Lets say you have quite a few projects going on on the tracker, over multiple genres or tempos. Some projects are worth continuing and some not, some projects are sound design etc.
This wish proposes some improvements to project management and how to search for these projects.
What is the problem?
Currently the only way to distinguish projects is by their filename. Having more information available would be beneficial.
What should this feature achieve?
There is already a wish for something similar on the Play:
If a generic tagging system would be implemented. This could be reused across different areas of the system for better organization and search/filtering of content (also it would only have to be coded once ).
A tagging system would have the following benefits:
It doesn’t clutter up your project/sample/instrument names
it works in addition to the filenames
would be easier to search/filter for
Obviously there would have to be a way to create/edit/delete/assign tags.
It would allow to organize songs according to genres, bpm and other relevance and give a general project progression , if you are to work on a techno album you could look for the songs that are in that genre and work on them , finish a techno album same for the other genres.
Are there any workarounds?
A note pad or a piece of paper with the names of the songs bpm and current state ex ,finished unfinished , renaming the songs all of them one by one and add some of the information described above , creating folders for each genre and move the songs there
Any links to related discussions?
no
Any references to other products?
Some Daws with project info , The Octatrack has a project management page where you can move folders projects and offers some sort of organization.
Hey @purrsoundsystem, thanks for your wish.
May i propose to solve this via a tagging system… maybe?
There is an existing wish for the Play, if implemented it would probably make its way to the Mini/Tracker+ as well.
And since it is a tagging system - with this wish in mind - it could be easier to implement. As you can reuse a lot of the existing functionality. Usability wise it would be great as well, to have the same behaviour across different parts of the UI.
I am not sure which one would be easy to easier to implement best for the the coder to decide
Its not clear on the tagging request that the function is to be used as a song organizer, this request is more focused on patches , can 3xm request include or expand this? the tagging makes good sense for the tracker plus and mini since it looks like powerhouse for sound making with all those lovely synth engines Etc,
I’m assuming that a tagging system would mean something running on the background storing all these tags there would be a need for a search option to look up for these tags? would the tracker minus be able to handle this?
My request is pretty much to add a edit button on the song loader menu so you can rewrite the song name , Add all the relevant info and save . at the moment i have loads of projects on it and they are just coming and i need a way to organize
Hey @purrsoundsystem , yes the wish i posted is specific for patches. But if we model this wish to use a tag system as well it would most definitely make it easier to implement. As it would allow Polyend to use the same functionality for two different places.
If all you need is a way to rename existing projects, it would probably make sense to just rewrite this wish specific to that. A functionality so project names could be renamed.
This is exactly why i thought the tagging system (as proposed for the synth patches), could also be useful for project management.
This in turn would mean implementation cost - as in the time needed to implement such a feature - would be usefuly spent, as multiple parts of the system could make use of it.
In my opinion the tagging system has the following advantages:
It doesn’t clutter up your project filename
it works in addition to the filename
would be easier to search for
My question (which your last answer has not answered yet ) was purely:
Would you rather have a way to rename a project by filename AND a search function based on filenames?
Or would you rather have a tagging system, that could work alongside your project names and allows you to filter based on your tags.
Depending on what you decide i’ll gladly rewrite the wish so we can go into the right direction with it
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