Hi All,
I have Traktor running on 2 machines. An imac for home and Macbook for gigs. I play music through my itunes library and prepare all my tracks on the imac. I then export the playlist and import it into Traktor on my Macbook. The problem I find in doing this is I have to re-locate all the tracks in the playlist after importing, which is a pain in the ass.
Is there a way around this without creating the playlist in itunes or preparing my tracks on my macbook???
This bit makes it sound like you make them in iTunes dude…
Anyway… same applies just make your playlists in Traktor then make a playlist in iTunes with the same name and drag and drop the tunes from Traktor into the iTunes playlist then do as mentioned in the last thread.
I have done it this way many times. It works and theres no need for relocating
ok, so I have done the above but the cue points, load markers & grids are not appearing. I have tried exporting the track collection from my imac and importing it into my Macbook but still no joy Any ideas? thanks for your help.
let itunes “handle” your music on machine A
create a playlist of the music you want to export on machine A
export playlist
move the music in playlist A over to machine B, using whatever you need to do it, and put it somewhere on the desktop or something first
take the music now on machine B and drop it into the “Automatically add to itunes” folder
load playlist on machine B
This what I have done:
• Created playlist in Traktor with cue’s, grids etc.
• Dragged and dropped the tracks in this playlist to a new playlist in itunes.
• Exported this playlist and imported it into itunes on my Macbook.
Next is where the problem occurs:
• I have tried, playing the tracks from the itunes playlist through Traktor and no tags have appeared.
• I have tried dragging the tracks from the itunes playlist into a Traktor playlist and no tags have appeared.
• I have tried exporting the collection from the imac and importing into my Macbook and the tags still haven’t appeared.
ok, so I have exported the playlist with the tracks and put them into a playlist in iTunes but still no tags. If I leave the tracks in a folder on my desktop and then import the playlist they load up correctly with tags?
Its a pain the ass having to re-locate 90 odd tracks so I want to avoid it if possible but can’t seem to figure it out. aaaahhhhh!!!
I just moved my entire library of songs from windows 7 to a mac with no problems really, here’s what I did
Backup traktor folder in my documents: which includes collection, stripes, transients etc
backup music folder,
backup itunes and the itunes collection
on the mac i copied over all my mp3s and put them into USERNAME>MUSIC
installed itunes, and since my iTunes folder copied over inside of music, my playlists and all that were there, just had to point itunes to my music folder in PREFERENCES>ADVANCED>ITUNES MEDIA FOLDER LOCATION
I had lots of (!) but once i scrolled over a song itunes would realize it was there and stop acting like it wasnt.
then, i installed traktor, pasted my backed up Traktor folder over the one that just got installed
opened traktor and it asked me to relocate my base folder or something to that effect,
i set it to USERNAME>MUSIC, same as my itunes
then i right clicked on the collection in the left hand bar, and did CHECK CONSISTENCY
which then says, “these files are missing blah blah” then pointed it to my music folder again and it found them after a lengthy search,
TADA! now everything is just like it was on windows
Try it this way. I set cues and stuff on my MBP so that’s the only thing I do different.
Download the songs and when you’re done drag them from the finder to iTunes. I have iTunes set to duplicate the song so this makes a copy of the song in the iTunes folder. Now I can delete the song from the download folder so I don’t have duplicates.
Key and tag songs.
Create playlists in itunes if needed.
Export .txt file of the playlist and email it to yourself.
Open iTunes on your MBP and click on the iMac’s Shared library. Shared libraries must be enable in iTunes preferences.
Drag new music from the iMac to the MBP. This will copy the song file to the MBP’s hard drive.
Import playlist into iTunes with the .txt file.
Open Traktor and, the iTunes folder in Traktor and find the new playlist you created in iTunes.
Right click on the playlist and select import to collecetion.
Right click on the playlist again and say import to playlists.
Thanks man, I forgot about the shared library feature in itunes. If I were to grid and cue all the tracks in Traktor on my iMac before dragging the files over to my Macbook through the shared library. Would they then appear in Traktor on my Macbook?
I don’t normally do it that way, but I tested it to see if it would work. I followed all of the steps above except I had to select the file in iTunes and get info for the file for the changes to take effect. All I did was hit ok without making any changes and it worked. When I got them in Traktor the loops and cues and grids were still there.
