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I use beets and I use Rekordbox to play music from my controller for DJ'ing. The problem I had was how to use the tags and other fields including custom ones I

I use beets and I use Rekordbox to play music from my controller for DJ'ing. The problem I had was how to use the tags and other fields including custom ones I made from beets in Rekordbox. I made a plugin that takes a template and applies it to the `comments` field of the music file which I can read anywhere. You can see it here: https://github.com/michaeltoohig/BeetsPluginStructuredComments https://github.com/michaeltoohig/BeetsPluginStructuredCommen... This joined with a few other plugins allows for really great dynamic playlist building. Then when I'm playing music I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting. For viewing stats/graphs of your library https://github.com/adamjakab/BeetsPluginDescribe https://github.com/adamjakab/BeetsPluginDescribe Use Essentia open-source music analysis on your files https://github.com/adamjakab/BeetsPluginXtractor https://github.com/adamjakab/BeetsPluginXtractor Create smart playlist from library queries https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.17/plugins/smartplaylist.html#smart-playlist-plugin https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.17/plugins/smartplaylis...

pabloarteel 5y ago
> I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting Oh, no... The art of djing is playing the right track at the right time, if you drop a track that you don't really know, even if based on previous processing of it, you're no different than an recommendation engine... Long live the real djs that really know their library, and play tracks consciously depending on context.
- mtoohig 5y ago
  That assumes there's no mixing involved to call it a recommendation engine. I just don't have time to know all songs from beginning to end by title alone anymore or to have a curated playlist ready for every occasion so it helps me find "recent songs I rated highly and downloaded within the last month" or find "a song with a vocal and in X,Y or Z key of a certain genre". I don't want to clash two vocal songs together by accident or I want to be aware of some other note I left on a song before I cue it so I can filter more easily.

pabloarteel 5y ago

> I can effortlessly choose songs to play together without necessarily even remembering what the song sounds like before starting Oh, no... The art of djing is playing the right track at the right time, if you drop a track that you don't really know, even if based on previous processing of it, you're no different than an recommendation engine... Long live the real djs that really know their library, and play tracks consciously depending on context.

mtoohig 5y ago
That assumes there's no mixing involved to call it a recommendation engine. I just don't have time to know all songs from beginning to end by title alone anymore or to have a curated playlist ready for every occasion so it helps me find "recent songs I rated highly and downloaded within the last month" or find "a song with a vocal and in X,Y or Z key of a certain genre". I don't want to clash two vocal songs together by accident or I want to be aware of some other note I left on a song before I cue it so I can filter more easily.