Trying to Remove the TOTAL Tracks from the Track Field

djcoryminto
djcoryminto Member Posts: 44 Member
edited October 2024 in Traktor Software & Hardware

I'm trying to remove the total tracks portion of the Track field for track numbers, e.g. "2 of 13" in a given track field. In that example, I want it to just show "2". You can manually change "2 of xx" to "2" in Traktor, yes, but I have 30,000 songs, thousands of which have the annoying "of xx" inscribed into the Track field. I have tried several tagging editors to remove this metadata, successfully, but Traktor still does not acknowledge the omission after checking consistency. However, Traktor recognizes the change the other way around; for songs that DON'T have total tracks information to begin with, if you ADD it in a tagging editor, Traktor WILL acknowledge this change and reflect the change, e.g., showing "2 of 15". So once traktor reads the "of xx" information, you can't get rid of it unless you edit each song manually within Traktor.

In Traktor 2 and prior, a workaround existed where I used to sort by track numbers, and I would take ALL songs with track 6, including both that show regular "6" and those with a "6 of xx", and I used to edit all at once to "6", and then repeating the process for all other numbers, but this workaround doesn't work in Traktor Pro 3.

I know this is a really picky gripe, but one that annoys me for years. Anyone else notice this or have a solution? Maybe there's a tagging editor that somehow does what I need and I have not used that particular one. I have tried MP3tag and TagScanner so far. As I said, they DO what I want but Traktor is not recognizing the changes.

Answers

  • Sûlherokhh
    Sûlherokhh Member, Traktor Mapping Mod Posts: 2,889 mod

    You can use smartlists to select those with a certain number in a specific field.

  • djcoryminto
    djcoryminto Member Posts: 44 Member

    That's a great way to sort them, true, but doesn't solve the issue of removing the "of xx" portion of the field, as even when I group all the track 2's together, and do a group edit, Traktor no longer inscribes just "2" to it. It used to allow me to do this in Traktor 2 and prior. I've tried zeroing out the Track field, leaving it blank, and then re-inscribing the correct number, but when it puts the number back, it puts the "of xx" data back in. :(

  • djcoryminto
    djcoryminto Member Posts: 44 Member

    Nobody dealt with this (or noticed)?

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