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Have I Ruined My Rekordbox Collection?
Hi Guys,
I think I have made a big mistake that I am having trouble undoing.
For several reason I decided to wipe my iMac. This iMac is where all my music was stored.
I use Rekordbox, I load my tracks in, Don’t grid em as I mix manually, use the key recognition and more importantly the hot cue function.
I then export my library to a portable usb hard drive and plug that into the cdjs and load my songs from there.
Now,
I had my entire library on the portable hard drive, with all the necessary hot cues and wiped my computer.
Once I reinstalled rekordbox, I tried to load my library back on my computer from the portable hard drive, and that’s where the problem has started.
Rekorbox reads my portable hard drive, and all my tracks are there with the hot cues on them (See Attachments)
However, My collection (Copied back onto the iMac) is a different story, all the work I have done to the tracks in rekorbox is gone.
Basically I want the tracks in my library to be exactly the same as the ones on my portable hard drive, so I can keep everything uniform.
Is there a way to copy the hot cues from the portable hard drive, to the collection, or do I have to manually go through 500 tracks and do it all again?
Thanks,
Matt.
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I have a very similar problem to this (but much less extreme). I have a few dozen tracks that are showing up as duplicates in my Collection. Although these are the exact same file, they are referenced by two different paths. For example, C:/Main/dirA/dirB/track01.mp3 and C:/Old/dirA/dirB/track01.mp3 but /Main and /Old point to the same location because /Old is just a symbolic link (Junction in Windows terminology).
The /Old entry in the Collection has all my hot cues but the /Main does not - again - they are the same file! Is there a way to modify the database somehow to fine any references to /Old and change those to /Main?
I can't find a way to either update the database manually or copy the Hot Cues and beat matching data to the /Main reference.
Help!
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@Scott > The rekordbox identifies those as different files due to the different paths (even though it's really the same file with a junction).
My recommendation would be to first identify the duplicates then tag the ones you're replacing (ones without the hot cues) with a MyTag, then sort by that tag and delete them. Next, kill the junction for /Old - and the files should be missing. Do a mass relocation, pointing the first file to the new location in /Main, then when it asks to use that path for all other files, say yes - and you'll be off to the races.
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This is a great idea with one flaw: It doesn't work for files in multiple sub-directories (dirA/dirB).
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@Scott > It does if you haven't made a hundred relocations; you can perform the relocation process twice; once for each move in the case of two directories.
Really, what it comes down to, is having better practice of music management before importing the songs to rekordbox, rather than moving them around after the fact.
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I would like to think I have excellent music file management skills already. Currently, my files are stored as follows:
<Music Folder>/<Artist Name>/<Album Name>/<Song>.mp3
The problem we're seeing is that Rekordbox will scan multiple sub-directories to add to the collection but can't handle file relocation with any sub-directories. Even if my collection were only setup with one level such as:
<Music Folder>/<Artist Name>/<Song>.mp3
Rekordbox still wouldn't be able to handle moving multiple songs or relocation of songs via the method you describe above. The "mass relocation" would only work for one artist.
Is there a way to manually edit the datafile.edb to make the changes? It would seem like an easy regular expression search and replace.
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