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- Hey, I’m switching to using Traktor Pro V2 2.5 from VDJ. I have loaded Traktor and analyzed all my songs in the ‘Track Collection’ Folder, on the right, but now when I go into the folder with my Itunes songs, although they have the bpm next to them in the ‘Track Collection’ folder, they dont have the BPMS next to them in the Itunes folder, also I cannot analyze the songs when I right click on them for some reason??When I load the track to the deck, it does show me its BPM, but it wont show me it on the list next to the track still, so when I want to look for songs with similar BPM I cant, because it doesn’t save them.Does anybody know how to solve this?Here are some pictures.Here is the song in ‘Track Collection’ With the BPM.Here is the song in my Itunes folder – No BPM.And here is what I get when I right click it, no analyze option.It looks like it is already analysed….Traktor and iTunes don’t play ball with each other when it comes to MP3 tags so don’t be surprised if they don’t read each others info (or if they overwrite each other too!)Oh I see the problem. Having Avicci – Levels in your playlist isn’t supported by any reputable software…
Just joking…kind of. Unfortunately as Rob stated above, Traktor and iTunes don’t play too well together but I’m really not sure what the problem is as you could just use the track collection list to find tracks.After analysing the tunes in Traktor did you go back in to iTunes and update the tag information? I’m not home ATM but I’ll double check the info when I get there.There’s no re-analyse option but you can re-scan your music, this should update the tag information in ITunes.The same thing happens to me, remember itunes is noT dj software. Ä° do understand you because i find it annoying that Ä° have to import everything into my traktor collection in order to see the bpm. However Ä° havnt tried this yet but i will analyse everything in Mixed in Key then re-import all my files back into itunes. Ä° will also re-import the files into traktor if Ä° have too. Or as previously stated you can re-scan your music in itunes after you have analysed them in traktor.Miltz308, post: 27721, member: 3399 wrote: Ok so how can I re scan my music??Yes, if you re-scan your itunes collection it will update the tag information with the BPM and any other information you’ve entered. Just reload the music from your hard drive, anytime you update the tag information out side of itunes, say with Traktor,MixedinKey, Beatunes etc that’s all you need to do.If your songs have the BMP in your TRACK COLLECTION (in Traktor)
then simply go back in iTunes software and select the songs and press: COMMAND + i (on a Mac).
It will automatically add the BMP that was analyzed in Traktor in iTunes.
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Aug 30, 2012 Hey, I’m switching to using Traktor Pro V2 2.5 from VDJ. I have loaded Traktor and analyzed all my songs in the ‘Track Collection’ Folder, on the right, but now when I go into the folder with my Itunes songs, although they have the bpm next to them in the ‘Track Collection’ folder, they dont have the BPMS next to them in the Itunes folder, also I cannot analyze the songs when I right. Jul 20, 2011 I'm getting to the point where all my music will no longer fit on the internal hard drive in my laptop. I'm wondering what the experiences are playing music from a hard drive. I'm a mobile DJ so reliability is a BIG issue. Is there anything I should know about using an external hard drive to house all my music? Should I go with powered, or USB powered? Nov 29, 2012 Right click in the browser tree and create playlist. Drag and drop your selected tracks into the playlist. Create a folder on your hard drive and give it a name. Go back to the playlist in Traktor and right click it. Select export, select NML as the export format. 500 GB Flash drive (this should well be enough power to run Traktor) I did run the same Setup on a 2017 Macbook Pro 13' (2.3 GHz i5, 8gb RAM) with the same version of High Sierra and Traktor worked rocksolid, always, even with other applications running in the background (Adobe Auditon, iTunes, Google Chrome).
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Digital DJ Tips reader Jack messaged in: “I’m looking for advice regarding using external hard drives to DJ with. I am currently using a MacBook Pro and I am running out of storage space (I only have about 4GB free). I am unsure about upgrading to a larger internal SSD due to expense, but I am also unsure about using external hard drives in a live performance environment. What are your thoughts on this?”
Digital DJ Tips says…
It’s possible to play tunes from an external hard drive, but it introduces a number of potential issues: First, external hard drives can be yanked in a crowded and cramped DJ booth, which of course means playback grinds to a halt (I should know, because this has happened to me a few times when I first started DJing with a laptop). It’s embarrassing, and the worst part is it takes a while for your DJ software to recognise the external drive again when you plug it back in. That’s dead air and additional stress you wouldn’t want to deal with at a gig.
Second, since external hard drives are portable, they do get mishandled, either accidentally or when they get thrown around in your DJ bag. As a result, their reliability can be compromised over time. I have a 500GB external from 2014 that now refuses to work because its USB socket has got wobbly, and while it does power up, it’s no longer recognised by my MacBook Pro. Ouch – good thing I have a back up.
Third, external hard drives may have performance bottlenecks – older (or cheaper) hard drives have slower read / write speeds, and that sometimes results in slower track searches or analyses. Even newer USB 3.0 hard disks can suffer from slower track loading times – Joey uses Rekordbox DJ and he says there is a slight lag when loading a track from his external drive compared to loading from his internal drive.
You may be wondering: if DJing with external drives is so risky, then why do club DJs spin with thumb drives on CDJs? DJing with a USB stick in a media player is a different thing – gear like the CDJ-2000NXS2 / XDJ-RX2 / Denon DJ SC5000 Prime are built and tuned with software onboard that are made to specifically perform a single task: to play music from media like thumb drives, SD cards and CDs, nothing more. That’s why they are “specialist” tools.
With multi-tasking laptops that are used for a variety of different processes including Facebook, checking your mail, and clearing last week’s spreadsheet with your boss, it’s a different story, and that’s where things can potentially get a bit wonky.
Also, some thumb drives are hardier than others – the Corsair Flash Survivor Stealth is an example of a sturdy USB stick that can take a beating, or at least certainly more of a beating than your standard external hard drive.
The most foolproof solution is to have your DJ library on your laptop’s internal hard drive – this reduces the chances of your drive from failing due to poor treatment and handling, and it completely eliminates the “yanked USB drive” accident from ever happening. You also gain the benefit of the fastest possible read / write speed for your computer.
An external hard drive is good for storing your entire music collection, though. Since you won’t be DJing with all of the music in this collection, we advise that you keep your DJ library and music collection separate. Let’s say you’re a techno DJ: your DJ library, which should only consist of music that you spin with (eg tech house, minimal, obscure German techno 12″ rips) should exist on your DJ laptop. Your music collection, which consists of all of your music regardless of whether you spin with them or not (that includes your trap / future bass tunes and your Engelbert Humperdinck discography) can then exist on an external hard drive that you keep in a safe place.
This keeps your DJ laptop lean and reduces the chances of something going wrong if you were just reading data from your external drive.
Any hard drive failure stories to share? What external drive do you use to store or back up your collection in? Let us know in the comments below…