![]() ![]() With that in mind, we’ve only used songs in our test that had a clear consensus (read: simple majority) from our human test group. Our test group included myself and 6 awesome well-suited volunteers with experienced ears (even a few perfect-pitch ears in the group) keying tracks from the DJTT community – thanks for listening to these tracks and helping out! It is possible that our ears are somewhat fallible, which is why we’re putting all of our data at the end of the article. We’ve heard from some sources that even a groups of pitch-perfect classically trained musicians have a significant rate of disagreement about the key of certain songs. It’s critical to not build a dependency on tools, but instead use them to augment a sense of when something works or doesn’t. We mention the old adage “trust your ears!” in almost every single article about harmonic mixing. The latter error is less likely to cause DJs an issue in the mix, as there’s still a good chance that it will share many of the same notes as the track that you’re mixing in to/out of. There wasn’t time before publication but it may be added here soon.Ĭommon errors that you’ll see notated in the results below include a mixup of major/minor – something that can be hard to detect even for a human at times, as well as “harmonically forgivable” analyses, which are off by 1 fifth. By that right, we took 61 of the top songs from Beatport, using all genres on the site, and ran them through our human testers and all 10 software options.Įditor’s Note: We’d really like to run a third test as another control that uses very common three chord progressions. Real World Test – Instead of doing a test with music across all kinds of genres, we decided to focus on what almost each of these applications claim to do well – music that DJs are commonly playing. The fascinating results below show how some applications are optimized for detecting chords and others struggle with telling if they’re major or minor. Major / Minor Triads (“Control”) – In this test, we constructed incredibly simple 30 second long songs with a drum loop and a piano playing a major or minor triad for the 24 keys. How does Traktor Pro fare versus Traktor DJ? Is Rekordbox reliable? Is the new Mixed In Key worth an upgrade? We last stood just three entrants against each other in a harmonic showdown in 2012, but this year we’ve got 12 different algorithms competing in our key detection comparison. ICloud Status "Waiting" does not show any icon, at least for the one song in my library showing that.Harmonic mixing has become an integral part of a lot of digital DJs arsenals, reflected by the presence of key detection algorithms in a variety of softwares. IMac not disconnected from iCloud Music Library. This is a 350MB song mix (not expected to upload). Was working on iPhone and iMac, but after sync is removed from iPhone and now it's grayed out on iMac and I can no longer play it.Ĭannot Show In Finder, and iTunes reports Location is iCloud (how did it ever get there?).īUT it's MY mix so is not in Apple Music, not in a different country or region.ġ. Please add "Waiting" to the list of criteria under iCloud Status in Smart Playlists for debugging song files (not currently an option), and…Ģ. ![]() Problem with iTunes/iCloud "waiting" status The most recent Community post on this was a year ago: Or just fix the glitch (if there is one) for this sort of song file." Seems like there should be another status for this odd situation. Per Apple's instructions, I'm asking again.įirst, how can I restore a song from iCloud Music Library to my Mac, that should never have been uploaded in the first place because it was too big, and has apparently been stripped from my local iTunes Library without my permission? …but it's too old, so Apple closed if for replies. Is there a better Mac music library manager than iTunes? Second, how can I prevent this nonsense in the future so my own live mixes don't vanish?įinally, I have BeaTunes but it's clunky, and I haven't found anything else as good or better than iTunes for Mac. That's a funny thing: Get Info says the Location is "iCloud". Reveal in Finder is not available, and Finder search can't track it down. There's no iTunes Library directory for the artist.īut yesterday it was on my iPhone and Mac. All I did was plugged my iPhone into the Mac, in iTunes I unchecked the song in iPhone Music, unchecked other songs and added some others, and synced via cable. All but this song are still on my Mac, but this one vanished from both devices. ![]()
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