Traktor Pro startup speed tip!

[rvltion909]

sweet, thanks man!

Actually, looking right under my nose after I posted that msg I saw that A: was my floppy so I disabled it in Hwr Mgr and that solved that problem right away.

My start time is 5 sec average. Maybe its because I've not gotten that deep yet and made too many configuration settings but Im loving the start up time.

[cheft]

I think some of the issues Traktor Pro has with loading are answered in the latest "Traktor On the Record."

chill wrote:
I refrain from using Traktor Pro because of the automatic tagwriting, every time loading a track. The forum hosts often say that it is not planned to make this feature optional. Why not? Every time you restart tp it tries tag wrting with all tags that could not be written so far. why is this behaviour not turned off?

Friedemann @ NI wrote:
Traktor Pro fundamentally relies on the tags written into the files. Switching off tag writing would make it impossible to do any kind of tag editing in Traktor, because the information in the collection is updated from the tags on every startup.

Traktor only writes tags when they have been changed, it merely *reads* them on each startup to update the collection. Since this process can take really long for very large collections, we will make this scan optional in the 1.0.3 version, so you will be able to skip this procedure if you are sure that the
tags are unchanged.

So it sounds like Traktor likes to read tags and do some sort of collection check. This isn't so bad for me at home, but it would be great to be able to turn off at a show.

Interestingly they also had this to say about ID3 tags:

Metadata has become a very complex area because there are many different entities that store track information - the standard ID3 tags themselves and proprietary tags written by iTunes or Traktor, the iTunes Library or the Traktor Collection. So it can be confusing to work out which of these entities “override” the other.

For this reason we have decided to give the highest priority to the standard ID3 tags when available, because they are the most common denominator among all tagging applications. For information going beyond the standard, we rely on extended tags written by Traktor Pro into the files.

We decided for the latest ID3 version 2.4 for Traktor Pro so this should ideally be used.

Regarding MP4 files, the bit rate is not stored in a tag, it is retrieved by the decoder. The MP4 decoder in Traktor Pro has a bug where the bit rate is not calculated correctly. Because this decoder is licensed from a third party, we can't make any promises about when this bug will be fixed.