Hi Ibsh. Having a lil problem with keyfinder on win 7. It runs fine on 4 year old amd desktop. On my dj i7 win 7 laptop, keyfinder opens then windows closes it down within seconds. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jay.
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Hi Ibsh. Having a lil problem with keyfinder on win 7. It runs fine on 4 year old amd desktop. On my dj i7 win 7 laptop, keyfinder opens then windows closes it down within seconds. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Jay.
FASTER than MiK? Sign me up...Quote:
Originally Posted by jester.NZ
I cannot for the life of me get this thing to write to my files.
I have it told to write to files during jobs in preferences.
That doesn't work.
Tried just right clicking and telling it to do so, but it will just sit there saying "0 key tags written to 0 files".
make sure your mp3 files don't have "read-only" selectedQuote:
Originally Posted by Sn0wday
Well, if I can edit them manually in iTunes and Traktor, they wouldn't be read only, right?
Is that a "Yes, i checked that my mp3's don't have "read-only" selected in properties" or a "It can't be that simple so I'm gonna just write something in reply"? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sn0wday
What I'm trying to say is: I had the same problem, this was my solution so try it first. And yes, my files were "read-only" and I could still edit them in Mp3Tag editor so I would suspect the same is with iTunes and other commercial programs.
And oh...Ibsh: you might wanna fix that in the next version :thumbup1:
I checked for a read-only option. I'm on a Mac, and i just got it a couple months ago, where wold this read-only thing be?
http://www.cultofmac.com/56414/100-t...le-properties/Quote:
Originally Posted by Sn0wday
No idea how accurate it is but love it. Dead easy to use and quick. Cheers
Thank you for this update; there is one small problem I have. When I run a batch from my music in iTunes, downloaded from iTunes so no 'local' mp3's, it overwrites the comments and puts the key in the Key tag, but when I search for the track in Traktor it still doesn't mention the key, nor does it in iTunes. Both the comments and key section stay blank. Am I overlooking something?Quote:
Originally Posted by ibsh
And second, is there another way to make a small donation to you for your hard work? Sadly I'm not the proud owner of a Paypal account...
Hey Student, sorry it took so long to get back to you, I overlooked your message.Quote:
Originally Posted by Student
iTunes doesn't look at the Key tag in any case, so you'd never see it there. I can't recall offhand if Traktor uses the Key tag but if it does, it'll be necessary to "check consistency" on the tagged files after writing to them for the new tags to be read by Traktor.
I hope that answers your question; if not just hit me up at the contact address on the KF site.
As for a donation, if you're not into Paypal you could buy a couple of my dnb tunes at counterfeit.bandcamp.com. =)
Really like "o fortuna", gonna check out the rest of the tunes. (audio player on bandcamp is crap)
I tried this for myself yesterday, and I was amazed at the speed at which it works, it's just incredible, but I just thought I'd add a few things:
1. This may have been mentioned, but it doesn't appear to want to analyze protected iTunes files (some iTunes files have this - but only seems to be very old ones, don't seem to get them anymore so probably a bit of a non-issue).
2. There seems to be a large favouring of Minor keys - I assume this is natural: I understand a lot of dance music is done in minor keys to avoid sounding "cheesy", and Virtual DJ (back when I used that) always used to give me minor keys exclusively. The only change was when I used Rapid Evo 3, which balanced it out a bit and included a lot more major keys. The balance seems to have shifted back now.
These aren't real issues at all, but just a couple of things I thought bore thinking about.
Anyway, it's a real gem of a program, fantastically fast and easy to use!
Downloaded this. Will give it a try out.
Now Traktor has a key detection feature, it seems; sneaked it into the latest point release. Based on some very basic research, it's a good algorithm, too. Higher number of exact matches than MIK and solid overall accuracy.
They also added a great colour coding feature when you sort by key. Very cool stuff.
Nice number of exact, but what about compatible matches?Quote:
Originally Posted by ibsh
Slightly fewer than MIK (see the comparison chart)Quote:
Originally Posted by droxpopuli
http://ibrahimshaath.co.uk/keyfinder/comparison.pdf
Seems quite comperable to the competition, then.Quote:
Originally Posted by ibsh
Pretty much had enough of MIK's ...offensive online-only operation as well as a few other things and looking at other options and came across Keyfinder...fantastic! Good work sir! One question, processing flacs doesn't seem to write to the key tag, is this because flac doesn't have a native key tag? No way to implement in KF even by doing semi manually in KF? A little research suggests no key tags in flac....maybe I'll just prepend them all to comments then batch write them to the key field as and when.
Thanks again, look forward to donating if/when I get an MIK refund :cool:
There's no standard way of logging key to FLAC tags, but there is a de facto standard (that is to say, a hack) which will be available in the next version of KF. Don't know when it'll be released yet, I'm afraid.Quote:
Originally Posted by niknok
Good luck with chasing that refund =)
That is great news. I use foobar2000 to pull the key out of the comment and into the INITIALKEY for all my flacs. Booting up a windows VM just to do that gets a little old.Quote:
Originally Posted by ibsh
What else are you looking at including in the next release?
Several bug fixes, some improvements for building on Linux, a hack for MP3s that get bad duration estimates, some other tagging stuff for ID3 v2.3 (primarily for Windows users, since they still can't see v2.4), and a few more interface translations. Plus some minor alterations to the core algorithm. Most of my work over the past few months has been invisible to the user; just improving the engineering of the core library really.Quote:
Originally Posted by LocoFreek25
I'm toying with hiding the advanced preferences screen too. And I'm starting with a new Windows build box, so with any luck I'll start seeing some of the bugs people are reporting there.
any luck on fixing that bug that deletes the year field in ID3 v.2 when writing the key in comment field?Quote:
Originally Posted by ibsh
Not specifically, cos I couldn't recreate it. But I've made some changes to the handling of ID3 tags so, with any luck, it might get better as a side effect =)Quote:
Originally Posted by SlayForMoney
Just wanted to say that this program is awesome and I love every single point of it. It's easy to use, it reads the tags perfectly and best of all, it's free. It's much better in my opinion than the Rapid Evolution and a few programs I tested before them. I use it all the time, but I'm not sure will I use it when I get a hold of Traktor 2.6.1 version. Anyway, if you need some help with coding it, I'm your guy! Hit me up at r3bl@musician.org and I'll be honored to help you out or be a tester or something (I'm a Windows user, I have Windows 7 x64 Ultimate version on a laptop, Windows XP x86 Service Pack 3 on my desktop and I have Ubuntu 12 installed on my desktop as well but I don't use it frequently).
Pretty good with Visual Basic, Delphi and HTML/CSS/PHP (in case you need some fancy website or something). Also pretty good with Pascal and Basic, but that won't be very useful to you I guess. Solid in C and C++ programming.
EDIT: just re-read and caught your address. Will be in touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric Zone
Hi guys,
I did this little translation of the key codes for Keyfinder, so you can use the famous Camelot Key codes from other key detection softwares to match your songs!
Hope can be useful, bye
Attachment 16404
Awesome, was very helpfull for me!
cheers
Likewise, thanks!
Just installed this on Windows 8, 64-bit, can't drag and drop audio files into window for analysis? Is there a write up for a how to use guide?
Hey hey. Very sorry for the long silence, but the new version 1.18 is now available, for Mac only.
This includes:
* a slightly faster analysis process, with a much, much smaller memory footprint; it should be easier to run KF alongside other apps now (although it's still very CPU intensive, obviously)
* a hack for the key tag in FLAC files, using the de facto standard among DJ apps
* the preservation of ID3 v2.3 tags, rather than automatically upgrading them to v2.4
* lots of new localisations
* a load of bug fixes and minor new features.
The delay has been largely due to my working with a DJ software house to integrate the KeyFinder algorithm into their packages. The upside of this means that all the improvements I've made for them get passed on to you!
Also... this release is not for Windows. I still haven't got the time or the interest to do the Windows work, so it may be a long time coming unless a Windows dev steps up to help out. Sorry about that.
All intelligent feedback gratefully received.
glad to hear that ;)
Dang. Gotta admit, kinda gutted there are no plans to continue the windows versions, been using this since you released it and been very happy with it. Still, at least 1.17 works perfectly for me :)
Key tags in flacs - fantastic! That's one less process to my process.
Thanks so much always for your work, very much appreciate your way of doing things....I just tried donating again but PPal doesn't support donations from Japan...wtf?
Anyways, not for want of trying and of course purely personally motivated, one relatively straightforward feature I'd love to see would be the ability to append key info to the end of the track name tag rather than only the file name and key tag, reason being that in Traktor I always look at the track name for key info on current playing track before using the key tag column in the browser for possible next tracks - the current track is always in a fixed location so having current key there is a great help. Another advantage is that when converting files to use in another format/app ie Djay on the iPad, as there's no key tag available there that I currently know of, so having it simply appended to the track name would be a great start, even if track lists aren't searchable by tag.
Make sense? Thanks again and if there's a way I can donate I will.
That's a reasonable feature; I'll put it on the backlog.Quote:
Originally Posted by niknok
In the meantime you should check out your deck display settings in Traktor; if you put whatever key field you're currently using in the top row, it will be visible no matter how tiny you make the deck display.
If you have more trouble with Paypal (weird huh?) and feel like donating, you could buy some of my production duo's tunes, if you're into UK drum and bass. Here and here.
Thanks, O Fortuna bought just now.
Thanks man, much appreciated
Right, here are two things I didn't expect to be saying quite so soon:
* KeyFinder 1.19 is now available. It's just a patch release, I found a weird bug with certain decoders.
* After many, many hours of poking and prodding, it's available for Windows, sort of. As always, I can't guarantee complete compatibility, or even that it'll work on your machine. It doesn't work on my old XP laptop. But hopefully it's better than nothing; give it a try and see how you get on.
Sweet! will do some testing and get back to you for the windows version :)
Anyone who had an immediate crash from yesterday's Windows build, please try downloading again, I've added some missed dependencies to the package. Works on all my Windows boxes now.