Sound Font Naming Converter is now v4.3.3

Sound Fonts
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I am fine tuning the SoundFontNamingConverter.

I am looking to broaden the recognition of track names that people have so they get handled correctly.

The idea is that many people probably have like JFO6.wav or ImperialMarch.wav (which I have listed already) but maybe there’s obscure names I don’t have yet, so adding them to the list as a track file will help others who might happen to have it get better results when converting fonts and have their tracks recognized properly.

TL;DR The more track names I can add, the more people it will be universally helpful for.

I’ve made this super easy.
The link below contains both a Windows bat file and a MacOS app that will make a list of all tracks inside “tracks” folders in your font collection folder.
How-to-run.txt files explain to just click, pick, and done.
If you can, please run this and send me the resulting TextList.txt file in a PM.
Thanks!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/blqf5birg46cpk20kn4fz/AIMckisXGXFtynHxDHl3hhs?rlkey=7haq6qydh2hxf04y1bqw48mp3&dl=0

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I’ll get in on this. Duplicates don’t matter (and aren’t annoying)? Should I skip the tracks I’ve renamed or converted that were not part of a pro made font?

I was thinking that you might want just tracks that came with professionally created fonts, so I’d start with freshly unzipped versions to be sure there no extra. But if it doesn’t matter I’ll just let her rip and send everything I’ve got.

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Let 'er rip.
I am already going to filter duplicates.
The latter part of your post is the exact reason for this; to get more than just “the popular” ones.

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Even when I command click “open” i get stuck in a loop:

" “FindTracks” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

Only options are move to trash or cancel. Mac Sonoma 14.5. M1 chip.

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Did you use archive utility to open? Try a different unzip app named “TheUnarchiver” instead

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Well the unarchiver is indeed mighty (thanks for that), but no change. Selected UnArchiver, got the MACOS folder, command clicked and selected open. Same error loop.

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@NoSloppy I’ve just double checked since I say @LyleStyle was having issues.

The Automator Application Stub that’s set to be the executable seems to be just garbage data… it cannot be run as an executable, at least.

Fwiw: macOS Monterey 12.7.4 iMac Pro 2019 (Intel)

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So weird man. works fine for me on 2 different machines from the download.
I just opened and re-saved it.
any better now?

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I feel bad about it, but no change with a fresh download.

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If it’s an automator script or applescript, could you just distribute that instead? Then people should be able to run it through their local interpreter?

Not sure what all you’ve got going on in that thing.

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So stupid.
Ok fine, I put an executable shell script in there instead.
Double clicking on the FindTracks.sh work?

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No, it opens in Xcode… unsure what it’d do on a system without Xcode.

I just opened it up in iTerm and ran it. It needed a chmod +x though first.

None of the notifications pop up, and the finder window opened bouncing in the background, but aside from that it works.

(Though it’s unclear what’s happening and/or if things worked without the messages)

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Open with terminal.
I guess each user locally needs to chmod to make executable, plus no messages exactly, why wouldn’t automator bundle work I have no idea.

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Want some help?

Very simple .app packaging works, as does the notifications :slight_smile:
(Now… what are the odds that it still needs a chmod and that breaks things…)

And as a bonus, it’s tiny compared to the app with all the automator stuff

EDIT: macOS makes applications so easy and manageable… meanwhile Windows :skull:

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Try that out when I get near a computer. Meanwhile, the bat file should work on Windows I’m assuming. I tried it on my virtual machine and it was good.

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Thanks man. How does it look now, starting at the download?
@LyleStyle

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Success! I’ll send over the tracks list in a bit.

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Updated to v4.0.2

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I tried to use this a couple of times. I always get “Failed to convert due to temporary directory…” error.

I did CFX to Proffie on Windows 11, Firefox and Edge both have errors.

Edit to add: I just did proffie to proffie and it worked.

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Did you try clearing cache by holding shift while refreshing the page?