Goto serato and make your crates from all your physicsl tracks on hard drives. As you used to do.
Now goto engine and tell it to read serato…
Drag those crates into engine collection. (Old term used due to denon deciding to rip the terminology book up and rename everything)
To do it in a failsafe mode.
The crates you make in serato make those physical folders on hard drive.
Yes this does mean you may end up with multiple copies of a track…BUT trade off against library going t1ts up during a gig
I’m not used to Serato - or any other DJ software.
I have played with vinyl and doing livesets with drummachines etc.
I’m now in the proces of digitising my very big collection (ripping my CD´s / recording vinyl). At the moment the files is sorted in folders on an external “master” disk. I´ll then make playlists (Engine? Lexicon?) and sync to the internal SSD disk in my Prime 2.
I guess I could/should still use Your method without Serato though.
Have I understood this correctly:
You recommend to make the playlists into physical “Crates / folders”?
-even if the files occupies more space?
So, a track that is used in 2 different playlists, will occupy 3 times its physical space:
Ok sorry didt realise you dont use serato.
Right . Take say an album by say avicii. Its on its own folder and contains say 20 tracks.
That album (folder) goes into the ALL or MASTER folder. Same as every other album. Odd tracks make your own folder however you want and put those tracks in there (same as singles on vinyl all in own box).
From there make your playlist folders as you do with vinyl. Organise it however you want that is best for you. Copy and paste the tracks from avicii album into as many playlist folders as you want.
Ok so now we have a hard drive full of folders and you can find everything easily.
That hard drive now gets cloned (complete copy) and put to one side under lock and key.
(Optional but would recomend it).
Now the hard drive can be “read” easily by other software as a backup system. Ie serato or vdj.
In engine open the folders tab in bottom left corner. Click the drives icon and select the drive with all the folders on. Drag the folders from the left hand folders side into the “drive” collection. From there you can now work with just the collection and analyze the tracks. Correct beat grids and add cue points or loops.
Everytime you add an album or track to drive. Dont forget to add it to collection to analyze it.
From there find the folder called engine. Copy it and paste it intoa new folder called BACKUP. Also copy it to a usb key and put it with your master drive. Do this everytime you add tracks or albums
If at any point it goes pete tong. Delete the engine folder and copy paste from BACKUP back to where you just deleted engine foler from.
Hope that makes it more understandable.
Keep breathing guys, take a walk, shake it off… as it comes to backups…
When i buy a disk for back up purposes i mostly buy 2 to have an exact clone.
Should it be that way ? NO
Is it overkill ?? After having what happened to him to me too… HELL NO!
In the end … Tech always will work eventually… but never from the 1st time… or with flaws…
i promised myself i would never put me in the disadvantage like that again.
@Reticuli exactly. Its fine playing same venue as a pemenant install but for the mobile jock the concept of standalone is the lure. Its bad enpugh havong to drag a complete rig around. Then rig it, play the night, then derig it. The added nightmare and stress of losing everything with 4 hours to go… put yourself in that situation. Yes ok stupid me for not carrying a back up drive. But…
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