Welcome to Music Tracker. Moving your collection over from another program is meant to take a few minutes, and you get to see exactly what will happen before anything is written to your library.

Migration Guides

Follow the guide for the program you use now:

• Migrating from Delicious Library 3
• Migrating from CDpedia
• Migrating from Discogs
• Migrating from other apps via CSV Import

If your program is not on the list, the last guide covers it. Music Tracker can read a CSV file from almost anything, and you tell it which column holds what.

How an import works

Whichever guide you follow, the shape is the same:

• You choose the file. Music Tracker looks at the column names and works out which program wrote it, so most of the time there is nothing to say.
• If it does not recognize the file, you say what is in it, once, with a line from your own file shown under each choice.
• Music Tracker reads the file and checks every row against the records you already have.
• You see what it is about to do, row by row, and change anything you disagree with.
• Only then does it write.

Nothing is written until you say so, and a record you already have is left alone unless you decide otherwise.

Importing the same file twice

You can. A record Music Tracker recognizes beyond doubt is skipped, and it tells you what it recognized it by: the release number from Discogs, the barcode, or the identifier from a Music Tracker export. Nothing is doubled unless you ask for it.

Two records that only look alike are a different matter. Two pressings of one album, and two bands with the same name, both share a title and an artist. Music Tracker never decides that on its own: it imports the record and tells you what it resembles.

Need Help?

If something goes wrong, or a file will not import, get in touch through the app or from the support page. It helps a great deal if you can send the file itself.