I want to work from iTunes so that if I ever need to work with non-Denon equipment, I can have my playlists and my work done from Engine DJ.
But I have a few questions, and before I continue, I want to clarify a few.
I’ll write down what I want to do and the questions I have:
With iTunes, I create the playlists and import the songs into each one. (Engine DJ stopped working a while ago; the option to select multiple songs and drag them no longer works.) I link the main iTunes folder where all the music is stored to Mega to create a backup.
With Engine DJ, I update it using the iTunes button. Question: Where are the cues, hot cues, etc. created in Engine DJ through iTunes saved? Because if one day I lose the hard drive or it gets corrupted, I can recover a backup of the songs, playlists, tracks, etc.
Once everything is ready in iTunes (importing songs, tracks, etc.), how can I export it to a drive, such as a hard drive? So I can then save it to the SC6000, for example.
1: iTunes ist your library, engine connects through the Lib file from iTunes tho your organized library, the workflow is: create playlists In iTunes, update in engine, load (copy) the playlist into your engine playlist. Technically, you build a second Lib in engine from your iTunes. Thats why playlist changes in itunes doesn’t change the engine lists. You have to delete and re import the list.
There is also the second answer. Engine creates a lib file. So nothing is reimported to iTunes, that means no cue points, grids… For backups, you need the audio files (iTunes media folder) the iTunes lib (for organizing) and the engine lib (DJ metadata).
Your export is then done via engine.
Otherwise, you drag and drop the playlist songs onto a thumb drive and let the device analyze the songs every time you change your local USB lib.
The DJ metadata is held on a db file within the ‘engine DJ’ folder on your computer, iTunes plays no part in this, or has the ability to store that kind of information.