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jimmiem · Joined: April 17th, 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Apalachin, NY

If you are using Virtual DJ, then you probably know what I'm talking about. When you load songs, it does not look at the tag info by default and instead parses the title and artist info from the filename. Great, if your filenames are set up that way!

You can, however, tell VDJ to analyze each individual track. When it does this, it loads the tag info and also analyzes the BPM and gain and who knows what else. This would solve my problem except that I estimate that it will take over 30 hours to complete! If this is the only way, then I will probably do it, but what a hassle.

It's such a great program, and with the right skin it has every feature I've been looking for in a DJ program. For the time being, I've been searching for songs in iTunes and dragging them over to VDJ. If anyone has a solution for this, I'm all ears.

davidjones@a2zmobilemusic

you could always list the bpm in (...) at the end of the title. simple. unless you want to input intro/outro times and cold/fade features. example

micheal jackson thriller (118)

at least this way it will also search by bpm when you select "118" as the search

hope this helps

jimmiem · Joined: April 17th, 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Apalachin, NY

I'm sorry, I don't know if I was clear. The problem I'm having is actually that the title and artist don't show up properly in the database. They will if I load the BPMs, but that is what causes it to take over 30 hours. I'm looking for a way to load the title and artist info from the id3 tag without having to scan the BPM of every song.

If I renamed my files using the format VDJ wants, it would also fix the problem, but I have a feeling that changing the names of 26,000 files isn't going to save me any time. Even if I had iTunes rename the files for me, which I think I might be able to do, I think it would take too long.

CJ Greiner · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:35 am Post subject:

Wow -- that really is quite a long time!!!

But... it may be worth it to go ahead and leave your DJ computer on overnight to complete the job if you plan on using VirtualDJ as your main DJ program.

MixMeister Pro 6 does the same thing... although it's a little better in the way that it continuously parses the folders and automatically updates any new files. If you add songs to the playlist, it will parse those songs first before working on the rest of the songs.

Perhaps VirtualDJ could do something like that... 8)

jwg · Joined: September 15th, 2004 Posts: 1089 Location: Erie, PA

Is there a support/message forum for VirtualDJ?

jimmiem · Joined: April 17th, 2005 Posts: 81 Location: Apalachin, NY

jwg wrote: Is there a support/message forum for VirtualDJ?

Yes, but it's full of bedroom DJs. I figured that if I could find a few DJs on the regular forums who use it, they would have the same issues with the software that I do.

djdonny · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject:

First of all, if you don't have title and artist in the file names, what do you have, and why wouldn't you want those instead?

Also, I use Musicmatch to rip my CDs and it can pretty quickly bulk rename files based on the id tags, and even move them to separate folders if you want. I've never done 26,000 songs at once, but based on how fast it does 100 at a time, I wouldn't expect it to take more than an hour or two to rename them all (if that long).