Tagging samples as "favourites" / favourites smart folder

Tracker
1

Hey folks - I’m workshopping a feature request again. Last time a community member gave me an idea that resolved my issue without needing to make the request, so I’m hoping someone will have a solution for this one as well.

My SD card has many thousands of samples on it and I like to prompt my process with a bit of random file diving / previewing, but I want to be able to tag things that I want to come back to with a ‘favorite’ tag, so that later I could select from my tagged files. Is this something other folks struggle with / would appreciate too?

1 Like
2

I generally like the idea. Also having nearly 500k samples on the sd would make a favorite list very handy.

A few things come into my mind though:

The file browser displays a simple folder structure, one of the strength of the tracker. This means also there’s no indexing going on. The sd interface would be far too slow, so that’s no option.
So simple marking a file would not be feasible, the file browser doesnt know where to look.

To keep it as simple as possible, here are my thoughts:

A favorite list (star or whatever) at the top of the folder structure. This opens a list 100 entries max.
The list is based of a file containing the full filepath (i dont know if the tracker firmware has a function callback of the full filepath of a wav sample though).

Just my thoughts, happy brainstorming😊

3

Aah, a much simpler idea (sunday..sorry)
Just the tagging of a file but no favorite list.
At least you can see wich files in a folder are marked as usable. Over time every folder contains indicators of liked samples.

Edit: and to use very little system resources, every folder with marked files contains a hidden file (like fav.ptl) with the marked files created on the fly. So there’s no global index that would kill the browser

4

There’s a couple tagging system wishes floating around that you guys could vote on :blush:

This is the one specific to the tracker.

1 Like
5

Nice! The thread you mentioned is about projects though and the one from @3xm about synth patches on the play. Perhaps a global "tag it all":sweat_smile:
Well its not on top of my wishlist just 2 quick ideas that came up.

6

They are mostly interconnected wishes. If a tagging system was to be implemented it most likely would find its way into all the current ecosystem.

And yes it was initially about synths but expanded somewhere down the line to samples and projects and all the facets we have at this point :blush:

7

Games, we need it for games

3 Likes
8

Yeah this seems close enough to what I was looking for, and would be helpful to have a more general approach that reached beyond samples. I’m not a coder so I don’t have great insight into implementation, but I feel like I could vote for this instead of making something new. Thanks!

2 Likes