So how do you guys manage playlists for the day you are doing a club/party
Here is my issue so looking for some ideas on what you guys are doing
here is an exaple
I had a party Saturday night, 5/30/26
I make a playlist named that and dump in the needed songs for ceremony, special dances and so on
I export that to my main flash drive and backup flash drive to use in the Rane System One
party goes great now time done and im preparing for the upcoming weekend
I open EDJ and delete playlist 5/31 and make one called 6/5/26 and add tracks
plug in the flash drive and 5/30/26 comes back in to EDJ as we knew it would,
I delete it AGAIN when I export 6/5/26 but now I plug in the backup flash drive and again, 5/30/26 comes back in to the main library
there has to be a better way other then formatting my flash drives every time to again export thousands of tracks for a simple 10 song change in a playlist
any advice is greatly appreciated
I know I have reported this bug and it has been discussed so just looking for a better workflow until Denon fixes this issue otherwise some 3rd party program supports stems, both MIXO and Rekordbox do a perfect job exporting and managing this but I canāt export stem info from them
I had an issue similar to this and I too own the RS1. Iāve learned that the auto-export feature can be finicky at times. What Iāve started doing is to use the manual option to manually drop my new playlists into the intended storage device and I manually delete those that I no longer need. IMO itās a cleaner process and eliminates those occasions when using Sync Manager it was causing my playlists to be out of order, playlists not syncing over, or songs missing within newly created playlists. I knew very early that Sync Manager would be a challenge is when I did a major overhaul of my playlists and when I proceeded to sync them to my internal drive, sync manager indicated that I didnāt have enough storage, which was incorrect. I ended up having to reformat the drive in order for Sync Manager to accept the export.
thank you for the info! I tried to manually do this too but still when I plugged in the backup drive it still auto restored the deleted playlist without even touching sync manager.
I reported it already, was just looking to see others ways of doing lists
thanks! it happens for anyone that has test that method even with songs, if you have your flash drive unplugged, delete some tracks in a specific playlist that u have on the flash drive also, when you plug the flash drive back in, it puts thats tracks back on to the local playlist
It may be that the software has a cache of what was on the drive previously. Even after you have deleted it, it has file name/drive cache so when you insert it, it says i remember this drive. Sorta like you mistakenly erased the drive and canāt remember what was on it. You would be able to screenshot and reload those songs on the drive.
I think itās supposed to be a āfeatureā, it merges all libraries from your local and external drives into one view, instead of only showing your local library like in Rekordbox.
I donāt use Sync Manager and donāt have a local library. Instead I copy my tracks to an external drive into the folder structure that I want, and drag them from there into Engine DJ, meaning they are added to the Engine library on the external drive. These changes can then be synced to a backup drive using rsync.
well thats a dumb feature making impossible to have backup drives and easily remove list and songs week to week, lol
and even manually managing a playlist if I rename it locally for the next weekend and then plug in my flash drive to export it, it makes the playlist again from the previous name and shoots it to the bottom of the playlists.
I understand this may be a "featureā but at least make the master library the master, not the flash drive
I had this problem for a little while, although I only noticed it with a couple of tracks reappearing. I use the sync manager but have tweaked my workflow with the backup drive.
Main drive - edit in desktop, sync all (ie updates to all folders), play gig, remove playlists on device, sync back to desktop, repeat.
This part seems pretty stable.
With the backup drive I tend to just sync over what part of my library I am using. To save time, and also to keep the backup from doing weird stuff. That might be the playlist and any sub playlists or a section of my library. Iāll regularly format this drive especially if Iām doing a different style of gig with completely different music.
I never sync from the backup, although Iāve never had to use it thankfully.
Also, depending on my gig frequency, I update the drives every so often, buy a new drive and move that to my main. This isnāt regular, maybe every year or two. (Funnily enough I ordered a new one yesterday) Maybe the cheapest way of scratching the new kit itch. Itās that or new lights
thats a great idea to just delete the playlist on the Rane after im done with it at the end of a gig, ill give that a try for now, was seriously debating selling the Rane system one cause the EDJ software is just not up to par compared to RB and how you can link everything, trying to push through though, lol
Was that a controller or an all in one unit that you used with Rbox?
I moved over from a controller when I switched to EDJ a good number of years back. I had to adapt my workflow quite a bit. There were a few things I missed from RB, but also gained a lot of features by switching.
I would suggest persisting and working around some of the issues. The Denon system, whilst not perfect, is pretty damn good and moves forward at a good pace compared to others. I rather enjoy getting new killer features every so often all these years after buying it.
