Doubling and Halving large amounts of Traktor tracks
Hey, I got a large library that has just been beatgridded in traktor only issue being that much of the BPM is either half or double what it really is. I tried cleaning them up with some scripts in MP3Tag (Round to interger and double/halve BPM) but it seems Traktor draws that info from its collection.nml and I don’t see an option to force a reread of tags (tried a consistency check) so I have fixed tags, but Traktor displays old info.
How can I get this info to update. I heard about a program called trainspotter that could help since it can help update the collection.nml but I havent heard anything else.
As in you’ve just brought the collection in and told it to beatgrid all of them in one big go? If you haven’t done any tinkering with the beatgrids, which I imagine you haven’t if you had this problem, it may be easier to just tell Traktor to reanalyse the low BPM tracks but set the BPM range as something fairly high (believe it’s an option when you select analyse) and then the other way round for the high BPM tracks.
Well I mean it is just such a large library I have. I honestly should have done each genre separately with a different range, but I was gonna be away from my comp for a few days so I just did it all in one.
Yea but I know what songs are double and half and can bulk change them in Mp3tag. I just want Traktor to somehow rescan my meta data to get the new BPM that I updated. A doubling or halfing shouldn’t even cause any issues when playing. The thing is, this is much father than analysis, but Traktor ignores the BPM tag.
You know there a 1/2 & 2X BPM buttons in Traktor right? Iknow it’s a pain but you can quickly fix your problem in a few hours while sitting in front of the tele.
I know that, but I’m efficient/lazy. I already got macros for doubling and halving the BPM tag, I just need Traktor to read them and I’ just curious if there is any way to update from tags.
Why don’t you just click the 1/2 or 2x button when you load the track to actually mix it? That way, at least you’ll know whether the track was worthy enough to play out.
That can work. I’ll do that until I get a chance to try trianspotter. (Although I already have had my songs star rated from a while ago to know how playable they are.)
It’d be a lot easier to just rewrite the BPM tags and reload completely. Shouldn’t take more than an hour or so, depending on how big your music collection is.
24 hours to just rewrite the BPM tags with an analyser? I’m not saying analyse each track in Traktor too. Then I can see it going for a while but just a BPM counter? It takes me about an hour with 700 songs or so
