How to manage your Traktor Track Library... in the 90s?

I'm amazed at how NI can publish an article like this, praising Traktor's library management capabilities, when it is precisely one of the hottest topics in the feature requests forum, with many, many requests asking for improvements in this area FOR YEARS, which have been mostly ignored.

https://blog.native-instruments.com/how-to-manage-your-traktor-track-library/

This process explains how to work with FOLDERS! I mean, yes, it was one way of working libraries in the 90s, but today?

Come on. Look at what the competitors are doing: Basically reading NI's requests forum and implementing what we've been asking NI for almost a decade: Smart Playlists, Loved Tracks, Recommendations, Split Browser, Deattach Browser, Key Colors,... where's all this, NI?

Continuously receiving promotions and emails prompting me to purchase stems, or tru-torials from other NI applications, and this blog post now, makes me think you are trolling long time Traktor users, plain and simple.

 

What a joke.
Physical folders to sort things in 2018 where multi facet databases/searches are common place everywhere...?
Seriously NI... that's a blog article with suggestions highlighting how bad the state of NI's Library/Browser really is and which should not have been written, let alone published, imo.

What's the point in talking up a library 'system' that was archaic (at best) when it came out with Traktor Pro/Scratch in 2008 ?!?
Fingers crossed that's not an indication that the next Traktor version, if/when it ever comes, will still be based on the current library/metadata approach... that would seriously be a reason to set fire to all my Traktor gear.... atm it's only catching dust and hasn't been touched for 2 ish years as there's still a small glimmer of hope for Traktor...

c.

 

the cringe is real.

 

I also gave up on Traktor.
What a shame. And what should I tell all the other persons I recommended this now dead product?

I truly hope that this will change sooner or later.
I would like to know if I should keep my S8 or get rid of it and promise not to look back.

 

I haven’t even touched traktor in like a year. I’m ready for a stand-alone controller. Traktor syncing and remix decks are cool an all. But too much going on for my taste I’m more about. Track programming and solid mixing . I guess for most techno djs they love it.


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The remix deck is one of the most brilliant features.
But my decision to swap my S4+F1 with the S8 was a bad one.
First of all, the most awesome feature, the loop recorder, died with the S8.
Than this not fixed **** with Apple (S8 freezes when the „screensaver“ kicks in) and all the other little compromises I had to take wants me to get rid of my S8, including Traktor. Permanently.

But I sense a lot of pressure on NIs Traktor-Team (hmmm, I wonder why /duh) and maybe this helps to make Traktor great again. I mean, nobody at NI talks about Traktor anymore, wich leads me to this conclusion.
Correct me if I am wrong.

 

This article doesn't bode well for any real browser updates in the near future