Mixed In Key 5.5 beta
http://www.mixedinkey.com/beta
[QUOTE]Mixed In Key will show you the energy level of your tracks on a scale from 1 to 10. The value tells you how danceable that song is. House music is usually around 6-8. The biggest anthems will be 9-10. Deeper music might be 5.
It’s an amazing way to predict the crowd reaction to a specific track. Our software analyzes the rhythm, the bassline and the melody of each track to give you more insight into your music.[/QUOTE]
Lord save us, guess they ran out of ideas near the end.
It’s not a totally stupid idea, but I can’t find a way to write the ‘energy level’ to a tag, so unless I’ve just missed it it’s pretty useless as is.
so now software reads the predicts crowd reaction?
Dear lord
I use energy as a guide currently, but I just manually add what my ear tells me into the comment2 section. I’m interested in how MIK does in comparison to what I’ve already done over the last couple of years. I don’t see a way to add it to a tag as of yet, but it’s beta so that may be coming. What’s most disappointing to me is that MIK 5 seems to be very slow on my 09 mbp. I thought it was supposed to be faster?
The software doesn’t predict the crowd reaction, you predict the crowd reaction based on what energy level the software says it is. Makes sense to me, but if you know the song you should already know what the crowd reaction might be.
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Interesting… How can they predict “energy level”? How does it deal with The Birdy Song, Or Ah-Ga-Do???
Anyone want to rattle off some tunes that scored a 10? I’d be interested to see a list.
I’m kinda curious to see how accurate it is for me. I currently rate the energy level of all my music based on the star rating. So just 1-5 stars. Being that its actually rating anywhere from 1-10 is interesting.
I do the same. Funny thing a while back there was a blog post from Ean about using this method to determine energy leves of your songs. Now a software says it can do it and some say it’s stupid. I think it’s great. If it gets it right half the time, I just save myself some time when sorting tracks and prepping crates. I’m still using version 4. Gonna try to update it when I get home today.
It’s a guide, that’s all. Sure you can set the number yourself and it will be correct, but having software that does it for you is nice if it actually works. I have noticed that it’s a little higher across the board than I am, but as long as it’s consistent I have no problem with that.
Just re-analyzed my collection and nothing higher than an 8
would be interesting to see if anyone has a 9 or 10
I don’t know if I like this. I’m all for knowing the key and the BPM of your tracks. Key and BPM ARE NOT subjective.
Energy level is subjective - what I consider a high energy track may not necessarily be what anyone else considers a high energy track.
This is a step in the wrong direction for anybody that is serious about DJ’ing. There are no shorts!
The problem is that this info is less useful if it crosses genres; I’m assuming deep and tech house for example will consistently come up as lower energy than electro house or ghettotech. And I’m assuming the ratings are based on the song, not dynamic depending on what’s in your collection. I think it’s a good idea but I have a hard time getting my head around how you could implement it usefully.
instead of this useless feature, (because i kinda know whats in my collection) they should bring a software-update that fills in the missing fields in the tag information. I never found a software that automaticly updated artworks and didn’t had less than 50 % wrong. there are some that cost a little but i already paid for MiK so that would be a deal.
PS: i brought the tracks, but even when you buy tracks from beatport, old tracks don’t have the artwork included.
Gangnam style… 10. just you watch.
This post is a 10!!
Since Beatport started to publish the songs key and more recent Rekordbox which is free be able to detect the key I thought “who is going to pay for MIK once you can have your track’s key for free”. Well I think this is the answer or at least a tentative to keep their software relevant. I mean I probably wouldn’t rely on this feature, but I can understand what they are trying to accomplish.