Request Feature: Show Bitrate

[adrianalex]

Hi,

I just wanted to ask the Ableton team for a small feature, and see if anyone else agrees.

I think it would be really useful if Ableton would display the bitrate of mp3's in the browser. iTunes does it easliy.

Often when I am djing i want to make sure I don't choose a low bitrate junky mp3, especially if playing in a big club.

Thanks

[sqook]

...maybe you shouldn't put low-quality mp3's in your livesets, then.

OTOH, I think it's a good feature request. I'd rather see this information somewhere else in live, though, rather than directly in the browser panel.

[adrianalex]

I try not to put low bitrate mp3's in, but sometimes the temptation is just too much. I run Izotope ozone on the master output, with an exiter and widener, and this improves things a lot...

But you know how it is, things get messy. I may have a couple of copies of an mp3 with one being a lowbitrate one I didn't delete when I got a better copy.

As it is I am forced to keep iTunes open to check the bitrate, then go back to Live and try to make sure the track I am looking for is the same, as tags show up differently in Live's browser...

Not a problem if I plan my sets before hand, but if I want to drop something in spontaneously....