dj4nse
hi friends
i have virtual dj 8 on my dell laptop and the music is on an external hard drive - drive letter E
i recently bought a new asus laptop for dj and bought a new seagate hard drive
when i copy the playlists from the dell laptop - in the documents folder - and i copy them to the asus - then it cant find the songs on the new drive
probably due to different drive letters and locations
anyway to fix this so i dont have to spend hours creating all new playlists on my new asus dj laptop
thank you
naveen sharma
i have virtual dj 8 on my dell laptop and the music is on an external hard drive - drive letter E
i recently bought a new asus laptop for dj and bought a new seagate hard drive
when i copy the playlists from the dell laptop - in the documents folder - and i copy them to the asus - then it cant find the songs on the new drive
probably due to different drive letters and locations
anyway to fix this so i dont have to spend hours creating all new playlists on my new asus dj laptop
thank you
naveen sharma
Posted Wed 05 Apr 17 @ 12:01 am
djdad
Best Answer
The paths stored in the m3u files are probably different (username in most cases)Here is my suggestion...
Download Notepad++ (google it)
Goto VirtualDJ/History folder
Select all m3u files (CTRL+A)
Right-click -->Open with Notepad++
From the menu choose Search-->Replace
In the Replace tab have ..
Find : old path (e.g. C:\Users\XUserNAME\)*
Replace : new Path (e.g. C:\Users\YUsername\)*
*Carefully choose what part of the path needs to be changed
Click on the "Replace in All opened Documents" button.
Click on the "Save All" button at the top menu.
Open VDJ and you should be OK.
Posted Wed 24 May 17 @ 12:26 am[ selected best answer by Rune (DJ-In-Norway) on Thu 22 Feb 18 @ 4:49 pm ]
wickedmix
select all the songs in the playlist and then right click and select relocate
Posted Wed 05 Apr 17 @ 12:15 am
toppadon
You need to make sure that the drive letter and file path on your new seagate hard drive is identical to the previous hard drive that you was using.
Posted Wed 05 Apr 17 @ 1:24 am
earthman
My old laptop used drive letter e: for my music on the external. My new HP uses e: for HP tools. I can assign the external permanently to say j: but where do I change the history/playlist so VDJ8 finds my playlists?
Posted Thu 06 Apr 17 @ 4:45 am
PachN
You'll have to copy ../UserName/Documents/VirtualDJ of you old PC to the same location of your new PC.
And you don't have to assign a static drive letter for external drives. VDJ doesn't care about the drive letter.
And you don't have to assign a static drive letter for external drives. VDJ doesn't care about the drive letter.
Posted Thu 06 Apr 17 @ 8:12 am
sureview
Or you can unmount the E partition and remount it with a different drive letter freeing up E , I know on a pc you camr force a drive , partition and I think even a folder, to be mounted as the drive letter you want ...
Posted Sat 08 Apr 17 @ 5:40 am
earthman
That worked for all my history files going back to my first gigs with VDJ. Amazing. But now, maybe since the last updates, my history files moved from the old computer to the new now show up with and X through them and can't be played. I get the "error" message. New history files are OK.
Posted Tue 23 May 17 @ 10:41 pm
djdad
The paths stored in the m3u files are probably different (username in most cases)
Here is my suggestion...
Download Notepad++ (google it)
Goto VirtualDJ/History folder
Select all m3u files (CTRL+A)
Right-click -->Open with Notepad++
From the menu choose Search-->Replace
In the Replace tab have ..
Find : old path (e.g. C:\Users\XUserNAME\)*
Replace : new Path (e.g. C:\Users\YUsername\)*
*Carefully choose what part of the path needs to be changed
Click on the "Replace in All opened Documents" button.
Click on the "Save All" button at the top menu.
Open VDJ and you should be OK.
Here is my suggestion...
Download Notepad++ (google it)
Goto VirtualDJ/History folder
Select all m3u files (CTRL+A)
Right-click -->Open with Notepad++
From the menu choose Search-->Replace
In the Replace tab have ..
Find : old path (e.g. C:\Users\XUserNAME\)*
Replace : new Path (e.g. C:\Users\YUsername\)*
*Carefully choose what part of the path needs to be changed
Click on the "Replace in All opened Documents" button.
Click on the "Save All" button at the top menu.
Open VDJ and you should be OK.
Selected as best answer Posted Wed 24 May 17 @ 12:26 am