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Old 05-14-2008, 05:51 PM   #1
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Default Marker list / save / load extension

Edit: The marker list is now contained in the standard SWS Extension installer. Go to the SWS website here for more info.

I've created another REAPER extension plugin for some marker/region related utilities.

Press Ctrl-Shift-M to open the marker list dialog. The time is shown in project time format (set by right-clicking on the ruler. Click on a marker's time to move the edit cursor.

You can also right click to get a list of options.

The commands are also accessible via a new set of menu items at the end of the "Edit" menu and in the action list (? key, search for SWS).


You can save and load marker sets, they are stored in the project file. If you want to copy your marker set to a different project, just copy it to the clipboard with the included command and paste it in the other project. You can of course paste list from the clipboard into a text editor if you wanted to use it for some other purpose.

I also added the useful command "reorder markers" to renumber markers so they're in time order.

Notes:
-While I refer to everything as a "marker", this includes regions as well.
-When pasting/loading markers you'll notice some odd behavior, zooming around, the "add marker" dialog flashing, your loop/time selection will go away, etc. Sorry about this, I had to hack around some stuff.

I hope you find this extension useful! Reply to this thread if you find any issues or if I missed something obvious.

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Old 05-14-2008, 05:56 PM   #2
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Hey sws, nice work!

I'll take a look.

Well done

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Ps. Re-order Markers is seriously useful - I ALWAYS end up adding markers!
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Old 05-14-2008, 05:59 PM   #3
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thank you very much sws,

now it works between sessions too!
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Ps. Re-order Markers is seriously useful - I ALWAYS end up adding markers!
OMG! Thank you very much sws! I've wasted too much time editing markers to reflect their chronological position...

Edit: ahh, I see I still have to edit them manually...is it possible to just auto-renumber their IDs?

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Old 05-14-2008, 06:28 PM   #5
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I like the Jump To in the List view.

Problem, on my machine the Reorder displays each marker's edit dialog, and there is no reordering of the markers.
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Edit: ahh, I see I still have to edit them manually...is it possible to just auto-renumber their IDs?
Oops, fixed one bug earlier and broke autorenumber. Thanks for finding this for me!

All fixed now, redownload from the link above and you should be set.
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Works perfect! I've needed this action for so long, thanks again!
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Old 05-14-2008, 07:58 PM   #8
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Awesome!

I created an "Extension Plug-ins" category on stash.reaper.fm .. in case you want to upload it there:

https://stash.reaper.fm/tag/Extension-Plug-ins
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Old 05-14-2008, 08:03 PM   #9
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What's the chances of another action to autorenumber regions?
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Reorder works swell now. Good to see it is listed in the undo.

Request: the Marker List dialog cannot be resized. It is much wider than what I need. Also being able to stretch it up and down, depending on the Marker count would keep them all in view, with the minimum desktop space. Is it possible to make it sizeable and remember the window size and the column widths?


Again. This is very useful

Edit: and an option to delete marker in the dialog?
EDit: and reorder in Marker List?
These 2 would save a lot of mousing, I am see the Marker List View as the center of this tool. Like it should be in the View menu, then do the other stuff from inside the Marker List

Edit: then add the option to select multiple markers in the Marker List for copying. Might not want them all.

Edit: and open edit dialog on dblclick?
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And further to this, what about region sets?

Reason being, you can't tempomap a freetime piece that has regions in it. Now if you've already set up regions in a song, you could copy the region list, delete all the regions (another action?), tempo map the piece, then paste the region list back in with maybe some small adjustments.

Ahh what a can of worms...
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another context menu option, Snap.

Throwing down markers on the fly with transport running makes all the markers a little off. A Snap Selected would put them right on the mark. As it is now, I manually jiggle each one to get them to snap into the correct position.
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Okay, made a bunch of quick changes:

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What's the chances of another action to autorenumber regions?
Easy. Download the new DLL from link above.

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Edit: and an option to delete marker in the dialog?
EDit: and reorder in Marker List?
Delete's now in the dialog via rightclick. I'll have to spend time later to make the del key work. Might be buggy too.

Reorder's there too. Oh yeah, added "delete all markers/regions" too.

What else - I made the dialog a little smaller, xackley. Maybe that'll be better? I'll add resize later, that's on the list of things I've "never done so will have to learn about it first".

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm done for the eve but I will revisit tomorrow.
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Awesome!

I created an "Extension Plug-ins" category on stash.reaper.fm .. in case you want to upload it there:

https://stash.reaper.fm/tag/Extension-Plug-ins
Thanks!! I dropped a copy of the DLL up there. It is a little difficult to keep files up to date in the Stash, however.
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Oh yeah, added "delete all markers/regions" too.
Autorenumber regions worked perfectly too!

Could you make 2 separate actions, delete all markers and delete all regions? Mainly so I can delete the regions before tempomapping without touching the markers...although after mapping, I'd probably reinsert the regions and delete the markers, so it'd work both ways.

Anyone who wants both can macro them together I guess, unless you leave 3 actions...

Brilliant work sws!
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Thanks!! I dropped a copy of the DLL up there. It is a little difficult to keep files up to date in the Stash, however.
... and for some strange reason, difficult for me to d/l from there.

Thanks for this, this is wonderful
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One small suggestion, if I may, of presentation.

Both the right click Marker List menu and the Edit, SWS Marker Utilities menu show up (for me at least) as one long list, which makes is not too easy to find what you're looking for. The use of a couple of divider lines would really improve this.
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Old 05-15-2008, 04:05 AM   #18
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yes, thank you, been waiting for something like this for a while. Will be used heavily.
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Old 05-15-2008, 07:43 AM   #19
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Damn, gotta head for bed, I'll give this promising thing a try in the morning.
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Love it - missed the markerlist from Cubase!
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Old 05-15-2008, 09:34 AM   #21
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Wow - really useful

Thanks heaps

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Old 05-15-2008, 05:32 PM   #22
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This is very, very nice - many thanks.

A direct FR (already mentioned above) - ability to edit the marker label. If this could be done right there in the marker list (so the actual text in the list would be directly editable) so you wouldn't have to move the mouse somewhere else it would in my view be ideal. I'm thinking of the scenario where you have markers representing tracks in a classical CD and you want each marker to be labelled with movement details, and you simply want to type them in quickly from the concert programme notes.

I can't help think that the marker sets facility would work very nicely in conjunction with a facility to create markers based on cues stored in wave and wavpack files. Thus before extracting the markers from the files into the project you could save the existing markers as a set, delete all, read in file cues, save that as a set, etc etc.

Merging sets... I guess one could do that sort of manually using copy and paste into a text document and reading that back in.

All good stuff!!
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This is very, very nice - many thanks.

A direct FR (already mentioned above) - ability to edit the marker label. If this could be done right there in the marker list (so the actual text in the list would be directly editable) so you wouldn't have to move the mouse somewhere else it would in my view be ideal. I'm thinking of the scenario where you have markers representing tracks in a classical CD and you want each marker to be labelled with movement details, and you simply want to type them in quickly from the concert programme notes.

I can't help think that the marker sets facility would work very nicely in conjunction with a facility to create markers based on cues stored in wave and wavpack files. Thus before extracting the markers from the files into the project you could save the existing markers as a set, delete all, read in file cues, save that as a set, etc etc.

Merging sets... I guess one could do that sort of manually using copy and paste into a text document and reading that back in.

All good stuff!!
Unfortunately some of that stuff is very very tricky do as the now available developer APIs in Reaper don't really support manipulating the markers at all. (They can only be read directly, so what SWS has achieved here is pretty great stuff.) For the extraction of info from audio files it would probably mean writing a custom audio file parser, as I think Reaper doesn't support for example cue points in WAV-files directly.
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This plug is REALLY useful for me - thanks.

I have two ideas which would make it even better though...?

1) I would like to be able to resize the window
2) I would like to be able to hit play (spacebar) while the markers window has focus... currently this does not work

good work though!
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2) I would like to be able to hit play (spacebar) while the markers window has focus... currently this does not work
When the marker window has the focus, the spacebar NEEDS TO BE a spacebar, to put empty spaces in text.
Think it through!
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When the marker window has the focus, the spacebar NEEDS TO BE a spacebar, to put empty spaces in text.
Think it through!
YOU think it through - you can't even edit text in the marker window. Spacebar does nothing.

Perhaps what I should say is "I would like to be able to hit play (WHATEVER shortcut is assigned) while the markers window has focus... currently this does not work"
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OK, I'll add direct marker text editing from the marker list dialog, and howabout keyboard pass though, except when editing markers.

I'm having mucho ISP troubles at the moment so may be a bit before I can upload new versions. Hopefully soon!
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OK, I'll add direct marker text editing from the marker list dialog, and howabout keyboard pass though, except when editing markers.

I'm having mucho ISP troubles at the moment so may be a bit before I can upload new versions. Hopefully soon!
That would be very splendid of you indeed. Good work!
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Thank you very much for this extension.
I have just a small matter where are registered backups?
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This is great, can't wait to check it out tonight...

THANKS!
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SWS - this is terribly good indeed!
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SWS - just to let you know I'm including this in the next User Guide update. This wonderful feature just adds so much value to Reaper ....

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I found this bug when re-ordering regions and markers, sometimes it places the region colour on top of the marker, if they occupy the same position:



If I delete that marker and then reinsert it, the marker colour shows on top instead.

Not sure if that's your domain or Justin's...
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I have just a small matter where are registered backups?
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Wouaww Cool Merci very very very much SWS
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I've posted a new version which includes:

1) In place renaming of markers. Double click on a marker in the list to rename it, TAB to set name and goto next marker (region). This is nice and quick if want to set labels for "tracks" in your project. ESC cancels edit, RETURN or click somewhere else accepts.

2) Resize capability - window can be resized/positioned anyway you want. State is remembered so the window will appear just as you left it.

3) Key pass through - most Reaper keycommands work even if the list has focus (except ESC/Enter/TAB and Delete, which now deletes the current marker)

4) Separated out delete markers/regions. (Note: if you want a delete all markers AND regions command try creating a macro.)

5) Better menu organization.

nicholas: I'm honored you're including this in the manual, thanks!

Enjoy!
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Ah yes, that looks SO much better now and is much easier to follow and use, thanks.
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Wow - a responsive developer in the Justin Frankel mould!

Many thanks. It's just perfect!
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Well, nearly perfect - any chance of being able to copy marker sets to the clipboard in human readable form, in other words, so that you could use the list for a track list on a jewel case? So the time would be in hours mins secs etc. This would be in addition to the present method which I appreciate is more designed for copying to another project in Reaper-readable format.

Of course as it stands, times are from the beginning of the project, but ideally for jewel case use the time would be the length of the marker (till the next one or end of project) or the region length.

Pushing my luck...

If it's not possible please ignore this FR!
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This is great, so practical and simple, even I could immediately put it to good use
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