Hey guys, so I looked, and searched, but couldn’t find any info on my small problem that I’ve run into.
So… These days I’m using Beatunes3 to analyze all my tracks, then I emb the id3 tag info into my iTunes. After that I open Traktor, and normally the id3 tag info from iTunes imports straight into Traktor, all good there.
FYI… I only use iTunes with Traktor, and I’m trying to mix harmonically.
Now there is one issue I’ve noticed that is happening every time.
When I open Traktor for the first time all the track Keys, and Album art shows in my iTunes track list browser, but when I refresh iTunes to update my playlists, and albums, all the track Keys, and Album art disappears??? WHY?
Now the funny thing is when I load up a track, the Key info, and Album art shows in the deck, but not in the track list browser. Its very strange…
Is there something I’m missing perhaps, or maybe some setting I need to change inside Tracktor?
Ok I was checking this out more, and I noticed that all the info is visible in the track collection , but not in iTunes on Tracktor. Now I don’t use Traktor’s track collection for my mixing, so is there a way to show the same info?
The limited information available in the iTunes node is due to so many complaints of the iTunes node running so slow. There is no way to get that info.
Hmmm ok so basically if I wanted the track Key to show in the list, I would need to use my Traktor track collection?
I stopped using my track collection months ago, when I had issues importing my whole iTunes collection into Traktor. It would start importing and then just shut down. I’ve tried everything to get it fixed but no luck, so now I just gave up, and use iTunes only.
Wondering how to import my entire itunes collection into traktor as well. Tried it once but midway through analyzing the collection it just stopped. Would be cool if i could see key info in the tree too, anyway to make that happen?
ok lol, so is my personal solution to scan the keys with the virtual dj demo version to import them into traktor really the cutting edge technology? ahahah ^^ rofl@native instrulol
Well when you analyze your tracks with MIK, it should write the Key to the iTunes tag if I’m not mistaken.
When I open Traktor I right click on iTunes and hit “refresh” and it updates the id3 tags within iTunes to Traktor.
I first refresh iTunes inside Traktor to update everything, and then I click “Import collection”. When I do that it crashes, well thats what happens to me. I get about 80% of the way and then Traktor crashes.
I’ve tried making a new XML file in the iTunes folder, like NI support suggested, but that didn’t work. Oh well…
Yeah I do that bru, but it doesn’t show in the iTunes field, only in the Traktor collection.
I’ve tried everything to fix these issues. NI support told me that there is probably a corrupted file/track that Traktor is picking up and then it crashes. Now I’ve gone through my whole collection, and everything is fine. I’ve run all my music through Beatunes3, and fixed any misspelling/incorrect tag etc.. but nothing, it still crashes.
The strange thing is when I had the Traktor Pro S4 software it was fine, and when I upgraded to TP2 when it was released it was also fine. Then I sold my S4 uninstalled the software to deregister it, and installed my T LE. I then upgraded to TP2 and this when I got this issues. Before with my previous version of TP2 I had no issues with my music, but now after getting TP2 again I do?
I’ve tried everything, I’ve completely uninstalled and reinstalled TP2 3 times, corrected every id3 tag through Beatunes3, but still it crashes if I try to import my collection, that why I’m trying another way as I mentioned in my OP.
What I do is build the playlist in iTunes with whatever tagging I want using the comment field.
I open the iTunes node in the Traktor browser, find the playlist, and choose “import playlist to collection” or whatever it is. Then, close the iTunes node and go to Traktor’s playlist node…find the playlist, select all and run Check Consistency. All the metadata shows up except for album art, which I then add manually because I really like album art.
It works for me. But I don’t use live playlists and barely use iTunes.
So I think another possible solution is to import each album in iTunes separately, that way when it shuts down I’ll have a better chance of finding what is the corrupt file thats making Traktor crash.
How I did it was import each iTunes album one by one, and when Traktor crashed I checked that album to see what track made it crash. After a lengthly process I found 3 out of ± 2000 that were making it crash. I’m not sure why they were making Traktor crash as they looked pretty normal in iTunes.
Anyway I deleted the tracks (luckily they were old) and BINGO, my whole iTunes collection was imported to Traktor!
Now I have all my Key info and album art etc… Phew, I’m glad thats all fixed up now!
I’d imagine a null character would also cause traktor to f up (asci/unicode 0), and it would show up as nothing. Try selecting each field in iTunes, hitting [ctrl|command]-a and retyping the same metadata and see if you can re-import them.
Yeah…I used to use that to troll people on school computers.
On Windows 3.1 through at least 2000, you can type a null character by holding alt and hitting 0 on the number pad until zeros start to show up…then delete the zeros (I think it was 3 because they used the decimal representation of ASCII codes instead of hex for some stupid reason that never made sense to me).
In the GUI it sometimes showed up as an underscore depending on the version, but even then…when all the school computers suddenly showed up with _Porn (or better yet, some_teacher_naked ) folders on the desktop…people clicked them.
And what did Explorer do? Nothing. It wasn’t built to work with the full ASCII character set. It was good enough to not crash…instead it just silently ignored the user’s input.
You had to use the command line (cmd.exe) to create and remove them, and I think I knew of about 5 people in my high school who even knew windows had a command line…and we were all students.
It got really funny when the lab supervisor would thank us profusely for fixing what was essentially reversible graffiti that we caused. And he never caught on.
For all I know, it might still work…I don’t think I’ve used a Windows computer seriously since win2k. I switched to Linux after using XP for a month or two left a horrible taste in my mouth and then went OS X and never looked back.
Always use the Traktor Collection when you can to browse for tunes. I try only to load itunes browser to load new tunes, and import them to colection. If I was really organized I would import them directly to playlists but that almost never happens… in either case though, all kinds of trouble happens from using the itunes folder (or the “explorer”) to browse and load songs.
This is one of those things that is confusing in traktor even though it’s practically written in all caps throughout the manual. The user assumes that browsing anywhere in the file tree is the same thing; it was like a paradigm shift for me when I realized the collection was a separate entity in Traktor. This should be more obvious from just looking at the window so that people would get it right away.
