Ableton Live Project Manager

Overview

A tool which aims to let users create an index of their Ableton Live sets and search them based on their contents

Features

Currently implemented

• Fast scanning and analyzing of Ableton Live Set (.als) files
• Extract the following project data:
  • Tempo
  • Ableton version
  • Time signature
  • Length (bars)
  • Plugins used
  • Samples used
• Check which plugins are missing in a project

Coming very soon - high priority

• Extract Key + scale, time duration,
• Efficient 5NF database for storing project information
• Fast, fuzzy searching across all project data
• GUI with a search bar, user-friendly database viewer, and ability to add folders, etc.

Planned - lower priority

• Version control system
• Album management system for creating albums of Ableton Live sets, notes, album art, etc.
• Ability to reference and play demo audio files to audition sets.
• Statistics tab, almost like "Ableton Wrapped" with information on things like plugin usage, most common tempos, etc.
• macOS support

Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.54 or higher
• SQLite 3.35.0 or higher

Building from source

Warning: the project is not ready to be run on other people's machines and currently won't do anything unless you change the hard-coded file paths in the main function.

Just clone, then build and run with cargo.

Configuration

Edit the config.toml file to set up your project directories and database location:

paths = [
    '{USER_HOME}\Documents\Ableton Live Projects'
]

database_path = '{USER_HOME}\Documents\ableton_manager\ableton_live_sets.db'

live_database_dir = '{USER_HOME}\AppData\Local\Ableton\Live Database'

Usage

Usage will be provided once the app is functional.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit a PR, but please rather open an issue for large contributions.