Importing History as playlist - file tags or playlist tags??

I want to import my history file from a gig on Saturday as a playlist. I'm prompted by Traktor when doing this to chose between file tags and playlist tags. What is the difference? I can't find anything on this in the manual, or from searching on the forum. I presume its to try and protect from any synchronisation issues, but I only want the list of tracks played - so I don't see why choice of tags should make any difference.

I have used Traktor since Saturday night, and may have played some of those tracks from Saturday night again, but don't know what I should do.

In future, maybe it's easier, before closing Traktor to drag everything in the history folder to a new empty playlist.

Grateful for any help.

 

Find the file under the Archive tab - right click and "add to playlists" - very simple.

 

file tags

 

haha - simple. I didn't even know there was such a tab. Manual could be improved here, as it just talks about importing, hence the original question.

Thanks!

 

Where is this archive tab you mention?

 

Click on Explorer and it's in there - playlist folders for every session on Traktor. I didn't know about it either!

 

Seriously? We've had 'Archive' in Traktor since the first version of Traktor Pro.

Archive is mentioned on Pages 45, 46 and 66 of the current manual and has been in all previous manuals.

Karlos

 

fair enough - obviously skipped over that point when I read the manual. That said, when I tried to work out how to recall a former session, I deferred to the manual, where it talks at length about importing previous history sessions - I don't know the page number, but you probably do . A footnote in this section, saying you don't have to import them, as you can also retrieve them from the archive folder would have cleared up any confusion on my part (and others').

 

Too funny - and I thought I knew every little nook and cranny.....

 

I think the word 'import' is a little confusing as it makes me think that I am re-importing the tracks causing duplicates, but this is not the case and doesn't duplicate the tracks in collection. Awesome little feature and tip! Thanks all... new post coming about this on the site - thanks!

 

It is an 'Import' as you are importing the Archive playlist from the History folder to the Browser Tree not the tracks.
The playlists in Archive are saved in the History Folder.
The Playlists in the Browser Tree are stored in the collection.nml.

I look forward to seeing my credit

Karlos

 

Me too, since I pointed it out FIRST.

 

You are both written in, immortalised in the traktortips pages for eternity!

Scheduled for Nov 5th
Thanks

 

Have been using this feature for a very long time and its very handy if you might forget trackname or file location in trackcollection, playlist or hdd.
Its sometimes easier to recall a list with a played track at a certain time, then trying to find track again in collection

But what I miss in this feature : you sometimes browse through and listen to parts of 100 tracks during a 20 track set, you might not want the 80 tracks you didnt play in your set to be in that list. some kind of "time played - filter" setting would be nice to have together with this feature

 

not in front of my laptop now but thought something like this had been implemented.

 

there is. check yo preferences

 

I don't wanna sound like an old bore but Is anyone reading the manual these days.:|

Karlos

 

Thanks, took me some time to find. Maybe I am blind and old

I have probaly forgotten some of what i read in the manual

Preferences - transport - Play Count

 

Who wants to play with me?

 

I know you were away for a bit so maybe you've forgotten that nobody has ever read the manual.