I tried that and it did not work, i put a track on a blank flash drive, loaded and played it, loaded it again and still did not have the stem option when i swiped slowly to the left
Is stems active on your device/profile?
yes cause i can do it on the drive that i export from EDJ, i will test again after work and make a video of settings and so on
a few people saying the same on FB posts like
âââUnfortunately, it seems to only work with music in the database/lists. Not from folders, not from Tidal. So thereâs practically no point in having onboard stemming if it only works with the pre-made database, because then itâs easier to just do the stems with the desktop software.âââ
Yeah, they need to be in the Engine database already.
You canât stem a track using the file browser mode unfortunately.
No problem here.
Iâve put some tracks on a USB stick. Deleted the Engine folder.
Put stick in the device.
Load track from folder. Let is analyse.
After that go to playlists > main collection. Track should be shown there.
You can stem from that view.
My understanding is only the System 1 (as it stands) has the ability to do onboard stems all other engine devices it has to be pre rendered on the computer
Forget what I put as @Reese knows. Seems like I remembered it differently. Sorry!
Tidal I can understand, because as Mojaxx says, theyâre rented - so the stemming process is saving a file to your drive that youâre not permitted to keep.
Having said that though, my understanding was that Engine stems were encrypted, so if it saves as an encrypted file then itâs protected.
FYI VirtualDJ can save Tidal tracks to an offline locker - and it can create and store stems from them (which are encrypted).
Iâve lived a much more instantaneous, luxurious version of on-the-fly stems with my own music and streaming music via djay pro.
It is a welcome feature for sure, but in what situation would you not want a song youâre playing to be stems-capable? Better to have stems and not need it then to need it an not have it.
Ok, thank you Reese, i will give that a shot, i donât think people know they have to get out of the folder view and in to the EDJ collection view created to then do stems, i feel most will go to folders, load track, let it analyze and then swipe to create STEMS
Canât do much about user errors or not reading manuals (although this time not very clear in the manual).
The Stems folder only lives in a collection, so yeah not in the file-folder browser view.
5.0 release manual shows those steps?
This video does.
Edited my remark. Only tells you about Library view. Could be clearer, but then again, why not try stuff before posting on the interwebz. Not meaning you but others.
thanks! maybe they should add in the video if you have tracks on a blank drive how to do it just as added info for users to see and learn
This works great, thanks for the info! Just tested it
Good that this has been delivered.
What would be the hypothetical speed of onboard stem analysis on the prev generation hardware? RS1 does about 1x (mojaxx video 3;41 song â 3min generation). Double time?
Itâs clear older devices wonât get it, but curious whether this decision to only include RS1 is mainly marketing driven or would the stem analysis process not be workable on the older devices?
The previous gen hardware does not contain a CPU powerful enough to generate stems in a timely or quality fashion. Itâs RS1 or future hardware only.
then they should have said that instead of making false promises about the prime 4 plus. they told us onboard stems would come for the prime 4 plus, what a waste of money buying the product under a false selling point.