Waveform and reconnect issues / bugs

Hi everyone. I recently switched from using a controller and Traktor Pro to the XDJ-700's and a Rekordbox exported usb stick. I really love the hardware, it's just fantastic and super responsive. But there are some very frustrating bugs in the software though. I'd like to throw all remarkable issues that I encountered since I started using Pioneer equipment. I suppose some or perhaps most of them are already known, but just to make sure and to help improve the Pioneer experience :)

I'm running Windows 10 with Rekordbox 5.4.2
My XDJ's have firmware version 1.13

Issue 1

Background

I have all my music on my hard disk stored in subfolders, which represent the albums. This is logic right? So I just dragged the main folder into Rekordbox to add all these tracks to the collection and get them analyzed. Later, I changed the location of this main folder on the hard disk because I had some rearrangements or whatsoever. As expected, Rekordbox marked all music files as missing. But no problem, there is a reconnect feature. But..

The issue

The reconnect feature does only work on just one folder at a time. So I had to do this over and over again for every album because every album was in its own folder on the hard disk. Though, after exporting to a usb stick, Rekordbox puts all music files in subfolders based on artist and then album. But this would be even more hell if one needs to reconnect files in such folder structure. This doesn't make sense for me. A option to also look for matching tracks in subfolders would possibly solve the problem.

Workaround

So I thought, oke, I put all tracks in one folder (the main folder) on my hard disk, so without a folder structure, I can live with that, there are stil metatags. Then I expected Rekordbox could do the batch reconnect for all missing files in just one click. But this brings me to issue 2..

Issue 2

It seems the reconnect feature does not work for files which have a too long filename (I don't know the exact amount of characters). After the batch reconnect, a lot of files remained missing. I noticed that the filename shown in the title section of the "open file" popup window for these files where not the full filename (this is why I think the filename is too long), and thus Rekordbox was unable to find and reconnect them. I would have to do it one by one for all these tracks, which is very time consuming and annoying.

Workaround attempt (failed)

I had all tracks already exported to usb before. So I cleared my complete collection, which had a lot of missing files, dragged the main folder from my hard disk in again, to get all the tracks back, and tried to update the waveform and cuepoint data by importing from my usb stick. Didn't work, issue 3..

Issue 3 (workaround issue 2 above is background of this issue)

It seems Rekordbox doesn't recognize identical tracks I imported from my usb stick in order to update waveform and cuepoint data of my collection. Of course, if everything is set up right from the beginning, the tracks have the same ID and Rekordbox would recognize them as identical files and syncing is possible, but this wasn't the case because of issue 1-2. The imported tracks where even still connected to my usb stick. If I removed my usb stick, these files got marked as missing and I'm back at issue 1-2. So I had duplicates in my collection, but not recognized as duplicates because only the filepath was different.

Issue 4 (possible result of issue 2)

From ±350 tracks I figured 5 of them where corrupted. On the XDJ's the waveform didn't match the sound. So I looked them up in Rekordbox to find out more. In Rekordbox, the zoomed in waveform did match the sound, but the overall/full-length waveform didn't match at all. I refreshed its metatags and suddenly it appeared to be a complete different track, but the waveform was still wrong. I think this could be a result of issue 2 and a human mistake (reconnecting to the wrong file). And I couldn't find an option to re-analyze, so I had to remove the track from the collection and drag it in again to re-analyze and to get the correct waveform back.

At this moment, I have a partially disconnected music collection, partially imported from my usb stick, just to have the analyzed data and cuepoint backed up. In case something is wrong with my usb stick or it gets lost. Then, I must go through a hell of reconnect work or redo a lot of memory cue work.

For the time being... Is there a file where all filepaths are stored for the music collection? Then I would be able to, for example, do something like changing all occurrences of "F:\Contents\" to "C:\Users\Me\Music\".

Thanks and Best Regards,

Bob