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Kent Sandvik

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  • July 10, 2016 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Controllers vs CDJs are CDJs on the way out? #2417271
    Kent Sandvik
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    I’m so glad CDJs are out, the media could so easily be corrupted and the optical heads could get dirty and so on and so on. USB sticks with media is maybe the common ground just now for most systems.

    Or then use vinyl!

    July 10, 2016 at 10:31 pm in reply to: Retina v. Non-retina MBP #2417261
    Kent Sandvik
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    You could always get a used older MacBookPro and replace the internal hard drive with an SSD. Not that those laptops show age so don’t expect huge Ableton Live projects to work well, smaller and decent sized Traktor setups are Ok.

    I’m looking at maybe getting a MacBookAir as I think for most purposes such a system has enough hardware power to run Traktor. And they are small/light.

    July 10, 2016 at 10:28 pm in reply to: Buying Music #2417251
    Kent Sandvik
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    I’ve found a lot of good material on eMusic for a longer time now, most of my digital purchases end up from that site.

    July 10, 2016 at 10:27 pm in reply to: Syncing music from iMac to laptop workflow #2417241
    Kent Sandvik
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    You could think of the sync as one-way, so that on your laptop you get the files and do all the metadata (grid) et rest arrangement on this side, this by exporting the iTunes playlist/files into your own Traktor playlist. But yes, you can’t sync back the changes to iTunes, you need to copy the whole playlist via an USB stick or something similar to other devices in case you need the info on those. Basically I collect the material I play on my main laptop and save it off to an USB stick (the playlists NML file and files) and this way keep the data intact.

    July 10, 2016 at 10:24 pm in reply to: Not allowing iTunes to organize music #2417231
    Kent Sandvik
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    That option is mostly for arranging the files on your hard drive so that you get bands/artists into separate folder. I don’t know of all the SW out there that assumes too much about the iTunes file system instead of using the xml file for finding the material, but in general there should be no issues to re-arrange the folders, or keep them as they are in case you don’t need this internal re-arranging.

    July 10, 2016 at 10:21 pm in reply to: Abandon iTunes #2417191
    Kent Sandvik
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    Me thinks iTunes Match is the best that has happened to DJs, I could make various smart and normal playlists wherever I am and sync between various systems and just get the playlists into Traktor on a whim. Especially useful for radio programming. Maybe I’m in a minority.

    July 10, 2016 at 10:20 pm in reply to: Traktor Pro to iTunes metadata sync? #2417181
    Kent Sandvik
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    Well, iTunes to Traktor metadata works in most cases. One gotcha is that you need to play or do something in iTunes to force the internal metadata changes out to the xml file that Traktor is using for sync.

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