Library management my way Itunes, serato + Ugreen Nas/Synology

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Hey

I just figured out my way of working since engine is not handling external drives music storage. This is my general idea of management of dj library on Engine Dj + Network Attached Storage (Nas) - it works with Ugreen Nas and Synology.

  1. I store my whole music inside Itunes. Library of itunes is directed to my Nas folder by SMB (I belive on mac if you run Apple Music/Itunes with cmd button, you will be prompted to create new Itunes library aka database. Then I guide it to be on Nas folder. Now, wherever I drag and drop music to itunes, it is copied and structurized by author, album etc onto Nas. - if you don’t have a Nas, you can do it on your mac/pc directly and can go to step 5
  2. I have installed Ugreen sync and backup on ugreen nas or Synology Drive on synology.
  3. Install ugreen app/synology drive on Mac/Pc
  4. Create sync FROM (or you can use two way sync) Nas to PC/Mac (one way because i want to have 1 copy/main version of database on nas) to specified folder for example inside Music/Music Library folder (not directly into music because Serato and Engine creates their own folders and I wanted to avoid mess) using Ugreen Sync/Synology drive - everytime you add new music to itunes, it will be synchronized/copied to your pc/mac structurized (artist/album folders)
  5. Open serato and make your library clear - I did the same way shown here: https://youtu.be/PD9qYsfLKH0?is=-0n0o803JuLWFBdX
  6. Open Engine DJ and use your library

I know it looks like so many steps but:

When I manage my music using Itunes it is well structured in folders by authors and albums

Then i use serato to create dj library which Engine dj uses qnd I also think that Algoriddim Djay pro also use serato. I don’t care about recordbox, but if you need you can use Lexicon and this is like 1 more step.

You will always have clean, tidy dj library and will always have (if you need) main copy of music on NAS

I hope you will find my guide helpfull

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Interesting!

I have a network drive over SMB and a simple symbolic link does the job. I’m on windows, I created in the regular windows music folder a symbolic link to the “records” folder.

Both Rekordbox and Engine DJ can access it, so I do the playlist/cue stuff on Recordbox, then re-import playlists in Engine too. I have a USB for playing with my Pime GO+, and one for gigs on Pioneer Gear.

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