upgraded the software, went into the preferences and clicked on the “add song key” to the info, and match the preferences for the collection from the previous version, but i then tried to load a track, and it just froze. i force closed traktor, reopened, let it “load track collection” and instead of loading a song, i just went to close traktor to “save changes” but it’s been “removing background tasks” (window that opens usually after a big session for your loops/samples etc) but this time, this message has appeared for 24 hours.
keep in mind, i have 40,000 songs loaded into my library, and this is the only reason i can think it’s taking this long… anyone have any ideas?
What do you mean by cost? Do you mean in storage/HDD space? 'Cause he sure as hell didn’t pay for all of those!
However, this brings up a good point. Just about all of the library management software I use takes advantage of the multiple cores in an i-series processor except Traktor…
Really? Now I bought records a lot between '98 & '03. As purely a hobby mind you, spending around £20-80 per week. In that time I probably bought around 3000 records. Probably averaging somewhere around 3.5 individual tracks per record, so in the region of 10k tracks in 5 years, as a hobby.
Now, if I was getting paid to DJ at that time, I would have at LEAST doubled, if not tripled, my buying. Meaning I could have amassed around 20k-30k individual tracks, in 5 years. So probably would have easily acquired, legally, 40k tracks in 6 years or so.
Now, I have been buying up mp3’s over the last year to 18 months, and have amassed a collection of mp3’s around 2,000. Again, as a hobby. I strongly suspect that any professional would, again, be looking at amassing a collection considerably quicker than this. I’m looking at around 12,000 individual tracks in 6 years. And that’s just of the style of music I would actually play. And not including tracks off CD’s / Albums I may have bought at this time too.
Not everyone is a thief. 40,000 tracks may well sound like a lot, but if your collecting them for 20 years, thats only 2,000 per year. Which is well in the realms of a hobbyist. A single may have 2 or 3 tracks in the pack, so you may only be looking at 700 singles. Or, around half of which could easily be made up from albums. Which would probably average 10-12 tracks each. In which case your only looking at 2 albums and a handful of singles per week.
In fact, look at the recent Live in London album by John Digweed. 55 seperate tracks for £14.50 on Beatport. Buying up like that only costs 25p per track, so 40,000 tracks for £10k. Not that bad.
so it’s the NI lack of processor, ya? i’ve got the quadcore, wish they would use it. it’s a pain in the ass. i want to try out the new updates, and i’ve been on vacation for 3 weeks, lots of pent up mixing ahead of me. i guess i’ll just wait for the morning…
hmm, so waited 48 hours, she’s still “getting rid of background tasks” when i close it. i can’t even think about loading a song when i open traktor, and now my S4 isn’t being recognized. anyone else having this problem? i’m starting to worry…
Well, i figured it out. after reading through a million posts, here was my only fix.
go into the actual traktor folder on your computer and delete all the Collection files. backups, everything. YES it deletes your “collection” but it’s the only way i got around it…
I would have run a check consistency check in a previous version first to see if you had any odd things first. But this seems to happen here and there for some reason.
You could also try to start a brand new collection and import your previous one. Some said it worked for them.