Library transfer

[Giamma]

Hello, I searched for this topic but all I’ve found are old one so I try to ask again.

Situation: old laptop with my music on, engine dj installed (just updated to 4.0), all music analyzed with cue points etc etc. My laptop space is running out and I want to transfer all my library on a brand new SSD (sandisk extreme pro 2TB) where I will add more music. I’ll use engine dj desktop app on a brand new laptop (it’s the laptop where I also produce so i don’t want music files there).

Is there a way to do a clean transfer of my library on the new ssd? thank you

[Parysatis]

Hi Giamma,

while I do not have a good workflow to offer for this situation, I suggest that you backup your files first, whatever you do … the SanDisk extreme pro have a bad reputation of sudden failures due to a manufacturing or design flaw, at least some models. I have switched to using two SSD drives from Samsung, one as a primary drive for music, the other as a mirror … plus I was bored of the SanDisk drives constantly auto-unmounting in weird ways.

On a knowledge base page Denon DJ describe how to move the library to another computer:

Engine DJ | How to move your library to a new computer | Engine DJ

And here is a forum post about how to move the Engine library to a bigger / different drive:

Move Engine DJ Library To A Bigger Harddrive

Moving music with EDJ is always a risk. But you can proceed like this: Close Engine DJ Move your music wherever you want, trying to at least keep the file paths intact, i.e. move the entire “Music” folder in a single block, don’t move or mix the various folders that contain your tracks. If you do as I wrote above, you could also restore everything as it was originally if something doesn’t work. Make a backup copy of your Engine database: you can find it in \Music\Engine Library\Database2 Now o…

Maybe you can first move your music collection to the external drive on your old system and then migrate the library to the new system. Please, make a backup before any of this. As DjAj writes:

Moving music with EDJ is always a risk.

If this works for you (or if it does not) or if you find another, better solution, please leave a note on the forum, so that other people may find it later. I hope that this helps you!

[Giamma]

Thank you for your info!

About the SSD I’m sorry you had a bad experience with the Sandisk, I use it as my Native instruments library since years and it’s perfect.

I already have all my music on a NAS for the backup and my “main” folders in the old laptop, following your advice I’ve bought a T7 shield to move all my music (and engine dj folder" to the new laptop… Let’s see how it goes. The first thing now is move the whole library on the ssd on the old laptop to see if the library remains intact…

[Thatswhatyourmumsaid]

Samsung all the way, to this date I’ve never had a problem.