Just Bought Serato and Need Help for Gig Tomorrow!

TranceAddict Forums (www.tranceaddict.com/forums)
- DJ Booth
-- Just Bought Serato and Need Help for Gig Tomorrow!

Posted by spdandpwr on Jul-19-2007 06:56:

Just Bought Serato and Need Help for Gig Tomorrow!

As the title says, I need help for my gig tomorrow. Specifically, I am having problems with the music library. Everything works fine but for some reason, Serato doesn't pick up song titles? For example, I title my songs by bpm, artist, and track name... however, serato only picks up the initial bpm reading on some tracks and on others, it doesn't even list it...

so to clarify, instead of tracks being displayed as they are titled in windows, serato will show the song title as being something completely different like the artist name...

also, how do you clear the browser, i wanna reset all my crates and whatever is in my browser, how do i do that?

thanks!

Posted by T-Soma on Jul-19-2007 09:06:

Ctrl+Delete

Serato reads your tracks by the ID tags.
In windows right click on the file and go
properties >> summary >> advanced.
Have fun renaming

Posted by Hasneez on Jul-19-2007 15:32:

Re: Just Bought Serato and Need Help for Gig Tomorrow!

quote:
Originally posted by spdandpwr
As the title says, I need help for my gig tomorrow. Specifically, I am having problems with the music library. Everything works fine but for some reason, Serato doesn't pick up song titles? For example, I title my songs by bpm, artist, and track name... however, serato only picks up the initial bpm reading on some tracks and on others, it doesn't even list it...

so to clarify, instead of tracks being displayed as they are titled in windows, serato will show the song title as being something completely different like the artist name...

also, how do you clear the browser, i wanna reset all my crates and whatever is in my browser, how do i do that?

thanks!

Are you using "Mixed In Key" ?? if you are then i suggest you remove the option where it writes the tracks in the ID3 tags... if you need renaming tracks, "Tag a& Rename" is a software that might make it a lil bit easier for u do fix stuff!

Posted by wee_rooney on Jul-19-2007 17:56:

if you have the new update off the scratch live forums, then jst disconnect the box an click "build Overviews", it will calculate all the bpms without having to rename the tracks!

Posted by theognis1002 on Jul-19-2007 18:29:

u got serato day before gig and ur ugnna play it out ?

u should just use ur old equipment for this gig...

Posted by DjWoody on Jul-19-2007 19:06:

quote:
Originally posted by theognis1002
u got serato day before gig and ur ugnna play it out ?

u should just use ur old equipment for this gig...

Hahaha, I bought Serato HOURS before my gig. I had never used it before, and I had no problems whatsoever. But yes, it's best to practice with it first.

Posted by spdandpwr on Jul-19-2007 20:27:

no, serato is working out, i found a way to work around my labeling mistake, so now all my songs are exactly the way i like them...

but it does suck how serato only supports mp3s and not wmas...i spent two hours converting my music! also, i can't get the instant doubles feature to work properly, i always have to do the double myself.....and how do i clear all the tracks in the serato library?

thanks again

Posted by everett on Jul-19-2007 23:35:

MixedInKey's tag renamer screws up all the time

TagScanner is a great free ID tag renamer

Posted by spdandpwr on Jul-19-2007 23:58:

whats the point of id3 tag renamers if you can go into the property window and within that the advanced tab...there you can edit the tags...do these programs support other features?

It would be nice if there was a program that used the information provided in the song title for creating id3 tags...

Posted by everett on Jul-20-2007 00:02:

quote:
Originally posted by spdandpwr
whats the point of id3 tag renamers if you can go into the property window and within that the advanced tab...there you can edit the tags...do these programs support other features?

It would be nice if there was a program that used the information provided in the song title for creating id3 tags...

I just like TagScanner because it can edit multiple track at a time which is good for getting rid of fields that have unwanted info. I also like how it can rename the filename based on the ID3 tag. Nothing make me more mad then the finale name being all pretty and the ID3 tag look like shit

Posted by AnomalyConcept on Jul-20-2007 00:59:

I use mp3tag (Windows) at times. It can scan filenames and extract artist/title information, but you have to feed it the pattern, eg. %artist% - %title%.

One I use(d) in Linux is called easytag or something similar, and it had pretty much the same function.

hth.

Posted by Konix on Jul-20-2007 03:04:

quote:
Originally posted by spdandpwr
also, i can't get the instant doubles feature to work properly, i always have to do the double myself

Do you have the instant doubles option checked in the setup menu? Are you in Relative mode? Instant doubles doesn't work in Absolute mode.

quote:

and how do i clear all the tracks in the serato library?

What do you mean exactly? Turn the green tracks back to white? Delete all your tracks you've imported?

Posted by spdandpwr on Jul-20-2007 07:38:

quote:
Originally posted by Konix
Do you have the instant doubles option checked in the setup menu? Are you in Relative mode? Instant doubles doesn't work in Absolute mode.

What do you mean exactly? Turn the green tracks back to white? Delete all your tracks you've imported?

ok...i didn't realize i needed to be in relative mode...thanks...and ctrl+delete gets rid of imported songs...so thanks again...

the gig went well, it was a gig i did for free for a whole bunch of kids were are in a program to get them interested in learning and going to college. haha, the lady wanted my address to send a check

Posted by the_gamemaster on Jul-20-2007 12:58:

quote:
Originally posted by spdandpwr

but it does suck how serato only supports mp3s and not wmas...i spent two hours converting my music!

What program do you use for that?

I converted some of my tracks to wma and now can't change them back

Posted by spdandpwr on Jul-21-2007 21:26:

This program works rather well and let's you do multiple files at once. I converted 75 files at once...

Download.com Link

Posted by spdandpwr on Jul-26-2007 06:34:

quote:
Originally posted by AnomalyConcept
I use mp3tag (Windows) at times. It can scan filenames and extract artist/title information, but you have to feed it the pattern, eg. %artist% - %title%.

One I use(d) in Linux is called easytag or something similar, and it had pretty much the same function.

hth.

I have mp3tag...now how do I get it to tag according to filenames?