No files are actually modified when this option is enabled. This allows you to test SongKong without making modifications, preview is always enabled in SongKong with a Trial License.

If disabled SongKong will only try to match songs that have not already been matched to MusicBrainz previously. If enabled then SongKong disregards any matching previously done by SongKong or any other Musicbrainz enabled tagger such as Jaikoz and rematches from scratch.

SongKong can find artwork from a number of sources and there are additional options available in the Artwork tab that let you refine how artwork is matched. But artwork quality can be a subjective notion, SongKong only replaces existing artwork with higher resolution artwork, but higher resolution is not always higher quality. Or you may already have artwork provided in a non-standard location such as iTunes artwork stored in your iTunes database and do not require it to be stored directly in your songs. For these reasons you might prefer SongKong to leave your artwork as it is, if so disable this option.

SongKong uses Genres from Discogs. If enabled Discogs adds the first genre for any album matched to Discogs to each song in the album, but only if the song does not already have a genre. But genres is a subjective notion, for these reasons you might prefer SongKong to leave your genres alone, if so disable this option.

If your songs are already highly organized one folder per album enabling this option protects your songs from being split into multiple folders due to sub-optimal matching. This can occur if the release you want to match to does not exist in the database but some of the songs can be matched to other releases. But enabling this option makes it likely that less of your songs will be matched.

If enabled songs are renamed based on their metadata and the configured rename mask. If disabled we modify the songs metadata but do not rename the file itself. It is useful to name files based on the current metadata but this can cause problems for any other applications that index files by their file name. For example if you are using a Music Manager application such as iTunes and rename a file that is under iTunes control then iTunes will not be able to find it. It is usually better to use SongKong on songs before adding them to a Music Manager.

When you select a folder to fix SongKong trys to guess what part of the folder path contains metadata such as artist name or album name and which part does not contain metadata. It then splits the folder path into Base Folder and Sub Folder, the reason for this split is that if your songs are renamed from metadata only the sub folder part is renamed from your metadata.

But its not always easy for SongKong to get this right so you can use the arrow keys to modify where the split is. Or perhaps you would like the whole path to be modified by the rename mask , in this case use the right arrow to put the folder path in the sub folder field.

For example if your file name was /Music/The Beatles/Revolver then base folder should be set to /Music and sub folder set to /The Beatles/Revolver.

When a match is made to a MusicBrainz release the MusicBrainz release may itself contain a link to the equivalent release on Discogs. If this option is enabled we make use of the additional information the Discogs release may have that the MusicBrainz release does not and add it to your songs metadata.

SongKong can also try and match songs to a Discogs Release even if no match to a MusicBrainz Release was found if this option is enabled.

SongKong often finds multiple potential releases that could match a group of songs, if the release is one of your selected media formats then that potential release has their score boosted making it more likely that it is the release that SongKong selects.

SongKong often finds multiple potential releases that could match a group of songs, if the release was released in one of your preferred countries then that potential release has their score boosted making it more likely that it is the release that SongKong selects.

High quality artwork can take up a lot of disk space, it is often not necessary to have such high quality artwork embedded into your songs. In fact some song playing apps do not work with artwork that is larger than a particular size.

Sometimes artwork is found of such a low quality and small size that you would rather ignore this artwork.

Controls the maximum pieces of artwork that can be stored with one song.

This option can be used to convert artist names containing non Latin characters to Latin script, this is very useful if you can only understand Latin script

Sometimes a recording artist may use a different name on some of their releases, this can make it harder to manage your collection so if you enable this option then their standard name is always used.

Sometimes a recording is given another name on a different release, to force a consistent name to be used enable this option.

Sometimes a release is given a different name in a different version of the release, to force a consistent name to be used enable this option.

SongKong contains a Year field and an Original Year field. Usually the year field stores the year the date of the release your songs have been matched to, and then for each song the original year contains the date of the first release that each song was released on. But sometimes it is more interesting to know the original year than the year and this is accessible to more applications if it is stored in the original year field.

It can be useful to identify when a song had been matched to a single, compilation ecetera rather then the more usual album. By enabling this option the type of the release is added to the release title field, if the release is of type album then this is not added because this is the default.

The Disc No field is very useful in multiple disc releases, for example to distinguish between the first track on disc 1 and the first track on disc 2. But not all applications provide access to this field so it can be useful to add to the release title by setting this option to Always Add Disc No Information to the release title. Multi-disc releases sometimes give an actual name to each disc and this can be added to the release title by setting the option to Add Disc No to the release title if disc has title.Or you can elect to do nothing special for multi-disc release by setting the option to Never add Disc No information to the release title.

If Replace Non Ascii Characters is enabled then when renaming a file from the metadata any characters that cannot be encoded using the standard ascii charset is represented by a simplified representation instead, for example an accented character such as é is represented by its unaccented version e.

A common way of managing your songs is to move songs from an unsorted folder to a fixed folder as they are identified. Within SongKong this can be accomplished by setting a Move Folder, as songs are matched they are moved from their current folder to the move folder.

The rename mask defines how files renamed based on their metadata. You can define and modify masks using the Edit and Add buttons, and select from existing masks using the drop down.

It is often useful to store Compilation releases in a different location to Original Album releases. This mask is used when renaming songs that have been identified as being part of a compilation, the isCompilation field is set for these fields.

If song moved to another folder move lets you control what should happen to non-music files in your folder when music files are saved to a different location, this occurs if you rename files from metadata and new the metadata changes the subfolder part of the filename path, or if you have selected a move folder that al matched songs should be moved to.

The default is to move artwork with the music, but you can also choose to only move the music or conversely to move everthing in the folder.

Mp3s support both ID3v23 and ID3v24. V24 is the latest version of the ID3 Specification and has been available since 2003 but it still is not as widely supported as V23. You can elect to save your mp3s using the version they already have or force save to either V23 or V24.

Most audio formats stores numbers as text, for example 1 can be stored as 1, 01, 001 or 0001. This is useful for sorting songs and is applied to the Disc No, Disc Total, Track No and Track Total fields. this field has no effect on the Mp4 files because this format only stores a number.

In ID3 there is a preconfigured list of 256 genres, if a genre is in this preconfigured list it is stored as a number rather than the text. But iTunes does not understand the complete list of genres so you can force SongKong to always write the genre as text if you enable this option.

Every option checked increases the number of things that have to be the same for a duplicate to be found, reducing the cages of a duplicate being found. A duplicate MB Recording Id means two songs match to the same recording in MusicBrainz and a duplicate MB Release Id means two songs match to the same release id, so if both these options are enabled it means a duplicate must have matched the same recording on the same release (unless a release contains the same recording twice). A duplicate AcoustId means that the audio fingerprint of two songs is the same , they are sonically the same (or at least extremely similar).

When duplicate songs are found one is kept and the remainder are either deleted or move to the specified Duplicates folder.

The folder that duplicates should be moved to if configured to move duplicates instead of delete them.

This defaults to your computers locale, but you can select from over 15 languages that SongKong has been translated into. You'll need to restart SongKong after changing the language for all text to display in the new language.

SongKong creates a log file recording information about what it is doing, how much information is recorded depends on the value of this option. If you are having a problem with SongKong then support may request that you increase the log level to aid in resolving the problem.

SongKong also records information about what is transferred between your songs and SongKong when opening and saving changes to your song files, how much information is recorded depends on the value of this option. If you are having a problem with SongKong then support may request that you increase the log level to aid in resolving the problem.