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"Update SongGenie 1.1"
Version: SongGenie 1.0.1
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Summary
We've improved SongGenie! SongGenie 1.1 now shows for every identified song all available album information. Now you can also apply title information to a bulk selection of songs - completely automatically if you wish. And you can start searching for your missing album art directly with CoverScout.
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<LI>NEW SongGenie shows all available albums that contain the track you are searching for</LI>
<LI>NEW Identify and apply all track information automatically</LI>
<LI>NEW Apply identified track information to multiple songs at once</LI>
<LI>NEW Start searching for album covers in CoverScout</LI>
<LI>NEW Show music tracks in CoverScout</LI>
<LI>NEW Contextmenu available for finding music files in finder, marking and start playing tracks</LI>
<LI>NEW Immediately shows changes to a music file made in other applications</LI>
<LI>NEW Display cover art downloaded from the iTunes Store</LI>
<LI>NEW Recognizes new music folders that have been added by CoverScout</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Better workflow by an improved user interface</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Ignores invisible files and folders</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Improved management of music archives on external hard drives</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Bugfixed jumping textcursor when manually entering song information</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Bugfixed the error that prevented the ability to stream edited MP4 files</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Bugfixed the error causing music tracks in deactivated music folders to be displayed</LI>
<LI>BOOSTED Extended App Preferences</LI>
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"Great idea. Limited functionality and horrible results!"
Version: SongGenie 1.0
Pros
- Slick interface
Cons
- Abysmal match rate (43 out of 604 in my test)
- For matches, completes only Song, Artist and Album fields.
- Company's site states "set the criteria and SongGenie will automatically amend your music based on your preferences." Not true.Summary
Perhaps future versions of this product will provide more complete functionality and better match results. As it stands in version 1.0, it's a terrible waste of money. And the company isn't even honest about what the product can and cannot do on it's own website. Not a good sign.
I received a message from the publishers of this product saying that the server used for song matching have been overwhelmed by the volume of requests, and that a low match rate may be a temporary problem caused by lack of bandwidth. (The product was introduced yesterday at the Macworld Conference & Expo.)
Updated on Jan 7, 2009
It makes sense. If everyone's first step is to scan their entire music library and then match each song to digital signatures on the server, that could be an extraordinary amount of volume.
I will report back and change my rating if the match rate significantly improves. -
"Form over function"
Version: SongGenie 1.0
Summary
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Like most Equinux products, the interface is artfully produced within the confines of the Apple user-interface guidelines, but functionally it falls flat. In demo mode with a library of around 10,000 tracks, it found about 20 "songs with missing information", but they were very weird finds indeed. It found a single track off an Andrea Parker DJ-Kicks album, with which it 'suggested' that the artist/track title fields should be swapped! Curiously, the other tracks on the same album (rightfully) avoided detection. Then, it found a single M83 track, the title of which is an asterix (*) -- correctly -- but if flagged it as "missing information". Then the $30 nagware kicked in, so I stiffed it. It's an interesting idea, but not $30 interesting.
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