Export track collection?

Is there anyway to have tracktor take all the files in your track collection and copy them to a folder? I have 1500 or so songs I spin with spread out across 100+ GBs of mp3s in 1200 or so folders on an external. In a perfect world, I'd move all of these to my laptop, since it's only a couple gbs of stuff, and leave my external at home. Problem is transferring only the tracks I use is essentially a couple day project if I have to do them individually.

Any ideas?

 

Right-click -> Export playlist?

 

yup, i would suggest so as well. prepare some playlist with the tracks you're really spinning and put them in a playlist, then export the playlist to your gigging laptop.

 

Wow, that easy?! Perfect. I'll try that when I am home. I have everything organized via a couple of folders in the playlists folder and playlists in each place there already, this should be great.

Thanks.

 

yup that easy. i'm very interested in how it went, since i never tried to export a playlist bigger than 100 tracks ;-)

 

Need help w/x-ferring track collection

Hi, I did a search and came across 2 threads teaching you how to transfer your playlist from one pc to another. I'm still lost as how to do it. I transferred all my songs to the new lappy, and I have installed FS 1.5, but It's empty. How do I go about adding the songs back into traktor? Including bpm's etc...

Thanks

 

the mysterium lies in the tag writing. you have to write tags to the tracks.

but honestly, i cant remember whether fs 1.5 had already this ability...?!

please post your question here or here or write to stanton support, since all finalscratch support lies at stanton's.

 

Thanks for the reply native girl. I was hoping you wouldn't say that! I have searched as much as I could (inlcuding your links) and have not found a way to copy my playlist to the new lappy on FS 1.5. I have been putting it off for a week now, hoping to find something before I submit. Anyone know or has done a playlist xfer on FS 1.5? Thanks!

 

How is this done properly?

I'm in the exact same spot as the thread creator. I want to move an entire playlist from my stationary to my laptop, with the songs still being beatgridded and with the ID-tags intact. (I have manually written down song-key of all tracks for example)

Is it tougher then to just select "export playlist" onto an empty medium of choice and then opening it in Traktor?

 

another thing... did you copy your whole finalscratch folder to the new laptop? of course, the new laptop needs to know the collection and everything.

copy the whole traktor or finalscratch folder (dont remember how it was called in FS1.5) found in my documents (PC) or user foolder (mac) - assuming you were using the default paths - to the respective place in the new laptop.

even if tag writing wasnt working yet in FS1.5 (dunno), the collection and the playlists (called crates back then) should have the info in it. i cant remember losing anything...

 

what traktor version?

 

Taking the files from Traktor 3.0, want to load them in Traktor 3.2 .

 

If you have separate controller settings for your desktop & laptop (most laptops don't have a dedicated number pad, for example, and I use the number pad for beatjumping), be sure you don't copy over your .TKS files or you'll lose your dedicated laptop hotkey/MIDI control settings. An alternative is to give them unique names on each machine.

 

if you want to move over your complete collection you should indeed copy over your whole traktor folder to the new destination and also your music files.

boysteve makes a valid point regarding the tks files, btw.

if you have mp3's, write the tags in the tracks (collection rightclick) before, just to make sure.

 

In order for Traktor to recognize the files including strings, would they all need to be relocated afterwards?
Thanks in advance!

 

depends on whether the paths for the files changed.

example:

you have partition c:\ and d:\ on your computer.
d:\ holds all the music files.
you use the standard traktor path c:\my documents\traktor3 for your collection etc. stuff.
you backup the traktor3 folder, then reinstall the system.
you install traktor, then copy the traktor3 folder in its respective place.
you open traktor: voilà, it's all there.

if you do the same procedure, but on your other computer the partition where the music files are is e.g. drive e:\ you will have to relocate the tracks.

 

Very useful information! Thaks Native Girl.