Database Issues

I have a few questions and issues (on Windows 10, latest version of Rekordbox):

I wanted to have all of my music with cue points and playlists on a second computer. I activated the second install of Rekordbox, backed up my library and moved it to the new computer and then moved the Master Database to an external harddrive.

When I opened Rekordbox it detected a database but most of the playlists were empty. When I go to check the Master Database in preferences it says the wrong drive. I tried restoring the library from the datafile.edb, which seems to have found all the song names and filled the playlists, but none of the cue points are there, none of the songs are analyzed and the files are not connected.

I would have to manually go in and connect each one since the Rekordbox backup separates every song into a separate subfolder by artist and then album. What happened to my database/collection/library? When I connect the harddrive to the original computer I have the same issue. Nothing is there until I restore the library. I had thousands of songs separated into playlists with thousands more cue points and they all deem to have disappeared.

Why isn't there a simple way to move everything with cue points and analysis? The process seems very convoluted and easy to lose everything.

Also, can anyone clarify the difference between Database, Library and Collection?

Stephen Medhurst April 09, 2020 06:35

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Library / Collection = different terms, same thing... the "collection" is your music, it's all stored in the "library." The database is just the file in which all of this information is stored.

To move a database, you can do so using the move technique outlined here, but if you want to make a copy, you're better off to use the File > Library > Backup Library on the source computer, then Library > Restore Library on the destination. And for this you're pointing to the ZIP file containing all of the contents, not just the database EDB file. That's likely why you didn't wind up with all your data being found.

Let's review... you say you "backed up" and then "moved" it ... those are two different things. Give me the step-by-step of exactly what you did.

Pulse April 09, 2020 15:46 0 votes

I had watched you video before I did this. I backed up the library and then moved the database. Then I dragged the backup onto my second computer, restored librarg from that zip and then pointed Rekordbox to the "moved" database on my external drive to see if it worked. The tracks were all in their playlists but the analysis and cue point of every track was gone.

Stephen Medhurst April 09, 2020 16:02 0 votes

Sorry and the audio files were unlinked. Since Backup splits every track into subfolders by artist and album I would I not have to go theough every folder to relink them? The find and relocate did not work. Even so, when a track was manually relinked it still wasn't analyzed.

Stephen Medhurst April 09, 2020 16:03 0 votes

Ok, at this point I've got all the songs linked in their playlists and they all have their cues, but they're missing their beat grid.

I copied the original folders with the audio files and the database file from the original computer to the new one, restored library from the database file and the relocated the audio files (which was easier now since they're in their original large folders).

How can I get that beat grid data back?

Stephen Medhurst April 09, 2020 17:30 0 votes

A few things...

1) ...restored librarg from that zip and then pointed Rekordbox to the "moved" database on my external drive...

All you would have done there was had two copies of the same thing... the 2nd computer was a copy of the first, which was then moved to the external, which you then connected to the second computer and called up. Am I correct in understanding that?

2) Ok, at this point I've got all the songs linked in their playlists and they all have their cues, but they're missing their beat grid.

When you restored, did you use File > Library > Restore Library, or did you unpack the zip? Because the zip itself contains all those files which would have been put back in place, but if you extracted the zip and tried manually copying the database in, it wouldn't have re-pointed all the entries to the corresponding folder for the grid and waveform data.

Pulse April 09, 2020 23:31 0 votes