Hello all,
I am using the “find tags and album art” feature specifically to look for genre in a recently downloaded set of songs. The songs are not particularly niche (e.g., The 1975, Taylor Swift) and have the Title, Artist, and Album, so am surprised that the current search does not seem to find them. I am hesitant to add the “Beatport” option to the search as I agree it is likely to find remixes. Is there another way to automatically import genre from Lexicon?
For context, my flow has been to use MIK → Rekordbox analysis → Lexicon → Find tags and album art for genre.
Afterwards, I am hoping to automatically add cue points (by genre for dynamic/ automatic cue points) → Export to Rekordbox.
Please let me know if you see any issues with this workflow! I am trying to take advantage of the MIK Key/ Energy Analysis, Rekordbox Track Analysis, and use Lexicon for the rest 
What Find Tags sources do you have enabled? Spotify would be a good one for pop music. Beatport is more for EDM.
If it doesn’t find anything and you’re sure the title & artist is accurate, you can drop a few examples here and I can check them.
I was able to find genres for some of the uncategorized songs by doing the read → overwrite feature and adding Beatport. Here are some screenshots of the uncategorized songs.
Spotify appears to have no genre for Anderson.Paak so I’m guessing it’s the same for the other artists.
Makes total sense. Thanks so much! 
Just to clarify, the above workflow of MIK (which I believe updates the files themselves) → Drag into Rekordbox for analysis → Import into Lexicon → Find tags/ album art → Add cue points by genre → Export to Rekordbox shouldn’t overwrite the prior steps, correct? If there is any guide or instructions you could point me to in order to export without losing MIK key or Rekordbox analysis without affecting the added genres and cue points in Lexicon, that would be awesome.
It’s fine but you can do MIK at any point and just reload the Key tag in Lexicon.
The Lexicon beta has a better beatgrid/BPM analyzer so you will be able to skip the Rekordbox step and add tracks directly to Lexicon.
Just updated my Lexicon while working on updating my songs in the background, love the new beatgrid visualizer!
My overall goal (for my 5000 song library) is to automate some basic cue points such as:
A) 8-loop bar at the start of the track,
B) 16 bars from the chorus/ first drop,
C) Start of the breakdown, and
D) 8-bar loop at the end of the track.
I recognize that ideally, I would do this manually for every song, but I am hoping to use Lexicon’s organizational tools (now that I have sorted into genres and subgenres to help me batch cue tracks). For example, I am thinking for Extended House Mixes (e.g., songs over 4 minutes in the House genre), I could apply these tools:
A (8-bar loop at start): Set at bar 32-40 where percussion is established but before melodic elements
B (16 bars from first drop): Set at bar 80-96 (just before the main drop)
C (Start of breakdown): Set at the beginning of the second breakdown (typically around bar 160-192)
D (8-bar loop at end): Set 32 bars from the end when track begins stripping elements
For other genres (e.g., Pop), I would probably just set an 8-bar loop at the very start of the track.
Do you think that this approach makes sense or would be reasonable to do in the new Lexicon update? If not, I can always just start tagging the tracks I use most manually. My overall goal is to have a good starting point with the cues for tracks.
Thanks again for all of your help.
Yeah you can do it with the generator but results won’t be perfect. I highly recommend checking out this guide though: Guide: the fastest way to set your cues
