Few issues with Hot Cues and Ratings..

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Few issues with Hot Cues and Ratings..

Hi, while organizing my music in Traktor Pro 2, I keep running into small issues that are quite annoying, and was wondering if I was doing something wrong, or if there were others that have similar problem..

I have a S4 with Traktor Pro 2, running on a windows 7 laptop.

I set Hot Cues as I go through my music initially, but when I make another change to the track, sometimes Hot Cues are lost afterwards. For example, After setting Hot Cues, if I put anything on the comment section while the track is still loaded, Hot Cues disappear. - So I make sure to unload them and make comments, but is this normal? -

Another example, which was more painful, is that after I ran key detection throughout my collection, about 1/4th of my collection randomly lost all their Hot Cues..

Same sort of thing happens with Ratings, though more commonly - which gets quite annoying. I set the ratings in the Traktor as I go through my tracks the first time, but if I close the program and reopen it, some ratings are randomly gone. Same even happens when I switch folders and comeback.

I was just wondering if there would be a way to make sure that Hot Cues and Ratings are saved after I set them. I know there’s a Lock button for thr Grid, and wonder if there’s a way to do the same for Hot Cues and Ratings..

I don’t have much experience with the program, so I might be completely missing something.. I would appreciate any advice,

Thanks,

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I’ve never experienced that… what file format are you using? mp3?

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My first guess is that you don’t have write permissions on certain folders which contain some of your music files.

Never had a similar issue either. Try to force write the ID3-tags everytime you change something on your files. The Apply (?) button in a track’s detail view should do so

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Have you imported the tracks in question to the track collection or are you working off the iTunes node?

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loading the tracks into a deck stores them in the collection automatically doesn’t it?

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I hope there’s a better way.. doing that for hundreds of tracks would take a long time..

I’m not using iTunes right now, just doing everything in Traktor.

The way I brought files into the collection was selecting the parent directory of where my music is (mp3s) and choosing ‘Import to Collection.’ After I import new tracks to the collection, I select ‘Check Consistency’ then analyze new tracks.
But I mainly work under Explorer view, under individual folders that I have sorted in a certain way. I think I did have the same issue when working under playlists though.

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Well, you could select them all and then click on one and chose “Edit”. It should apply your changes to all of them then. I would also quickly have a look at the Browser’s Status Bar to see if any errors pop up when you apply ID3 changes