Traktor Scratch Pro Recording Internal Vs External Hard Drive Digging for music helps you find new influences, discover new artists, and absorb new techniques. Sharing your mixes benefits your listeners because they get a better sense of your influences and tastes as an artist. Traktor Pro 3 External Hard Drive Reviews Traktor Pro 3 External Hard Drive Windows 10 Oct 28, 2017 Third, external hard drives may have performance bottlenecks – older (or cheaper) hard drives have slower read / write speeds, and that sometimes results in slower track searches or analyses.

Traktor Pro 3 External Hard Drive Reviews
Traktor Pro 3 External Hard Drives
Traktor Pro 3 External Hard Drive Software

Traktor Pro Songs External Hard Drive Best Buy. I'm getting to the point where all my music will no longer fit on the internal hard drive in my laptop. I'm wondering what the experiences are playing music from a hard drive. I'm a mobile DJ so reliability is a BIG issue. Sep 28, 2012 step by step Playing music from external hard drive using traktor scratch pro 2. Discussion in 'TRAKTOR PRO / TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO' started. How to set up and play music from the external hard drive such a hot cue also. And any suggestion thing that need to move to external hard drive also. Yavet, Sep 27, 2012 #1.

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Digital DJ Tips reader Jack messaged in: “I’m looking for advice regarding using external hard drives to DJ with. I am currently using a MacBook Pro and I am running out of storage space (I only have about 4GB free). I am unsure about upgrading to a larger internal SSD due to expense, but I am also unsure about using external hard drives in a live performance environment. What are your thoughts on this?”

Digital DJ Tips says…

It’s possible to play tunes from an external hard drive, but it introduces a number of potential issues: First, external hard drives can be yanked in a crowded and cramped DJ booth, which of course means playback grinds to a halt (I should know, because this has happened to me a few times when I first started DJing with a laptop). It’s embarrassing, and the worst part is it takes a while for your DJ software to recognise the external drive again when you plug it back in. That’s dead air and additional stress you wouldn’t want to deal with at a gig.

Second, since external hard drives are portable, they do get mishandled, either accidentally or when they get thrown around in your DJ bag. As a result, their reliability can be compromised over time. I have a 500GB external from 2014 that now refuses to work because its USB socket has got wobbly, and while it does power up, it’s no longer recognised by my MacBook Pro. Ouch – good thing I have a back up.

Third, external hard drives may have performance bottlenecks – older (or cheaper) hard drives have slower read / write speeds, and that sometimes results in slower track searches or analyses. Even newer USB 3.0 hard disks can suffer from slower track loading times – Joey uses Rekordbox DJ and he says there is a slight lag when loading a track from his external drive compared to loading from his internal drive.

You may be wondering: if DJing with external drives is so risky, then why do club DJs spin with thumb drives on CDJs? DJing with a USB stick in a media player is a different thing – gear like the CDJ-2000NXS2 / XDJ-RX2 / Denon DJ SC5000 Prime are built and tuned with software onboard that are made to specifically perform a single task: to play music from media like thumb drives, SD cards and CDs, nothing more. That’s why they are “specialist” tools.

With multi-tasking laptops that are used for a variety of different processes including Facebook, checking your mail, and clearing last week’s spreadsheet with your boss, it’s a different story, and that’s where things can potentially get a bit wonky.

Also, some thumb drives are hardier than others – the Corsair Flash Survivor Stealth is an example of a sturdy USB stick that can take a beating, or at least certainly more of a beating than your standard external hard drive.

The most foolproof solution is to have your DJ library on your laptop’s internal hard drive – this reduces the chances of your drive from failing due to poor treatment and handling, and it completely eliminates the “yanked USB drive” accident from ever happening. You also gain the benefit of the fastest possible read / write speed for your computer.

An external hard drive is good for storing your entire music collection, though. Since you won’t be DJing with all of the music in this collection, we advise that you keep your DJ library and music collection separate. Let’s say you’re a techno DJ: your DJ library, which should only consist of music that you spin with (eg tech house, minimal, obscure German techno 12″ rips) should exist on your DJ laptop. Your music collection, which consists of all of your music regardless of whether you spin with them or not (that includes your trap / future bass tunes and your Engelbert Humperdinck discography) can then exist on an external hard drive that you keep in a safe place.

This keeps your DJ laptop lean and reduces the chances of something going wrong if you were just reading data from your external drive.

Any hard drive failure stories to share? What external drive do you use to store or back up your collection in? Let us know in the comments below…

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Right click in the browser tree and create playlist
Drag and drop your selected tracks into the playlist
Create a folder on your hard drive and give it a name
Go back to the playlist in Traktor and right click it
Select export, select NML as the export format
Check the box that says copy tracks to destination
navigate to the folder you just created

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You should now have the playlist saved to the folder on your hard drive. All you have to do now is drag that folder to the USB stick and hey presto you now have a copy of your set, complete with tracks and any cue-points you may already have on each of those tracks.

Once you turn up at the party, plug in your usb stick and within Traktor navigate to the USB stick – Now all you have to do is play a blinding set that impresses all your pals and away you go. You can get to work on those beers you brought with you and you can leave your friend to worry about the laptop and all the other DJ equipment. Hopefully now you are able to easily export music to USB Stick in Traktor.

Great for Back up too

This is also a great exercise to perform when DJ’ing in a club too. Even if you have your computer with you, it is just one extra back up for your set. If your computer crashes or something happens to it on the way to the gig, you at least have your set with you. Then you can either use someone elses computer to DJ off of, or to burn the tracks to CD and play a CDJ set. (Yes, you should learn how to use CDJ’s)

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Let us know how hard you rocked after turning up with a USB stick to your latest house party. You can even instragram your great time and tag the picture with #Traktortips to appear on the Gallery. If you have any other tips to share let us know in the forum.

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Digital DJ Tips says…

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Moving your tracks to USB

Traktor Pro 3 External Hard Drive Reviews

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