Mixed in Key, PC > Mac ?

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Mixed in Key, PC > Mac ?

Hey DJTT,

Long time no post, good to be back. Hey so a buddy of mine has Mixed in Key on his PC, and offered to key all my tracks. I have all my music on an external HD. So if my tracks are keyed from his PC on to my HD, when I plug into my mac will Traktor recognize keys or will they be labeled correctly (Camelot Keys)?

Thanks :smiley:

JS

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never tried it but theoretically yes.
the key info is stored in the ID3 tag of the mp3 (either in the comment or the key field)

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So i just tried this out and my external HD isnā€™t recognized on a windows pc. Wonderful! A whole new set of problems!

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2 thingsā€¦

  1. Your external HD is probably formatted Mac OS Journaled. Which is the best way to have it for your mac. For PC well not so good, a PC will not be able to see that HD. You cannot change the formatting of the external unless you want to pull all the music off, reformat it to MS-Dos so it can be used on PC, and i donā€™t recommend doing thatā€¦

  2. Mixedin Key is a good program. Traktor sometimes doesnā€™t read the Key field. So its best to write the key into another field, like the comments fieldā€¦ or easiest of all, donā€™t use Mixed in Key and try out those things attached to the side of your head. They work well and they are compatible with PC and Mac. :wink:

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Thanks for the tips Lance, yeah iā€™m not going to be reformatting my HD anytime soon. Secondly, I do use those things attached to my head! But time is money my friend, and MIK takes infinitely less time than keying manually.

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If your using windows on your mac under bootcamp, update bootcamp and you will have access to the drive under windows. Or if its a normal pc, install ā€˜Macdriveā€™ its a program that install a driver that lets you get access to mac drives, including your external :slight_smile:

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Macdrive = freeware?

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Itā€™s payware but you do get a 30 day trial if i remember correctly, you can test it out and see if its for you. Itā€™s only around 30$ anyway

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Thanks ibarry, i appreciate the tip.

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No probs mate, any questions feel free to Pm or what ever dude

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just make sure that the settings on your windows MiK are the same as the mac MiK, so they will write to the same location if you end up scanning through all your music.

i will say from personal experience that my w7 MiK keyed some songs differently than my mac MiK did the second time. they were usually very close, but some were way off.

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Mixed in Key can also write to the filename if you donā€™t want to write to the comments ID3 (say youā€™ve got stuff there already you donā€™t want to overwrite/corrupt). You can always then use a utility to write it ā€œbackā€ to the initial key ID3.