Traktor Pro Can' T Find Itunes Library

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You may encounter some errors when trying to add Apple Music to Traktor program. Don't worry, here we will show you the easy way to import Apple Music to Traktor DJ with the help of NoteBurner iTunes Audio Converter. May 10, 2012  Hey, So I recently upgraded to Traktor 2.0.3 and it appears that it refuses to load the files in my iTunes collection. It can load the library and show me all the tracks, but when I click and drag a track to a deck, it says that it's missing / corrupt, which I know is patently untrue (these files are on my external HD and I know they're good and present).

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The iTunes node in the TRAKTOR browser allows you to directly access all of your tracks and playlists contained in the iTunes Music Library. This is useful if you are using iTunes to organize your. You may encounter some errors when trying to add Apple Music to Traktor program. Don't worry, here we will show you the easy way to import Apple Music to Traktor DJ. Jan 15, 2020  Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash by: turingtest2 Last modified: Jan 15, 2020 6:38 PM. Even though you haven't downgraded iTunes. There may be a recent.tmp file in the main iTunes folder that can be renamed as iTunes Library.itl to restore the library to a previous state. These files may be hidden so look up how to reveal.

When it comes to converting a personal library of music to a DJ library, I know first-hand the challenges and have developed a pretty good strategy I’d like to share with you today. The biggest challenge I found is separating the “DJ worthy” from the music you just like and still want to keep for personal use. Your personal collection has entire albums that you love that may not have a single song that fits into your DJ repertoire, and this is where genre sorting comes into play. The next is taming some of Traktor’s particular idiosyncrasies.

Here’s my method: It’s just how I do it, but as we all know there’s no right or wrong way, and I give you this in the spirit that if you’re struggling, it might help.

The method…

  1. Let iTunes manage your music – You can find better guides to setting up iTunes to automatically manage your files, but it sums up like this: I know it’s scary, but let iTunes make a copy of your music, but do not let it organise it. This results in one giant media folder with all your songs and a flat file structure, overwhelming at first but iTunes will be where you are sorting your music, not directly in that folder. From now on, if you’re a Traktor user, always import music into the software from the iTunes section in Traktor file browser. If you’re bringing a track into Traktor for the first time, it HAS to be from iTunes in order for this to work. The end goal is to get all of your audio files into iTunes, and then let iTunes put all of your files into the iTunes media folder
  2. Sort your ENTIRE personal library by genre in iTunes – Once all of your music files are in iTunes and iTunes has them all in your media folder, start sorting by genre. This is a task that can easily be done in large quantities of songs and can be done quickly even if you have a large collection of music. The goal is to simplify. You don’t want your categories too specific, and only sub-divide into smaller genres if absolutely necessary. Wedding DJs may only need a single “dance music” genre, but 7 or 8 subdivisions of pop based on genre, or even decade. A club DJ might need separate genres for DnB, House, Deep House, Techno, and only one category for Pop. Keep in mind the only goal is to sort by genre, not DJ library or non-DJ library. You don’t want any genres left over that are extremely small, holding one or two artists. If this is the case, assimilate that genre into a larger, more generic genre
  3. Separate the DJ worthy material from the rest – Anytime you come across a song from your personal library that you want to promote to your DJ library, edit the genre and add the DJ tag in front of the Genre. “Just Dance” by David Bowie moves into DJ Pop. Rinse and repeat
  4. Step 4: Create smart playlists in iTunes – Make some smart playlists using the genre tag as your main sorting tool. Smart playlists, if you don’t know, are special, dynamic playlists that sort your music by predetermined rules; they’re in the menus next to usual playlists. If you add “Genre includes ‘DJ'” in your smart playlist rules, all your songs that you have promoted to DJing will show up, from ALL DJ genres. You can get more specific and do this for each genre, or just your entire library
  5. Import DJ material to Traktor – Use the smart playlists in the iTunes section of the Traktor file browser to copy the music into your Traktor library. I would recommend starting with an empty Traktor library. If you already have songs in Traktor, do a consistency check. If any files are missing, point the Traktor browser to relocate your file in the new iTunes media folder you created in step 1

The reasoning…

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Why do this, you might ask? There are a handful of easy benefits for this.

  1. Separate DJ music and personal music – If you update a genre tag in Traktor Pro, because it’s updating the actual metadata information on the exact same file that iTunes uses, it will also update the genre in iTunes upon playing the track. (The update won’t appear in iTunes until iTunes “rescans” the metadata. This happens upon playing the track, or if you change other info on the metadata. I use the grouping section of the iTunes metadata and change it to “today’s date” to force a refresh on an entire library or section of a library.)
  2. Easy DJ library management – If you want to promote a song to your DJ library, add DJ in front of the genre tag, if you want to demote it, remove it returning it to the normal genre. This can be done in Traktor or iTunes, but I recommend changing the genre tag in iTunes since Traktor will automatically identify the genre change when you restart the program. Once you have demoted the track, and the new tag is showing in iTunes AND Traktor, you can delete it from your Traktor library. These tracks are easy to find, because they are the only tracks in Traktor that do not have a genre that begins with “DJ”
  3. Easy playlist brainstorming in iTunes – You can use the metadata “DJ” in genre as well as BPM and smart playlists to do some awesome things with your library. This is great for brainstorming ideas
  4. Auto sync new DJ files into Traktor Pro using Traktor DJ – If you’re using Traktor DJ on iOS, you may have had some issues with the file management and syncing of metadata. This was recently reintroduced for iOS7, and has had some complaints from the community. The basic complaint sounds like this: “Every song I put on my iPad that has Traktor DJ with metadata sync active, automatically shows up in my Traktor program.” Now for people who are intending to use their iPad for personal music AND DJ music, this is a problem. But if your iPad is only for DJ music, you’re in great shape: Set up your autosync to put all genres that have DJ in the title onto your iPad. Sync your iPad with iTunes, then open Traktor DJ. Traktor DJ will sync your collection to the DropBox cloud. After that sync is complete open, Traktor Pro and it will automatically add any songs that are on your iPad, but not in Traktor Pro to your Traktor Pro collection, including any metadata. It’s a lot of steps, but it ends up working like this for me:
    1. Research new music on iPhone, Promote songs to DJ library using Genre tag and then sync phone back to iTunes (automatic with iCloud)
    2. Sync iPad with iTunes, putting any new songs with DJ tag in genre into Traktor DJ for iOS. Prep tracks, make mini playlists, mixdowns, etc. All from iPad
    3. 3. Open up Traktor Pro and all songs not already in library will be automatically imported with all beatgrid and cue points

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This is only how I do it, and as I said at the beginning, the intention is simply to help anyone struggling, and maybe to trigger some ideas for improving your library management if you aren’t happy with the way you do it now.

One thing to remember is that no library management system is perfect, but consistency and finding something that works for you is the key to success – it doesn’t matter how clever your system, if you make it unnecessarily complicated or time consuming, you’ll be unlikely to keep at it and end up in the same or a bigger mess than when you started.

Good luck!

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Do you manage a large iTunes library with more than just your DJ music in it? How do you separate the two? Please share your thoughts on this method and the way you do it in the comments below.

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Most likely your itunes xml file got corrupted, this is pretty common.
Yes, we do have a guide and that is an excellent question. Here is an article we made on how to move your itunes playlists into Scratch Live crates -->serato.com
As we have seen over the many years, having Scratch Live read the itunes library is not a rock solid solution. None of us in Rane tech support would recommend it and we all try to steer people from it. This is one of many reasons. Mainly the problems have been the two libraries not matching up and also the library not showing up at all. That can be a nightmare for dj's. This usually occurs each time itunes updates its software.
What we recommend is that you manually import the music into Scratch Live using the 'Files' tab on the main page. It is still o.k. and common for people to use itunes to rip cds and create the needed song files that will wind up going into the Scratch Live library. Ideally you would organize you music files in your own folders. I have a hip hop folder, a rock folder, a reggae folder ect. Once the music is organized on my HD it is very easy for me to open Scratch Live, make a new crate called hip hop, rock, reggae and drag those songs from the folders into it.
This way the music is already organized. You can do all of your tagging changes directly in Scratch Live. We recommend using the crates and smart crates in the software in the same fashion you have been using your playlists and smart playlists inside of itunes. Also in the case of you get to a gig and open the program, but you don't see any crates (currently you have no playlists) its not a show stopper. Simply make a new crate, open the Files tab, drag the folder back into the program and you are ready to gig again in only a few minutes. It's in instances like these that the itunes library stops showing that can take hours to repair.
Here is an easy way to keep everything up to date in your library. If you have a hip hop folder with 1,000 songs make a new crate and call it hip hop. Drag the hip hop folder into the new hip hop crate, simple. Now if you add 100 new songs to the hip hop folder, open the files tab and drag that hip hop folder back onto the original hip hop crate. By dragging the same folder to the same crate, it will only update the crate with the new additions instead of doubling the music. If you dragged that hip hop folder onto your rock crate though, it would add all 1,100 files
In the past we have had people try rebuilding the itunes library but lately we have seen odd characters in the itunes id3 tags causing problems reading that library. There was a tag checker we found on the apple website. Give this a look over and hopefully this can help remedy the issue. Ultimately though, I would start to consider not using Scratch Live to read the itunes library.
Link to apple discussion - discussions.apple.com
Link to suggested solution - mac.softpedia.com
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This person was using Idjay software and had a similar issue, here is how he solved it - forum.algoriddim.com
1. Open itunes, sort the library by Date added
2. In the library go to the song(s) added on the day and time your itunes music library.xml was last modified (stopped working)
3. Opened up the file info for the particular song that was added the day the .xml was last updated
4. Look for non-english characters inside the song's info like title, artist, album, comments, etc.
5. Delete the foreign characters, check for the next couple of songs, especially those added after the date of .xml was last modified.
Checking your XML modification date and comparing it against the Date Added field of your library is another method of checking for bad files / foreign characters.
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XML creation crashes on some of the characters that it's unable to convert to XML-entities correctly. - discussions.apple.com
1. Create new smart playlist with a rule 'Playlist is Music'
2. Set limit to approx half your library size, ordered by Artist
3. Try to export the playlist in XML via File -> Library -> Export playlist
4. If the file has been created, delete it, increase the amount of songs in your smartplaylist; if the export has failed, decrease limit by a certain amount of songs.
5. After several tries you will find a limit number after which the creation fails. Go down to the end of this playlist and check the info of the file.
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Here is a combo of those two methods that a Traktor user found successful. -
1. Open itunes library and sort by date added
2. In the library go to the song(s) added on the day and time your itunes music library.xml was last modified (stopped working)
3. Find the songs right around that date and make a smart playlists for those albums
4. Try exporting an .xml file for that playlist.
5. If it fails narrow the search, if it exports, expand the search with songs after the last time the .xml updated
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Links to different xml validator tools ----
A traktor user was having a similar issue and the Native instruments team suggested - www.native-instruments.com
Make sure to take out any non-music files i.e. movie files, video m4a files, etc.. Files containing illegal characters in the name may also cause problems, i.e. ' '{' etc..
The following tools can also assist in tracking down corrupt files in your
collection and in some cases even repair them:
PC - mp3val.sourceforge.net
MAC - triq.net
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forums.macrumors.com
Opened up my itunes library.xml with textmate and ran the XML syntax validation. It found that there were two songs which contained invalid characters in their metadata. I removed those characters and voila the import playlist completed
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discussions.apple.com
For anyone in a windows environment - there is a free tool downloadable called cooktop that is a simple to install xml validator and found the offending song in my library in seconds.
www.perfectxml.com
xmlCooktop program
**Interesting note : This led me to find that a 'dropbox' type application called Zumodrive that allows you to share your music from iTunes library so you can play from your iPhone at any time was holding the iTunes Music Library.xml file open and not allowing iTunes to update it so Serato was opening a stale copy all the time.
Hopefully this will be helpful.