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Before downloading and installing Trainspotter please make whatever backups of your Traktor collection that you would when using a beta version of Traktor from Native Instruments. The use of this software is at your own risk. Read the testing guide for the recommended backup/testing steps.

Current version is 1.57 (changelog)

  • Trainspotter Windows 32 bit installer - download
  • Trainspotter Windows 64 bit installer - download
  • Trainspotter OS X cocoa 64 bit  installer  - download
  • Trainspotter OS X cocoa 32 bit  installer  - download
  • Trainspotter OS X carbon  installer  - download
  • Download the latest user guide here (pdf) or view here (html)

Note if downloading with IE, right click the download link, click “Save Target As …”, and change the extension to .jar before saving.

Which OS X installer do I need?

The correct version depends on the processor and version of OS X you are running. For non-Intel machines download the carbon installer. If you’re running 64 bit Leopard or later then go for the cocoa 64 bit installer, otherwise use the cocoa 32 bit installer.

Recommended third party tools

Installation Instructions

  1. Make sure you have Java 1.5 or above installed. Preferably install Java 1.6. If you’re on a Mac change your Java Preferences to favour Java SE 6, if you have it installed:

    2. java-preferences

  2. Double-click the .jar file
  3. Follow the installation instructions in the installer.
Upgrade instructions

To upgrade from an older version,  just run the installer and overwrite your existing installation, your preferences will be maintained.

Testing Trainspotter

If worried that Trainspotter may mess up your collection, but still want to give it a try, the recommended appraoch is the following:

  • Backup the contents of your <documents directory>/Native Instruments/Traktor/ directory, to say, <documents directory>/Native Instruments/Backup of Traktor/
  • Backup any precious audio files to a location that won’t be picked up by Traktor, i.e. not one of you music folders
  • Run Trainspotter using the default locations for the collection.nml and backup directory – Trainspotter expects to find various directories under Native Instruments/Traktor and expects to be able to have write permissions to the folders and files contained in it.
  • Perform some operations in Trainspotter, save the collection.nml
  • Run Traktor and check that the collection.nml is still valid, in the rare case where Traktor cannot parse the collection, you can restore your collection.nml from your <documents directory>/Native Instruments/Backup of Traktor/ or from <documents directory>/Native Instruments/Traktor/backup
  • Check that any audio files that you have encoded or updated the artwork in play in Traktor and also play any other audio software that you use
  • Post any problems to the forum

Changelog

Version 1.57

New Features
Added the “Reload collection” function. If the collection.nml is changed by Traktor when Trainspotter is running, Trainspotter will ask you if you want to reload the collection.

Added play button to custom tagging page

Added matching releases row size preference

Added native OS X preference menu, COMMAND+, now gets you to the preferences

Bug Fixes

Fixed relocation bug where playlist keys were not being updated on mac versions

Fixed bug where clicking on a track in the browser when in search mode did not always search discogs

Fixed bug where playlists were being cached even though the collection was reloaded

Fixed bug where recorded tracks were not showing up in the collection straight away

Fixed bug where Trainspotter would crash when you hit record and the update embedded tags preference was set

Fixed bug on mac versions where right clicking the collection browser and clicking “Edit” did not edit the target column, only the first column

Fixed bug where adding a track to a playlist would deselect the selected playlist

Fixed bug where tracks with keys already defined we being reanalyzed during the encoding batch processing event when “override key value” was turned off

Fixed bug where the batch processing pages would indicate that processing was taking place when there was actually no tracks to process

Fixed bug where Trainspotter would crash after a combination of encoding and relocating tracks

Other Improvements

Changed field names to be those in Traktor

Trainspotter now stores all the found images for flac files, previously it only stored the first

Changed field names in dynamic playlist dialog to match those in Traktor. Some attributes are only stored in the nml file and not displayed in Traktor, these are shown in capitals

Changed “ranking” to read “Star Rating”. Ranking is the attribute used in the NML file

Change default preference so that the window is maximized on startup

Changed various font sizes

Removed default file open preference, File->Open now uses the collection.nml directory as the default

If you try to run a batch process and there is no files to process (either the playlist is empty or no applicable files were found), then Trainspotter pops up a dialog box

Added tooltip to date dialog on the dynamic playlist dialog

Added message warning that you can’t run trainspotter without specifying an nml file

Updated the “Mode” tooltips

Added more shortcuts and icons to menus

Hitting “return” after editing a cell in the collection browser no longer results in the track being selected and the user being taken to the discogs or tagging pages

Added command + right arrow to add to playlist on mac

Added command+s to save on mac

Decrease the frequency of the UI updates in the batch processing output window

Duplicate files can no longer be added to the collection via drag and drop

Changed default file preferences for Windows versions so that the defaults are now …\Documents\… rather than \My Documents\ on Windows 7/Vista if “My Documents” doesn’t exist

Changed default “automatically play track when tagging” to off

Tasks now get added to the batch processing list at the top so you don’t have to keep scrolling down

Changed the max number of threads in the thread pool so there is always 2 threads free

Improved UI updates during batch processing

Changed tool output notification to UI

Improved concurrency in batch processing

Known issues
Sometimes Trainspotter will ask you twice if you want to save your collection when you exit the program

The fields in the dynamic playlist dialog and preferences aren’t sorted

Version 1.56

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where cover art was not being updated properly in the custom tagging page

Fixed bug where the VOLUME field was not being set after encoding a file to MP3/FLAC

Version 1.55

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where updating tags on wav files would cause Trainspotter to crash

Fixed where “invalid thread access” error messages would appear during key detection

Version 1.54

New Features

Added antialiasing to tooltip images and tag page images

Added button to find next track without cover art

Added Google images search parameters preference

Added “Apply album art to all tracks in release” preference

Added “Download” button on tagging page to allow you to search google images for cover art

Bug fixes

Fixed bug where click on a playlist after relocating tracks would cause an exception

Fixed bug where null images in audio files would cause errors

Fixed bug where “Apply to album” was not working

Fixed bug where null album names would cause a crash

Fixed bug when trying to create a dynamic playlist that already existed

Fixed bug in “Apply to album” button where cover art was not getting written to all tracks in the release

Fixed bug where embedded images would always be written to MP3/FLAC files

Change discogs client so that release urls now end in a slash, this was causing error pages to be returned from discogs

Other improvements

Checks for missing files/permissions etc when starting up

Changed the encoder selection in the preferences to use the file dialog rather than a text field

Changed cursor to “app starting” when processing lengthy tasks

Changed tool page processing to be multithreaded

Changed key detection preference page so that all the necessary preference setting are all on one page

Changed appearance of buttons on the toolbar

Version 1.53

1.53 now uses the more standard way of separating program files and configuration files. Previously the Trainspotter.properties and trainspotter.log files were contained in the install directory, now they are located in the My DocumentsTrainspotter (Windows) or Documents/Trainspotter (Mac) directories.  If you’re upgrading, Trainspotter will take care of copying your existing settings in to this new location.

The Windows installers now run with administrator privileges which should allow you to install to “Program Files” if this wasn’t possible previously.

New Features

Added Windows 64 bit Installer

Added “perform key detection after ripping tracks from CD” preference

Added “perform key detection before encoding to FLAC/MP3″ preference

Added support for ripping releases containing more than one CD

Added right click to arrow buttons to select previous/next in selected playlist

Bug fixes

Fixed bug in mac version where it was impossible to search for/tag tracks in Traktor 3 collections

Fixed bug in batch processing window where click start without selecting a playlist would cause a crash

Other improvements

App now converts old style layout to new layout with properties and log in the Documents/Trainspotter directory

Added “close” button on batch processing pages

The Key tag is now included in MP3s encoded with lame

Version 1.52
Bug Fixes
Changed file path generation so that empty fields are replaced with “unknown ”

Fixed bug in encoding mp3s where blank tags would cause lame to hang

Fixed bug “invalid thread access” errors in mac versions

Fixed bug where artwork was being set in MP3 files without the mime type. This would case the artwork not
to be displayed in iTunes. The mime type is now correctly set.

Fixed bug where updating tracks from discogs didn’t update all the tags

Added checks for null columns

New Features
Added key detection

Added updating of embedded tags

Added comments field to tag page

Added key colour scheme

Added “Write tags to audio files” preference

Other Improvements
Updates to the collection viewer are now done using a separate thread to improve performance

Updating tags in audio files now preserves the file modification timestamp

Improved UI responsiveness when saving collection

Improved responsiveness of UI when encoding and decoding files

Added command+q shortcut to quit Trainspotter

Added additional line separators to preference pages

Added performance improvements for loading collection (Java 1.6 only)

Playlist viewer now has the same column order as the collection browser

Added icons to “Tools” pages

Changed total progress bar to give feedback on number of items completed and estimated time of completion (tooltip)

Improved responsiveness of the UI when encoding and decoding files

Underscores are now removed from the “Search highlighted text” to make it easier to search discogs from filenames

Changed log4j settings so that log files roll over and don’t get too large

Release date is now set as in xs-date format, rather than Trakor date format when updating from discogs

Reduced the timeout when calling discogs

Changed font italics for major and minor keyed songs

Added CONTROL + , shortcut to preferences menu

Changed the wording on some of the preferences

Added the startTraktor and startTraktor.bat scripts to the distribution

Version 1.51

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where releases were not being added to the discogs collection

Fixed bug in playlist contents list where the rows were not being correctly coloured

Fixed bug in testing output filename format in preferences

Added recovery from discogs failures and track number mismatches

New Features

Sample scripts included to allow you to run Trainspotter to regenerate dynamic playlists before opening Traktor (this functionality requires a license)

Added batch processing based on playlists rather than the entire collection.

Added “rip command outputs to standard error” preference. Depending on the executable that you use for ripping CDs, it may output to standard out or standard error. Trainspotter reads this output and displays it in the status bar text. Nero uses standard out, cdparanoia can be configured to use standard error with the -e switch.

Added collection browser row height preference

Added check for updates on startup preference setting

Other Improvements

Changed cover fade speed

Changed fonts to be all system default fonts

Added default ripping command (cdparanoia) and parameters to mac versions

Added more feedback during ripping CDs

Version 1.50

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where updating images on MP3s would fail on non JPEG images

Fixed bugs when using a Traktor 3 collection, searching and saving had previously been broken.

Fixed bug when updating fields in a track where the album title was “unknown”, now Trainspotter does not assume tracks on an “unknown” titled album are from the same album

New Features

Added “Copy Playlist” function

Added “Continue encoding on error” preference. By default Trainspotter will stop batch encoding if it encounters an error, this allows you to override this.

Version 1.49

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where embedding cover art in MP3s would cause some of them to be unplayable in iTunes

Fixed bug where MP3 cover art was not being replaced when updating it

Fixed bug where cover art was not being updated in flac files

Fixed bug where unselected fields were being displayed twice in the some of list box preferences

Fixed bug where a crash would occur when trying to select the next track when already at the end of the collection

Fixed Null Pointer Exception when ripping CDs

Fixed bug where Trainspotter would crash if you hit return on the collection browser before selecting a track

Fixed bug where next track to update in collection browser was not being selected

Fixed bug where if you tagged tracks on an album and one could not be matched, the UI showed that no updates to the collection had been made, when in fact they had

Fixed bug where Trainspotter would crash when recording a track when “update folder album art” was turned on

Encoding to MP3/FLAC now clears the playlist cache. This was causing invalid nml files to be generated

New Features

Added ability to read embedded cover art in flac and MP3s to display in the browser

Added support for embedding multiple images in MP3 files

Added image cache size preference and image field preference

Paths to cover art can now be stored in either the comments, lyrics or remixers fields

Added the comments field as a field that can be edited in the collection browser

Other Improvements

Changed some of the wording/layout in the preference pages

When searching discogs the “none” catalog number is now ignored as searching for “none” gives very poor results

Suppressed console logging from JAudiotagger library

Changed calls to discogs to cope with cached requests from proxies

Changed cover art popup so that nothing is displayed if there is no cover art, previously a small window with nothing in it was displayed

Version 1.47

Bug Fixes

Double quotes are no longer added around tag values when encoding to MP3

If images are greater than 128kb in size a –idv3v2-only parameter is added to the LAME arguments

When using a filename format which included directories, LAME would fail to write the output file if the directory didn’t exist, Trainspotter now creates the directories

Version 1.46

New Features

Batch encoding of WAV files in your collection to MP3s (requires LAME encoder)

Embedding and updating cover art in MP3s

New “Search selected text” button - highlight text from the current audio filename, click the button and Trainspotter will query discogs with the highlighted text

New filename regular expression matching features allow you to extract tag information from your audio filename to use to search discogs and match track names.

Added “Update embedded album art” preference, you can now choose not to update the album art if you don’t want to

Added 44.1kHz 24 bit as a recording format

Suggest ideas for new features here or join the user forum

Usability Improvements

When searching your collection, the next track to search is selected based on whether it is missing a catalog number or an image in the browser, previously this was based solely on whether the catalog number was present or not.

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug where folder.jpg was not being written if the preference was set.

Trainspotter now automatically sets the file preferences correctly for Traktor Pro on Windows versions

Fixed bug where save would crash if file permissions weren’t correct on certain directories

“Mixed with” data is now only calculated when the preference is set, previously it was always calculated, which slowed down saving and saving backups.

Version 1.45

Fixed bug where custom tag values were not being saved in all cases. Previously they were only saved if you click next/previous track, now the values are saved whenever the track being tagged changes.