Traktor to Rekordbox on Windows laptop

DJ Software & Apps Rekordbox
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similar thread from 3x years ago: https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/moving-tracks-from-traktor-pro-2-to-rekordbox-windows-how.255037/

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Correct, it only supports Cue and Loop.

I noticed it with my script as well, some beatgrids were shifted but I couldn’t figure out why. Now I understand it’s due to different codecs.

It’s possible that it has to do with using lower bitrate songs as well, because I noticed it while using a 160kbps royalty free MP3.

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Precisely. All converters will be affected. And replacing thousands of mp3s by hand is not viable IMO.

As such, DJCU built a correction utility that operates AFTER the import into rekordbox. It reads what rekordbox considered to be first beat, and re-aligns that with what Traktor considered to be the first beat.

This process definitely worked inside my macOS VM - but there were still corner cases (eg, when the 0.0.0 beat was in negative time, etc.)

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Erik, I loved your clean python code in your script. Definitively cleaner than mine :slight_smile:
Would you consider having a go on this problem, and creating a (windows) solution for this?

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Hi Erik

I tried to run this and got the attached error .Any ideas?

python error.JPG
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if you have any programming experience its not hard to debug this…
sorry to not be able to offer more help, but I’m working hard on the DJCU+RECU route, as AFAIK is the only solution that will fix the cues moving around issue.
There I have the additonal complexity of automating getting files in and out the macOS VM.
Please see 5:13 of this video for a demo of the issue:

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Latest rekordbuddy2 beta fixed the cue shifted in time problem of a demo track I have. This is great news.
The stable release still has this problem.

next step is to run the beta on the whole collection, to see if more files fail.
details: https://forums.next.audio/t/traktor-rekordbox-cues-shifted-in-time-2/593/5

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update jan 2019: found a new open-source project in active development.
Windows release worked fine, except for the shifted cues project.

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I’ve now took the time to document all the options I’m aware to do this conversion in windows:

also uploaded my bash scripts to run convertors in windows:

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Hi Erik is this script still in place and working? I tried to use it before but got an error

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You can use https://rekord.cloud to convert your library in a few clicks, can’t get any easier than that. Works for Mac & Windows.

The shifted cue problem mentioned above will be there for a small percentage of tracks. Pioneer or NI are really the ones that need to fix that, whichever uses the broken codec.