Mass Editing Of Mix Points

[ColinWG]

Running RadioBoss 5.5.5.0

System crash wiped out previous setup.

Have new setup but now need to import a couple thousand mix points (EOM's) into the program.

Mix points are stored in an excel workbook with several thousand lines of code to make magic happen.

Could use a bit of help in making this magic happen and would save me a few hundred hours of manually setting all the mix point values again.

Thank you very much.

 

[djsoft]

RadioBOSS does not have such a feature, I'm sorry... You can try hiring a freelancer who will create such a conversion tool. RadioBOSS stores MIX points in an APEv2 tag that can be easily modified by 3rd parties.

 

[ColinWG]

... freelancer who will create such a conversion tool.

That would be me, ...

RadioBOSS stores MIX points in an APEv2 tag that can be easily modified by 3rd parties.

I found that the program was appending the audio files with a block of information, however, there is nary a bit set anywhere within the block when I modify a Mix point. But the program is remembering that there is a Mix point when I examine the file with the Track Tool. (See attachment.)

 

[djsoft]

I found that the program was appending the audio files with a block of information, however, there is nary a bit set anywhere within the block when I modify a Mix point.

Yes, it's an APEv2 tag where most of the Track Tools parameters are stored. The mix point time is stored in the "MixPoint" field (in milliseconds).

 

[ColinWG]

Track Tool parameters are NOT being stored in the APEv2 tags at the end of the file.

Where else would the program store the parameters in this case?

 

[djsoft]

Track Tool parameters are NOT being stored in the APEv2 tags at the end of the file.

Where else would the program store the parameters in this case?

They are stored there by default. There are exceptions only for WAV and FLAC files - for those types, parameters are stored in alternate data stream ":radiobossinfo".

You can store parameters in a database, this can be changed from settings, on General tab.

 

[ColinWG]

... exceptions only for WAV and FLAC files ...

Well, explains that, all my audio is wav files.

- for those types, parameters are stored in alternate data stream ":radiobossinfo".

Can't find a file of this name or a file in which the date modified matches the date (and time) in which I adjusted a track's parameters.

You can store parameters in a database, this can be changed from settings, on General tab.

See attachment?

 

[ColinWG]

Well, heck.

You're using ADS, which explains why I'm not seeing the same behavior with this install as I did with the previous install, previous audio drive was FAT32, this one has the audio on a NTFS drive.

 

[djsoft]

Yes, :radiobossinfo is ADS name for NTFS file systems. The data there is stored in APEv2 tag format.