So Mr. Golden has already posted, in his blog, about some freebies he doesnt do without, so im asking what do you do? Just to throw some ideas with each other and help each other with some programs and questions about those programs, before we fork out the money.
I took some of his recommendations from his article and now I use the following applications. In the following order.
Source, whether it be beatport.com or a cd or other downloading software.
I use Platinum notes, this will help my music sound better.
Mixed in Key, to write down the key on my tags
Name Mangler, PN adds an extension to the music file and inserts it at the end of the title. So I use this program to remove this extension from a large selection of files.
I import it to iTunes.
Anyways thats my process and its working so far, without major problems. Leave a post if you have any questions or suggestions, also post your process.
I rip/download the music
I check the tags
I organize into folders of Artist-Album or if various artists it is VA - Label-Album
Files are track number - Title or if various artists track number - artist - title
I import into itunes
I import into Traktor. I analyze and grid the ones I am more likely to spin. If tracks really catch my attention, or I will definitely spin them, I put more cue points into them to break the track down into sections. I try to stick to 6 used cue points (ignoring Out cue), but sometimes that isn’t possible.
Checking Tags
(i need to get platnium note)
Mixed in Key
Analyze in Traktor
Make playlists in tracktor
Convert Tracktor nmu files into M3U
Load them onto my zune
download / rip
figure out bpm in traktor
fix the tags in itunes to:
ARTIST - SONG (REMIX) - BPM.mp3
and then organize in a folder that is the same as the genre.
– i need to fix the way “i do buiness” though.
anything freeware for mac that can detect bpm, change tags, and organize?
should i just use traktor? I’ve just updated to traktor 3 from the le…
I know in vista theres a way you can pull up id3 columns, so you could potentially have BPM and organize it in vista.
Not sure if that would help you though.
Put in appropriate folder (genre, lable/vinyl release etc.)
As I still beatmatch manually, I don’t bother to grid yet. (Has to deal with me still wanting to perfect my beatmatching skills in case hardware gets f00ked)
It hasn’t been tested since Mixed In Key v3 came out though, which is supposed a good improvement on v2… Thats what i have read somewhere anyway, i have no proof of this. the actual song has to be uploaded to a server and then the server scans the mp3 - this is because the algorithm is expensive and to distribute everyone a copy would make the software cost much more.
With Rapid Evolution however your pc will do the work as the pitch detection algorithm is on your computer, no internet connection needed at all.
i posted this on the beat gridding post… hopefully one of you can help:
hey ean,
so i got my tracks beat gridded and saved.
but when i rename the tracks the beatgrid info gets lost…
the reason i rename the files is because i have a format for my files, to keep track of bpms outside of traktor -
ARTIST - SONG TITLE (REMIX) - BPM.mp3
the thing is i renamed a file because the BPM was incorrect and thus lost the beatgrid and cue points… are there any work arounds to this, or should i try and not rename my files after i beatgrid them….
thanks,
i’ve since switched to another format:
ARTIST - SONG TITLE - REMIX and keep the bpm embedded.
so does anyone know if the tags get lost when you rename a file? are they really stored with the file or in traktor somewhere? it just doesn’t make sense that renaming the file would lose the cue points and all that jazz…
