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Topic: Virtual DJ tags and damaged files (Google Drive and general)
Hello there,
I have recently transfered a lot of my digital music collection on my paid Google Drive account and I have a problem with tags.

You see Virtual DJ for some reason doesn't read tags correctly and the result is messing up with tags and now I have to correct eveything. It is a huge collection so you see how this is frustrating... Also when I didn't have my collection on drive, whenever I was editing tags of a file in VJ, the file properties were updating just fine but since I transfered the collection , it changes in VJ but old tags show in files properties.. But it works the other way around (editing file properties, updates in VJ)

!! Also the worst is that some files are getting damaged and I have to manually go through history version in GD (one by one) to restore the file from its previous state... I lost a lot of tracks. I am not sure whether this is a problem of VJ or GD or something else... !!

Also , there seems to be a problem with database as well since GD transfer, once and then it is damaged and I have to "add in search DB" all over again...

I use MediaMonkey for arranging/editing my collection for years now and I didn't have any problems previously.

I guess having the files on a drive is not a good idea? But it should be fine...

thank you for your time

EDIT: To be clear, tags outside VJ are fine, though not appearing correctly in VJ
 
Posted Sun 22 Oct 23 @ 9:15 am
..anyone??
 
I would never use a cloud controlled drive or any other cloud option to store VDJ related files
You are basically rocking the ground under VDJ when you do it
VDJ expects the track files to always be available and in the same paths
And it expects it's own files (database, settings, history, mapping and so on) to always be available and not touch by anything but VDJ - and cloud integration potentially ruins this
 
I just did a transfer of my library, I am not planning to move them again.
I did this so I dont have to move my external hard drive every time I play. My question was why VJ doesnt read tags correctly from cloud but from other sources everything is fine.
 
Note that VirtualDJ normally uses the data stored in its database.
Only when a file is first seen is the tag of the file read.

-If you make changes outside of VDJ after vdj has already seen the files, you need to select the files and select to read the tags again.
You can check if VDJ sees the correct changed tag in the Tag Editor

-If you make changes within VDJ, either you need to have setTagsAuto enabled so that vdj writes to the tag, or click 'Write Tag' in the tag editor to update the tag for other programs to see them.

Regarding file corruption, you'd need to gather some more specific information about when it happens. If it is after changing the tag in another program then that program might be at fault, if it is after editing with vdj then it might be vdj at fault and it would be useful to know which file types you are using.
If it happens later, it could also be a sync issue with Google Drive.
 
So I'd say the VDJ leaves something to be desired in both writing tags to files and reading them as well. Probably too late, but instead of simply copying the files manually, it might have been better to use the COPY command in VDJ to copy them from wherever they were, to where you wanted them to be. Of course, this issue remains, that those copied files and their locations would be in the database of the copy of the VDJ app that did the copying..... and probably not very useful for a different copy of VDJ on a different computer reading those copied files.