What version of SongKong should I choose ?
Without buying a license the licensing defaults to SongKong Lite, this gives free Status Report and Manual Editing, plus allows you to preview all the advanced automated matching and duplicate deletion tasks.
Standard, Premium, Melco and Pro all support automated matching but there are some differences in features.
| Feature | Lite | Standard | Premium | Melco | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status Report | |||||
| Manual Metadata Edit | |||||
| Add Albums to MusicBrainz | |||||
| Fix Songs | |||||
| Delete Duplicates | |||||
| Rename Files | |||||
| Match to One Album | |||||
| Bandcamp Match | |||||
| Auto Edit | |||||
| Scripter | |||||
| Parse Naim Rips | |||||
| Fix Charset Encoding | |||||
| Options optimized for Melco | |||||
| Commercial Use Allowed | |||||
| Performance | |||||
| Add Acoustic Metadata |
Performance
Because the lookup rate for the Pro, Melco and Commercial editions is twice that of the standard edition your songs will be matched quicker with Pro.
Acoustic Metadata
Acoustic Metadata summarizes the characteristics of the actual music such as BPM, Mood, and the Musical Key. This Acoustic Metadata is collected by AcousticBrainz. Acoustic analysis is only available in the Pro, Melco and Commercial editions.
Bandcamp Match
Bandcamp Match works like Fix Songs but matches your songs to Bandcamp rather than MusicBrainz or Discogs. Bandcamp is the premier site for self released albums, the majority of bandcamp albums are not in the MusicBrainz or Discogs databases.
Naim Rips
When a Naim Music Server is used to rip a CD to Wav format the metadata is stored within separate files instead of within the Wav file, meaning metadata not visible if using their music on a non Naim system. But the Naim Import Metadata task can embed the metadata currently in your music files so the metadata can be universally enjoyed with players other than Naim, including for example the Melco Digital Music Library