Post Traktor-playlists automatically to a dedicated site → blessing or gimmick?
The new Traktor Scrobbler is almost ready to publish it. It comes with some kick-ass features like bringing current title display for Nicecast users on OSX.
I thought about creating a website where users can post their playlists automatically. Pretty much like what Serato has.
While this is a cool feature I’m asking myself the question Why would people want such a feature for Traktor.
What’s the benefit of such a site? Do you have any ideas which justify weeks of work into crafting that page?
I’d also hack something together so people can upload their Traktor-playlists on Serato.com but I don’t want to ruin my connection with Serato
What about an option of having it post to the different sites like blogger or wordpress if we’re already set up with a current blog. Another cool idea would be to have it automatically post a link to buy the song from amazon or itunes or beatport. Not sure how feasible that is.
Since I built a plugin-architecture that would be very possible.
Up until now it was more of a niché-tool but I think with the new features (last.fm anyone) more users will approach me with good ideas.
Generating buy-links is feasible. Actually there’s a site who’s going to use the tool for their service which will also offer buy-links for the track currently playing on Beatport.
Oh come on dudes.
You talk about all shit around here every day.
I dedicate a large part of my life to the technical aspects of DJing and even host a party which gets some of you DJTT-guys in the clubs.
I don’t expect to be given a knighthood for it, but I expect at least some people on here to provide their opinion on a subject which everyone can understand and is likely to have an opinion on.
Not really sure what the question is. Do you want to have feedback on why you should it? Or do you want to get ideas on what you should include? I’m confused
OK, I’m with you on that. I don’t understand what the advantage is of that either. I don’t broadcast that much anymore, but I would still like to know.
I think it’s super useful man. I check out playlist for artist I’m diggin all the time. I hear an awesome track by an artist I like, I normally check to see what his latest playlist was to see what other songs that particular artist is diggin that goes with that song, cause chances are it’s gonna be another gem I like.
Also I find check out others playlist gets me out of my norm. I like to also check out open format playlists. To me a dope set by a guy like Craze is masterful how he puts together so many songs from different times. For me personally it sparks creativity and gets me out of my regular way of putting tracks together.
I personally don’t like the sound of the idea, the best part of putting a set together is that YOU did it, this would only give people the ability to take your EXACT set and copy it.
lastfm for dj’s… bad idea.
thats just my opinion though, i can see why other people might be into it though!
I think posting to blogs is a much more viable option both for you and the people using it. They’ve already got the blog set up or can easily do so and you don;t have to come up with the hosting and create a website to do it. Order of importance to me is Nicecast, scrobling then playlist. I’m sure you already know this from our conversations though
both these points would make it very attractive for the masses i would think… definitely more so than on a collective site.
i would imagine the ‘buy song now’ would be a bit hit and miss. if you built a scrapper to automagically get the data for the tracks from the stores, it may not pickup the correct remix etc.. and i’d imagine it being (almost) impossible picking up blog tracks or booty’s.
At first i wasnt so sure about how useful this would be but i actually really like the idea now. Its always a good thing to be able to discover new music and having tracklists available will only aide the discovery of new tunes!
i only read 2/3 of the first page, excuse me if my post is currently irrelevant. im also assuming this would work on windows (xp)
i would love the ability yo post playlists on a site automaticly.
i make recorded mixes at least twice a month and i would like if i could include a link in the description that listeners can visit to get a track list.
2 reasons
i hate making the playlist. (alt + tab is a life saver)
i play a lot of lesser known songs, and i would love some of these dudes to be heard AND known.
In a somewhat LOL cosmic way, I found this post while googling for info on the Traktor Scrobbler. I was already a registered DJTT user, which makes it extra LOL. So, hopefully you will take this as a sign that people are in fact interested in what you do.
I can understand why people would want automatic exporting of playlists (“what track did I/you play right before ?”) into some standard format (T/CSV?) but the idea of exporting to any specific website does not make much sense to me. I am not necessarily the typical user, but once it’s in T/CSV I can do pretty much anything to it.
The big priority for me is scrobbling to last.fm, because I want to keep track of how many times I dj certain tracks, and I want to easily be able to add info about songs I “discover” in the mix in traktor to my last.fm playlists and tags groups.
!!! AWESOMER !!!
PS - Have you done a blog or forum post anywhere about the internals of the get-played-info-from-traktor bit? I have tried to look in the docs but I don’t have the first idea how to get this information out of traktor other than via the radio stream. I know early versions of the scrobbler used a simulated icecast, but more recent updates don’t.. what are you doing now? I am curious!
