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I recently complained on the Mixed in Key forums about the fact that MIK kills whitelabel files and received this response - figured it was something worth raising here.

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Hi overtimeman,

> Any plans to either rectify this or to skip whitelabel files when
> they appear in the analyze list?

The whitelabel files store the high quality audio in a special part of the mp3 tag. Due to an error on Serato's part, the tag is generated incorrectly and as a result many 3rd party programs damage the audio when modifying the tag.

We notified Serato of this problem some time ago, and they have indicated to us they intend to correct the error and also regenerate all files already available on their site. However, at the moment they have not yet done so. Please let Serato know you care about this!

MIK will analyze the low quality mp3 audio. To prevent any damage to the high quality audio you should -- for the moment -- disable tag writing when you analyze Whitelabel files.


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At 8:20 AM 5 February 2010
The Overtime Man wrote
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the songs that i dowload at withelabel.net doesn't work with my mixed in key either.
Theres is any think that we can do to make it work?
thank you
At 5:27 AM 6 February 2010
Dj Pex Da Pesada wrote
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Hello, we are currently working with Mixed In Key on a fix so that it works with Whitelabel files. We'll keep you posted.
At 2:44 AM 8 February 2010
dave wrote

Serato, Moderator
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Brilliant - thanks Dave!
At 7:51 AM 8 February 2010
The Overtime Man wrote
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thanks man
i'll be here waything for that
At 2:45 PM 8 February 2010
Dj Pex Da Pesada wrote
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We've made some good progress, more news soon.
At 2:26 AM 12 February 2010
dave wrote

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how long has whitelabel and serato been putting out tracks??? you are industry standard and you should have fixed this months if not years ago. Im VERY VERY VERY frustrated with this, I called serato once to find out why my files were not converting and they said NOTHING about it possibly being mik, it took me forever to realize.
anyway, if you cant figure out how to fix this soon (!!!!!) why dont you just include the key in the tag yourself?!?!?!?!?!?
At 9:08 PM 13 February 2010
bombshell baller wrote
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why dont you just include the key in the tag yourself?!?!?!?!?!?


Yes.

I ruined a bunch of Whitelabel tracks so I had to delete them.
Not a huge problem though cause I do have a back up on another external drive.
It's just a pain in the ass to search & copy over again.
At 9:43 PM 13 February 2010
DJ Unique wrote
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Thanks for the update Dave. Happy that you usually deliver pretty solid solutions in the end so I'm happy to wait.
At 11:29 AM 14 February 2010
The Overtime Man wrote
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does anyone know if it will corrupt the file if you manually enter the key info?? Just want to confirm its the MIK scan that ruins the MP3
At 2:56 PM 23 February 2010
Dj-M.Bezzle wrote
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If you have all the options in MIK to update the file turned off, it will not try and re-write anything in the file, so no damage can occur. You can then manually update the key field from within Serato.
At 3:54 PM 23 February 2010
CAW wrote
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^^ What he said ^^

Scanning the files is not the problem, tag re-writing is where things go wrong.

Also, it's worth pointing out that MIK (and indeed any software other than Scratch Live or ITCH) can only access the low quality audio portion of the file. This may affect MIK's effectiveness in detecting the key of the Whitelabel tracks.
At 9:42 PM 23 February 2010
ChrisD wrote

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i glad you guys are working to fix it
is not because i can't use the music to mixing them. is just because with the key is simpler
thank you for keeping us inform
i'm wayting for the good news
At 10:43 PM 23 February 2010
Dj Pex Da Pesada wrote
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You can then manually update the key field from within Serato.



def not an option, i have 22 gigs of whitelabel files, anyone know if theres a tag editor (or other program ) that will allow me to put the tagged files in 1 folder and the identical untagged files in another and transfer from one to the other..

CHris, if i wrote a program to do this would that corrupt the files as well??
At 2:31 PM 24 February 2010
Dj-M.Bezzle wrote
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CHris, if i wrote a program to do this would that corrupt the files as well?


It should be possible to write a program that doesn't corrupt the files. Some open source tag editing libraries choke on tags that they don't recognize but there's no technical reason why tag editors can't leave unrecognized tags untouched.
At 10:51 PM 24 February 2010
ChrisD wrote

Serato, Moderator

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