Serato Software Feature Suggestions

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 Serato Software Feature Suggestions
Support the Mixed In Key's writing of the Key Field for MP4 videos!
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Support the Mixed In Key's writing of the Key Field for MP4 videos!

DJ-Phat-AL 2:31 AM - 20 November, 2011
I can scan all my videos, but SSL doesn't support the Key Field for the metadata info written by Mixed In Key. It only supports it on MP3's.
LJ_WOOLSEY 10:52 PM - 20 November, 2011
+1
ifeelsatisfied 3:46 PM - 21 November, 2011
YES! +1 million
DJ Unique 12:19 AM - 22 November, 2011
+1
DJ-Phat-AL 11:13 PM - 26 November, 2011
Just did a test on something...

I scanned in the audio (mp3) of a video using Mixed In Key... it wrote the Key info in the Key field... no problem.. ScratchLive sees that.... no problem... so I copy that info into the video's Key field... it shows up... no problem... I then move that video to another hard drive for another computer to open it up... Key field... empty.... problem
serkan 7:47 AM - 30 November, 2011
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I can scan all my videos, but SSL doesn't support the Key Field for the metadata info written by Mixed In Key. It only supports it on MP3's.

+1
jboomboom 6:54 AM - 25 January, 2012
+1 And support for all fields, just like mp3s.
phatbob 12:33 PM - 25 January, 2012
Pretty sure this is because MP4 files don't actually HAVE an initial key tag, so in fact MIK is not writing to that non-existent tag in the first place.

I'd love to see it implemented but I think it would involve some kind of collab between MIK and Serato.
DJ-Phat-AL 1:37 PM - 25 January, 2012
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Pretty sure this is because MP4 files don't actually HAVE an initial key tag, so in fact MIK is not writing to that non-existent tag in the first place.


Actually I asked them first before bringing to the attention here... they said that MIK actually DOES write to that field on the MP4 and Serato isn't able to read what was written there by their software.. it is a Serato issue.
phatbob 1:56 PM - 25 January, 2012
Ok cool, I bow to your superior research! ;)
LJ_WOOLSEY 5:39 PM - 25 January, 2012
Ya mik mp4 key tag is works in all dvs apart from Serato so i was told.
ChadP - Mixed In Key 9:55 PM - 25 January, 2012
phatbob is correct in saying that there isn't a defined key tag for .mp4 files, but the de facto standard is the com.apple.iTunes:initialkey atom.
serkan 9:50 PM - 26 January, 2012
Serato dev Glenn M already stated that it is planned to apply com.apple.iTunes for tags in a future update of SL/ITCH.
It's just a matter of time since Serato dev team seems to have this on a high priority.
jboomboom 9:52 AM - 31 January, 2012
In the meantime, I am using the comment field to hold KEY data for all my files - mp3 and mp4. If I want to harmonic mix an mp3 and mp4 I need to be able to sort all my files. It's a little annoying but will do for now. I'm just glad I figured it out before my MIK analyzed library became very large.