CuePoint and OpenKeyScan (rekordcloud)
Both can give a track a key. Every statement about OpenKeyScan below comes from its own public pages or its maker's, with the date we read it. What CuePoint does comes from its user guide.
Side by side
| Topic | OpenKeyScan | CuePoint |
|---|---|---|
| Who makes it | rekordcloud's home page lists OpenKeyScan, with Lexicon, TrackHack and SonoVault, among its products, and calls OpenKeyScan a free, open-source desktop app. Source: rekordcloud's home page, read on . | CuePoint is free and open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| What it is | OpenKeyScan's page describes it as “a free, open-source key detector.” Source: OpenKeyScan's home page, read on . | CuePoint is a free, open-source desktop app that does more than keys: it matches tracks to Beatport, finds duplicates and missing files, discovers new music and plans sets. |
| Where the key comes from | OpenKeyScan says it turns the audio into a spectrogram and uses a neural network to recognize harmonic patterns in it. Source: OpenKeyScan's home page, read on . | CuePoint does not work out a key from the audio. It takes the key from the accepted Beatport match, or from you. |
| Offline | OpenKeyScan says it runs “completely offline on your machine.” Source: OpenKeyScan's home page, read on . | Your library stays on your computer. CuePoint goes online to read Beatport (matching, artwork, Discover) and, unless you turn it off, to send error reports. |
| What it writes | rekordcloud says OpenKeyScan “writes results directly into your files for Rekordbox, Serato and Traktor.” Source: rekordcloud's home page, read on . | CuePoint writes into your files only when you choose Write tags to files, after a preview, with a record that lets every file be restored. Its export to Rekordbox is a new XML file. |
| Price | OpenKeyScan says it is “100% free, forever.” Source: OpenKeyScan's home page, read on . | CuePoint is free. |
Which one fits
Choose OpenKeyScan if
If you want a key worked out from the sound of a track and written into the file for Rekordbox, Serato and Traktor, OpenKeyScan is made for that, and it runs offline.
Choose CuePoint if
If you want Beatport's key and metadata checked against your Rekordbox library, with everything reviewable, CuePoint is made for that. For a track Beatport does not have, you can type the key yourself.
What CuePoint does not do
- It does not work out a key from the audio. A track Beatport does not have gets no key from CuePoint.
- It does not work offline for matching. Looking tracks up on Beatport needs a connection.
- It works with Rekordbox only, not Serato or Traktor.
What we say about OpenKeyScan comes from OpenKeyScan's own public pages on the dates shown, and tools change. See what CuePoint's Clean page does or the other comparisons.