Open Source Sync Tool for macOS Ventura

[Houseman]

After intensive use, I have unfortunately found that the synchronization is not 100% reliable for me.

About 20% of my tracks show up as “RED” on my SC Live 4 even though the tracks are all there.

I don’t have the problem in Engine Desktop. No red entries, all tracks can be played.

The “red” traces are physically present on the stick

I already checked the tracks for errors with 3Vise - all fine.

I tried both sync options - with and without the “missing tracks” tick

USB stick (Sandisk Extreme Pro) reformatted

unfortunately it did nothing

Do you have an idea/solution?

Many Thanks

I want to reinstall the program (Intel Mac).

Does your program write entries to the Mac system library, or is it just deleted and reinstalled?

I have now completely deleted and reinstalled engineDJ with all databases and re-read all tracks.

Everything is fine in the Engine Desktop Software. No red marks.

Unfortunately, about 20% of the tracks (out of 6,000) are RED again in the player.

All tracks are physically on the stick

New addition:

I once manually copied some of the “red” tracks to another USB stick.

These are recognized in the player’s folder view and can be played back without any problems.

So it’s not because of bad files.

Somehow the tool seems to have an error in the database assignment - my guess - I’m not a programmer

I hope this helps

[lerk]

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

The application only writes to the specified target folder and modifies nothing else on your system. There is no way to uninstall it, since it’s not installed in the first place, simply delete it to get rid of it.

Would you be willing to send me the exported Database2 folder and maybe one or two of the broken song files as a zip archive via DM just so I can check what kind of corruption we got?

It could also be caused by m.db not being the only database I have to modify, there are a few databases in the library folder, but only two of those had entries and only one of them had valid paths in my case.

[toph-allen]

Hey Lerk,

Thanks for continuing to update this tool! I’m still getting the directory resolution error on 1.2.0. I’m gonna try to take a look at it this evening, but if you have any ideas where to start in the code, let me know. Or if there’s anything I can send to help diagnose the issue.

Maybe my Engine library is just hosed. Wouldn’t be the first time. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I swear, the quality of Denon’s software. I’m gonna switch to Pioneer gear as soon as I can. (I know rekordbox isn’t great either…)

I added some log lines to see what the incorrect values were. Here’s what I got:

baseDir: /Users/toph/Music/Engine Library Backup/Database2
src: /Users/toph/Music/Engine Library Backup/trm.db
dstDir: /Volumes/Hi-Voltage/Engine Library/Database2

[Edit] I was able to get it to sync successfully by deleting the outer set of database files, the ones outside Database2. (I did delete `Database2 and re-upgrade at one point during this process too, so I’ve definitely lost some cue points and tempo corrections in there.)

[Houseman]

It’s about time that Denon finally releases the Ventura update!

How long do they need?

The Ventura beta’s have been available for testing for a long time

Even if there was always a warning about updating to Ventura - what do the customers who have updated their Mac to Ventura before the release of SC 2/4 Live??

They can’t use their device!

[lerk]

As far as I understand this is not an issue with Denon/EngineDJ, it’s a bug in QT (the GUI library they use) and it has to be fixed there, there’s nothing Denon can do (except maybe contribute to QT, no idea if they do).

[lerk]

Ah yes, I thought it would be a good idea to keep the directory structure in the exported drive, worked for me but caused a lot of issues for others, sorry for that.

I’m currently working on an additional checkbox that brings back the behavior from v1.0.1 (put everything into the Music folder, without subfolders).

ps: I just wish they’d own up to their not so great software quality and let the community help with that. I really like my Denon hardware, but the software issues annoy me. I’d really like to try to fix them and since the SC6000 seems to be just another ARM Linux box, I probably could if I had access to the flash tools and source code.

[lerk]

Hi again,

I just updated the tool to have a toggle for keeping the directory structure on the target drive.

You can find the latest version on the release page:

Release v1.3.0 · lfuelling/engineSync

[Houseman]

Just tried it with an Intel I7 MacBook Air.

The synchronization cannot be started!

Whenever I press “start sync” the cursor jumps to the field and puts the blue tick next to “Keep directory structure”

Any idea ?

[lerk]

That happened for me too, I hoped it was because I was debugging.

It seems that the position of the cursor is off by a few pixels in the Y axis (top/bottom). I’ll try to fix that but in the meantime you can try to focus on the hover effects off the buttons, a click will trigger the button/checkbox if that “highlighted” effect is visible.

[Houseman]

If I do NOT want to take over the complete directory structure - is there something different in practice in 1.30 or is it the same as in 1.01?

Any advantages in the 1.30?

[lerk]

v1.0.1 has no working SoundSwitch support. The files are copied but to a subfolder named like the project dir, while the player expects the project folder contents to be put into the “SoundSwitch” folder.

If you don’t use SoundSwitch, you can keep on using v1.0.1 as long as it works for you.

I have released an update that fixes the cursor offset issue (at least on my machine):

Release v1.3.1 · lfuelling/engineSync

[Houseman]

I think the files are missing…

[lerk]

You’re right, sorry for that

[alexsampler]

Hi mate, it’s just me or when i open the folder and click on Alt + open nothing happen? Am i missing anything?

[lerk]

HI, there might be some sort of warning in the security settings of macOS (or you need to enable running apps from unidentified (more like not paying) developers).

[alexsampler]

No mate, i know what you mean but after i unzipped your files i have engineSync but no extension is attached to it, it open this as a document

Edit: @lerk am i missing anything? In my computer this file is not an executable

[lerk]

Oh I might have zipped it wrong

You can try running “chmod +x /path/to/executable” to make it executable, I’ll repackage the release later today.

[Envo]

At first sight your tool worked very well, but i’ll do a much deeper test before Friday.

You literally saved my Friday night!

Thank you! <3

[lerk]

Denon has officially released v2.4.0 which is compatible with macOS Ventura and Apple Silicon:

Notice: macOS Ventura Compatibility

Hi Everyone, Engine DJ v2.4.0 is now available and brings official support for Apple Silicon chipsets and macOS Ventura. Thank you for your patience.

EngineSync will enter an unsupported/legacy state until the next macOS release breaks Engine again.