Mac Music.app > Traktor import. How to keep order / "date added" tag

fantaaa
fantaaa Member Posts: 1 Newcomer
edited March 2023 in Traktor Software & Hardware

Hi all.

I am managing my music fully in Music.app and have several playlists for deejaying. These are all sorted by "Date Added" so that i have my latest tracks at the top.

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Before importing, Traktor will have the tracklist inversed by date added:

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I can manually sort by "Import date" which returns a list in proper order but the "#" column is still wrong.

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If i import these tracks now, a lot of them will get "Import date" from TODAY (but not all of them, some will adopt the date from the Music.app. But no matter if i just "Import to collection" or "Import to Playlists" - the order will be messed up.

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I can not get Traktor to:

  • import these playlists in the same order as they are in the Music.app
  • to preserve the "Date added" from the Music.app

Can somebody help?

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  • Markovicz
    Markovicz Customer Care Posts: 381 mod
    Answer ✓

    Hi @fantaaa, unfortunately, this behaviour is by design as Traktor's Track Collection reflects the import date in Traktor (which is technically correct). At the same time, I understand the need to handle this differently. Therefore I'll bring this up with our Product Design team.

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  • Markovicz
    Markovicz Customer Care Posts: 381 mod
    Answer ✓

    Hi @fantaaa, unfortunately, this behaviour is by design as Traktor's Track Collection reflects the import date in Traktor (which is technically correct). At the same time, I understand the need to handle this differently. Therefore I'll bring this up with our Product Design team.

  • Justin Hawkspoken
    Justin Hawkspoken Member Posts: 1 Newcomer
    edited July 2023

    @Mark_NI Hey there, sorry to hijack this thread. Not sure if this is the exact same issue. Im currently using traktor 3.8.0. Im a long time user, and also manage the source of my collection thru Itunes/Music. Forever Ive been dragging my songs/albums from itunes, either directly or from within the traktor tree. Recently Ive noticed that when I drag a bunch of stuff over, initially it maintains the order of my files in the "traktor collection" but when I close traktor and reopen, the import order of my tracks is all mismatched and out of sorts. Tracks are all mixed up randomly. To remedy, I attempted to import one album/ep/etc at a time, but this did not work. Also, I do not use Itunes/music once I have brought tracks into Traktor.

    This whole quirk has only started recently. Any support would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

  • FnKyBts
    FnKyBts Member Posts: 12 Member

    @fantaaa

    I have just listed a similar issue again in the forums... I have brought this up in the old forums as well.

    Have you been able to get any help on this, or find some sort of work around?

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