Suggested Operation

SongKong comes with some predefined profiles, these are sets of preferences tuned for different scenarios. Once a task is started SongKong can run unattended on large music collections with no user

interaction, but it can take some time so if running for the first time on your whole collection we recommend you run SongKong overnight.

Unlike many conventional taggers you do not need to fix one album at a time, SongKong can be applied to your whole collection in one go.

  1. Run

    Status Report

    on your music collection, this gives you a nice web report and spreadsheet report of your music library and its metadata before any changes are made.

  2. Consider do you want

    Fix Songs

    to completely fix your music library (

    Default

    profile), only add missing data without modifying any existing data (

    Fix Songs, add new metadata only

    profile), or only improve artwork (

    Fix Songs, add artwork only

    profile) and select the current profile before selecting Fix Songs.

  3. You can run with

    Preview only

    option enabled or just go for it, since all changes are also stored in SongKongs database so you can run

    Undo Changes

    if there is anything you don’t like.

  4. There are many options you can modify, but the defaults work well for most people.

  5. Select

    Start

    and SongKong will start analysing and fixing your songs and will create a detailed html report showing the results.

  6. Now your songs have better metadata you could also run

    Delete Duplicates

    if you have full Melco license.

  7. SongKong automated fixing should match most but not all of your files, so you can

    Edit Songs Manually

    to add metadata for albums that were not identified.

  8. Once completed you need may need to update the index of your music server to pick up the changes made by SongKong.