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Topic: External Hard Drive Database

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I was asked to DJ a kid's spot by another DJ. He specifically wants me to use HIS external drive for this as he will be certain that all the tracks are clean radio edits. Since we both use VDJ he said it would be "plug n play." My questions is: Is there any command I have to run after I plug in the drive? Like "add to search database" or it ready to go? Will running "Analyze for BPM etc." wipe out all of his cue points?
 
Posted Wed 18 Dec 19 @ 10:16 pm
If he in fact is using VDJ then yes, it will actually be plug and play.

You shouldn’t need to do anything. All tracks should up.

As a test, plug in a thumb drive and load it up with tracks through VDJ. Next plug it into your backup machine and you should see everything, all tracks, cue points, keys, etc, etc.....
 
Posted Wed 18 Dec 19 @ 10:24 pm
OK, I did the experiment and it worked. What threw me off is not all of his tracks were analyzed with Keys etc so I wasn't seeing any tracks with that info. I had to scroll down the list a ways. Is it safe to run my own batch "analyze for bpm etc" without messing up anything he put on his drive (cue points etc.)?
 
Posted Thu 19 Dec 19 @ 11:17 pm
If you analyze the tracks for BPM, key, time, etc...then it will save to the database. If that database is on his drive, then it will overwrite anything he has. It shouldnt mess up cue points, remix points, etc that he set himself unless you change, edit or delete them yourself.
 
Posted Fri 20 Dec 19 @ 1:23 pm
OK, I will just leave well enough alone then since it's not my drive.
 
Posted Fri 20 Dec 19 @ 5:32 pm
They're going to get analyzed if/when you load them to a deck anyway, so if you end up playing the ones that haven't got that data, it'll still end up in the database.
 
Posted Fri 20 Dec 19 @ 6:31 pm


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