Portable patch favorites

[mkruselj]

Currently, favorites saved on one machine under one OS cannot be copied/imported to another machine with a different OS.

Provide an import/export option (only available in Favorites RMB menu, I'd say), and maybe if there's a way to somehow write paths to .db in a relative way so that it ends up portable by just copying the Patches.db file, even better!

[DarceyLloyd]

Convert .fxp to a text based preset json/xml and keep on adding params as will, not sure if there is an fxp decoder out there or if there is a reason for encoding the preset (sound embedding?). But turn the thing to json, gzip and un-gzip on the fly if needed then add entry fav=1 || fav=true etc etc (this is how a few other vsts do it, Spire is 1, spf / spf2 are just text files with key value pairs on each line).

And if you decide to go down this route, create a feature to convert from fxp to the new format (en bulk) or a little utility where we can bulk import and export

[baconpaul]

That’s a separate issue from this one which is sharing favorites list

there is an fxp decoder in scripts/patch tool. They have a binary header a blob of xml and then optional wavetables

[baconpaul]

Oh and we don’t mark favorites in the patch we mark them in the sql db

[DarceyLloyd]

RE: Sharing favourite lists
This should be a simple case of querying the sqlite db and generating a csv at its most basic level. But telling the difference between two presets named the same may be difficult if the CRC is not stored with it.

RE: FXP Decoder
Nice, I've been looking for a FXP decoder/encoder for a while. I've been writing batch scripts in py/node for CRC check, preset classificiation and in the case of serum deleting all presets with 1 or 0 stars. As I get spammed with so many emails with free 30 serum presets here, 10 there, another 20 here etc, it's all added up over the years. So CRC check, delete duplicates, rating read from sqlite db, delete <= 1 and then if no category try and parse name for category and if not able to dump into misc folder for manual sorting and renaming later.

The decoder should help me detect variance in settings, a lot of presets are not a CRC match but sound virtually identical due to a single byte being changed, this will allow me to write a tool to write a tolerance of values of each setting dynamically and if within tolerance range, it will probably sound the same and I can delete it.

[DarceyLloyd]

RE: RE: Fav' lists
Not quite sure on the full functionality required by the share feature. But maybe a website with mp3 upload (file size limit to 5 seconds, to keep files small) and have a score board / rating system. Preset name, author, vender etc. Could even have click through to product and earn something on that.

[baconpaul]

This issue really is just about a user migrating from one machine to another. It’s exactly the csv you mentioned with a path resolved