Status Report - Available Free !

The Status Report task in SongKong is a non-destructive feature that provides a detailed overview of your music collection. It scans your files and generates a comprehensive report about the state of your metadata, file formats, and audio quality, all without making any changes to your files. This makes it an ideal first step before performing any tagging or organizing actions, allowing you to assess the current condition of your library.

This task is especially useful for identifying common issues, such as missing or incomplete metadata—for example, tracks that lack album names, artist details, or genres. It also checks whether songs are matched to online databases like MusicBrainz or Discogs, which can be important for maintaining an accurate and consistent collection.

The Status Report comes free with Dela Lite license

Metadata Completeness

The Status Report includes Metadata and Artwork Completeness barcharts so we can get a visually interpretation the data of the status of the data It's a valuable tool for organizing large libraries, auditing for quality, or simply understanding what kind of music files you have and how well-tagged they are..

MusicBrainz Inconsistencies

We look at your songs from different perspectives to find inconsistencies with how they are matched to MusicBrainz and Discogs. These indincate potential problems but they are not neccessarily problems. This works with songs processed by any tagger that supports MusicBrainz Ids so can be used on files processed by other tools such as MusicBrainz Picard or Mp3Tag. There can be upto seven different tabs showing Incomplete Folders, Split Folders, Incomplete Albums, Split Albums, Discs Missing, One Song Matched and Songs Missing

Browse by Folder, Artist, Album or Composer

It offers different ways to browse songs for different situations. The first three group the songs by metadata inside the files, the fourth groups by the folder structure.

Browse By Artist/Album, Group songs based on the value of the Album Artist and then the Album metadata in your songs. This is the most natural way to view things. Most music players use the same metadata to group songs into albums so it is important that this is correct

Browse By Album, Group songs based on the value of the Album metadata in the songs. This is useful as an alternative when looking for a particular Album but are not sure what artist it is credited to.

Browse By Composer/Work, Group songs based on the value of the Composer and then the Work metadata in the songs. This is an alternative way to browse your music, most useful for Classical music.

Browse By Folder, Navigate the songs by their filesystem folder structure, this is totally independent of the metadata in the files. But ideally in normal circumstances we would want our folder structure to mirror the album artist/album metadata

Downloadable Spreadsheet

The Browse section of the report allow us to drill down to the artist or album we are interested in. But sometimes we want to quickly scan for a number of artists, or search for a particular metadata value and this is not so easy to do with these sections.

But the View as Spreadsheet option downloads a spreadsheet that contains one row per song split over a few sheets. This can be opened in any modern spreadsheet application from where you can scroll through the metadata and search for any particular metadata.

Reporting done for Every Task

All tasks generate some form of the Status report when they have completed. For exaple The Fix Songs report is very similar to the report created by the Status Report task, but has a few additional sections. On the Summary section there is a summary of the progress screen, this includes MusicBrainz/Acoustid matches. Within the Browse section we can see files that have been modified, and in the song details sections we can see exactly what fields each file contains and what has been modified modified or added.