Questions about Stems files in Traktor Pro 4

I have testet it now. Yes it only shows up my NUO-Stems imported as mp4 to the database. the inside traktor created stems are missing. it seems they have forget this already.

It's not substantial though, you THINK it is, but it isn't at all. Which is why the worlds best audio professionals on £30,000 rigs can't accurately tell the difference. In the greatest respect you have neither better ears or better audio equipment than them.

I have £2000 pair of Sennheiser HD-800s with a £4000 Violectric Amp coming out out UADs best DACs and no one is able to reliably pick which is which in an A/B

Also you're not getting 1300Kbps with lossless, the kbps is irrelevant, it's just effectively a real time zip file that reduces the size of a wav or aiff.

Of course if you think you have magic ears you can prove it by doing a blind A/B test here, do the long test and see if you can get anything better than basically guessing each time.

http://abx.digitalfeed.net/faac.320.html

Again, I think you’re not really aware of how much flexibility you lose when working with a compressed file. Just like editing a RAW file in Lightroom or Photoshop gives you far more control than a JPEG, FLAC does the same for audio. FLAC is lossless, so it preserves every detail in the original recording, allowing you to hear the full depth and richness of the sound. MP3s, like JPEGs, compress the data and limit what you can hear. The difference may seem subtle, but for those who value quality, it's undeniable.

Great catch! I updated Traktor Buddy to make use of this. From the module you can now call Track.isStem() to know if the track is a stem (generated by Traktor or added to the collection by you) and from the command line I've added the —only option which lets you do this:

tktbud --only=stems tag add Type:Stem MyPlaylist

which will add the tag Type:Stem to any stem files found in the playlist MyPlaylist. You can then use this tag in a smart playlist in Traktor.

(side-note, if you're going to experiment with tktbud, it does make backups of the collection before making any changes but still use the —test option first to make sure you understand what you are doing).