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SongKong was designed in 2014 by Paul Taylor ( as an intelligent music tagger app designed to make the task of managing, organizing and cleaning up digital music collections easy and effective. MinimServer runs on a large number of platforms and is compatible with a very wide variety of UPnP control points and UPnP/DLNA music players. Since its initial release, MinimServer has been enhanced substantially based on user feedback and requests, and is supported via an active user forum. This new approach to browsing proved very popular with users, not just for classical music but also for rock/pop and jazz. MinimServer introduced the concept of Intelligent Browsing, which enables the user to browse by any tags in any order and tailors the display format of each browsing selection based on the contents of the selection. These servers were based around a fixed browsing hierarchy using a limited set of tags (primarily Genre, Artist and Album) with limited options for customizing the browsing experience. MinimServer was created by Simon Nash in 2012 to provide a UPnP server with a better browsing experience for classical music than other UPnP servers available at the time. More recently, the company revived its Melco brand, offering high-quality network audio components and storage devices in the spirit of the much-revered early Melco products. From those early beginnings, Melcoĭeveloped into the largest computer peripherals manufacturer in Japan (Buffalo Inc.), including wireless routers, Ethernet data switches and storage devices such as NAS drives. Melco (Maki Engineering Laboratory Company) was established by Makoto Maki in 1975 in Japan as a manufacturer of the finest audio components of the time.

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Users are then able to apply manual edits to just a single track or single album as well using the simple web interface. After SongKong reports the exact contents of a library with all existing metadata, it will source additional metadata and create new tags in a consistent format, creating a new HTML file or spreadsheet reports of the library showing all additional metadata.

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Clever ‘Profiles’ also allow the browse experience to be changed based on the main types of music searches – rock and pop, jazz and classical etc., to fully exploit the full extent of the metadata available from SongKong, regardless of the player or control point app.

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The Melco Intelligent Music Library system automatically senses whether each CD or download is classical or not and returns searches based on works (if necessary) rather than albums, unless albums were requested. Conventionally, browsing for a whole album is easy but finding the constituent elements or works becomes very difficult without Melco Intelligent Music Library multi-disc sets or compilations, for example, fail to browse correctly if treated as albums,' Melco details. Many CDs or sets of imported music, especially classical, are not really ‘albums’ but collections of songs or works. 'By carefully tuning SongKong to deliver precisely the metadata set that MinimServer requires to deliver the search functionality, Melco has made it possible to break away from the notion of an ‘album’. The integration of MinimServer, SongKong and Melco's Intelligent Music Library, enables MinimServer to offer browsing based on the consistent metadata set from the SongKong software, in a format transparent to the user. As they explain, 'the conventional separation of metadata structure and UPnP server is the root cause of most problems that users experience trying to find music on their servers.'

As the Japanese company explains, the solution implements a Metadata Engine (SongKong for Melco) and UPnP Server (MinimServer with Intelligent Browsing), each precisely tailored to the needs of the other, in order that they operate as a whole. Melco's Intelligent Music Library enables simple but powerful music search and selection for playback on any network music player or connected USB DAC.

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The solution is available for all Melco digital music libraries, including the new N10 and N100 compact-chassis models, and will also be available as a firmware update for existing Melco users. Together, MinimServer, SongKong and Melco have integrated the full functionality of a powerful metadata engine to a pre-configured versatile UPnP server, resulting in accurate and easy browse, search and play features for large collections and all genres of music.