exporting new cue point data

Engine DJ Software Engine DJ (Mac & PC)
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so i have a prime 4, great piece of kit, but just have a question that i cant find an up to date answer for, maybe someone here can help me.

so i have my full music collection in two places, on my pc and on a HDD internally on my prime.

i want to go through my entire collection over the next few weeks on my PC and add missing cue points, ratings, comments etc.

i then want to export just this data to the prime4. is this possible? when i use the sync manager it just overrights everything that was on the HDD intrernally on the prime 4 (that already happened me by mistake).

the prime 4 collection has some on the fly cue points i have set for tracks, so dont want to overwrite those either. although i think i may have already lost them when i last synced come to think of it.

is it possible to just export cue and rating data etc to the Prime without wiping the primes HDD?

thanks folks.

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Are you not best syncing the HHD data into engine desktop before you start adding your data there? the sync manager is a 2 way street.

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wil lthat not overwrite my entire collection on my pc? it did going the other way

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As far as im aware all it does is update your collection with any additional data you have added on the device, for example if you add a cue point while DJing it won’t show on your PC until you sync it back to the collection.

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yes, there isnt wiped anything in either direction if done correctly. this isnt windows

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Dear @ robert_cope ,

the problem you posted I detected in a similar way. In my opinion the “sync feature” in Engine DJ doesn’t work as expected and it’s difficult to handle and so it’s a leak in general.

I damaged my collection as well, and so I created a workaround as follows:

  • I’m storing my tracks on a USB-Stick (exfat formatted).

  • This USB stick I use for my daily work.

  • This USB stick I have cloned, stored at a safe place (bank safe or something like that ;-)).

  • When I made changes (e.g. new tracks, hot cues, loops etc) on the original USB Stick I update the clone.

  • Before updating the clone I make a furthermore copy on my server (fortunately I have sufficient space on the server).

  • The server ist not formatted in exfat, the USB sticks I format in exfat, but it’S no problem to move from the server to the USB stick (formatted in exfat)

  • If I only make some amendments by hot cues or loops …, I only make a copy of the complete folder named Engine Library with all sub-folders including the database (*\Engine Library\Database2.…).

  • I keep some generations (more than grandfather, father and son) of the database on the server.

My recommendation: Try it out to make a backup (clone) and train to restore before you have the worst case and need the clone phps. at a gig.

Enjoy and brgds

BeatMaster