Hey - I put new smaller SSD in my macbook, but I've kept everything to do with music on the original HD and now the Rekordbox playlists can't find the files that make up the playlists . It CAN find and works with iTunes (it still has to re-analyse the tracks again). It's just the lists I made within Rekordbox.
Can I fix this? as if I boot back on the other HD and the playlists are all ok - so the info needed is available on the computer.
Thank you
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Did you possibly rename the drive?
Are you able to relocate the files and have them work that way? If you can relocate ONE file and it's fine, then select all and use the mass-relocate feature which then re-identifies the file locations and you should be good to go.
Thanks for the reply....
The new hard drive has a different name, but the drive with all my music is stored is still the very same - iTunes has no issue.
Relocating will take a really long long time, over 3000 missing files. The mass relocate feature isn't too helpful as it makes me look for each individual track AND gets confused when it does find a track, as it will then ask me to find another track but then tell me it's already in the collection.
Maybe i'm a bit slow, but this seems like it should be a simple process that is made difficult. Bummer!
Any other tricks I could use?
iTunes has no issue because of the way the library and OSX work together. It's so incredible that you can delete a file and it will still play in your library - from the trash can.
Hindsight is 20/20 but I could have made recommendations on the procedures for moving the library in order to avoid this (and keeping identical drive names is one of them). The mass-relocate feature works when everything has been shifted globally, but if you have had several tracks change location then it will ask you repeatedly or get confused. It seems to me that it's possible you have iTunes set to organize your music and it has relocated everything.
You'll either want to spend the time allowing it to relocate all your tracks (if you have a lot of playlists / memory points / hot cues), or re-import all your tracks and rebuild the library.
Bugger!
Well next time I'll come ask for advice for sure - should have done that before to be fair.
So what I'm doing now is basically making sure I have the playlists that are already on my USB sticks saved - any advice for that? I have tried to export them as m3U8 files and regenerate them in iTunes HOWEVER it's missing tracks - a playlist that has 100 tracks on USB the m3u8 file generates a playlist missing 10 of those tracks. But if export a txt files, it lists them all.
Any help with that instead?
Thanks
If the files can't be located, the software can't create add that file to a playlist. A text file simply lists the files (and possibly the locations, I don't recall).
Have you tried comparing what the reported location is in rekordbox vs. the actual location of that same song within iTunes to see how things got moved around?