1.51 Available to download

wysiwyg — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:59:57 +0000

This release allows licensed users to run Trainspotter to only do dynamic playlist and “mixed with” processing before running Traktor. I’ve uploaded a sample script that you can use (startTraktor for Mac and startTraktor.bat for Windows) to this, so that each time you start Traktor your collection is up to date.

The “Add to discogs collection” function is now working again after discogs changed their web site a while ago.

Full details of all the changes can be found in the changelog on the download page.

I’ve been playing around with cdparanoia to get CD ripping on Mac versions working. For those of you who would rather use this than iTunes, follow the instructions here

What I did was installed the xCode Developer Tools from the OS X CD, then I installed darwin ports from here

Then I ran the following in a terminal:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
sudo port -v selfupdate
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sudo port install cdparanoia
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cdparanoia seems a bit slow, I’m going to try installing cdda2wav and see how that works out.

Embedding MP3 Cover Art Issues in 1.47

wysiwyg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:54:36 +0000

It appears that there are issues when Trainspotter embeds cover art in some MP3 files, making the resulting MP3 files unplayable in iTunes. iTunes is known to be most strict around the format MP3s that it will play, and other audio applications such as Winamp will still play these MP3 files without any problems.

My advice until the next release is (if you’re using MP3s) to uncheck the “update embedded album art in mp3 and flac files” preference and check the “update folder album art” preference.

Note that this does not effect MP3 encoding of WAV files as this is achieved using a different mechanism.

Trainspotter :: Traktor Discogs Mashup

1.51 Available to download

Embedding MP3 Cover Art Issues in 1.47