After I saw todays article on tagging and such, I figured I would post about a program I wrote recently (QuickTag) to speed up the process of tagging lots of tracks with a useful meta-data system. The program is stable and works quite nicely for my library.
I haven't yet gotten it polished quite to the point of being able to submit it to the App store, but wouldn't mind getting some feedback and testing if some DJ's would find it useful.
It's written in AppleScriptObjC, so it does only run on Mac's. It runs along side iTunes in a separate window and uses AppleScript to talk to iTunes to actually update the tags. You can then use Smart Playlists as the article states to sort your music however you like.
In the App, as you click through your newly downloaded tracks listening to them, you select a new genre, a star rating, a category, then you tick off track attributes.
In my case I used the Genre ID3 tag field for the genre, and the Comments field for the rest. I used different delimiters for each item to make them easily searchable in smart-playlists.
(Genre) - Genre's are tagged in "()'s" to differentiate your custom genres from ones from those from the music sites.
<Rating 3> - Ratings in iTunes aren't stored in ID3, so I store in this format (1-5) in the comments to make them persistent if you move the file around.
{Category} - This can be whatever you want, but only one of the set of 8 categories can be set at a time. I use things like "peak time", "lounge", "chill out", etc.
[Attributes] - You can configure up to 16 attributes, and tick off as many as you like for each track. These can be things like "glitchy", "dark", "vocals", etc.
If anyone would like to test it out, let me know via PM and I'd be happy to provide a beta copy
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