![]() It’s not a magic solution, and it certainly won’t fix all the bad-sounding, illegal, ripped etc music I told you to get rid of earlier, but as long as the incoming tunes are good quality, I recommend it. It generally ends up making tunes sound better, with the added bonus you get them all in the same format at the end. ![]() It gets your music all to the same volume, to start with, and also corrects lots of audio issues at the same time. The program I recommend for this situation is Platinum Notes. If you have illegal downloads, poor-sounding files, stuff you’ve ripped from YouTube, stuff you’re never hand-on-heart going to use (or use again) in your DJ sets, be bold: Delete it. Once you’re down to a core of tunes, that all sound good, that are all genuinely going to be of use to you in your DJing, but that are all jumbled up and not organised as you’d like, it’s time to get to work. My advice in this situation is always to first decide what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of out of that music. (And by the way, it’s your software that doesn’t read them, not your controller the controller is just a box of buttons…) Read What Every DJ Needs To Know About File Formats for a primer on bitrates, compressed vs uncompressed etc. You need to understand the music formats you’re speaking of before doing something like this, because you don’t want to spend ages doing it and realising you’ve made a mistake or made your files sound worse. I have a Numark controller, which doesn’t read half of them. Is there a program or software than can organise them or convert them all to, say, MP3?” Digital DJ Tips says: The problem is it is in so many different formats: MP3, WMA to just name two. Reader Dan writes: “I have an external hard drive of 14,000 tunes. delay 0.5, with the value of the delay set appropriately.Platinum Notes 4 claims to automatically improve the vast majority of digital music files, and in our tests, we think it is worth using – especially if your library is full of files of different ages, from different sources and in different formats. Additionally, the use of the delay command may be necessary between events where appropriate, e.g. Have a look at the try statement and error statement in the AppleScript Language Guide. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted. Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and does not contain any error handling as may be appropriate. If you want to use the example AppleScript code without assigning a keyboard shortcut for the Export Playlist… command, then in place of keystroke "e" using command down use: click menu item "Export Playlist…" of ¬ Otherwise, additional coding will be necessary. This example AppleScript code assumes you've already once selected the Where: and Format: and will use the default names in the Save As:, none of which are the same, and there are no playlists currently at the Where: that would interfere with the limited example AppleScript code. Then in iTunes select the first playlist on the Sidebar and then run the script from Script Editor. To further semi-automate the process, you can use a bit of AppleScript in Script Editor.Įxample AppleScript code: activate application "iTunes"Ĭhange repeat 1 times to the number of times you want it to repeat. It's easy to get into a rhythm, select the first playlist, then ⌘E > enter > down-arrow > ⌘E > enter > down-arrow > etc. This allows me to easily bring up the Save dialog box without having to navigate the menus, and I can then just use the keyboard to easily walk through saving one playlist after the other. To semi-automate the process I assigned a keyboard shortcut of ⌘E to the Export Playlist… in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, as shown the image below. This then brings up a Save dialog box, e.g.: Normally to export a playlist in iTunes one would, e.g., select the target playlist in the Sidebar and then click: File > Library > Export Playlist… Just using iTunes by itself, I do not know of a way to export multiple playlists at the same time, as one can only select one playlist in the Sidebar at a time.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |