I would listen to it on repeat for hours, drinking beer at my tiny kitchen table, soaking in the humidity of a Saturday afternoon in Little Italy. I only had it on vinyl and it lived exclusively on my turntable for the better part of two or three months. Last summer I spent a lot of time listening to Destroyer’s City of Daughters. It was a pretty exciting couple days while it lasted though. Plus, collecting all this data would have meant hours and hours of work, for a goal whose benefits weren’t very clear to me at all, as well as a halt in incorporating new downloads into my library. Unfortunately, my computer simply couldn’t handle even constructing and deconstructing the foobar tree without freezing up for about 45 minutes each time. I figured four clusters would be a comfortable number, based on earlier reading I had done on a two-axis theory of musical emotion (intense/relaxed and positive/negative). But a few weeks ago, impatient and curious, I decided to put them to another use:īy creating a tones/tones tree structure in foobar, I was able to count how often each ‘tone’ intersects with every other ‘tone.’ What you see above is the beginning of that data collection, which I ultimately planned to analyze in…some way.Īfter Googling around for ideas on tag clustering, I came across gCLUTO, a free piece of software that would, miraculously, do exactly what I needed — namely, magically figure out how best to cluster each tag with related tags. With foobar2000 0.9 final now less than a week away, these tags may prove useful soon enough. In a previous post about A Flat Hierarchy for Subjective mp3 Tags, I described the arduous and marginally rewarding task of tagging my entire library with as many ‘tones’ tags as AllMusic was able to provide. Leave a Comment Adventures in Cryptomusicology However there is some promise in the relative simplicity of Mp3tag’s scripting language, which, with enough knowledge of regular expressions, seems to be capable of parsing anything out of an http request. The only drawback is that the AMG script doesn’t retrieve album descriptions (which I truthfully won’t miss a bit), and that the scripts use different tag field names ( MOOD instead of TONES) to store some of the more frivolous metadata. Now I’ve eliminated both The GodFather and MusicBrainz from the whole grueling process, boiling it down to just Mp3tag and foobar2000, thanks to an AMG-scraping script and a MusicBrainz-scraping script for Mp3tag. The GodFather was always the first and worst part of my tagging procedures, being slow, refusing to write APE tags, and relying on the Internet Explorer engine. This is the Track Header information in the Rekordbox.I used to require four programs for getting all my tags exactly how I want them: The GodFather (with AllMusicGuide patch), the MusicBrainz Tagger, Mp3tag, and foobar2000. Works great and here is where you'll find your rating! Note to go the other way, most of the RB tagging information is exported to the Rekordbox.XML file, so if you wanted to automate FLAC tagging from RB you could use the Rekordbox.xml file to help. If you edited the track outside of Rekordbox remember to re-import the tags (right click the track in your collection). When you bring the Track into RB, you simply take the fields from the Flac Comments and place them in the corresponding RB Track Fields. So you update your Tags in Mp3tag or FooBar (which also does scripting I believe), and then run the script on your FLACs to update your Flac Track Comments. It's not ideal but at least when you import the file into RB or FooBar you have the information available. Note Rekordbox does store the Tag locally. In your case you could write the RB Star value into the comments field in RB so that you could pick it up in Foobar. Luckily Comments come across, so for the Tags I know RB DJ doesn't natively read, I add them to the Comments from a tagger like MP3Tag. For instance you can have MP3Tag write any fields into your comments by using a script. Whenever I add a FLAC track to my collection I always have to manually input the missing tags. Rekordbox (RB) Does support FLACs but can't read all Tags. I just posted on another topic regarding Flacs and RB DJ Export mode.
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