[OPEN] Rekordbox creates UnknownArtist & UnknownAlbum when it should not

Check your artist and album information within rekordbox and be sure there's no space at the front of the field or other odd character encoding.

I have the same problem, and yes it very very random.
When you say "other odd character encoding" what does rekordbox not like?

Hello,

I created this topic without to see this one before, sorry :

http://forums.pioneerdj.com/entries/42776928-How-are-created-folders-in-the-contents-folder-of-the-USB-Key-

I checked for myself and there is no space or any accent in the fields which cause this problem (I am French). I have some tracks with accents and it works fine.

I really don't know why it does it, but it is always the same files.

Thank you !

I have the same problem,  when I transfer all the music to my USB And I put on my cdj read it correctly the problem is that sometimes  appear  the name artist in 2 times.

I'm using  WD My Passport... All my files is AIFF And l the information within rekordbox is correct..

when I put   USB in CDJ 2000Nxs read the name of the artist that way...

[ARTIST]

Cause & Affect

Cause & Affect

Markfunk

Wattie Green

Wattie Green

Sonny Fodera

as  can see the artist's name appears 2x.... I already tried everything and the problem was not solved.

@Pulse & @HiFuGa1,

Me too I checked and there's no spaces or odd characters. I even manually rewrote the fields in Rekordbox hoping it would fix the problem but didn't work...

Hope someone can fix this...

Thanks!

same problem here and i f i connect hd to car wont see this tracks! imac 10.9.2 WD HD

Is there any fix for this? Or at least will the artists still show up correctly on the player in playlist or tracks view?

I don't know of any fix for this yet. For me everything shows up correctly on the pioneers but I'm also using that drive and the content for other stuff and I like everything to be clean and neat...

Oh, absolutely. It's going to bug the crap out of me that the folders are messed up but as long as I can make it through this gig without digging through unknowns to find tracks I'll be OK for now.

Same issue, screencapped below - no special characters, no reason why this particular folder should be creating a folder called "UnknownAlbum" (columns are Artist Name, Album, and File Location)

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I've got the very same issue - using the mac os version. I think it's not random, because the problem exists with the same files over and over again. I also checked all ID3 entries and everything appears to be in place. Also I didn't find and difference in ID3 data from files that are correctly copied. There must be some hidden data which causes the problem...

@Pulse

Why can't we move the music in the Content folder as we wish and have an option in Rekordbox to find missing media?

That would be a long task for me, but at least would fix the problem...

Thanks!

Does this problem still exist with rekordbox 3.0?

it is fixed now i think it recognise my hd anyway!!! thanks!