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The Nitty Gritty
Interested in knowing what’s going on behind the scenes
when using SongGenie? This is where you can find out.
Song analysis
In order to get the right song information and lyrics for your music, SongGe-
nie has to “listen” to the song. It does this by sampling the music and then
checking it against an online database. This is why you need to be connected
to the internet to use many of SongGenie’s core features.
As this online database is constantly updated, if SongGenie cannot find your
song information today, try again in a few days. Even the very latest albums
should find their way onto the database within a few days.
Lyrics search
Singing along to your Music has never been as easy as it is now with SongGe-
nie, but where exactly do the lyrics come from? SongGenie scours the web
looking for what it thinks is a complete set of lyrics for every song. We’ve
given SongGenie a little helping hand by pointing to some of our favorite lyr-
ics sites on the net but when she can’t find what’s needed there, she’ll run a
pretty standard Google search in the background making sure you always get
results almost every time.
Writing information to your music
The song info and lyrics you apply using SongGenie will be written directly to
your music files. This way, whether you play the music on an iPod or a Micro-
soft Zune, iTunes or Windows Media Player the information will still be on file.
Once all song information and cover art (using CoverScout, sold separately)
have been collected, you’ll never need to touch this file again.
Determining tag quality
If you are using the Tag Quality column within SongGenie, you may have
wondered what determines this score. SongGenie takes a look at song infor-
mation such as Song Title, Album and Artist Name as well as Year and Genre
and rates them altogether to give an overall score.. Your tag quality score will
increase after analyzing your music with SongGenie.
Supported file types
In order to be able to work her magic, SongGenie needs to be able to “listen”
to your music. Currently, SongGenie song analysis can work with the following
music file types:
‣ AAC files, including unprotected iTunes Plus files from the iTunes Store
‣ MP3 files
‣ AIFF
‣ Apple Lossless files
Supported music locations
SongGenie indexes all supported music regardless of location. Many users
may choose to store their music on an external hard drive or on Network At-
tached Storage (NAS). Please note that initial indexing of your music library is
bandwidth intensive and may take longer if your library is stored externally.
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