[How To Create A Playlist On Traktor Pro
Christel Malden
In this section you learn about Playlists and how work with them. Playlists are effective tools of organizing your tracks for different purposes. Generally, a Playlist is a collection of tracks to be used for preparing for DJ sets.
Additionally, you can directly add the tracks at the desired position inside the Playlist by moving the mouse over to the Track List and dropping it at the position to your liking. The orange line indicates where the track(s) will be inserted when releasing the mouse button.
Smartlists or smart playlists are a great way to effortlessly organise your Traktor collection. Using different filters you can create dynamic playlists of tracks linked by a theme or characteristic which update automatically when new relevant tracks are added to your collection. You can find your Smartlists in the browser pane along with your other playlists and sources of music.
Smartlists can be used in almost exactly the same way as normal playlists, however they cannot be manually ordered. If you wish to manually order a Smartlist you must first save it as a regular Playlist.
To search your library by Color tag, click on the magnifying glass icon that appears when you mouse over a track's color assignment in the Color column. This will then automatically switch the Browser's search field to display only tracks that match the same Color tag. You can also use the small magnifying glass icon that appears when you mouse over a color column to find all tracks tagged with the same color.
You can export your Playlists including the tracks to import and playing them on other computers with Traktor. Exporting a Playlist creates a folder containing the tracks in the Playlist as well as the Playlist file.
The Preparation Playlist is used to prepare your next mix. When adding tracks to the Preparation Playlist, they show a diamond icon in the first column in the Track List. Any existing Playlist can be used as the Preparation Playlist.
It can be useful to have a record of which tracks were played in a specific session. Traktor automatically lists the tracks you have played in the History Playlist which will be stored in a History Playlist file when Traktor gets closed. When opening Traktor again the History Playlist in the Browser Tree is cleared.
I have all my music on my Mac; I manage, create and delete playlists in the Music App. I can also set the cue of the tracks or sort them alphabetically for Artist, Track name, and year among others. Once you're set, plug with the USB cable your iPad to the Mac and sync. The same setup of your Mac will be applied to your iOS device and Traktor DJ 2. The same applies to deleting playlists.
Thank you for the response! At the time I posted this I was still on iTunes because I was afraid upgrading the OS (10.14.6) would break things. I finally had to take the baby-step of moving to 10.15.7 which did break some things but also gave me access to the Music App which has helped considerably, exactly as you have outlined.
I have created and saved new XML files for each individual folder / playlist that I have wanted to transfer to Engine from Traktor. I have saved these in separate breeders when I have imported them to the engine. First, import the XML files into Engine, then the music. Do not first move the music and then the XLM files. Do everything in the right order and it will work.
I had created a huge playlist in my Preparation folder which contained
over 100 tracks that i had spent close to a year building (every thing
had been put in the order that i was going to mix it which took
forever).
So thinking about the MacOS side of things, did you back up your previous MacOS installation before upgrading to Big Sur ? Do you have any way to revert the installation, or a time machine or any other old installation backup where you could access your playlist folder and make a copy.
Last thought here, are you sure your folder is not simply hidden, or maybe permissions have changed, or it could also be that Traktor is simply not working well on Big Sur and that the app does no longer see your folder.
- Spotify Suggestions App
- take Spotify or iTunes playlist and import it, find matching Spotify Tracks
- use Spotify api to get suggested tracks for each track
- set of suggestions based only on that track
- set of suggestions based on that track plus surrounding tracks (-2/theTrack/+2)
- allow user to preview(listen) and rate the suggested tracks
- filter and combine tracks based on user scoring, number of suggestions, saved favorites
and create 5 different playlists based on above
- allow to create Spotify Playlists from these new playlists
- allow to search current iTunes library to find tracks that match these suggestions
- allow to export any tracks not matched to a file to be used for external fetching of tracks
- allow to create iTunes playlists from matched tracks
- will create dummy missing tracks in playlist for easy replacement later
- Traktor Current Track Suggestions App
- program gets the newly loaded track
- searches the Traktor history playlists and suggests best tracks to have played before
within a -5/+5 distance in each history playlist. Scores by distance and count.
- (in future will use Spotify api to see what Spotify suggests based on single track and
the history suggestions, then find matching tracks in iTunes library)
- allows the selection of suggested track to be loaded into Traktor
I have been manually using this to help relocate tracks in my Traktor program and will in the future use this to help automate the process for me with Changing XML file in Traktor or performing User Interface scripting automation along with the Finder.
a script that targets composer of a TV track will fail. Because TV doesn't use the Composer tag. Or the Album Artist tag. Or the artist property. Instead of artist, TV has a director property. And a Music track doesn't understand show, season number or episode ID; a TV track won't grok movement or work properties.
Mixed In Key analyzes your music files, and shows you the Energy Level number for each track. The numbers go from 1 to 10. You can create playlists based on these numbers and group similar vibes together.
Native Instruments' first foray into the world of iOS was iMaschine, a fun but deceptively powerful beatbox for Apple's smaller devices. Now, and somewhat by surprise, appears Traktor DJ for iPad, a re-imagined version of its flagship DJ software that looks set to revolutionize the way we spin music. In the last few years, most DJs have switched from traditional vinyl to some form of laptop-based digital setup. But the iPad is actually perfect for DJing: it's amazingly portable and surprisingly powerful but still has a big enough touch screen to make manipulating music possible. The key here is in the execution, and as we know, NI is really rather good at that.
Your first step will probably be to just load up a track and start playing, which is as simple as tapping on one of the two decks' artwork areas to open the Browser. You can browse by song, playlist, artist, album or genre, and create and name new playlists on the fly. Any songs in a list can be sorted by name, artist or BPM, and you can tap on a track to see recommended tracks to go after it or to mix with it. Traktor DJ does this by analyzing every track the first time it is loaded, so it knows tracks' tempos before you start. Flip the Load switch to place a track into deck A or B and you're away. There's a search field to find files really quickly and you can set a master tempo too, using a dial.
A note about music files: they have to live on the iPad, so as with every other app that runs on iOS, if you use iTunes Match you will have to download a physical copy to the device, though this can be done while DJing since audio continues even when Traktor DJ is in the background. It's reliant on your onboard Music app playlist or playlists that you create within Traktor DJ, and at present you can't manually copy files from elsewhere into Traktor DJ, which would be a nice addition for the future.
With the Browser open, you get mini views of the two decks at the top with waveform displays, play and loop buttons and a crossfader, so it's quite possible to play and mix tracks while browsing or creating playlists. To get more creative, drag the upper area down and you reveal a larger Deck view. You'll see that the tracks have been analyzed for beats, and this works amazingly well not only with dance music but anything strongly rhythmic. So beat matching hip hop is as easy as techno, for example.
Each Deck has an EQ section that can be revealed with a tap, and you can dial in low, mid and high EQ as well as a filter that can be locked to freeze it. There's also an FX section for each Deck with three slots per Deck, each assignable to use delay, gating, reverb, flanging, beatmasher, lo-fi or a filter. Each one responds brilliantly to the touch interface letting you dial in real-time effects that work effortlessly and stay in sync, adding lots of interest to your performances. The effects can be locked too, if you like. Rounding off the feature set is a simple Record button: activate this and your set is saved as a WAV file that can be copied from iTunes to your Mac or PC though not at present shared directly to SoundCloud or another online service, even though settings can be synced via Dropbox.
Traktor DJ for iPad is an incredible app, at once very easy to grasp and use but with enough clever features to make you sound like a real DJ even if you're not. That's not to say it's a toy, because it really isn't. It's a very clever distillation of everything that is good about Traktor running on a touch interface that really unlocks the potential both of the software and the hardware. The beat analysis is unparalleled in its accuracy, and mixing and syncing tracks is simple. The effects are powerful and great-sounding, and navigating, looping and cueing are smoother and better implemented than we've ever seen done on the iPad.
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