Hi there,
I’m new to Lexicon for about a little over two weeks. Throughout that entire period, I’ve spend an excessive amount of time in it to see if I could make it the default go-to program for my music tagging needs. I’m using the demo currently. So, I also want to see if its worth pony up $17 for a subscription.
I think by now I’ve used and is familiar with just about all the software out there that have tagging capabilities (MP3Tag, Mediamonkey, Beatunes, Tag&Rename, TagScanner, OneTagger, Mixed in Key, etc…). I’d say by far Lexicon has the best interface with a pretty decent set of features and easy navigation. So, I got excited about finding it. Yet, there’s an implementation (or lack of) that confuses the heck out of me on how it is implemented in the program: TAGS!
Now, I’m not sure if it’s there’s part of its function that’s turned off because I’m on the demo? But TAGS! Yes, this feature got me so hype when I saw the panel and how I can vastly build a set of tags to add to my tracks. One of the category I thought of building in the Tags section came default with the program, and it’s the “Genre” category. I was like… YES! Well, I went to work on it and expand it by adding my whole list of customized genres as I like to have them appeared in Serato; i.e., House/Soulful House, Hip-Hop/Trap, Latin/Reggaeton, and so on…
However, I got so confused that when I went to to try to apply those genres to the Genre field, I couldn’t use those tags on it at all; The option doesn’t exist. Worst, the other feature related to Genres in Lexicon is a “Genre Cleanup” where I can only make a New Genre out of existing genres that it replaces. So, if I get it right, currently, a user can’t technically add their own pre-build list of Genres in Lexicon like it exist in the Tags area, right?
That totally threw me off because I’m thinking, why as a user, would I spend time to build a genres list in the “Tags” area and not being able to apply them to the field that it should match: The Genre field?
I mean, sorry if I’m wrong on this. To be fair, I’m on the demo. So, I can’t really even apply the tags. So, I got to ask just a few questions:
1- Where do those tags in the TAGS section go after they are applied?
2- Would it be hard to expand the “Genre Cleanup” to allow us to add to the Genres that are already listed in that section? I mean, NOT by having to [rename] but by totally add new ones without editing any existing ones?
In a conversation here: Find tags feature The OP somehow made the same argument that I’m thinking about now.
He noted this:
Isn’t it possible then to add all genres found to Lexicon tags instead? (to genres category).
Then you could choose which one you use as id3 genre tag.
Also this:
OK, well I’m getting confused about the purpose of Lexicon tags… to me it’s most useful to have multiple tags per category, that’s what a tagging system is made for i would say…
Well, I arrived at the same conclusion when it comes to how Tags and the Genre fields are not playing nice with each other. I think it would be logical that they do!
I mean, I guess I’ll end this with a “pretty please” request? If there’s no way to update Lexicon where I can apply the options in the Tags to the Genre field, then can you please add a panel (or something) where the user can build a Genre list and pick whichever genres to apply just like the TAGS panel we can click an empty area in the Genre field to make it come up?
Well, I hope that all makes sense.
As you can see here, I’ve spent a good amount of time to input all those tags for the Genres and sub-genres. I hope I can get to use them eventually.
Thanks for everything!