Fix to allow Traktor played tracks to play in Ableton

[MisterMoleyMole]

Ok yup it seems that the only way to sort this at the min is to not allow traktor to write to the mp3s but this means you can't store any cue points or beatgrids. Hmmmmmmm..... You can stop traktor analysing them by changing your mp3s to read only

Also it appears that traktor sometimes does not strip its info even when you tell it to. Stuffed in this case as unless I can find out exactly which tag is is that traktor is updating then I have to strip the file of all its tags to get it to work again

Anyone know which tags it updates????

[MisterMoleyMole]

Ok although i seem like i'm on a one man mission here and no one else seems to be having this issue I will keep you all updated on my findings.

Ok after the last post i worked out that even if you change all tracks to "read only" you can still store cue points beatgrids the lot. This must mean that the info is stored in both the database and the id3 tags to. Which i find a bit wierd. Whats the need to store it in two places?

What i then found out was that it now appears that its not a particular tag thats the problem its the fact that traktor updates all tages to id3 v2.4 so trying to find the particular tag is pointless. All tags have to be downgraded to 2.3 for ableton to be able to use the track.

So there you go ... hope thats of some use to people who are having the same issues at any point. Not sure what to do from here.

I guess one of the main things i think ive learnt is i dont need to delete all tags to get it to work just downgrading them to v2.3 should allow ableton to use the track again.

This can be done in batch using mp3tag which is a free app

I'll be back witha anything else i find.

Gav

[BentoSan]

Thanks for doing the reasearch dude Im sure this will help some people out (myself included).

[Nanotek_Dj]

I found the solution just downloading the latest version of quicktime and installing it. All the mp3 become again readable by ableton

[MisterMoleyMole]

Is that because you associated mp3's to quicktime though and it changed all your tags??

[istrateo]

Ok after the last post i worked out that even if you change all tracks to "read only" you can still store cue points beatgrids the lot. This must mean that the info is stored in both the database and the id3 tags to. Which i find a bit wierd. Whats the need to store it in two places?

I think the reason why TP stores the info in two places is this:
- if the file is read only then TP needs to store the info somewhere; in this case its database;
- if the file is not read only then it stores info also in the ID3 Tag of the file, so when you copy that file to another computer, reinstall the OS or you lose the library you still have the beatgrids and cue points.

[Nanotek_Dj]

Is that because you associated mp3's to quicktime though and it changed all your tags??

I don't use quiktime I open it only once to do this trick. I found this solution in another forum. I use winamp to open mp3. I don't know how does it work, may be QT installs some codec.
I could't open mp3 with ableton on two different computers, after I installed QT and run it one time, magically ableton starts do play mp3

[MisterMoleyMole]

Crazy sheeeet

[SebastianRHRH]

Thanks a lot Nanotek! Thats why not a lot of people was having this problem, almosr everyone have Quicktime (iTunes) installed. Ty, thats the easiests solution...

[rossdmello]

Well i had the same problem... i fixed it by converting the mp3 files to 320kbps using a converter. try it... should sort your problem
cheers