Quick tagging Energy, Genre & Mood (with customized foobar)

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Originally Posted by Col1990

This sounds good, is it available for Mac?

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It is it seems :cool:
Check this out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DJs/comment...e_little_data/

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Originally Posted by devs

One other bug I seem to have is that when I save a genre, it minimizes foobar. Any ideas?

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Good catch @devs.
It seems when you got more windows open (a folder in explorer, a browser etc.) it tends to shift to such window, when hitting ENTER.

However, when you close these (...make a shortcut of this .exe to your desktop) all works fine.
In other words, hitting ENTER when you typed in your genre, won't minimize Foobar.

Way to use it proper:
Make sure to close all other windows, so you can really focus on the tagging itself.
...+ this way it won't shift to the other window.

UPDATE 12-7-2020:

How to install foobar quick tag on macOS (and fix some GUI quirks):

https://youtu.be/lgP6ZlybssA


How to customize it to your own likings (and values):

https://youtu.be/LvYtkc7Nvps

Containing:
0:00 How to get rid off ugly windows gray theme
1:30 Re-assigning & adding keyboard shortcut keys (handy for mac users to replace ctrl with cmd key)
3:11 Changing mood output value (or make it about when to play: build-up/peak/sustain/etc.)
5:41 Changing toolbar appearance
8:09 Adding mood buttons to toolbar & shortcut keys
11:29 Adding/changing characteristics values
12:52 Changing where to write output of characteristics (for example to comment field instead)

Great app tweak!

Is there anyway to have the characteristics tags populate like the others instead of just showing the '?'

I would like to see what I have in there already and choose to add on or subtract from what is already in there.

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by djljnitro

Great app tweak!

Is there anyway to have the characteristics tags populate like the others instead of just showing the '?'

I would like to see what I have in there already and choose to add on or subtract from what is already in there.

Thanks!

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Thanks =)
The moment u have the characteristics tagged, and select a different track (using your cursor or up/down arrows) they'll show up,
for the previous track u tagged.

What u prolly want, is tagged tracks to load in, and see if you need to add certain values right?

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Originally Posted by bascurtiz

Thanks =)
The moment u have the characteristics tagged, and select a different track (using your cursor or up/down arrows) they'll show up,
for the previous track u tagged.

What u prolly want, is tagged tracks to load in, and see if you need to add certain values right?

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Yes.. have the values pre checked to the right. Then I can go and un check or check values as I need to. I was looking at the beatport pro but I like to work on my windows machine too which it does not offer at this time.

I like what you have going on and I can customize it like you said. I wish that you could use the checkmarks to select the genres too but I will just use the other tags for that to add #twerk or #transition and the like.

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Originally Posted by djljnitro

Yes.. have the values pre checked to the right. Then I can go and un check or check values as I need to. I was looking at the beatport pro but I like to work on my windows machine too which it does not offer at this time.

I like what you have going on and I can customize it like you said. I wish that you could use the checkmarks to select the genres too but I will just use the other tags for that to add #twerk or #transition and the like.

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I had to hack my way around some limitations, hence u see a ? at first glance - which is a dummy field - that gets deleted when you hit Save.
Before it gets deleted, the values get copied over to 'wherever-u-like'.

You could however display the 'wherever-u-like' column to compare if u missed a value, or wanna subtract one.
For example, if I had the characteristics written to PUBLISHER field before...
I can show it by right-clicking the header bar (artist/title/energy/genre/etc.) and hit Edit column.

Click New and rename the column under Options.
Click Display script and enter %PUBLISHER& & hit Apply.

Like this: https://i.imgur.com/15v9RQq.png

I wished we could use the checkmarks for genres too, but we can only set values to write to one certain metafield with the Tagger Panel component.
Also most of the times, Genres are filled in but need to be reviewed and sometimes altered.
Hence the Quick Tagger component for such isn't that bad.