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by gullum on 11 Jun 2013, 03:38
So I made the dissision to make the plug and give Cross a full go. I've ugrate from CrossDJ to Cross today as I play in a club that has CDJ2000 and an other that has CDJ350 for the first Traktor would do just fine as it's hid is good with 2000 but no Hid suport for the 350. Anyway I'm on a Mac so I have a program called Rekord Buddy it lets me sync my Traktor liberary with Rekordbox all hotcues and beatgrids. Grate now I have my whole collection perfectly matched between Traktor and Rekordbox, now All I need to do is import my Rekordbox liberary into Cross and way I go have all my playlists cuepoints set within a cuple of hours. If I were to do it all over again it would take weeks. SO using Rekord Buddy to get Traktor to Rekordbox (was allready done before upgrating) then inport to Cross tomorrow I'd be ready to play using all the same songs I used in Traktor a my last gig
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by DJ Vintage on 29 Nov 2013, 08:03
Hi guys,
Yesterday I tried to import my .nml collection file from Traktor into Cross. All seemed to go very well. I saw my playlists appear, my tracks came up with all the right info. But then ... I clicked the first track and a nice red Cross appeared indicating track not found.
I switched on the location header and it tells me it is looking for the "muziek" folder inside the Traktor Pro root folder. That is not how it is set up. And besides that folder does not even exist!
I have both "Muziek" and "Traktor Pro Root" folders in the root folder of my external hard drive. Relocating isn't an option as I a) don't want the files physically moved to another folder (I use the disk for several purposes and moving stuff isn't an option) and b) I couldn't figure out how to batch change the folders pointers.
Question is simple: is there a way to tell Cross to look for the tracks in the right folder WITHOUT Cross moving any files around, or without me having to copy all my music files (44K+) to the folder Cross THINKS the files should be. This is also impossible since I don't have that much free disk space left.
Greetinx, Chuck "DJ Vintage" van Eekelen
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by djphaidon on 29 Nov 2013, 08:36
Cross won't move your files, at all. So, what you can do is go to the "Files" tab, pick the folders you want to import, and drag and drop that folder onto the Collection Tab. This is how I do it since I manage my music manually in folders. Other programs seemed to screw with the structure too much, so I just place them where I want them, and add them to the Cross collection. Hope it helps.
EDIT: "Relocate tracks" is used to Find the tracks in the library, not move them. Now that you mention that, it could be taken both ways.
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by DJ Vintage on 29 Nov 2013, 15:52
Thanks.
I was afraid that if I did an import folder (or drag & drop) I would end up with the double amount of tracks in my database (have in the past with other software).
I copied my HD to an new one, then moved the "muziek" folder to where Cross thinks they were and that worked like a charm (took 6 hours, but hey).
Still, I wonder how Cross comes up with that file location, seeing how the location Cross mentions, based on the import of the nml file, does not actually exist. This is what had me a bit baffled.
Is there a more (behind the scenes, under the hood) way to fix this? Like is there a way to do a search/replace in an index file or something?
If I could have replaced part of the location name with something else it would have worked too.
Not urgent anymore (got it fixed temporarily with the second HD and will try the drag/drop with that HD after tonight's gig), but still interesting to find out.
Greetinx, Chuck "DJ Vintage" van Eekelen
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