Hey guys. Okay, here’s the scenario: I have a main iMac with my full music collection kept in iTunes. It also has my video library, sample library and music/video software on it.
When I prepare a Rekordbox show, it’s done on this machine and the associated Rekordbox Data saved to an external SSD drive via Rekordbox. I then use this external SSD drive with a MacBook Pro and Rekordbox to go and perform with. I’ve noticed that even though my Rekordbox files reside on the external drive, my iTunes Media folder on the a MacBook also contains all the audio files as well - is this correct, or am I supposed to be switching something in either Rekordbox or iTunes on the MacBook to stop this happening?
Thank you in advance for any constructive advice you give. Cheers
If you're exporting to that SSD, you would have a copy on the SSD as well as your internal drive. If the SSD were the only place your content were stored, it would just keep the one copy.
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Hey Pulse. Thanks for your response. That’s not what appears to be happening with my set up - I have a brand new MacBook Pro with nothing loaded directly into iTunes by me. All I’ve done is connect the external data SSD and import the backup into Rekordbox. All of my Rekordbox tunes (from the backup) are now appearing in the ITunes Media Music folder on the new MacBook, although not viewable in the iTunes Browser. I’ve tried deleting them, but then Rekordbox says it can't find the files. Do you have any suggestions how to stop this from happening as it is taking up lots of space on the internal drive. Cheers
It sounds like you're causing the problems by deleting things, which is why rekordbox can no longer find the files.
First, check that iTunes is not set to manage your music location or to import a copy to your collection. Both of these should be UNCHECKED:
Hey Pulse. Thanks again for your reply. Okay, so I unchecked the preferences in iTunes as suggested, and deleted the audio files in my iTunes Media Music folder. I then restarted the MacBook and booted up Rekordbox, restored the Library from my backup on the external SSD. Everything loaded back fine, but the audio files then reappeared in the iTunes Media Music folder as before. I switched off the MacBook then restarted it and repeated the process again, but the outcome is the same. Do you have any other suggestions? Cheers
Where are you restoring the music to?
I’m restoring the music back into Rekordbox
Right, but during that process you select the location for the music file restoration -- where are you putting them?
I don’t get given the option of where to restore the collection to, it just loads it up once the file is selected via Restore Library - I'd assumed Rekordbox was reading the music direct from the external SSD as that’s where the Database is located?
rekordbox prompts for the location you will be restoring the music files, but the library (database) is placed in the default folder.
Hmm. Neither of my Macs give any option of where to restore - I guess that maybe, because all of the Collection was originally imported from iTunes (my librarian), it automatically loads the music back into the iTunes Music folder?
That could well be -- I've never encountered that before.
