Hey haze, what will I have to do everytime one of my smart playlist in iTunes gets tracks added to it? Sorry for all the questions I’ve put a lot of time into organizing my playlists in iTunes and I don’t want to mess anything up.
nothing.
I suggest you start messing around with Trainspotter and you’ll see what it does. Your songs right now in traktor are stored in Itunes. When you add them to your collection all your doing is creating a list or a document of what you have in Itunes. Currently Traktor does not provide you a way to fully manipulate that list. Trainspotter lets you alter that list. So whatever you do in in Itunes is on its own. Whatever you do in Trainspotter only effects that list. You will NO impact on Itunes by creating playlists in Trainspotter.
I would like to try out the version 2 beta as well, I really have to do a better job arranging my extremely large music collection now 
This is already on my to do list of fixes. I’m glad you’re liking it so far. If there’s anything else you find as you try out the various features let me know.
Why can’t Trainspotter write in the same place as Traktor does for Tags, which i’m guessing will eliminate the problem of writing tags with WAV files.
I don’t want to re-encode my music to MP3/FLAC.
Has there been any contact with the Traktor team?
Wys are the tags only visible within the Trainspotter application? Can I have the tags show in my comments or somewhere in Traktor? If not what’s the main purpose of them to create playlist of a combination of tags?
Please explain how they are effectively used within the Traktor application.
Thanks. I’m really digging Trainspotter and continue to recommend it. I’ve had a few PM’s. I think it’s great and really want to maximize it’s use. So far the beta is kicking ass.
I finally downloaded and installed the Beta last night. Looks good, but I’ll have a few questions later after I dig a bit.
^ just hit you back.
I would be keen to give this software a go if anyone could point me in the direction of a download.
That’s the current 1.71 release. We’re after 2.0 
PM’d..
looks veeeery promising.
when will the new version be released?
Not sure when the new version will be released. Probably another 3-4 weeks away I think.
I’ve been kind of swamped with requests to test the beta, so thanks everyone who’s kindly offered to do some testing so far, but I think I have enough people on the beta testing team for now.
still looking to getting TS running on my machine. maybe i’ll check it out
i would like to try it out, too
cheers, walter
Wys,
I’ve been spreading the word on Trainspotter, even on the Serato forum with the folks who jumped on the 299.00 TSP deal!!!
I have question about the Tags. Is there any way to get them to display in the comments or in any column in Traktor?
Are you talking about the Custom Tags you define? These should be written to the “Comment 2” field in Traktor. The other standard tags you edit should all appear in Traktor and in the tags in your files if you’ve got your preferences set up to do it.
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I’ve been using Itch fora while and it would pick up my iTune with no problem. I’m trying now a way to do that in Traktor. Here’s my Trainspotter workflow. (perhaps there is a better one).
- Down load track into Itunes
- Assign Genre to it
- Open traktor add Itunes library to the Collection
- Open Trainspotting - my entire collection is now in Trainspotting
- Get tracks - assign tags (mouse clicks all on one screen)
- Smart Playlist - create a new one, edit, delete, etc.
- Hit save
- Open Traktor
Now when I go to my Traktor Collection under playlist ALL of my smart playlists, with songs tagged are in there. At some point above during taggin you can let Trainspotter run a search in Discogs and find missing data on your song like Album Art. The extra step in the procss is adding to collection and then opening Trainspotter which is a 30 second process. You could also NOT assign genre to it in Itunes and just do it in Trainspotter. I do so I can continue to use Itch and so that my Ipod tracks are sorted correctly. So you could start in step three.
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Hey Haze one final question, I think i’m finally getting the hang of this program. So lets say I have my Smart/Dynamic Playlists made up in Trainspotter. How are these playlists updated with new tracks that I tag in iTunes.
For example:
- I have a hip hop, old school smart playlist in iTunes.
- I create a dynamic playlist in Trainspotter and it shows up in Traktor
- I tag more tracks that get added to the smart playlist in iTunes
What do I do next? How will Trainspotter handle that.
^ super simple.
Just add to your collection. That’s it.
I normall add to my collection. Close traktor. Open trainspotter and make sure they are there, then reopen Traktor and they are there. That’s just me “double checking” but really if they are in your collection the trainspotter rules should apply to those tracks now. No need to actually mess with the playlists.
Can someone hook me up with the beta as well. I’m looking for a new better way to get stuff managed between my setups. Not a huge fan of Itunes.