Copy Keys to Grouping Plugin
The location of your plugin directory depends on your operating system:
- XP: c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\.beaTunes\plugins
- Vista: c:\Users\[username]\.beaTunes\plugins
- OS X: [your_home]/Library/Application Support/beaTunes/Plug-Ins
If you're interested in how the plugin works - it's trivial and here's the maven project complete with Java sources. Just make sure you somehow point to the beaTunes binaries for compilation.
Important!
This plugin needs at least beaTunes 2.0.3 to work correctly!
Note: This post has been updated to reflect changes in EA16 and changed again to reflect changes in 2.0.3.
Labels: API, Early Access, Key, Plugin
posted at 12:09
8 Comments:
Could you possibly append the key info to comments? Maybe you could surround the key with bullets or some other special character so it wouldn't be confused with existing comment text.
I'd like it moved because I use the Grouping field for tagging classical music. I do it that way because that's what the iTunes Store does when they display Classical Works for a composer (see for example, "J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos BWV 1041 & BWV 1042 - Gubaidulina: In Tempus Praesens" in the iTunes Store and view it by composer). Someday Apple may add that turning triangle feature to iTunes proper and they'll most likely add it to the Grouping column, but the feature won't work if every group entry has different text (i.e., different keys added).
Yes, the key could easily be copied to the comments field instead of grouping. In the source code one could probably simply do a search and replace for Grouping to Comment and recompile the whole thing. That should do the trick.
A friend at work mentioned this app and I just started using it and I am excited that it can analyze the keys but like the original poster said adding it to the comments would be great because I would also use this app with a DJing program, Traktor Scratch Pro and it does not show grouping.
I looked at the code but I have no idea how Java or coding works. Any help would be appreciated.
Basically, you just have to replace "Grouping" with "Comments" in the source and then rebuild the plugin and re-install in the plugins folder.
So for getGrouping() you'd write getComments() and for setGrouping(...) you'd write setComments(...). Compilation is a little tricky, if you are new to Java or Maven, because the dependencies are not hosted in a public repository. I hope to find time to make this a little easier in the future.
Check this out :-)
That aside, compilation got a lot easier. Just do
mvn clean install
in the maven project.
Cool, thanks for sending this out in the newsletter, I just upgraded and this is a most welcome (and long desired) utility ;-)
It seems that this plugin crashes beaTunes 3.0.2. Is there any fix in sight?
@Nik: This is an ancient version of the plugin that probably doesn't even work with beaTunes 2.1.
Please open the preferences in beaTunes 3 and go to the plugin pane. There you should be able to find everything it takes to install a/this plugin.
Also see http://blog.beatunes.com/2011/06/managing-plugins.html.
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