Rekordbox 6 - My own server?

You can easily store your music files on the NAS drive (that's what I do and have done for RB6 and previous RB versions). However, I keep the library data itself on the computer (and do regular backups to the NAS drive). Otherwise, I've found there were issues.

To have remote access, you'd also need to a VPN to securely access the drive. (Not to mention decent upload speed and a good mobile connection.)

My library is all FLAC so file sizes are 50-100meg for each track. I recently had some network quality issues and found that it would take 10-15 seconds to load each track and in some cases, I'd find that the track would stop half way through and I'd need to load. Normal operation, you wouldn't know that the files weren't stored locally on the computer. 

I keep my music files on a NAS too, but it is just stupid Record box does not allow to store the library to a mapped network drive. They claimed it would be too slow, not sure what network they use, but 1Gbps is default these days. 

I agree, why RB 6 isn' t an open structure to the outside world. We as users determine what we do with our music files and where we store them. This is an 80's strategy to build software. I notice why Pioneer doesn't listen to its users.

You certainly can store the songs wherever you want them, but we don't officially support use of other servers or services.

Pulse, thats not the issue, we know we are free to store our own files where we want.

The problem is that RecordBox is NOT 100% compatible with windows as it does not allow mapped (just another driveletter) network drives (\\nas-server\share to for example M: in windows) to store the library. 

Fix your stuff instead of trying to talk around it. 

Sorry, why should it be "fixed" for a non-standard, unsupported configuration?

My car doesn't float, but I don't complain when I take it into the lake and it can't perform like a boat.

Seriously? A network share mapped to a drive non-standard??????

That's like saying a female with a vagina is non-standard.

Comparing your car with a boat is a fallacy

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To add to all this, A mapped drive from a network share is STANDARD windows and -every app- can use such drives like any other local drive. To NOT use such drives you have to check and hardcode to NOT allow the use of the mapped share. So it is even worse, it is not simply unsupported but intentionally BLOCKED by the Rekordbox application.   

@Gerard van Dorst just my comment on this. As I said earlier, I store all my tracks (mostly FLAC) on a NAS server I built. I too have gigabit Ethernet and fast WiFi so loading tracks etc is quick (you wouldn't really know they're not stored locally).

I backup my library regularly to my NAS drive - and I'm glad I do because I recently had to flatten my laptop and rebuild. I tried to restore using the library on the NAS drive and Rekbordbox (v5) had a very tough time - crashed a few times, otherwise didn't seem to be doing anything (left for a while).

I then copied the library backup to the local machine and re-tried and the restore happened in seconds. I know a restore is probably more demanding than just a normal library load but I imagine this is just one of the reasons why it's not recommended to keep your library on a server/NAS drive.

Is there a reason why you can't use something like Dropbox on the server, and your computer, syncing only the Rekordbox library on the server? 

Otherwise, if you're adamant you want your Rekordbox library on your server, lookup symlinks. This should achieve exactly what you want.

@Gerard > No less a fallacy than your understanding of how to figure out how to put your database on a NAS successfully.

Pulse

Wow, spoken about customer support being polite and trying to be positive towards customers. This is just rude and pointless.

The question is, what counts as an external hard drive. I have my data on an external hard drive and have bought a synology with two hard drives to have a higher data security. Why does Rekordbox work with an external hard drive and not with a NAS drive that works on a gigabit network?

Then no advertising agency in the world should have its own server to store and work with it on your graphic Adobe Cloud data.

People, don't make money with every piece of stuff, but also give users certain freedoms. I only work with Rekordbox via USB Sync. The whole thing is still free, but I am convinced that even this free version will cost something at some point. If it will cost anything a month, I'm out. As a standalone version that would be OK for me, since software development also costs money.

Works such kind of hardrive or not? That is the question?

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