Beatport question

[grazz16]

does anyone know if its possible anywhere on Beatport to find out the key of a song before you buy it? It strikes me that this would be very useful, but i have no idea if that feature exists or not...

[Jester]

Now that would be awesome. doubt it tho dude.

[completej]

It might pay off to memorize some of the rules here

http://www.playpiano.com/Articles/24-majorkeyof.htm

and just learn to listen to the music and identify them on the fly.

[grazz16]

haha yeah, i could do that couldn't I, but lets face it, we're lazy and was wondering if Beatport had already done this for us, guess not heh

[completej]

dunno about we, but cheers

[lethal_pizzle]

Hmmm... I'd buy a good tune no matter what key it was in. Else all my tunes would be in A minor.

[popatheart]

A minor.

I've noticed I tend to favor my Am tracks, usually without even realizing which key they're in.

I wonder why that is?

[PartyMcFly]

I can see online music outlets moving this way in the future. But for now, we must do it ourselves. Fair enough though. I like not being spoon fed.

[grazz16]

Its more a time saver than anything, if i'm looking for a song in a particular key, it would be nice to have that info readily avaliable if i have a list of 30 songs to choose from. Yes i am fully capable to go through each individuall track and find the key, but for the sake of saving time, personally i'd rather Beatport have this info on hand.

[lethal_pizzle]

It's because there are more of them than anything else. Minor keys sound more epic and A minor uses the white keys on the keyboard so is the easiest key to produce in.