My the latest batch of newly bought tracks couldn't be played with RB. It took me a couple of frustrating evenings to find out what caused it. Recently I started to listen to the new tracks after I had copied them to my USB stick. This was before I imported them into RB and sort things out like tagging etc.
The fact that I had played them already from that same USB stick somehow caused RB to choke on these tracks. So now I just copy them on my USB stick, import the tracks from this stick into RB, do the tagging, synchronising etc. in RB and only after this start to listen to the tracks using RB on my XDJ-RX...this works!
Is this how it is supposed to be?
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Sorry, I don't know if I'm clear on where you were trying to listen to them FROM after you downloaded them? Were the songs on your computer or the USB drive? Did you import them into rekordbox then try to preview them? Please provide a step-by-step list of your workflow so I can better understand and provide some suggestions.
ok, here's the workflow that caused me the problem:
- Download tracks from ITunes
- Copy tracks from my laptop onto my usb stick
- Listen to the newly added tracks from my usb stick
- Import tracks to RekordBox
- On my usb stick; copy tracks to the appropriate folders
- In RB; "manage missing tracks" since I have moved the tracks to a new location on my usb stick
- in RB; tag tracks
- in RB; Copy tracks to the appropriate folders (corresponding with the folders on my usb stick. I can still play my tracks on my pc, using RB.
- Export playing lists to my USB stick
- Stick US into XDJ-RX
- Search for newly added tracks by using "Search function"
- Select Player
- E8306 Error
Hope this helps.
Thanks!
Best regards,
Fred
Whoah, dude... that is some serious work with many unnecessary steps.
When you download a song from iTunes, why are you putting it on your USB stick? Is that where you hold your music collection? Is that external drive the same drive you use to export to from rekordbox?
Why are you importing and THEN moving the files? That only creates the unnecessary "relocate" step, which you could avoid by moving the files first, then importing them.
Actually you are right and I was hoping to get this kind of response ;) Anyway, I am putting my Itunes purchases on my USB stick because that is where I store my music collection indeed. And yes, this usb stick is the same drive that I export to from RB. On my USB stick I have a structure of folders that I also have inside RB. This in case I show up on a gig and there is no RB I can still find my tracks on the USB stick using the same structure.
So what I do now is:
- I download tracks from ITunes onto my laptop
- Copy tracks from my laptop onto my usb stick
- On my usb stick; copy tracks to the appropriate folders
- Import new tracks from my usb stick to RekordBox; One by One as the individual tracks will be spread over different folders due to different energy levels of each track.
- in RB; tag tracks
- in RB; Copy tracks to the appropriate folders (corresponding with the folder structure on my usb stick).
- Export playing lists to my USB stick
- Stick US into XDJ-RX
- Search for newly added tracks by using "Search function"
- Select Player
- Then it works
Still a lot of work but I guess that is because I want to maintain the same structure on both usb stick and RB.
@Fred > The reason I don't suggest using the same USB drive for your collection AND export is the size requirement doubles for any track you export. Let's say you have 10 songs at 5MB each (original source), then you import them to rekordbox. No problem, it's just 10 songs. If you export all 10 songs, they have been copied into a new Pioneer contents folder, so instead of those 10 songs taking up 50MB on your drive, they now occupy 100MB because there is two copies of that track. rekordbox doesn't link the original file location in its database even if the source is on the same drive as the export.
Here's my recommendation...
- Download your songs in iTunes, then move them to wherever they will live (be it on an external or internal drive), organized in the appropriate folders.
- In rekordbox, create a playlist for each folder you create on your external as you've sorted your music. If that means you are copying music from step 1 into a House folder and you already have a House playlist in rekordbox, there's no harm in re-importing that entire folder, just tell rekordbox ONLY to add the new files and not to double-up on existing tracks in the playlist.
- To make finding your new songs easier so you can tag them, create an intelligent playlist with the criteria Date Added is in the last 1 day(s). Any songs you've just added will appear there, regardless of where they are in your collection. You can then modify the tags as needed.
- Export playlists as necessary, or simply update your export device and tracks added to playlists that already exist on your export device will be updated.