Desktop Mode

SongKong is usually used as desktop application for your Mac, Windows or Linux computer, this is the default when you start SongKong. Most screenshots from this help manual will show screenshots from the desktop version, there are slight variations between Mac, Windows and Linux screens but they provide the same functionality. The only exception is that Linux cannot automatically update iTunes since iTunes is not available for Linux.

You can select multiple folders using the Open Folder menu item, once a folder is selected it is displayed in the Selected Folder field and then you can use select the Fix Songs, Start Monitoring Watch Folder, Undo Fixes or Delete Duplicate Songs task to process this folder.

But unless you want to run Start Monitoring Watch Folder you can select multiple folders, there is no need to limit to one folder, and you can drag folders directly onto SongKong instead of using Open Folder.

SongKong also works with individual music files and .M3U and .M3u8 playlists, just drag and drop them onto SongKong. For example music files can be dragged directly from iTunes, Finder on OSX and Windows Explorer on Windows.

SongKong will run the task using the options configured in the selected Profile .The Default profile works well for most customers but we provide a range of profiles that have been configured for other common scenarios. You can also create a new profile based on the currently selected profile using the Clone button, this becomes the curnet profile and any changes you make to the options in the subsequent task wil be applied to this profile.

Once you have selected a task a progress window shows how SongKong is progressing, at the end of progressing a report is created an opened in your default web browser. The only exception is the Start Monitoring Watch Folder task, this will not finish until you stop it.