![]() Typically a customer started ripping their collection using iTunes or WMP, then moved to another program, then another as the software and ripping accuracy improved. One common theme I often come across is a customer with an extensive ripped CD collection that may go back quite a few years. For reference, if you connect an optical drive like a D100 to a Melco directly, the look-up database the Melco uses is Gracenote. None of them are necessarily wrong, but I see lots of music libraries on the my travels and inconsistencies can be substantial. Unfortunately, the various databases can quite often use different parameters to one another and the results can vary wildly. Whenever you rip a CD using one of these programs it looks to the Internet at one of several databases to gather information on the CD you are your ripping – it is this information which is the Metadata. There are lots of different computer based programs that can be used to rip your music, such as iTunes, dBPoweramp, Exact Audio Copy, Windows Media Player, XLD and many more. In this age of digital music libraries and streaming content accurate Metadata is more important than ever, but unfortunately it is very easy to have incorrect or inaccurate Metadata which can really make finding specific artists and/or albums very difficult when browsing your library on an iPad or phone. Music Metadata (which sometimes get referred to as ID3 tags) is the information that is embedded into digital audio files which help you identify what the file actually is. Some of the info below is from an older post but I’ve updated it with some fresh information plus a before and after example of editing something that wasn’t quite right (or more not to my liking!). I’ve written about SongKong before in previous blog posts, it’s an incredible useful program and is very powerful when you know how to fly it. Now you’ve done lost all your featured artists, you are just left with fixing the titles that are still using the old method.“What is SongKong?” is a question I get asked on a reasonably frequent basis, more so than ever since the launch of the EX series of Melco machines and the release of 3.92 software for the mk1 and mk2 Melco’s as a version SongKong (Lite Edition) is included as standard.Įssentially, SongKong is an intelligent music metadata editor which can help you organise your music library just the way you want it, it can find missing artwork, correct inconsistencies and all you to fine tune how you music is displayed. So drag the artists column next to the artist column then just copy the value from artists column to the artist column using Empty Column on the artist column (right click on column header) and then select rows in both columns and use Prepend to Left to copy from artists field to corresponding artist field. This stores each artist credited on a song as a separate value so you only see the first artist in the main edit table (the others are visible by clicking on the small box) and the first artist should always be the main one, whihc is the one you want. You could use Edit/Find Replace to find and replace values in any column but at the moment this doesn’t does support regular expressions which make things more diifficult.Īctually what you could do is the following Sometimes this can effect who is credited, if they were not credited originally but where credited later on. Use Recording Artist instead of Track Artist means that if this track is available on multiple releases we use the name of the artist it is credited to rather than any variation used on this particular album. This helps standardise things but doesn’t remove the featured artist it just means they will also use their normal name. Use Artist Name instead of Artist Credit Name, means that if an artist is usually known by a particular name but uses a different name on this release then we use his usual name. Remote Correct:Format:Use recording Artist instead of Track Artist Remote Correct:Format:Use Artist Name instead of Artist Credit Name Two preferences that you should change are: So you could fix the songs in Musicbrainz site that will remove the inconosistency between the two, but clearly that is a time consuming task. Ah, this is rather a different question to the original oneįeaturing in the title is an old MusicBrainz style guideline, since Musicbrainz NGS introduction of artist credits the featuring artists should be moved to the artist artist credit field and out of the title field.
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