Convert Hot Cues to Memory Cues
Is there an easy way to convert Hot Cues to Memory Cues? I have set Hot Cues for all of my collection, and I feel like there must be a quick/simple way to convert between the 2 types of cue point, is this possible?
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Basically the simplest way (at least for me) is to do a simple script or manually edit the xml :-D
If you export your library as a XML, you can just copy and paste your memory cues and hot cues and import back:
For each track, the structure is following:
This is a memory cue:
<POSITION_MARK Name="" Type="0" Start="0.002" Num="-1"/>
This is a hot cue (the NUM="0" means hot cue A, NUM="1" would be hot cue B etc.):
<POSITION_MARK Name="" Type="0" Start="0.002" Num="0" Red="0" Green="255" Blue="0"/>
So if I have memory cue
<POSITION_MARK Name="" Type="0" Start="167.443" Num="-1"/>
I can just copy and add that line and change it like this
<POSITION_MARK Name="" Type="0" Start="167.443" Num="2" Red="0" Green="255"
Blue="0"/>
To become hot cue C on the very same position as the memory cue.
Converting a hot cue to memory cue is just changing the num to -1 "Num="-1" "
Once done, save the file and import the tracks from to your collection. The RB will ask you if you want to rewrite the information so just say that you want.
So far I haven't found other way than doing it fully manually (creating keyboard shortcut for next/prev memory cue and hotcue..) or in the xml as above.
As said - this can be scripted very easily to bulk change your whole collection.
Im looking for a similar fix.
I want to duplicate all Hotcues to memory cues (Keeping the hotcues)
Is there any script outthere?
Same thing, need to duplicate hotcues to memory cues! Anybody got an idea how?
I ended up just doing it manually, once you get familiar with the keyboard shortcuts for track navigation it's actually pretty quick to rip through it all, set your "jump back/forward" distance to 8 bars (one phrase) and you can just jump around in the track really quickly and easily with the left-right arrows, then just hit C for cue and M for memory cue, then ctrl-right (I think?) for next track
I wrote a Python script to do this based on Marek's suggestion: https://gist.github.com/diracdeltas/7e81285a361f1a3717b777d1e2da0c02. It worked great for my library!
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