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I'm going to try it out (all be it within a windows environment) later on today so I'll report back and let you know how I find it.
Won't you miss the amazing traktor library management? XD
The library management is the one reason I want to switch lol. Don't even get me started
;)
Have you tried lexicon? I have had good results with that and it helped me a lot recently when I decided I was going to go through and reorganise my ~14000 tracks.
I haven't no I will definitely have to check that out. I end up manually organizing and using weird labels to try to find stuff in Traktor, it's a system, it works, but it's not how it should be
You and me both man, I have a system and a workflow for tagging and adding new music that kind of works for me but it is convoluted and not optimal mainly due to the software. I really liked lexicon though and for what I wanted to do it served me really well so I'd recommend at least checking it out as an option.
I have just played around for about 45 minutes and so far it is really promising to be honest. My controller had a mapping already built in that just needed to be selected along with my audio routing options, everything that I regularly use seemed to be working as expected on the controller, including the preview function which I didn't expect.
The screens and the motorised jog wheels on the controller don't seem to be implemented in any way but I don't care about the motorised wheels and the screens aren't exactly essential, just nice to have.
I pointed it at my music library and it scanned through it, ready to play in around 10 minutes (13500 tracks) which compared to traktor and serato is blindingly fast xD
It seemed to read the majority of my tags the way I have them set up just from looking at it quickly and it read my traktor collection file without me even pointing it to it so I had all my playlists with no hassle what so ever.
There are quite a few options with different skins etc so I need to sit down and have a proper look through stuff as the main things I didn't like with this initial try were visual based things just from where I'm used to things being a certain way. These are all things I can get used to having differently over time anyway bit there are also plenty of settings I didn't look into so I may be able to change it to be more familiar anyway.
Overall it was up and running quickly and easily. No fucking about with anything really, just set my controller and audio routing in options and I could pretty much have played straight away.
I'd give it a try if i were you, I'm going to delve into it deeper over the weekend I think and see what options I have but so far so good!