Newbie needs help!

This is my first post so hi to everyone. I come from a traditional mixing background so this computer method is very new to me. Basically, im having trouble getting my songs from windows media player into the tracklist. I dont know whether its becuase im not saving them properly in the player or im not using the Tracktor browser properly. When i drag and drop files from explorer to the tracklist (the little record box) Tracktor seems to do that ok. When i look under each subcatagory i.e. artist, album ect. all it says is unknown. Its getting from this to playing the tracks that is puzzling me. If they are just classed as unknown how do i know which tracks are which? What do i do next or what i am i doing wrong? I have read the manual but like i say im new to this and am not particularly quick with computers yet. I hope this makes sense and someone can help. Im sure its extemely obvious but i cant get my head round the browser and how it all works.

Many thanks guys

 

No problemo!

I assume you mean you're dragging from the Explorer in the bottom left of Traktor? If so, go to your music folder and drag it to "Track Collection". You'll then get a popup that has "Artist", "Album", "Label" and "Genre". Leave those blank unless you only want to add certain tracks. Make sure the "Include Subdirectories" box is checked, and, presto, it will import them all into your Track Collection, and they'll all be there, identified however you labeled them in their MP3 tags. Note that traktor will count "Goa" and "goa" as separate genres, so you might have to make some changes by hand afterwards.