So, when you add new rules/tracks/whathaveyou to MusicBee, you will need to regenerate the xml (i.e. but, the xml will only ever be a static snapshot of your musicBee playlist structure/logic. One caveat - MusicBee's smart/Autoplaylists are incredibly powerful, especially once you throw multi-value & custom metadata into the mix.
#Copy metadata to swinsian code
this code I made available through a single executable as beerware, see: I've written some python code doing the necessary reformatting of the xml to also get organizational groups over to Traktor/Serato/etc as there's a fair few pitfalls, depending on the given DJ program and how their code reads in the xml. Musicbee is capable of generating an itunes xml (with flac files!) that *can* work with Traktor/Serato/etc. If iTunes does manage the storage of your media files, their trackpath's can change when you change one or more tags (title name etc) that will break the link in Traktor or Rekordbox and as a result these apps can't link cues and loops to the track anymore. Traktor, Rekordbox and many other apps that assign proprietary data (like cues and loops) to a track use the track's file path as a link between the general ID3 tags and their proprietary tags. Very important remark: turn off any media storage management. Remember if you downgrade iTunes thel collection is NOT downgraded so unreadable to the lower version (the other way around works flawless. Google the package manager named 'pacifist' that is what I use to downgrade. Yes that still works on High Sierra tho some trickery involved to get it installed. if you stick with version 11 it has a decent small footprint and is reasonably fast.I can use my own scripts for things like duplicate removal, track storage in specific locations and for instance assigning star ratings, which I just made available through TCK see my other post about iTunes star ratings to Traktor.This stuff is impossible to do with any other collection manager. Long story short I do my collection management only once in iTunes and import it from there into all other platforms. Things get a bit more tricky with Denon's Engine Prime because it's iTunes integration is not flawless, but I've fixed that with yet another app I wrote: the Denon Conversion Utility which can recreate any desired combination of iTunes folder/playlist structures in Engine Prime. The iTunes integration of Rekordbox (thru it's sync manager) ensures that the converted data shows up in the correct playlists. There is a feature request pending with Native Instruments to enable the import of folders (including their containing playlists) from iTunes to the Traktor Playlist.īy using iTunes I can limit the amount of tracks being converted to only the tracks I actually added/did edit in Traktor. But lacks when you want to import more complex iTunes structures such as multiple playlists or folders.
Traktor's iTunes integration works perfect if you stick to it's iTunes pane. Traktor is my "DJ preparation platform of choice" I convert my cues, loops etc to the other platforms from Traktor using the DJ Conversion Utility. I work on a lot of different DJ platforms (Rekordbox for Pioneer, Denon Prime etc). Every audio program dealing with collection management on MacOS can read from it including most likely any future apps.
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