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Beatport track tagging (pg. 2)
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJMaytag
-8? the pitch fader goes below zero. i used stick in the 130's back in my full on trance days, but had a killer tune @ 148 that i have to play at -6 or -7 in order to fit. it's a monster, so I don't worry about tempo.
+1 on the tempo doesn't matter. listen to it before you buy it, you should know it's too fast when you hear it. |
Well, I am looking for more "prog psy" stuff in the beatport psy trance section. The stuff i want is < 134 BPM most of the time. However, 99% of the tracks are above that tempo.... Its just an unnecisary pain the ass.
I will say right now I don't know what its like to go to a record store and browse through... Started off digital :o |
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| bas |
I actually love the way Beatport tags the mp3s. I hate track numbers, they're totally useless and the lack of parenthesis makes the track look much cleaner when it's written :o
Thing that I hate the most is that sometimes numbers come up in the genre field. Very weird. A lot of deep house comes out as "35" :wtf: |
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| Schadenfreude |
| quote: | Originally posted by coroknight
So that when you're going through the Techno section you don't have to mess around with the 140+ stuff if your looking for tracks in the 120-130 range. |
i don't know about you, but i can tell when a track is 140bpm just by listening to a few seconds of the sample.
your ears > tags |
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| woscar |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
I actually love the way Beatport tags the mp3s. I hate track numbers, they're totally useless and the lack of parenthesis makes the track look much cleaner when it's written :o
Thing that I hate the most is that sometimes numbers come up in the genre field. Very weird. A lot of deep house comes out as "35" :wtf: |
+1, I also prefer the lack of parenthesis. Techno sometimes comes out as "18" lol. Only thing I wish they did is to use the comments field for something more useful like label/catalog information instead of "Purchased at Beatport.com".
I'm a perfectionist so I have every single track with artwork, label, release number, release date, etc. tagged in Traktor so it would be more useful to have some of that info on the comments instead of having to look it up when I update the Traktor tags. :p |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by Schadenfreude
i don't know about you, but i can tell when a track is 140bpm just by listening to a few seconds of the sample.
your ears > tags |
That works when a certain genre is spread out evenly in BPM. Psy trance is not however...
Beatports so called "categories" are not descriptive enough, to many different styles lumped into one big cluster . |
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| woscar |
| That's when the "My Beatport" function comes in very handy, allowing you to keep track at what the labels/artists you already know are good are releasing. I usually check those labels/artists first and then just browse around the rest. I've found some gems by following the "Users also bought" links from the releases that I enjoy. |
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| idoru |
I don't know why any of you (not to jump backwards in the conversation) would buy based off of BPM. I buy a track regardless of how fast or slow it is. Of course you're not going to play a track that is 140 directly after you play a track that is 120, but that doesn't mean that you won't play the 140 track somewhere down the line in a set that might be two or three hours long.
I like to build a set; when I spin, I like to go for at least two hours and tend to cover a wide BPM range within that time. Not buying a track because of how fast or slow it is is just ing stupid.
Not to mention that I play some tracks significantly faster or slower than they originally are. |
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| Glaniskanis |
The whole track downloading from Beatport could be vastly improved by just adding an option in preferences where you could select how the output would look.
Something like:
[Artist]-[Trackname]-[Year].mp3
[Artist] - [Trackname].mp3
[Label] - [CatNr] - [Artist] - [Trackname].mp3
those possibilities are pretty simple to implement and could suit everyone's personal needs. |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by Glaniskanis
The whole track downloading from Beatport could be vastly improved by just adding an option in preferences where you could select how the output would look.
Something like:
[Artist]-[Trackname]-[Year].mp3
[Artist] - [Trackname].mp3
[Label] - [CatNr] - [Artist] - [Trackname].mp3
those possibilities are pretty simple to implement and could suit everyone's personal needs. |
Use the beatport downloader, it lets you do that. |
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| Glaniskanis |
| quote: | Originally posted by djnitride
Use the beatport downloader, it lets you do that. |
Thanks, I never even tried it coz I hate to install extra programs like that. But I'll give it a go then :) |
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| SYSTEM-J |
How to work out the BPM of a track before buying:
1. Download a trial version of FL.
2. Open FL, right click "Tempo" and click "Tap".
3. Play sample on Beatport.
4. Click mouse in time with the track to find out BPM.
5. ???
6. Profit! (For Beatport)
What annoys me most is the splurge of numbers at the beginning of the file name. Makes it a bitch to find tracks in a folder. |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
How to work out the BPM of a track before buying:
1. Download a trial version of FL.
2. Open FL, right click "Tempo" and click "Tap".
3. Play sample on Beatport.
4. Click mouse in time with the track to find out BPM.
5. ???
6. Profit! (For Beatport)
What annoys me most is the splurge of numbers at the beginning of the file name. Makes it a bitch to find tracks in a folder. |
That number is probobly the track_id in the database or something like that. They are to lazy to name the stream something else apparently (I do this all the time at work)
Usually I name files something like DATABSEFIELDID_filename.something, seems there programmers think alike. |
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