Favourite pairs or combinations of tracks, to show up as recommended tracks

MattG84

I've been using Traktor since about 2002. Much of my DJing has been long bar sets or parties where preparing a setlist is not an option and you have to go with the flow.

What I really want is a quick and easy way to save and recall great combinations of tracks when I stumble across them during a mix.

SO:

• Let's say I've got tracks loaded on decks A,B & C
• It hit a FAVOURITE LOADED TRACKS button - this will save the combination of A,B & C
• The next time I load any of those tracks onto a deck, the others will appear in a 'recommended tracks' panel in the browser

So it's still discoveries that you've made yourself, but you have the advantage of those recommendations just coming up in context - and it also gives you a super simple way of saving those great matches on the fly - just hit one button!

This is a great way of recalling those serendipitous magical mixes of tracks that sound great together - especially if they're in disparate genres, or don't match in obvious ways (like key or bpm).

And remember! I'm only bringing up the 'recommended tracks' view in the browser if I specifically do that. So if you're playing from a playlist, or don't want any suggestions, you just don't show recommended tracks in your browser. And it'll only ever show track combinations that you've found yourself!

It's a super quick and easy way to build little chunks of playlists on the fly!

It's basically a smart/dynamic way of creating playlists - that can branch in all sorts of interesting ways. As opposed to a rigid playlist - personally I'm never really interested in playing the exact same sequence of tracks more than once, it's too restrictive.

>Note - I'm aware that the iPad app seems to do some sort of smart track matching to offer suggestions. That sounds somewhat interesting to me too - but my suggestion is something that you have complete authorship over.