Hi my macbook pro crashed and had to install a new hard drive. I managed to save all the music to this new hard drive and itunes is working ok.
I had to reinstall rekordbox and copy the old library database to the new hard drive.
problem is that RB it has added the music files as new ones, with no data ( hot cues, loops). I can see the old files with the data, but it doesnt recognize the music files as the path is different.
please help! thanks
You need to remove the "new" ones - sort the music by location (or date added), remove the new tracks.
Use the mass-relocation in rekordbox to find them. Because the parent folder changed, all the sub-folders are the same. Using the first find to relocate the others should fix them all!
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Mac or PC?
macbook
also, because now I have every track as duplicate when I want to relocate the original track with the hot cue info, I get the message that "file is already on collection"
Yeah, it's doing that because you've made a mess of things by re-importing all your music. Effectively, you should find you have all your songs in there twice -- one present but without waveform and cue data, and one missing, is that right?
yes thats right. Rekordbox plays the "new" files (without cue data) and knows where they are located. However the "old" files (with all muy cue data) show as missing.
how should I solve this please?
I assume you need to remove all those without cue data (but playing) and relocate those having the cue data to the new Location.
But you may want to wait for Pulse to provide you the guidance.
thanks , two problems with that:
1. how can I select the 10 thousand "new" files without selecting also the old ones? ( i.e. can´t sort so they are together) ...if I select all then I remove All the files!
2. assume I solve point 1, and remain only with the "old" files with data, how can I relocate these 10k files at once? itunes saves then in different subfolders (per band, per album). within the parent folder itunes/music .... .. they aren´t located all in one folder
Wouldn't the files you cannot Play but having the cue Points not have the exclamation mark in the front?
You can sort by this first column. This should give you the possibility to remove all others.
If you kept the same Folder structure on the other drive which you had in place before rekordbox should relocate them in one go. When 'manage missing files' from the menu you should get all missing files. You Need to select the first one and locate to the file matching it. Rekordbox will try to relocate all others according to this. They must not be in the same Folder.
You may wait for Pulse for more Details.
Yes; see the official comment above. 😛
wasn't scrolling up... :-)
thanks pulse, does the mass relocation function work for subfolders? (thats the way itunes has my music organised)
example: if I tell RB that x file is within user/itunes/music/band/album/SONG
it will only relocate the songs of that particular album and band
I need to relocate the whole library for the parent folder ( USER)
thanks
If your Folder structure was the same before with the same subfolders it should detect it correctly. Anyway - rekordbox will let you know which files have been found (exclamation mark is gone and recordbox will say 'xxx files relocated'). If you are having not relocated files left, repeat the Action until you got all relocated.