Rekord Buddy is a clever third-party OS X application designed to sync Traktor and Rekordbox libraries. Let's take a look at how Rekord Buddy works… Unfortunately, there is no Windows alternative so for the moment, it's not possible to automatically import playlists from Rekordbox to Traktor using a Windows computer. We're going to come back to it a lot throughout this tutorial. The solution comes in a Mac-based app called Rekord Buddy. Traktor does not allow direct dragging from Rekordbox's browser and although it's possible to export playlists from Rekordbox as XML files, Traktor doesn't support that format. Unfortunately, moving tracks from Rekordbox to Traktor isn't as simple. ![]() As a result, the bpm may change by a few decimal points. Rekordbox will accept tracks dragged directly from Traktor's browser and while metadata like custom comments, mix name and even bpm will remain intact, Rekordbox will still analyse the files as it uses its own waveform view algorithm. ![]() You can either export your Traktor playlist by right-clicking and selecting Export - making sure you select the format as M3U - and then importing it into Rekordbox, or you can create a playlist of the same name in Rekordbox, select all the included tracks in Traktor and drag them across to Rekordbox. There are two options when moving playlists from Traktor to Rekordbox. So what's the solution for DJs looking to migrate from one software to the other? And how can you minimise the impact on your music collection? Let's take a look at the options… Playlists If you find yourself running between these two platforms a lot, it’s well worth checking out.Similarly, DJs who never used a laptop in the booth are slowly becoming enticed by the new performance options available to them as they add quantised loops, multiple cue points, adjust their grids and create complex playlists using Rekordbox, and are considering the move to Native Instrument's flagship software.īut there's one glaring issue: Rekordbox and Traktor use two different analysis formats so there's currently no way to natively import your Traktor collection with your custom grids, cue points and tempos intact, and vice versa for Rekordbox users tempted by Traktor's traits. Right now the app is just for OSX users running Rekordbox 2.1.1 and Traktor 2.6.3 (or later) – and is $7.99 on the Mac App Store. Don’t want to sync your whole collection over? You can choose individual folders, playlists, single tracks, and so on. The software also allows you to choose exactly what you want to sync – and in our initial tests, this was really handy. ![]() translates and converts any key information.syncs beatgrids, cue points, and hot cues.The app removes some of the painful operations that it takes to copy playlists and other metadata between softwares (Serato, we’re looking at you to build a tool like this for importing into Serato DJ!). It’s not a complicated tool – but it does allow you to very easily sync your Traktor and Rekordbox collections back and forth seamlessly. Sometimes a really awesome tool slips under our radar here at DJTT – and Next Audio Labs’ Rekord Buddy did exactly that.
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