Search or Browse Folder View

[paultaylor]

(10-01-2023 17:01)tommyrot Wrote:  To answer your other question, yes, I've tried countless tagging applications including MusicBrain, Picard, SongKong and Metadatics, and I've nothing but the highest admiration for the developers. I think they do a fine job. But their achilles' heel is that they're only as good as the DBs they use – mainly MusicBrainz. It matches music recorded after 1980s fine, but much of my treasured collection predates that. I've recordings that go back to 1930s and 1940s. For anything earlier than 1980, I find MusicBrainz lacking.

One thing about MusicBrainz is it is an actial database with recording/work/release and artist enitities not just a simple spreadsheet. So when you match an album to MusicBrainz it links that release to artist entities for the artist/composer/conductor ectera, and artist entities usually have an artists name in their native language/script and in English and therefore you can quite easily have consistent names for the people. For example with SongKong if you enable Romanize non-Latin scripts artist names wherever possible it would use the same variation of Ludwig Van Beethoven for all occurences of him as composer or album artist even if the name on the release was different.

It would be interesting if you were to run SongKong Fix Songs just as a preview (no license required) to see what percentage it matched, and the quality of the matching, would be happy to work on this with you.