Traktor ID3 tagging (BPM, Key, energy level...) and third party softwares

Leregaleur
Leregaleur Member Posts: 5 Member
in Traktor Software & Hardware

Hello the community,

I undersatnd that traktor pro needs to analyse first a song to define its beatgrid (hence the importance of analysing new songs imported from the hardware and even, just in case, automatically analysing songs imported in a deck before palying them.

I understand also that you can set a parameter in preferences . file management so that traktor pro does not write tags in the ID3 metadata of mp3s (even if it has analysed and defined the beatgrid).

However if one wants to use other softwares that can write tags (key, bpm with Beatunes, mixed in key or mixmeister for example) to write tags or simply if you want to manually write your tag in the mp3 file and you want traktor to show it when you open traktor (and of course sync songs with those BPM tags). Also you want that even if traktor analyse those songs after, it does not change those tags.

How do you do ? What are the steps ?

I would imagine : set the parameter in traktor so that it does not write any tags, close traktor, analyse and write tags with third party software, reopen traktor, do a consistency check and that's it.

Problem is : if one set the parameter so that traktor do not write any tags, does it mean you lose the custom tags of the stars, the color, comments you had manually written in traktor ?!!!

I am a bit confused there.

Heeeeelllllppp ! And please describe the steps to follow !!

Guillaume

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  • Oxy
    Oxy Member Posts: 139 Helper

    The tags only change after they're been loaded into a deck. Very frustrating I know.

  • Leregaleur
    Leregaleur Member Posts: 5 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/227872#Comment_227872

    I Hope this is not true ! When you have thousands of songs in your collection and want to organize playlists with bpm in order to choose the order of songs you are going to play and beatmatch….you better have the correct bpm on the browser BEFORE putting the tracks in decks !!!!

  • ErikMinekus
    ErikMinekus Member Posts: 147 Pro

    Not true, just select the tracks, right click and click Check Consistency. Or right click Track Collection to do it for your whole collection.

    I would imagine : set the parameter in traktor so that it does not write any tags, close traktor, analyse and write tags with third party software, reopen traktor, do a consistency check and that's it.

    No need to close Traktor, the rest is correct.

    Problem is : if one set the parameter so that traktor do not write any tags, does it mean you lose the custom tags of the stars, the color, comments you had manually written in traktor ?!!!

    No, whatever ID3 tags were already stored in the files will stay. But from that moment, any changes you make in Traktor will only be saved in the collection.nml file and not the ID3 tags.

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