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Music Processing

Basic music processing rules for importing music.

Album Artwork

  1. Find larger than 500x500 and resize to 500x500.

    Tip

    Ensure DPI >= 72; 1600x1600 should be around 1.5 megs.

  2. Use Template Image if no image found, replacing text as needed.

  3. If no large image or template exists (and template doesn’t make sense), take largest small picture, and up sample it:

    Tip

    Change DPI to something large like 500.

  4. Trim / rotate picture as needed for clean edges; touch up if needed.

  5. Auto level the picture for sharper image:

    ⌘ + shift + l

  6. Save image as png, uncompressed / interweaved: band - album.png

Track Formatting

Subtitles to albums

[album]: [subtitle]
[album] - [subtitle]: [subtitle]
Live Trax Volume XX: YYYY-MM-DD [Venue] City, state

Multiple songs in a single track

# No segway
[song 1] / [song 2]

# Segway
[song 1] > [song 2]

Mixes, Remixes

[song title] ([style if applicable] Remix)
[song title] (Featuring [artist name 1][, artist name 2] …)
[song title] [remix] [featured artists]

Note

Mixes, Remixes, Featured Artists formatting is now handled in Set Featured Artist and Remixes script.

Music Genres

House

  • Beat every 4/4.
  • Distinct drum/beat every measure.
  • Example: turn me on @ 1:18.

Dubstep

  • Heavy Bass.
  • Drum Patterns.
  • Clipped Samples (jarring / repeating).
  • Electronic bass.
  • Sample: Holy Ghost @ 1:35.

Music Purge

Album Artist (A-Z)

  • Most videos are purged unless unique (i.e. Nirvana MTV, etc); normal music videos are almost always purged.
  • Experience albums (albums that are continuous) should be marked as such in the tags (gapless) and not have a song deleted even if it is below 4 stars.
  • Music with no rating is skipped.
  • Skipped: Alanis Morissette
  • Stopped: Ani Defranco