# Engine desktop suddenly acting strange adding new/modified tracks
**URL:** https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007
**Category:** Engine DJ (Mac & PC)
**Tags:** issues
**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007 "2025-04-02T18:51:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Homeland101](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Homeland101)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/1 "2025-04-02T18:51:37Z")
All my tracks are on the SD card, so when I drag any new or modified tracks to the SD card\>collection it normally creates a new playlist with the tracks so I can analyze new ones and re-analyze modified ones.
Now every time I do this it creates a playlist with 374 tracks and not just the ones dragged in. Even if I manually create a new playlist then drag over maybe 7 songs the same thing happens.
Started doing this on the previous version and now the same with the new release too.
Any help on this please?
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### Author:  [@djliquidice](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djliquidice)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/2 "2025-04-02T22:23:27Z")
Can you create a video using the desktop screen recorder with your OS and share it? I’d love to see where you are dropping the files exactly.
So strange that this is happening.
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### Author:  [@Homeland101](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Homeland101)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2025, 9:24am UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/3 "2025-04-03T09:24:14Z")
Here you are. Instead of creating a playlist with the 4 new tracks it’s creating one with 373 tracks
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HbwZkPU5CU)
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### Author:  [@JJ\_PG](https://community.enginedj.com/u/JJ_PG)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/4 "2025-04-03T15:05:47Z")
What happen if you use the fólder icon on the left of engine software to find the tracks and then drag them to the playlist?
Same issue?
Regards.
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### Author:  [@Homeland101](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Homeland101)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/5 "2025-04-03T15:54:53Z")
I can’t use that option as it’s impossible to find newly changed or added tracks. the way on the video worked great until recently.
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### Author:  [@djliquidice](https://community.enginedj.com/u/djliquidice)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/6 "2025-04-03T16:26:40Z")
Thank you. Have you tried dropping into a newly created empty playlist? Just trying to troubleshoot.
Also, does this happen with audio files? I’m not familiar with using MP4 video files with Engine. ☹
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### Author:  [@mufasa](https://community.enginedj.com/u/mufasa)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/7 "2025-04-03T16:57:18Z")
> [@Homeland101](#):
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> I can’t use that option as it’s impossible to find newly changed or added tracks
how come?
does sorting by date not work? ie most recent on top
> [@djliquidice](#):
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> I’m not familiar with using MP4 video files with Engine. ☹
should not make a difference. i used to have mp4 files as well.
> [@Homeland101](#):
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> Now every time I do this it creates a playlist with 374 tracks and not just the ones dragged in
where do you think the 374 is coming from, would that be the entire folder content instead of the 7 tracks been dragged?
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### Author:  [@Homeland101](https://community.enginedj.com/u/Homeland101)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/8 "2025-04-03T17:14:57Z")
Still happens if I manually create a playlist and drag them there. The sorting by date only shows new tracks, not modified ones as there is no column for file modified, only created. I also have subfolders so would have to go through all of them. No idea where the 374 is coming from at all.
As I said it was working fine until recently where dragging tracks in to the SD card collection would create a new playlist with only those tracks.
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### Author:  [@JJ\_PG](https://community.enginedj.com/u/JJ_PG)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.enginedj.com/t/engine-desktop-suddenly-acting-strange-adding-new-modified-tracks/63007/9 "2025-04-04T15:02:24Z")
Only for test: you search in Explorer the files. May be is draging all the result of the search. Can you do It with files located by yourself in any foler and try It?