New open source key detection tool

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You’re talking about patents. Copyright is about the design [of the Camelot wheel].

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Thanks for clearing that up. US copyright and patent laws gives me a headache :slight_smile:

Still, it is really a problem?

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Another minor release for you, including:

  • Option to write to tags automatically (check the box in Preferences>Tags)
  • Support for UTF-8 filenames
  • Bug fixes including some M3U problems
  • I stripped out all the crap algorithms now that my project’s been marked!

Next priorities:

  • Get a 32-bit Mac build working
  • One day, fix the Windows build
  • iTunes XML support (meh)

Enjoy!

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haha i like this

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ill be all over it when its ready for windows. good work mate.

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Just trialling your windows build and it seems to work perfectly for me in all areas but one.

Detects keys perfectly, and has taken my custom key codes no problem, and the keys detected seem to be correct.

Only problem is trying to write this discovered information to the tags. writing the key data to tags (I’ve selected my key codes as the preffered)

doing this erases all information in the tag, including artist, album, year, etc. Essentially it blanks the tag.

once this seemingly small isuue is fixed, I’d happily dump RE for your tool, RE gives me nothing but problems, and this just seems to work much better.

shows promise!

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newg, could you email me an audio file demonstrating that behaviour?

Actually, the best thing would be two copies of the file; before and after.

I don’t know what’s causing the bug you describe, but that would def help me to get to the bottom of it.

Cheers
ibsh

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ibsh, please ignore my last comment. your software seems to be working great.

I remarked on this after the tags disappeared in windows explorer (they still are).

However, the edited tags are completely visible in foobar2000 and in Serato, so the windows issue is pretty much a non-issue. it’s most likely just a windows incompatibility with the ID3 tag version your software uses.

if you’d like me to email you an analysed file, i can still do so, let me know.

EDIT: I’m runing the system file check detailed in this post right now, so i’ll see if this makes a difference

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Ok cool; doesn’t seem necessary then! It’s probably just a metadata version problem as you say.

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This seems to work rather well. Can you add multi-core support to your laundry list or is that going to be a lot of work?

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I’ve thought about it, but I really couldn’t say. The computation is already pretty strongly multi-threaded, so I suppose multi-core might be simpler than otherwise. But I don’t know much about the processes or challenges involved. Interested to learn though. Might begin research over the holidays.

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A new release is available, including:

  • Multicore support (thanks GeekGod :slight_smile:). Batch jobs should now be much faster, though your CPU fan may get a little noisy.
  • Fix for handling of Comment tags on FLAC files (not an issue for Serato users, obv).

Next priorities:

  • Get a 32-bit Mac build working
  • One day, fix the Windows build

As ever, shout if you have any issues. And if any interested devs are lurking, I could use some help with the Windows build.

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New version 1.1.8 is now available, featuring:

  • more stable multicore performance
  • the option to disable parallel processing, to reduce CPU load
  • support for iTunes XML libraries and playlists
  • boring bug fixes.

Shout if you have any question, problems, feature requests.
This update is Mac only at present, apologies to Windows heads.

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All right!
Will try it out for the first time tonight, thanks for being awesome!

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Nice work!

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looking forward to check it out in the next couple of days

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Today I’m releasing KeyFinder version 1.1.9.
Features include:

  • GUI enhancements including live tag updating and simpler Preferences window
  • option to write to multiple tags
  • option to skip files where tags already populated
  • parallel (faster) metadata reading for big batch jobs
  • use of keycodes in detailed analysis window
  • support for Japanese charsets (on the Mac, at least)
  • CLI (sort of) and drop-to-dock-icon (Mac)
  • all kinds of bug fixes

And this version brings Windows into line with the Mac release, feature wise. I’m sure there are still bugs to iron out but I think it should be more stable now.

Feedback welcome as always. Enjoy.

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Thanks man, this got your second entry on my blog, within two weeks. :wink:

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Cool tekki, thanks for the promotion =)

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nice, that you have a new version up..