Hi,
I added all my music to engine dj by dragging folders from my pc to collections under engine library and this created a playlist for each folder. I even dragged the itunes folder from c:\users\music\itunes to collections and it created a playlist called itunes. So i will sync the playlist to prime 4 ssd with sync manager and for the files not in a playlist, I need to select all files in the collection and drag and drop them to the prime 4 ssd under the drives section?
Also, does folders I initially added to engine dj, I will add new music to those folders over time, to get this new music onto the prime 4 ssd, do I just run the sync manager and it will pick up the new files or it will sync everything over with the new files each time? Is there another way to do this? I just want to make sure I am using the best practices to bring music over to my prime 4.
In this case I make a playlist called for example “Alltracks” where I put all the tracks of the collection. So I’m sure I have all the tracks in the remote collection.
Yes.
There are some guys who don’t like to use Sync manager, so they update the remote collection by dragging and dropping new tracks from the main collection to the remote collection.
Ok I am lost, I have a music folder for my DJ pool and I dragged and dropped it under collections in Engine Prme. Now I closed Engine Prime, open my dj pool and added new tracks, now I reopen engine prime and wait a bit and go look into the dj pool folder I had previously dragged and drop and the new tracks aren’t there. It had created a playlist DJ pool under collection and I assume this folder would be re-scan upon start-up for new files, then I would just need to run sync manager and transfer it to the prime 4 but it seems its not the case. How do I get new files in a PC folder already in playlist in Prime to update automatically? I don’t have to keep track of all the new songs I add to the folders do I, because that won’t work for me.
The collection in Engine DJ does not update automatically when you add tracks to your folders on your computer. You should open EDJ, then drag the folders you edited into the collection (as you did earlier), so it updates the playlist with the new tracks. Then you can use Sync manager to synchronize the remote unit.
I just tried that but when I dragged the same DJ Pool folder into the Engine Prime collection a second time, it creates a new playlist called DJ Pool 2. Theres no way for it to go into the DJ Pool original playlist? I tried to drag it on top of of the DJ Pool playlist and it just created a sub playlist under that DJ pool playlist. I would like to have the music in my original DJ Pool playlist to be updated, is there a way to do that?
Maybe you should drag new tracks from your folder on PC to “DJ Pool” playlist on EDJ, that way it sure works. But you wrote that you don’t want to do that manual method.
I’m sorry but I don’t use this method to make my collection, so I can’t help you much.
I create a folder on my computer for every day I buy music. Then I simply drag the contents of that folder into the EDJ collection. And the problem is over.
While in EDJ I have all playlists divided by year, genre, etc., in which I take the various new tracks from the collection and insert them into the various playlists.
Oh wow, I don’t know to me it seems like basic functionality, I don’t think any DJ never adds new music to his collection. So if I remove the folder and re-add the same folder so it adds the new tracks, it has to re-analyze the whole folder? This will take a lot of time each time I add new music since I have like 5000 songs in that folder.
It scans for the new additions and analyses those only
eg
say you have a folder with 7 tracks
you drag that folder into engine to create a playlist from that folder
now you added 3 new tracks to the folder
if you delete the playlist and re-drag the folder the playlist will show the 7 tracks and new 3 tracks, but since you have analysed the 7 before, only the 3 new ones will be analysed.
Ok I will give it a try. And how should I handle my itunes collection properly? For now, I dragged the itunes folder C:\users\user\music\itunes under collection in engine dj, but I know engine dj has an itrunes icon under the collection icons in the far left menu, does using that mode add new music from itunes automically or I still need to delete it and re-add it for it to add new tracks? Because I know using the sync manager it only shows playlist under collections but doesnt show the itunes section? I have no playlists in iTunes just all my music under the main iTunes library, so I was wondering the best way to get that music onto the prime 4 ssd.
So dragging my iTunes Music folder under collection so it creates a playlist is a good way to do it? Then delete it and re-add it when there’s new songs to be added?
It is a workaround, it is not “good” and that is why i started that feature request because it affects a good few people who chose to manage their collection outside engine dj
I tried to remove a playlist and re-add the the same folder, it doesn’t re-analyze all the songs but there is still some processing going on, I see the cpu usage go up to 50% while its readding all the files to the playlist, is there a way around this?
Ah, I see you are running Windows 11 so you must have recent hardware, its probably my desktop that’s too old, it’s an i7 3rd gen(11 years old) with 16gb of ram running Windows 10 with 1TB Sata SSD as main drive.
