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Post Cut and Paste Track Listing

OK - So I have been using Catraxx for many years now and I love it.

On question tho - lately I have been trading live shows by bands who allow trading, and using bt.etree.org and archive.org etc for getting live FLACs.

Here is my problem: I burn the FLACs to CDR and then scan into Catraxx, and a high proportion are not in the CDDB (as you would expect).

I want a quick and easy way to get the tracklisting entered, if possible by cutting and pasting from a text file.

e.g. I will have a 10 track CD, and an attached text file, is there any easy way to just cut and paste all 10 tracks into the track list of the scanned CD in one easy step?

at the moment, I am scanning the CDR, then checking CDDB, then if its not found, I am cutting and pasting each track in turn, which is a major pain. I just want a way of easily pasting all tracks (assuming 1 line per track)

e.g.

01 First Track
02 Second song
03 this is the third song
04 fourthly
05 and so on

I just want to strip out the numbers and then cut and paste the tracks.

Am I missing a trick here? Vinyl Query won't help me.

Thanks in advance


Mon Nov 21, 2005 5:39 pm
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toffee wrote:
OK - So I have been using Catraxx for many years now and I love it.

On question tho - lately I have been trading live shows by bands who allow trading, and using bt.etree.org and archive.org etc for getting live FLACs.

Here is my problem: I burn the FLACs to CDR and then scan into Catraxx, and a high proportion are not in the CDDB (as you would expect).

I want a quick and easy way to get the tracklisting entered, if possible by cutting and pasting from a text file.

e.g. I will have a 10 track CD, and an attached text file, is there any easy way to just cut and paste all 10 tracks into the track list of the scanned CD in one easy step?

No, it is not possible to paste a track listing this way.

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FredrikN wrote:
No, it is not possible to paste a track listing this way.


thanks for the quick reply.

any other ways you can think to speed up the entering process, apart from cut and paste each track on its own, then select the next track, and alt=tab between catraxx and the text file......

e.g. import tracklist from excel? cut and paste into the database itself? it's driving me nuts.

I have had one tip I use - use a renamer program (oscars renamer) to rename the WAVS to the track names, burn using Burrrn and write the CD-TEXT and then use Catraxx to scan that. its speeds things up a bit. But I would love a way to enter the tracks another way.


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toffee wrote:
FredrikN wrote:
No, it is not possible to paste a track listing this way.


thanks for the quick reply.

any other ways you can think to speed up the entering process, apart from cut and paste each track on its own, then select the next track, and alt=tab between catraxx and the text file......

e.g. import tracklist from excel? cut and paste into the database itself? it's driving me nuts.

I have had one tip I use - use a renamer program (oscars renamer) to rename the WAVS to the track names, burn using Burrrn and write the CD-TEXT and then use Catraxx to scan that. its speeds things up a bit. But I would love a way to enter the tracks another way.

Well, you could try the Import from Text File function.

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Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:20 pm
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Hi toffee,
toffee wrote:
I just want a way of easily pasting all tracks (assuming 1 line per track)

I use AutoHotKey, which is free and open-source, to automate tasks like this. A simple macro can do the copy -> switch windows -> add track -> and paste operation with a single keystroke. It takes me less than a minute to enter a new album this way. Here's the macro I use. You can customize it to your own needs.
Code:
;______________________________________________________________________________
;
;  This AutoHotKey script is for copying track lists from a text file
;  or web page into CATraxx
;______________________________________________________________________________
;
;  The way it works:
;    1. open the track list file or web page side-by-side with CATraxx.
;    2. open a new track form in CATraxx, be sure the cursor is in the Title box
;    3. highlight the first track title to be copied from the track list
;    4. hit CTRL-Spacebar  (the title will be pasted into the Track Title box)
;    5. highlight the next title in the setlist
;    6. hit the Spacebar
;    7. repeat steps 5 & 6 for the rest of the tracks
;    8. hit any key other than the spacebar to break out of the script's loop
;    9. attach audio tracks if appropriate and rearrange the tracks into
;       media items as appropriate.
;______________________________________________________________________________

; CTRL-Spacebar starts this marco and the first copy-paste operation
^Space::
  ; adjust the x and y coordinates to locate the splashimage properly on your screen
  SplashImage,, W225 H75 B1 X798 Y660 CW008000 CTFFFFFF,, CopyTracks.ahk is running.`nHit any key other than spacebar to quit.,
  SetTitleMatchMode, 2
  send, ^c               ;copy
  Winactivate, Track:    ;switch windows
  send, ^v               ;paste
 
  ; Hit the Spacebar for subsequent copy-paste operations.  Note that a new track is created each time.
  Loop
    {
      Input, again, L1
      If (again = " ")           ;is the keystroke a space?
        {
          send, ^c               ;copy
          Winactivate, Track:    ;switch windows
          send, ^n               ;new track
          send, ^v               ;paste
        }
      Else
          Break
    }
SplashImage, off   
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:26 pm
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Dave,

I like this idea - not used it before. i'll try it out.

anyone else using any "hacks" they like?

took me a while to discover the Oscars Renamer (http://www.mediachance.com/free/renamer.htm) in tandem with CD-TEXT - this saves time, and also means I get tracklistings when I play a CDR in the Car :grin:


Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:33 pm
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Dave: I LOVE YOU.

right - that over with, 30 mins later and I have something that works for me, just what I needed. thanks so much.

for the record: this is it:

could do with a tidy, but hell, it works

Code:
;______________________________________________________________________________
;
;  This AutoHotKey script is for copying track lists from a text file
;  or web page into CATraxx "Download from CDDB" menu
;______________________________________________________________________________
;
;  The way it works:
;    1. open the track list file or web page side-by-side with CATraxx.
;    2. open a CD that has not been found within the "Download from CDDB" menu. Highlight the Tracks tab and put the cursor against the "Title" box
;    3. highlight the first track title to be copied from the track list
;    4. hit CTRL-Spacebar  (the title will be pasted into the Title box)
;    5. highlight the next title in the setlist
;    6. hit the Spacebar
;    7. repeat steps 5 & 6 for the rest of the tracks
;    8. hit any key other than the spacebar to break out of the script's loop
;______________________________________________________________________________

; CTRL-Spacebar starts this marco and the first copy-paste operation
^Space::
  ; adjust the x and y coordinates to locate the splashimage properly on your screen
  SplashImage,, W225 H75 B1 X798 Y660 CW008000 CTFFFFFF,, CopyTracks.ahk is running.`nHit any key other than spacebar to quit.,
  SetTitleMatchMode, 2
  send, ^c               ;copy
  Winactivate, Download from CDDB    ;switch windows to CDDB download window
  send, ^v               ;paste
  send, {F10}       ;next track
  Winactivate, Notepad    ;back to text file
      
 
  ; Hit the Spacebar for subsequent copy-paste operations.  Note that a new track is created each time.
  Loop
    {
      Input, again, L1
      If (again = " ")           ;is the keystroke a space?
        {
          send, ^c               ;copy
          Winactivate, Download from CDDB    ;switch windows to CDDB download window
          send, ^v               ;paste
          send, {F10}       ;next track
          Winactivate, Notepad     ;back to text file
      
        }
      Else
          Break
    }
SplashImage, off   
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Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:13 pm
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toffee wrote:
30 mins later and I have something that works for me, just what I needed.

Cool! Glad that helped. :grin:

Cheers,
Dave


Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:28 pm
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Okay Dave,

What other clever tricks do you have up your sleeve? This is huge for me!

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Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:57 pm
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Hi Doug,
DougWilliams wrote:
What other clever tricks do you have up your sleeve? This is huge for me!

With your database I bet any time saver has huge benefit for you so I'm glad this idea can help.

What else? That's tough to answer. There are a lot of tricks and utilities that I use to make my time with CATraxx more productive. Some are dopey while others may be useful to others. I guess sometimes it takes a question like toffee's to realize that others are doing the same thing that I've been doing and could use the same shortcut. In the past I've posted a lot of XSL related goodies since that seems to be hard for folks to get their arms around. It would be fun to pull all these ideas together in something like a book of hacks for CATraxx...if only I had the time!

Be careful if you start to use AutoHotKey. No, there's nothing wrong with it, but like CATraxx and music collecting it too can become an addiction!

Cheers,
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