Before you start:

• CATraxx database:
• Make sure that Album.Custom24, Track.Custom24 and Track.Custom17 are available.
• Goto Tools/Database Setup. Click Tables tab and choose Album. Then click the Fields tab.
• Find and click Custom24. In the right pane, tick Use. You can also change the name to "iTunes".
• Goto Tools/Database Setup. Click Tables tab and choose Track. Then click the Fields tab.
• Find and click Custom24. In the right pane, tick Use. You can also change the name to "iTunes".
• Find and click Custom17. In the right pane, tick Use. You can also change the name to "iTunesID".
• Click OK to confirm the changes you made.


• CATraxx forms:
• Make sure that the Album.Edit form contains the field Custom24 (so you can easily include/remove albums from your CATraxxITunesCollection).
• Make sure that the Track.Edit form contains the field Custom24 (so you can easily include/remove tracks from your CATraxxITunesCollection).
• Manipulation of Custom24 can also be done in AlbumView/SetFieldValue or TrackView/SetFieldValue


• iTunes (existing music collection):
• The only way to syncronize CATraxx and iTunes is to create a unique link between the two programs. Sync based upon filename is utterly unusable (just think about renaming in CATraxx).
• Therefore all music in iTunes must be added by HAPsyncITunes in order to create this link. The existing music (links) cannot be used.
• Make a backup of the iTunesMusicFolder ("C:/Users/Thomas/Music/iTunes" or "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Music\iTunes").
• Goto Edit/Preferences/Advanced. Remove the tick for Keep iTunes... and Copy files to....
• Any music in iTunes that are not included in your CATraxx iTunesCollection will be deleted(not the files) when you syncronize.
• If your iTunes library only contains music that exists in CATraxx, it's much faster and easier just to remove or rename the iTunesMusicFolder.
• iTunes will then create a blank database the next time it starts. And you can always go back to your original iTunesMusicFolder.
• If that's not the case, start including just one album in your CATraxxITunesCollection. Then do Updates/AddUpdate. Then Syncronize to allow deleting your old music.

Normal use Q&A:

• How are the updates found?
• When you click Updates, the program will search for all tracks in your CATraxxiTunesCollection, where Album.lastmodified,Track.lastmodified or Track.TagWrite has changed since the specified date/time.
• The first time you start the program, the date/time will be now.
• If you want to force the updates to include the complete CATraxxiTunesCollection, change the date back to before you marked the first album or track (or started using CATraxx).