by DaledeSilva » Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:00 am
I'm a swing dancer...
for any dance style, the music that be used often relies on how it's counted... eg, is it 4/4, 3/4...
ie, is it counted in 8 or 6, or 5 even?
I have to admit... my music collection is an absolute mess.. but I'm always 'thinking' about how to organise.
if you are using subgenre's, I would name them all with their parent genre in he title and first...eg:
Swing (west coast)
Swing (east coast)
Swing (Jive)
that way.. in any genre list, listed alphabetically, they say together.
If you want to create other settings for "dance" genre's as opposed to the normal genre's.. I would use a custom field to enter them there... then you could use magic nodes to create a tree for them..
Alternatively, in MM 3.0, you can apply multiple genre's to tracks.. but this would mean that all your music genre's and dance henre's would be mixed in together (unless you added a prefix to all of one category like an underscore).
I know you said that youre bpm's are set already.. but if you need to set more.. I have create a script for doing that with manual tapping (it's in my signature)
The reason I don't just use mixmeister's bpm analyser is that while acurate.. if doesn't detect speed differences well and so slower songs are often marked as double the count (or faster songs 'can' be marked at half the count).
because BPM isn't always indicative of the 'feel' of the music's speed, I would use the tempo setting to indicate that - though I guess you could use "mood" instead...
I feel that given there's already BPM in the file... tempo and mood overlap quite a bit.... so maybe you can use mood for something else? - you dance genre's? - or a kind of rating system for dance?
Dale.
ps... I like this topic.
I'm a swing dancer...
for any dance style, the music that be used often relies on how it's counted... eg, is it 4/4, 3/4...
ie, is it counted in 8 or 6, or 5 even?
I have to admit... my music collection is an absolute mess.. but I'm always 'thinking' about how to organise.
if you are using subgenre's, I would name them all with their parent genre in he title and first...eg:
Swing (west coast)
Swing (east coast)
Swing (Jive)
that way.. in any genre list, listed alphabetically, they say together.
If you want to create other settings for "dance" genre's as opposed to the normal genre's.. I would use a custom field to enter them there... then you could use magic nodes to create a tree for them..
Alternatively, in MM 3.0, you can apply multiple genre's to tracks.. but this would mean that all your music genre's and dance henre's would be mixed in together (unless you added a prefix to all of one category like an underscore).
I know you said that youre bpm's are set already.. but if you need to set more.. I have create a script for doing that with manual tapping (it's in my signature)
The reason I don't just use mixmeister's bpm analyser is that while acurate.. if doesn't detect speed differences well and so slower songs are often marked as double the count (or faster songs 'can' be marked at half the count).
because BPM isn't always indicative of the 'feel' of the music's speed, I would use the tempo setting to indicate that - though I guess you could use "mood" instead...
I feel that given there's already BPM in the file... tempo and mood overlap quite a bit.... so maybe you can use mood for something else? - you dance genre's? - or a kind of rating system for dance?
Dale.
ps... I like this topic.
