковский / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky This makes it difficult to find all music by a particular artist Tools that lookup CD do independently of any other CD by same artist, so no consistency Manual Edit, easy to make mistakes and introduce inconsistencies Song and Album Identifcation Identifying Classical Music Classical Music Configuration Filename not matching Metadata Metadata Consistency Inconsistent Artists Artist Collaborations Sorting Artists Automatic Disc Lookup Dealing with Multiple copies of albumĪrtists are not always attributed the same on every release Minor differences in names, such as initials, spelling errors Artist deliberately use different name e.g Prince, O(+>, Formerly Known As Different languages, e.g. Unmatched files can be moved to another location, in the attempt to exlude them from your collection.Presentation on theme: "Ten Metadata Problems and Solutions"- Presentation transcript:
#Songkong rename mask update
You can use it to update the song genre, automatically translate the artist name to English, modify the track title, assign a song the original release date found online or add the release type (EP, single, compilation, remix, live) to the title.
#Songkong rename mask archive
Fast metadata updating and name patterns SongKong is capable of updating the metadata of your songs by downloading information from online databases, namely MusicBrainz, Discogs and Cover Art Archive for the cover artwork, which can be resized and saved locally. Unfortunately, only one folder can be monitored, which means you will have to move all the songs into a single directory. Ease of use and accesible options The application features an intuitive interface that provides quick access to all the options, enabling you to immediately proceed to updating song information. Built in Java, this application can be of great use in managing large music databases. Update the metadata information and the artwork for all the songs in your collection with the help of this intuitive and useful application SongKong can give you a helping hand in organizing your music collection by updating the metadata information for each song and deleting duplicate entries.