Issue with playlist importing/exporting and manually fixing via notepad++

Stelf

So i recently had quite the odd experience with traktor playlists. Namely when importing the playlist into another computer most of the tracks were missing.

However upon further digging I found some key differences in the .nml file via notepad++.

The tracks that did correctly import back into traktor had this at the end of their </ENTRY>

VOLUME="A:" VOLUMEID="3f5d9154"></LOCATION>

Comparing to a track that didn,t import which had this:

VOLUME="" VOLUMEID=""></LOCATION>

Changing that there was another difference in the KEY=

tracks that imported "A:/:Music/:house/...

tracks that imported tracks that didn,t import "/:A:/:Music/:house/...

After manually going through the tracks that didn,t import and changing the directory values to match they all imported.

Question still remains however, what has caused this to start happening and how to fix it? Has anyone else experienced this behaviour?

Manually going through a playlist export is quite a bit of work, specially with hundreds of tracks.

PS. bit of system info: Windows 11

Traktor 3.8.0

Sûlherokhh

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/11991/issue-with-playlist-importing-exporting-and-manually-fixing-via-notepad

I went the route of adjusting the collection via notepad++ to the changed drive letter once. Then i realized it was a lot easier to just change the drive letter via the volume manager. :)

Stelf

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/62728#Comment_62728

Well the renaming of the drive letter did infact fix the issue (changed it to E: and deleted collection and rebuilt it). Hopefully it sticks with its drive lettering aswell. I guess Traktor doesn,t like A: as a letter or there was someother error somewhere that caused it to write /A:/ instead of just A:/.

Thanks for suggesting drive letter changing 😊

Kubrak

And you have disc A:? Those used to be used for diskette drives... In ancient times...

What came to my mind. Are not those tracks from streaming services and downloaded to your computer? Or something alike?

Stelf

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/62164#Comment_62164

Yeah, i choose A: because it seemed like a drive letter that was never going to get auto assigned to a different drive by windows (has happened to the F: letter for me as an example). All of the tracks are flac-s or mp3-s on that usb drive, so not from beatport or beatsource streaming.

Sûlherokhh

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/11991/issue-with-playlist-importing-exporting-and-manually-fixing-via-notepad

I went the route of adjusting the collection via notepad++ to the changed drive letter once. Then i realized it was a lot easier to just change the drive letter via the volume manager. :)

Stelf

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/62728#Comment_62728

Well the renaming of the drive letter did infact fix the issue (changed it to E: and deleted collection and rebuilt it). Hopefully it sticks with its drive lettering aswell. I guess Traktor doesn,t like A: as a letter or there was someother error somewhere that caused it to write /A:/ instead of just A:/.

Thanks for suggesting drive letter changing 😊