[UTILITY] Script to sync Beatport Pro/iTunes 'Release' & 'Key Text' tags to Traktor

I've been using the new and excellent tag sync with Beatport Pro to fill in missing data on my tracks lately. One disappointment though was that the release dates were not being written in a way Traktor agreed with. It would instead list just the Year, Jan, 1.

I managed to write a script to recursively search through a directory and re-write the ID3 tags in a way Traktor understands.

Find it here
https://github.com/JoeMatt/beatportproToTraktor

I've tested this with Beatport Pro written track tags, but I suspect it will work with iTunes Release Date tags (which aren't editable in iTunes annoyingly) since they use similar tag fields.

It's a console script so requires some knowledge there, though the github page does include some basic instructions. It only has 1 external requirement which can be easily installed via the command line on Linux or Mac.

I also find it really annoying that the 'All' search option in Traktor doesn't search the Key field, only 'Key Text'. If you select Key as the search field, it works, but then you can't do more advanced filtering on the Key and Comment strings. I'm looking into the possibility of also syncing the Key Text field, though I think this may be stored in a special Traktor only binary data tag. Maybe NI can just fix search.

Key tag to key text now also supported

 

Updated for key text

The 'Key' field is a special binary Traktor field. It also works oddly with Search in the 'All' position (I think) so I resorted to using the 'Key Text' field.