Updating tags with mixed in key

[SolDios]

Hey guys,

Payment just cleared for mixed in key, and it's safe to say I love it.

However recently I just changed the settings so it overides the old comments with the new key, but it hasn't come though?

Do I have to re analyse the songs or something? :/

[mattus123]

that happened with me, i assume your using itunes?

right click> get info> jsut click ok again from memory thats all i did, or even jsut double click and play the song

if that fails, delete from itunes and then put it back in again

does that work?

[Mitch]

In iTunes:

Highlight all the songs you analysed

Right Click

Get info

change a field you don't use (e.g. composer) - i normally just put an 'a' in there

click ok - your tags will update

click get info again

delete the a i just put in composer.

click ok

Mattus' concept works, but only if you click get info then 'click' next through each song individually. My way you can batch update tags.

[yizzle]

nice idea mitch, i been using the mattus way for awhile now. get info, next, next, next ....

liking the idea

[yizzle]

im just going to cut Sol's lunch here and state a prob im having with MIK 5.0 in his thread

MIK5 has been working just fine for me for sometime now, but recently i analyze a song, update in iTunes and nothing...

no bpm, Camelot key etc.

I have the latest iTunes & MIK, been doing it the same way i always do, download track, analyze, import to iTunes (always worked for me)

Tried doing it the other way, import to iTunes, update with MIK, update.

nothing, does anyone have a suggestion on what im doing wrong or whats wrong.. thanks.

[Mitch]

So even when you do my tag update method it's not showing the tags as updated, is that what your saying ?

[yizzle]

thats what im saying.

[Mitch]

Thats really weird. Your MIK settings still ok?

The other day I was wondering why bpm tags weren't updating, it was because the option to write it to the tag became unselected somehow

[yizzle]

everything seems ok.

but there is an option of automatically renaming songs after processing. I dont think i had that checked in the first place but i will give it a go

[yizzle]

wait, noo. thats not it. hrm.

maybe if i re-install it. if that dont work i will contact mik.

[yizzle]

im going back to this thread cause i used to have troubles wit MIK updating my iTunes library on my old comp.

MIK always analyzed the key and bpm, but i would have to update the tags manually..

well now i got my new comp, that problem is gone EXCEPT for one thing. Beatport tunes.

anything i buy off beatport i can analyze the key and bpm with MIK but never updates the tags in iTunes i still have to do it manually..

any ideas?

[GREMM1S]

What are your tag settings in mik? Also i dont think itunes has a native key field like rekordbox?

What worked best for me was using comments for the tag info but they didnt always work well in itunes

[yizzle]

MIK makes iTunes comments set to eg. 6A - 85 << which works.

MIK & iTunes seem to work fine with each other analyzing and updatings so when i open Trakor, all is fine.

its beatport tracks particularly atm. i emailed MIK & beatport about it but got nutta.

MIK will analyze them, but wont to anymore than that

i wouldnt mind if MIK was a free prog, but........

[SolDios]

I have no issues, what I do is this:

0. Open your music files with itunes.

1. Consolidate all files in iTunes by highlighting all and right clicking, then select consolidate.

2. next select your iTunes folder with MIK

3. analyse

4. play song in itunes, the tag should update.

[yizzle]

yea, i do all that, except step 4 does not work...

dang.

[GREMM1S]

Oh so the tags wont update on beatport files, you get wav or mo3?

[Mitch]

If your buying wav files they don't have id3 tag spots

[GREMM1S]

^ my next point was that yeah wave dont hold the tags.

Another workaround could be to run all your music through mik first then into itunes.

I put all my music into genre folders then run them through mik, i then take the songs out of the folders into itunes or rekordbox for my playlists

[Sentinel]

I had a similar problem, couldn't find a fix and decided to buy Platinum Notes as well.. analyzed all my tracks and MIK works every time now.. i figured it was something to do with the ID3 tags and PN just converted them into the right type for MIK.

[yizzle]

If your buying wav files they don't have id3 tag spots

poop.

[SolDios]

Convert your wav to aiff, pretty much same quality, but supports id3

[Mitch]

Convert your wav to aiff, pretty much same quality, but supports id3

i don't believe MIK can write to aiff tags though so he is still in the same boat