User Manual

3 Preparing Your Music Library
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 S2 right away, skip this chapter
and go on with the tutorials in chapter ↑4, Tutorials, which make use of the demo tracks pro-
vided with TRAKTOR KONTROL S2. 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 in your
TRAKTOR database.
Based on the music files on your computer, the Track Collection is just another way to display
these files. The Collection makes it easy to organize, tag, and prepare your tracks for being in-
tegrated 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).
What the Track Collection is
▪ A database storing numerous 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.
What the Track Collection isn't
▪ Moving, copying nor converting any audio file to some secret location.
▪ Modifying in any way the hierarchic structure of your files on your hard disk.
Preparing Your Music Library
What Is the Track Collection?
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