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3

Importing Your Music

 

Most likely you already have a collection of music files on your computer. For those of you who

can’t wait for mixing their own tracks, this chapter is for you! You will learn here how to quickly
import your music into the powerful Track Collection of TRAKTOR.
If you prefer to start learning how to use TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 right away, skip this chapter
and go on with the tutorials in chapter 

, which make use of the demo tracks pro-

vided with TRAKTOR KONTROL S4. You can always come back here at a later point.

3.1

What Is the Track Collection?

 

The Track Collection (or simply “Collection”) represents the whole music that you have used,
that you are using or that you plan to use in TRAKTOR.
Based on the music files on your computer, the Track Collection is just another way to display
them. The Collection makes it easy to organize, tag, and prepare your tracks for being integrat-

ed into your mix.
Worth to note is that the Track Collection doesn’t care about the actual file structure on your
hard disk, nor will it alter this structure in any way (as long as you don’t delete your files from
within TRAKTOR).
The Track Collection is:

▪

A database storing information about your music files.

▪

A  convenient  way  to  represent  and  search  your  music  files,  according  to  many  of  their
characteristics (tags) like title, artist name, BPM, genre, length, etc.

▪

The place where TRAKTOR-specific information about your tracks is stored.

▪

The basis on which you can create your Playlists.

The Track Collection is not:

▪

Moving, copying nor converting any audio file to some hidden location.

▪

Modifying in any way the hierarchic structure of your files on your hard disk.

What Is the Track Collection?

 

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