I use Serato and even though I have it set so that the key is supposed to be displayed as the classical key, some of them show up as '6d' or '12m,'for example, which apparently is just the camel Anyway, I have this song called Black Dust by Dmitry Molosh. I had written down that it was in B flat minor, but upon looking at it, it appeared to have been in E flat minor (I didn't have my glasses on and couldn't see). When I loaded the song it changed to '2d' I think, which annoyed me. Anyway, somehow I accidentally changed the key to '3d' when I clicked on it (I'm not 100% sure but I think that's what happened...my laptop has a really crappy touch mouse pad). I deleted the song from the library, then moved the file out of the folder, renamed it, and moved it back in. Generally this fools the computer into reanalyzing the song and giving it its proper key and everything, but this time, it didn't. It even remembered the old name that it had. So I have no idea what key it's in.
I downloaded another version of the song and Serato thought it was in E flat minor. I have perfect pitch and I can tell that it's the same version in the same key. At around 4:44 there's this part where you hear a synthy sound and the notes are A Bflat A D. That sounds like D minor to me but of course it's the only part of the song that sounds minorish. The rest could be major. I can't hear any other notes distinctly.
I looked it up on Beatport and it says that it was in D Major. And then I loaded up the song in Virtual DJ and it said it was in 4B, which is A flat major.
Then I looked it up in Traktor and it said that the original song was in D major. And it said that the second version I downloaded was in E flat minor.
So I'd like to know how many other songs are detected in the wrong key and what I can do about it. Sorry if this is a noob question.
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