Fix to allow Traktor played tracks to play in Ableton

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Fix to allow Traktor played tracks to play in Ableton

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me what i do about tracks that have been played in Traktor not being able to play in ableton???

Aparantly its something to do with the tags that Traktor writes to the MP3.

Pleeease help

I’m tearing my hair out here, just wasted an evening getting Ableton set up to fix some drifting tunes and now i get this problem :disappointed:

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Pleeeeeaaaaassseeeee :disappointed:

I guess first things first… How do you strip out all traktor tags?? Tried the deleteing from traktor andchecked the option to remove tags but this seems not to have worked as track still won’t play in ableton.

Then 2nd … Once I’ve managed the above how do I stop this happening in the future???

Surely someone else has experienced this???

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I experienced this just the other day actually, the NI boards havent been of much help either.

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Hmmmm rubbish !!!

How can this have not come about sooner as we have people using both Traktor and Ableton.

Basically it looks like all my tracks I’ve used have been permenantly damaged now and i can no longer use them in ableton without obtaining a totally fresh copy of the track !!!

What did all you people do who reccoemnd fixing tracks that drift in ableton. Surely these have been played in Traktor so will be “traktor tagged” so will not be able to be played in ableton to fix it.

Proper confused on this one :disappointed:

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Update!

Just read on the NI forums that turning off analyse on load and set beatgrid will stop this. The only issue i have with that is does that mean you can’t then store cue points or beatgrids in my tracks?

I thought Traktor stored all this information to a seperate file / database ? :disappointed:

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[quote=“MisterMoleyMole, post:5, topic:2995, username:MisterMoleyMole”]
I thought Traktor stored all this information to a seperate file / database ? :disappointed:
[/quote]No, Traktor does add a Traktor-specific byte at the end of the file. Dunno if I’m explaining this correctly, but it does make a file change.

Question for all you Ableton users:
Since Ableton only uses wav files, why is this becoming an issue? Are you just loading your mp3s and then forcing Ableton to convert them? How’s your performance by doing this? Do you load an insane number of tracks like Moldover does, or are you loading them just as you need them?

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Ableton doesnt only use wav .. your behind the times theer it started using mp3s from version 5 onwards i think it was. :slight_smile: Good times :slight_smile:

EDIT: I just want to use ableton to fix my drifting tracks at the min

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I originally thought it was a problem with my mp3 encoder at first until i googled the problem and found out i wasnt the only one having the problem. Most of the time im just recording snip bits, because im using audio routing i just need to hit record. Makes is less of a pain, but its still a pain either way.

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yup .. i cant believe there is no solution to this as at present this means, as far as i can tell that when i play a track in tracktor thats it !! Thats all i can do with it from then on ?

Do i really need to duplicate my collection and have one copy just for use in traktor ?

I still dont undersdtand how thes epeople that have advised fixing drifting tracks in ableton have done it, as to me it seems that this isnt possible due to this issue.

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[quote=“MisterMoleyMole, post:7, topic:2995, username:MisterMoleyMole”]
Ableton doesnt only use wav .. your behind the times theer it started using mp3s from version 5 onwards i think it was. :slight_smile: Good times :slight_smile:

EDIT: I just want to use ableton to fix my drifting tracks at the min
[/quote]That’s not exactly true.

Ableton converts mp3’s into wav’s and stores them in it’s decoding cache.

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really ? learn something new every day.

… but anyway it still uses mp3’s and they are corrupt when coming from traktor. :slight_smile:

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Yeah, it helps to read up on product you use so you can understand them.

So, in order to avoid this, why not have your Ableton-used files already setup as wav’s? Traktor can’t touch them (as you can’t really add anything to a wav because they aren’t tag-able), and Live will perform much better without having a huge decoding cache.

PS I’m not behind the times :slight_smile:

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And here’s what I was speaking to earlier (me thinks):
http://native-instruments.com/forum/showpost.php?p=474876&postcount=10

[quote=“Friedemann @ NI”]

[quote=NReek wrote:]When speaking about file formats, there are many possible combinations available.

Practically speaking, there are certain random “poltergeists” when using mp3 and dealing with ID3 tags.

I’m talking about ID3 that are not handled correctly by some applications, it can be traktor or it can be itunes or any other tools, but sometimes ID3 are not written, sometimes they are lost, randomly in appearance. This makes difficult for you to reproduce the issue, maybe this issue has passed unnoticed but more likely you are aware of this.

As Traktor relies now on tags to store the valued information regarding cue points, stripes, transients, beatgrids, etc., and from our point of view we would like to avoid making this job repeatedly, i’d like to ask you:

Have you made analysis, tests in this area? As a result of your tests, which version of ID3 would you officially recomend as the most compatible or the less “buggy” to work together with Traktor, keeping in mind to keep safe the data we store in our files?

Are there any known issues with MP4 files we should be aware of? Is there any reason why the m4a files are not showing their bitrate? (it appears to be 0kbps)
[/quote]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.[/quote]

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I want to fix a drifting track

The track is downloaded as MP3

I then try and grid it in traktor .. can’t

Take it accross to ableton to fix

Ableton won’t accept it …

Where now ?

EDIT: If i remove the track from collection and use option to delete the Traktor tags then that works … but only as long as i havent imported it into my collection with tags already :disappointed:

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Hi Chilly,

Cheers for the link and quotes but i think I am missing something here. It seems to be of no relevance to me and teh problem I’m having.

Possibly haveing a proper thick moment.

Cheers
Gav

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Hey Gav, my link was to show you that yes, Traktor does change the file by adding something to it.

Now, what do you mean Ableton won’t accept it? You can’t just drag the file into Ableton? What error are you getting?

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Ahhh right yes sorry i get you now.

When you drag it into ableton you get a message stating something like directshow cannot encode this file.

Its definately to do with the tags that traktor adds. :disappointed:

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i’m not pulling up any results from our trusty Google friend…maybe you can grab the exact error message and post it here?

Or even on Ableton’s forums…

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i cant copy it as it appears at the bottom for only a few seconds

I know what the problem is its definately due to the traktor tags. I need to remove them from some files.

The prob is i deleted a load of tracks from my collection without selecting the remove the tags also option, and when you import them back in and then remove them again but this time selecting the option to also remove traktor tags it obviousley doesnt clear the tags added from the first time they were imported.

I guess what i need is something that will totally strip all my tags including the hidden traktor ones

Any suggestions anyone?

Ps if you want to find posts about this taht havent been answered type something like “remove traktor tags ableton”

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Ok managed to allow tracks to be played in ableton by stripping the tags using mp3tag

however that means ive now stripped all my info re que points etc … havent i ???

Not got time to check at the min as on my way out but that proooves 100% its def the tags … how rubbish is that !