So...I've got an SD card for my phone that I'm trying to export my playlists to. I am using a USB adapter to export from my computer, then I am putting the card in my phone and trying to open the list from Rekordbox. It makes me import all the music again in the Rekordbox program, and also the playlist doesn't show up? What am I doing wrong? Am I exporting to the wrong directory? Or is there a setting that I need to change so the phone can see the playlist?
The rekordbox app on your phone isn't capable of reading music from an export device; the phone itself is an export device which you would sync via rekordbox directly the same way you did with the SD card.
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Thanks for the response. I am new to Rekordbox, so excuse my ignorance. I have about 400gb of music I am transferring from Serato to Rekordbox, and I am trying to figure out the best setup. I currently have all that music on a network drive because I don't have enough space on my PC currently to store it.
I would like to be able to use my phone (which has a 512gb SD card), to sift through, tag, and sort. I wanted to export the music to the SD card (using a usb adapter) because the export is taking forever....like at least a couple days. I can't leave my phone plugged in that long. Am I overreaching on functionality here? Am I stuck having to do all this work at the PC?
@Matt > You can have the source location of the music as the network drive - importing them into rekordbox from that source. You can then export some or all of the music to your SD card, whatever you want to have available for use with a player.
The reason it's taking so long to export to your SD card is the write speeds of that card are not very good (see this video for a breakdown of how USB3 drives can greatly differ in write speeds).
Pulse...
You were completely right about the USB issues...thank you. I have a PNY Elite 1TB drive that is now a paperweight. I am using a Samsung 2TB flash drive that I ALREADY HAD (but had to reformat to FAT32), and it is working WAY better. Oh well.
Now...I am trying to transfer playlists to my phone using a 512gb external SD using the wifi. I am running into the 1000 file playlist limit, so we will see how that goes. I am going to keep this thread open until it is complete, but I appreciate the help.
Matt
Where is it you're encountering the limit? Playlists can have > 1000 songs... is that on the phone?
Yes...I am connecting using wifi, and it won't export a playlist over 1000 songs
That could be a limitation of the wifi sync to the app, but using a USB drive allows for up to 10K.
Got it. Incidentally, is there a way to add a track to a playlist while it is playing on the Android app?
You mean while the device is connected to a player? No.
Pulse...it took me a minute to get used to the new hardware. I believe I'm almost dialed in. I still have 16k tracks to organize and sort, and there is one feature that is causing me a problem. Rekordbox has analyzed all the tracks, but it consistently doesn't recognize the first beat of the bar. There is a button in Rekordbox to reset the first beat, but can I do this on the CDJ 2000 NXS2's as well? I want it quantized, so I don't want to shift it manually. Since I'm moving through so many tracks, I don't notice the first beat is inaccurate until I'm playing live. I'd like to be able to change it in real-time so it will be right next time I play.
Thanks again for your assistance