end of my tether with my imac and traktor

ive absolutely had it with traktor 2 on my ibook (700mhz, 384mb, OSX (jaguar)). ive spent 5-6 hours loading all my mp3s into the collection, putting in cue points, beatgrids, working out bpms.... all works fine. then, at some later date, usually when ive arrived at a gig, when i try and open traktor, its gets as far as "opening collection", then quits, saying "traktor dj studio has quit unexpectedly"

this has happened to me half a dozen times now. first few times i just renamed one of the backup files as the collection, usually not losing much info. then it happend and NONE of the ten backups in the folder (2 id made myself, the rest automatic) would work, despite some of them being made over a week before, and working fine up till that point. i had to reinstall it to make it work again - strangely the old backupfiles would now run with the clean installed traktor

ive read around the forum, and though maybe it was to do with special characters, which ive removed from all my files.

what's the problem? im getting so pissed off with it.. everytime i open it up, i have to hold my breath to see if its going to open up alright

professional dj software? dont make me laugh...

i dont mind the odd bug, but not being able to rely on a piece of software like this is appaling. its literally 9 times out of 10 that this is happening

if anyone can help, id be extremely greatful. i use itunes to rip most of my mp3s, and the id tags are 2.2 (is that likely to cause problems?)

thanks in advance all

 

I think NI needs to clearly advise users how to backup their track collection files. Exactly ---SPECIFICALLY-- which files are we supposed to copy and which do we leave alone?

 

i've read on another thread that there's a setting in the prefs that allows you to set how long between each backup, withe default 90mins... but i cant see it anywhere...

ive made m y own backups just by copying the collection.nml file and renaming it when id imported a load of mp3s.

but my problem isnt with the backups - its just ramdom crashing. at a party once, i tuned on my mac, started traktor... opened fine (i had imported loads of mp3s earlier in the day).. before i played, i had to move my laptop. so i (stupidly) thought id quit taktor and put the mac to sleep whil i moved it. set it up, opend trakto and .. boom. quits when it was trying to open the collection. i went back through the backups, starting with the most recent, renaming them "collection.nml" and trying to restart... went through all 10, none would work. after getting really stressed, trying to play good ole vinyl while i was rebooting and restarting, i gave up, and played a limited set with what records id brought with me...

synthet, oh mac moderator, do you have any advice?

 

Same here but worse!



Using a Powerbook 800 and iTunes 3 to do most of my ripping I am experiencing all the same problems as skywalker. I have about 700 mp3s at 320kbps and what bugs me is when I rip additional CDs It is a pain in the butt to get them recognized as part of the record collection. What normally works' for me to just re-install the whole thing and have the drives scanned.

Here is what I believe to be the crux of the problem. Traktor simply memorizes where the tracks are wether on your main drive,iPod,or external. This makes it one hell of a headache especially when you use utilities to say defrag and your info gets moved to other sectors. Native therefore owes us a solution. Here is what I suggest.

Have Traktor create/recognize a specific folder where we can COPY or MOVE our files to so we can do away with all this checking for consistency crap which works only if you have a tiny collection so as to provide a surefire physical location on the selected drive for at least one nights material. SIMPLE!!

SECONDARY RANT: Ever try recording .AIFFs onto a desktop folder and try to add it to your record collection box? Can't be done since the explorer can't see it. I thought Traktor could do all formats? If it still can't do .AIFF then I won't hold my breath for AAC support.

 

yeah, i figured that moving files was a problem - the first few times it crashed was when i renamed tracks in itunes (i have itunes set to automatically update filenames and directories when yuo change the track info), and then tried to open traktor. but surely the most traktor should do is fail to find the tracks and put in an (!) sign.. not fail to open at all!

and the crashes ive had recently havent been due to that. ive been careful to avoid changing any info on a track in itunes without deleting it from traktors collction first, and the crashes i get literally happen for no reason - ad some files, runs fine.. quit out, restart, fine, then suddenly, quit, restart and refuses to open...

they need to make this software a lot more robust - there's always going to be differences between whats in the collection and whats really on the hard drive, whether its ID3 tags, filenames or locations... and traktor shouldnt respond by failing to work!