Transferring Music Library with Traktor?

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Transferring Music Library with Traktor?

Regarding that, i have 3 question :

What is the fastest way to transfer songs between a PC to a MAC?

There is two differents Traktor version involved : TSP and TS4. Will i loose all my beatgrids , hotcues and stored loops by transfering song ??

Is there a way to keep all two library synced together ? ( with external HDD i dont know if you can connect pc to mac?? ) Iphone? wireless hdd?

Third one is not a priority though!

So whats your 2 cents on that, guys?

Sorry for my english!

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1.depends on if you used Itunes on your pc, if so then just put it all on an external hardrive and drag it into itunes.

2.the fact that you are changing computers, yes i am almost positive you will lose beatgrids

and for 3 i have no idea. i dont think its possible, but you could always check out the forums on apple.

now i know you said traktor library, but i don’t think this is possible.
your traktor library is just a collection of your regular music folders

i looked into it for you and found a thread you should check out on the actual native instruments forum

http://co.native-instruments.com/forum/showthread.php?p=699158

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If you need to transfer songs on a regular basis use the NTFS-filesystem. Mac OSX already supports reading natively. With ntfs-3g (google it) it can also write on drives using NTFS.

Beatgrids, Hotcues and loops are all saved inside the MP3-file itself so you won’t loose them.

Real two-way-synching is not possible. You can however let the TraktorCollection.nml be synched through Dropbox or even easier Microsoft Live Mesh (both available for Mac and PC).
The easiest way would be using an external HDD for both and also storing the Traktor Settings on the HDD. Traktor can handle using the same data.
I’ve got Windows and Mac OS X on my notebook. Both access the same library (even on an internal HDD).

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totally made me sound like a douchebag
lmao

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Yes im using itunes on my pc ! but if i put my Itunes library ( which is routed as my music library on traktor ) on my external HDD my traktor S4 on my mac will recognised my extHDD as my music library isnt? and as they say at the link u gave me ( thx for that) my loop hotcues and grids will follow? ( dont really care about the grids btw)

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yeah, lol.
i’m pretty tired. so i dont really know what i’m talking about haha

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Thx a lot ! So i just have to keep my library in a extHDD and use it for both mac and pc and traktor will handle it?

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Eww throw in iTunes in the mix and I’m out. I don’t know if you can specify the location of the iTunes-library.
Everything Traktor-related works fine. Even if you mess up the library-thing. grids, loops, cues remain inside the MP3s.

Mr. EPIC its time to take over from here :slight_smile:

Yes, that works. You’ll probably need this http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ to be able to write to the disc on your Mac, but maybe it can already do that out of the box. The external HDD should either be formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Normally NTFS is the default for bought external HDDs.

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And i was wondering , will it be good to use an USB powered external HDD with traktor?

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its been time since i even thought i could post about it
:stuck_out_tongue:

i’ve had issues in the past with transferring music
to bad i didn’t know about this site ha

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Yes, that’s fine.

[quote]i’ve had issues in the past with transferring music
to bad i didn’t know about this site ha[/quote]

Same as I did. In previous versions of Traktor this feature was optional. There are also a few programs who will mess up Traktor’s metadata, but I haven’t had that problem so far.

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drop box.

you put your files in the designated folder on your computer and it uploads it to the site. then, when you boot on the other computers linked to that account they will download the new stuff

any changes within the files them selves (like you added more to your essay and saved it like normal) will also update.