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Post: How to best run MIK over my collection?
DJ Suicide Dive
04-28-2009
 What is the best approach to process my collection initially via MIK and then ensure that all new tracks that I add after that also get analyzed? Reply
Chad P (Mixed In Key)
04-28-2009
 Hi DJ Suicide Dive,


Thanks for posting, I am happy to help. I just responded to your other thread. Bearing that problem in mind, it is best to have your files organized before adding them to Mixed In Key. If you want to sort them by key afterwards, that is fine but don't move them in the middle of processing. If you have a large collection just leave your computer on overnight or while you're at work and let MIK run. Verify first that you have the preferences set the way you want though.

For working with new files, send them to Mixed In Key as soon as they hit your desktop. That way any key information will be automatically added to the file when you add them to your music software programs.


Cheers,
Chad P 		Reply
DJ Suicide Dive
04-28-2009
 I manage my tracks via iTunes (I have read your advice on this). So you recommend to just dump in my entire music collection at once and then just letting it run?

As for new tracks, I am not sure that the proposed workflow is ideal. It will be very easy to miss a track. Ideally MIK could just responsible to ensure that all tracks in a given directory are checked.

Take a look at how Tangerine works for this. Its a BPM analysis tool. I just start it up and it looks on its own for tracks without BPM values. It requires a manual step before actually applying the results to iTunes which I guess we do not need for MIK. 		Reply
DJ Suicide Dive
04-28-2009
 I should also mention that my collection is a little over 10k songs. Reply
Chad P (Mixed In Key)
04-28-2009
 I manage my tracks via iTunes (I have read your advice on this). So you recommend to just dump in my entire music collection at once and then just letting it run?

Not necessarily your entire collection. With 10k songs you may want to break it up into 4 batches of 2,500 songs, which should be finished in less than 24 hours each. It's really up to you, there is no right or wrong way to process this many tracks.


As for new tracks, I am not sure that the proposed workflow is ideal. It will be very easy to miss a track. Ideally MIK could just responsible to ensure that all tracks in a given directory are checked.

Yes, we can take a look at adding something like this. I'll add it to our feature requests list.


Cheers,
Chad P 		Reply
DJ Suicide Dive
04-29-2009
 Well I believe its a bit tedious for me to manage this "splitting" up. I would not even know how to do this efficiently. I guess I would add one directory after another until I get to about 2.5k. It really seems like it would not be that difficult for MIK to be pointed to a directory and then MIK would one by one read the files in all the sub dirs and analyze them. The same logic could then be used for keeping the collection all key'ed up as things are being added.

Alternatively there could simply be tight iTunes integration by working with the iTunes xml file (which is probably what Tangerine is doing). Anyways, for now MIK is failed me:
http://ifnotwhynot.me/mik-what-a-disappointment

This goes to show that without a trail version, all the testimonials in the world will do you no good :( 		Reply
Chad P (Mixed In Key)
04-29-2009
 Alternatively there could simply be tight iTunes integration by working with the iTunes xml file (which is probably what Tangerine is doing). Anyways, for now MIK is failed me:
http://ifnotwhynot.me/mik-what-a-disappointment

This goes to show that without a trail version, all the testimonials in the world will do you no good :(


I'm sorry to hear that you feel this way. Mixed In Key works great for the vast majority of our users. We'll be working on some of the issues that you addressed in future updates.


Thanks,
Chad P 		Reply



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