When I was on Live, it took about 5-10 minutes per song to warp it, check it, cut it into sections, set follow actions, prepare loops, and figure out where to place it in my master als file so I could find it again.
On Traktor, it took about 3-5 minutes per track to re-do the grid (visually) from scratch since Traktor apparently doesn't like me and never created a usable grid by itself, tag everything, and make sure cover art was available (and the same) b/t iTunes and Traktor.
Now that I'm back to SSL, I don't do anything. Songs get added to iTunes and tagged (<1 minute/track), which updates smart playlists automatically, and then when I'm preparing to spin, I throw things from the smart playlists to manual ones that I actually spin with based on what I'm feeling for the set/night. Part of it is that I've been too lazy to map my lpd8 to SSL instead of just spinning in Absolute mode. I might get around to that at some point, but I still don't plan on preping anything and if looping and cues don't work the way I think they will…well, that's one less piece of gear to worry about.
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