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Awesome man, great clear tutorial, adopting this system ❤

Traktor *removes* track star ratings from a track when i load it into a deck. any ideas why that happens?

Wonder if you can help me...not all my itunes was downloaded to my Traktor pro 3

Hello there everyone! Questions for DJs - my iTunes library (with Smart Playlists) has been copied from User/Music onto external hard drive, great. Next question although I can obviously drag and drop to then save the music files themselves independently into another music folder it doesn't store with Comments. I have tried my best to find out more information on this (I would essentially like to make a duplicate, of all the songs in iTunes in all each respective/shadowed files, in say artist category or playlist file, on my hard drive, of course....). I would like to see my Comments there if possible, also. Any insight into this from anyone? I would like the Comments to be stored elsewhere, non-dependent on the User/Music back up from Apple Music on my hard drive... does this make sense. Thanks so much for your input!

Nice beat. Cool trail. Gotta try that sometime.

I use the stars not for rating but rather like categories. Ex: 1star=single 2star=2dance2... Therefore I can sort of classify my music on my iPhone.

Hi Jay, thanks so much for this great tutorial - VERY HELPFUL!... One question though (and my apologies if it's been asked already): In your Progressive House smart playlist, how did you create the ' "Any" of the following are true: ' tab, and then sub-tabs?... I'm using Itunes 12.10.4.2 on Windows (the latest version). If anyone could help me answer this, would be very grateful! Cheers!

Great video thanks

What about if iTunes shutting down. how all songs librarys how to hook DJ ????

Jay - This is fantastic. Thank you very much for the video - I'll be applying your methods to my library and Traktor ASAP.

This is a great tutorial! one final question. do you always import from the itunes treeview into the collection or do you simply rely in traktor doing that? in other words: do you only select from the itunes folder when adding a track to player A or B?

This video is a big deal. Especially so, with Traktor Pro 3 being available, and the entire new lineup of MkIII hardware on the way. I'd been stuck in my ways for a while, and that didn't cut it when I came back into mixing after some odd years. Everything had changed, and my hardware vastly improved from what it was before when I was doing this. I don't know how long these "smart playlists" have been around, but cheers to you Jay Dolan. This helped me immensely.

Jay - thanks so much for this. Quick question- I used this method for about 7 months and it worked perfectly. A few weeks ago i imported batch of tracks into itunes, assigned genre / star ratings as normal, but i cannot get traktor to recognize this data at all. The tracks show up and can be analyzed & played, but the genre and rating info from itunes is missing. I tried refreshing itunes, checking consistency, nothing. Do you have any ideas? Am I forgetting a step?

when i try to add music onto traktor it comes up with a message saying unkown format. how do i fix this

thx my frend!

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BLOWN AWAY, JAY. For real man. Thank you so much. #kkwatson

color Coding the key of the song energy of the song texture of the song smart playlists using comments

if every DJ watched your video before they ever started creating music libraries it would save everyone HOURS upon HOURS of classifying our entire library after the fact.

you just absolutely blew my mind with the genius of simplicity

How can I move subfolders to the main folder and put them I sequence so they will stay that way.

Hi mate , I have a problem whit Rating in Traktor using iTunes managment, when I am doing rating in iTunes is not visible on my traktor playlist from iTunes library . Any idea why and how to fix this ?

with Ableton Live, I'm trying to figure out where to store clip tracks associated with the original file..

This is incredible! Very good stuff here.

How do you get the key of song in colour?

Great video thank you! I wanted to ask if you remember all your tracks in your head or you'r just picking songs by scale or stars without knowing exactly?

How might you move your Traktor key tags into iTunes? No key field exists in iTunes but I would use maybe a Sort Show field to store the info. I attempted to drag a group of songs in a key to iTunes and then label the sort field, but it caused duplicate songs. Any ideas?

Great, great tips here bro. Thanks a bunch

Thanks for the video. I have a question though, when a load a track into a deck it says unknown format. How do a convert the format so my itunes-library becomes playable in traktor? :)

This was great! Thanks

lol this is amazing.

Main issue I have with only using iTunes playlists in Traktor is Cruise (Autoplay) cannot be enabled, in case you really need a bathroom break. Still, if you use iTunes... rather than typing into the search bar, I recommend creating smart playlists based off of your genre playlists, for 'groover', etc.

I'm JUST getting started in the world of mixing, and this video just changed the way I was going to approach my music library COMPLETELY. I didn't own any 'music for mixing' until last week, so as my brand new music library grows. This methodology is going to be very easy and very very useful to apply. Thank you so much for taking the time to create this and give us new dj's a way to focus on playing good music instead of wrestling with an unorganized library. Respect awarded, my friend.

wow nice great job explainiig it

did you use cue points? did you keep playing from the itunes directory in the browther or did you import to collection or playlists in traktor? looking to have a good system between itunes->traktor->rekordbox (or rekordbox->traktor). did you use rekordbuddy? thanks

I am having problems playing my tracks from iTunes in Traktor. This happened as soon as I updated to the newest iTunes. I do have Apple Music. I still have older songs which I didn't get from Apple Music in my playlist and it still won't play the old tracks I had before I started with Apple Music. Do you know how or why this is happening? I didn't have this issue before. I would appreciate any help you can offer.

Really appreciate this, it helped me alot. Thanks

Thanks a lot !

excellent! thanks.

question? when importing from iTunes to your collection does this duplicate the track? meaning you have one in your iTunes folder and the other in your traktor collection?

Thanks Jay, organising of itunes has alway been an abstract concept for me you have really put some clarity into it for me! Do you know if i can use this same system with serato? Cheers

hey there,nice lesson!! really good info!how about the first initial part?before going into iTunes, where do you download your files to?what folder? how to set up the original folders on the computer?and how is it broken down?or is it just one massive music folder?please!

Excellent video! THANK YOU for your insight! I have two quick questions... 1) I can seem to locate my playlists/music folders under iTunes in Traktor so I'm forced to Load directly from designated storage folders on my HD. 2) How can I program my interface to make the Key visible on the main screen/Deck with the rest of info about the track (BPM, Remaining Time, Truck Name, Artist, Album Art etc.) Thank you for your time!

Thank for your such a useful and clear video.

Great video thanks I finally understand smart playlists thanks to you! Question: Do you have to retag all your star ratings in traktor? For me if I have 3 stars on a track in itunes when I import into traktor it shows no stars?

I wonder if NI will ever sort out the 'Bat Crazy' Release date field in the browser? Yeh Traktor picks up the release date from the itunes xml file or from the mp3 tag eg... 23/4/2014 it then reverses it and wipes out the day and the month and creates 2014/1/1.... which is useless as every track in 2014 is shown as being released ON THE SAME FREAKING DAY.... this is driving me nuts, as a dj i want to see my old tracks from my new ones... another NI F Up!

Thanks for all of the positive comments and smart questions. I'm glad this video has helped a few people. I wanted to mention that, as of late, I've been playing with the new RekordBox 4.0 release on a Pioneer DDJ-SZ controller. At first, I was hoping to use the SZ with Traktor, but the mappings just aren't really up to par, and Traktor Scratch DVS doesn't work either. I was very disappointed, but after evaluating both Serato and RekordBox, I decided that RB4 would suit my needs. On top of that, this classification system and workflow I've used for years made transitioning to RekordBox pretty painless. So I'm still happy to answer Traktor questions where I can, but this Traktor user is now a RekordBox user. Anyone want to buy my S4 MK2? ;)

Great video Jay! Just got my Kontrol Z2, this is what i was looking for! Amazing vocabulary and explanation as well, top notch!, One ? this means everything is imported to itunes first? What order do you use , MIK, itunes , traktor? thanks

Hey you mentioned traktor searches the whole collection is a bug - it's by design. If you just want to search a single folder try tab on the left of the keyboard. Thanks for sharing your tips!

hey mate, thank you for your video, I found it very useful. Could you please explain more the terms liquid and trance?