I've uploaded a release build to dropbox if anyone is interested in having a play with Symphony in its current state:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8a5qmll0w843ze...y.zip?dl=0
Symphony is built using .Net 4.5.1 so if you are not on Windows 8.1 (which as 4.5.1 installed by default), you will need to download and install .Net 4.5.1 from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/...x?id=40779
It's important to note that this release is definitely in a alpha / pre-alpha state, so it's purely just for trying it out. I can't stress enough that you should not use this on your music collection, I haven't experienced any issues myself but it's definitely better to be safe for now. I highly recommend making a copy of your music library and using that for testing.
Adding your music:
At present, Symphony requires a music structure as shown below:
Artist Folder -> Album Folder -> Tracks
Once you open Symphony, select 'Settings' and enter or browse to your music path and click 'save', the artist list should refresh with library.
Scraping:
Clicking the 'Scrape' button will load the scraper window, defaulting to the artist scraper window. Simply select the correct artist from the search result list to kick off the scraping (it will automatically take you to the next tab once complete. At the top of the window you will notice two save buttons, 'Save' and 'Save All', clicking 'Save' will save the metadata from the current tab whereas 'Save All' will save data from all tabs in that current section (ie Artist or Album).
Some things to note:
* Music Videos is still a WIP so the button will not do anything.
* When scraping, existing metadata takes precedence so if you have existing metadata in a field it will not be overwritten. (Artwork functions differently, if you select an image from the artwork tab, any existing image will be overwritten with your selection.
This is a very early build but I thought it would be fun to let you all have a look and have a play. I've done some VERY basic testing in a Windows 8 and Windows 7 VM and it ran okay but you still may experience problems or crashes. I'll try and release regular builds for you to test and play with, so if you do experience any problems hang in there and the issue will be fixed in future builds.
I just want to stress again that this is a alpha build (at best) so don't use this on your actual music collection, make a copy of the music library or just a selection of artists and use that.