Modifying Catalog entries for music files

MixMeister reads the title, artist, album, genre, beats per minute (BPM), and year from each music file and stores it in the Catalog. You can change that information one song at a time or for many songs at once. Whichever approach you take, MixMeister updates the music file with your changes.

Caution! Although MixMeister has a robust "Undo" feature, it does not undo change you make in the Catalog.

To change title, artist, and other details one song at a time

  1. In the Catalog, right-click the song whose information you want to change, and choose Properties.

  2. In the Catalog Item Properties box, type the changes you want to make, and click OK.

See Also

Saving a track's current settings

To correct a tempo that’s way off

To change title, artist, and other details for many songs using Microsoft Excel

If a lot of your music comes from compilation CDs, you may want to change the title and artist for many songs. It can be tedious to do this one at a time in the Catalog. Instead, export a copy of your Catalog information to a program such as Excel for easier editing, and then import the changes back into MixMeister.

We recommend using Microsoft Excel or an equivalent spreadsheet program because it has sort, find-and-replace, and other features that make handling large numbers of songs easy. You can, however, use any text editor such as Notepad or Microsoft Word to update the Catalog file, as long as you save the final result as a text file.

  1. From the Catalog menu, choose Export Catalog.

  2. In the Export Catalog box, select the directory, give the Catalog a name, and then click Save.

  3. Open Microsoft Excel, and choose Open from the File menu.

  4. In the File Open box, choose All Files from the File Type selection at the bottom.

  5. Open the Catalog file you saved in step 2 above.

  6. Follow the directions of the Excel wizard to format the data so it’s easier to read.

  7. Click Finish to open the file using the default settings that Excel recommends.

  8. Edit the information that you want to change.
    The first column provides the name and location of the music file. We recommend that you do not change this information because this is how MixMeister tracks the song across the export/import process.
    Change the other columns—Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Year, and BPM—as much as you want.

  9. When you have finished making changes, save the file as a Text (Tab Delimited) (*.txt) file type.
    Excel selects this format by default.

  10. Close the Excel file.

  11. Go back to MixMeister, and choose Import Catalog from the Catalog menu.

  12. In the Import Catalog box, select the Catalog file that you edited in Microsoft Excel, and click Open.
    That’s it. You should now see the changes you made in the Catalog.

Note  Because the original music files stay in the Catalog and only the changes are imported, if you delete a song in the Excel file, it is still there in the Catalog—without any changes.

To delete a song from the Catalog

To change the location of the plot file directory

  1. From the Tools menu, choose Options.

  2. On the Plot Files tab, click Browse to locate the directory where you want to store the BPM and music plot information, and click OK.