Oh Mighty DJTT Oracle.
I've recently been finding myself playing on other peoples kit at gigs and parties, as sometimes the space contraints and hassle of unplugging/replugging halfway through a night mean it's not possible/desirable to rock up with decks/controllers/mixers and get everything set up the way you want. I'm also all for flexibility and the ability to use either of the Traktor or Serato when I play, rather than being a pain in the arse.
Fortunately at the moment I've only had to use Traktor based programs (i.e. TP/TSP/S4) so I've come up with a playlist on my laptop, exported the .nml and tracks, shoved them on a USB key and then played off that. Issue is, I inevitably want to play a track I don't have one the stick, which irritates the hell out of me.
I've recently bought a 2.5" external USB powered HDD with the express intent of having my full music collection with the metadata for both TSP and Serato on it, so that I can take it anywhere and just plug in and play. To this end I've downloaded a copy of the Serato Scratch Live software, imported my iTunes playlists and analysed all the files.
I have a few questions as to how to set the drive up:
a) is it possible to have one copy of my music library and two sets of metadata (one for TSP, and one for Serato) or do I have to have two copies of the library, one for each piece of software?
b) does the exported Traktor Library collection.nml keep a copy of the subplaylists?
c) how the hell do I do the equivalent of the export job in Serato?
d) do I need to keep the the relative paths between the metadata and music files the same (currently they're all under my music, with the Serato stuff under a directory called _Serato_, Traktor under Traktor and the actually music nested somewhere under iTunes) or can I use a flat directory structure?
e) if I plug the HDD in mid set, with a large amount of data on it - am I likely to knacker the laptop as the software chews on the largef data files to understand my collection?
It's a little difficult for me to test as I don't have a spare machine to play with Traktor on, and my Serato using friend are south of the river ...
Ta!
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