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Possible to Sync Recordbox 5 on Two Pc's using Google Drive?

I've read that people have done but can't find anything solid or make it work form what I have tried. One guy said it works on dropbox - which I could potentially use but surely it would also work on Google drive too?

Has anyone here managed to store their music and database on Google Drive, and have Rekordbox installed on two different laptop/pc's and synced?

I'd love to be able to import, edit and manage playlists on my pc, then open my laptop and have all the updates ready to play with my console.

I'll literally pay money to anyone who can help me achieve this. Has anyone done it?

Colly

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I maintain 2 PCs by using the Backup/Restore Library functions in RB6 and before in RB5. At home, my desktop drive containing the track and database files is shared on my network. I copy track files from the desktop manually to the laptop, my performance PC. Guess you could accomplish this automatically by using Dropbox or Google Drive.

I then Backup the Library database on the desktop and Restore it to the laptop. This syncs all my playlists and cues on both systems. I reverse the process by Restoring from my laptop to sync any changes made during gigs. This also creates a backup of my database in case of a major failure. 

I believe you are thinking that if you have Dropbox or Google Drive, this process would be more automated. Changes to one system or the other would be pushed to the cloud service and then pulled to the other automatically. I wonder how timing would effect the synchronization process. 

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So I tried this and actually it's not a bad workaround solution. I can just do the updates on my pc, backup to Google Drive, and go to the laptop and restore the new database.

So yes I was hoping that essentially I could automate this by having the laptop and pc with the same computer name - with both seeking the database etc on the Google Cloud drive - so it would update automatically when opened.

I found a thread on it here: https://forums.pioneerdj.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005245643

The instructions are not that well written I don't think - but I've tried it many times and just cannot get it to work.

 

Anyone?

Colly 0 votes
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Sorry, the instructions were tested functional back when the article was written, but it was never tested with, or intended for use with, Google Drive, so if it doesn't function I take no responsibility as it is an unofficial / unsupported workaround.

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