Rekordbox file saving question

I have Serato on my desktop and my MacBookPro, all my music files are on an external drive and I have a backup of that drive on one of my drives on my desktop.

My question is I need to import tracks into Rekordbox so I opend the external drive where my tracks are stored for Serato and I'm dragging those into Rekordbox on my desktop.

Now if I decide to add tracks later I would first add them to my external drive where my Serato tracks are and import those tracks to Rekordbox. With this scenario if I back up my external drive with the Serato and REKORDBOX tracks on it will REKORD BOX read the source tracks from the BACKUP OR do I still need to have my external drive plugged in.

Reason for asking I want to do this procedure once as I have a lot of exclamation points in Rekordbox and want to clean and organize once. Any help? RD

Ralphiedee 8 de Dezembro de 2017 17:57 Respondido

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If you remove the external drive, the music file source is absent, so it will show as missing. If all your music is stored externally, you need that drive connected in order to play it. With both Serato DJ and rekordbox, importing tracks doesn't copy them somewhere, it just links the physical file to your collection database.

I would suggest you move the database to the external drive so wherever you go, that database can load up with the music.

Pulse 8 de Dezembro de 2017 18:13

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@Pulse

Where do you recommend storing music files that will remain linked to Rekordbox? I have tried iCloud, however Rekordbox still can't locate the files after I close the application.

It would be my understanding that iCould should work fine. Which is the best option out of iCloud, Dropbox, GoogleDrive, iTunes? How do you store your tracks? I run on MacOS Mojave.

Sam Ashton-Jones 6 de Março de 2019 05:10 0 votos

@Sam > I guess the real question is ... what is it you're trying to accomplish? What's the goal for you?

I've previously provided some instructions on using Dropbox as a cloud-sync between computers, but there are some very specific criteria required, never mind the fact you're having to store all your music in Dropbox (which many users can't / won't do due to the size of their collection).

Pulse 20 de Março de 2019 18:06 0 votos