Playlists without Sync Manager! (HACK?) 😍

[ErikMinekus]

I’ve mentioned this is how I use Engine DJ many times

How is everyone managing "day of" playlists with multiple flash drives?

I think it’s supposed to be a “feature”, it merges all libraries from your local and external drives into one view, instead of only showing your local library like in Rekordbox. I don’t use Sync Manager and don’t have a local library. Instead I copy my tracks to an external drive into the folder structure that I want, and drag them from there into Engine DJ, meaning they are added to the Engine library on the external drive. These changes can then be synced to a backup drive using rsync.

Playlists disappear when I eject USB drive

If the playlists and tracks are on the BIG-DJ drive, there is no need to use sync manager. Any changes are directly applied to the database on that drive. Of course you should keep a backup of that drive.

Red Tracks keep re-appearing AFTER fix

I manage the files directly on an external drive and plug that into the hardware, so it’s the same filesystem (exFAT)

Another frustrated user.. I’m losing data, duplicating data and totally confused

Same here, I sync my own folder structure to an external drive and then drag new tracks from the external drive into Engine DJ. Engine DJ stores the library directly on the external drive, so no need for Sync Manager. I don’t even need to go to the Drives section, when I plug in the drive the playlists show up under Collection.

https://community.enginedj.com/t/create-and-edit-smartlists-on-the-console-display-engine-dj-os/58858/5