Ideal Traktor Music Library Size ?

Gudlite · 2025-02-11T03:50:17+00:00

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I am having a LOT of issues with Traktor lagging…especially when searching my music.

With storage being so cheap now, I generally keep all my music on my internal SSD drive. The library is now sitting around 750GB.

Last I remember Traktor working well was when my library was when it was under 500GB.

Is there an ideal size for the music library that Traktor can handle?

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Martiniix_NI

Heyo!

There's no magic number, but generally, keeping your Traktor library under 1TB is a good guideline for smoother performance. Once you go beyond that, you're more likely to encounter lag, especially when searching or browsing.

I could suggest you follow the tips below to improve your performance.

Clean Up: Remove duplicates, unused tracks, and old versions.

External Drive: Consider moving part of your library to an external SSD.

Active Playlists: Create smaller, focused playlists for your current sets.

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Martiniix_NI

Heyo!

I could suggest you follow the tips below to improve your performance.

Clean Up: Remove duplicates, unused tracks, and old versions.

External Drive: Consider moving part of your library to an external SSD.

Active Playlists: Create smaller, focused playlists for your current sets.

Gudlite

Hmm… I am at around 750GB, and it just keeps growing (the new subscription service I am on likes to give me ALL the remixes… my old one only gave me radio/explicit edits, not remixes). I will likely be at 1tb within two years at the rate songs are added.

My Traktor install is extremely sluggish. Searching takes forever, the interface constantly freezes. The irony is I tested a different software (that had video) on this laptop before resetting it (a few months ago) and it ran smooth. So not sure what Traktor is not liking. I am in the process of resetting windows 11 again (this time I upgraded to pro to see if the additional features may help) but if this continues, I am going to be forced to consider a different software, which would suck as I have used traktor since going digital…

I have done all the recommendations provided, my laptop is a Dell G15 series gaming unit (i5/16GB ram) and I only use SSD for music and OS.

Testing on my desktop, which is a Lenovo Legend Gaming unit (17/32GB Ram) and the interface still freezes when loading tracks and searching, but I will admit the search function is faster on the desktop.

Is there anything that I could do to help the program run smoother?

Gudlite

I have reloaded traktor 4. I imported the Library, but cancelled the analyzation of all the music. Everything worked pretty good. There is the usual jitter (which is annoying) when loading a track, but searches and everything worked well.

I analyzed a few thousand songs, and things started to act up. No where near as bad as it was, but I have also only analyzed a fraction of the music.

Should the entire music collection be analyzed, or should we only analyze them as we load? I have always analyzed the music, which literally takes days to complete, but I am beginning to wonder if this may be my issue?

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