PRIV Tags in .mp3’s

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Patch

12 Nov, 2019 07:02 PM

Is BeaTunes able to identify or confirm the existence (but not necessarily read or understand the contents or values) of PRIV type metadata/tags?

Specifically, can it recognise the existence of a PRIV tag called “TRAKTOR4” in a list of .mp3’s??

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by hendrik on 12 Nov, 2019 08:23 PM

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    Not really.
    What for?

  2. 2 Posted by Patch on 12 Nov, 2019 09:38 PM

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    TRAKTOR4 is the custom/private tag where Native Instruments Traktor (DJ Software) saves its cue, loop, tempo and stripe information.

    If BeaTunes were able to identify .mp3's that had already been prepared in Traktor (ie - find those tracks with TRAKTOR4 tag not blank), then I could add to my Beatlet the ability to add an "X" (or any othet text string) to one of the other free or empty tag fields.

    Then, I could create a Smart Playlist in iTunes showing ONLY those tracks that had already been prepared in Traktor.

    That would be super, SUPER useful...

  3. 3 Posted by Patch on 12 Nov, 2019 09:55 PM

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    See related info (3/4 way down) in this thread at Traktor forum:

    https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/library-handling-metadata-info-find-all-files-with-more-than-2-cue-points.363581/

    It's something that a few people have had a go at over the years, and I wondered if it could be done in BeaTunes...

  4. Support Staff 4 Posted by hendrik on 19 Nov, 2019 07:42 AM

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    Well, one could probably do such a thing by rescanning all files. But it involves some programming and may be slow.

  5. 5 Posted by Patch on 19 Nov, 2019 01:46 PM

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    Understood. I didn’t imagine that it would be easy.

    Would the scanning happen during a “sync with library”?

    What kind of programming would be required? Would it be more, or less complicated than the arguments that you and I put together for the Traktor/iTunes/BeaTunes BeaTlet?

  6. Support Staff 6 Posted by hendrik on 19 Nov, 2019 06:37 PM

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    Would the scanning happen during a “sync with library”?

    No, that's an entirely different process that we cannot hook into very easily. It would have to be a LibraryBatchAction that reads the ID3 tags from every file, checks for that PRIV thing and adds the info to some other field.

    Would it be more, or less complicated than the arguments that you and I put together for the Traktor/iTunes/BeaTunes BeaTlet?

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