djdonn
Using VDJ Pro 7.0.5 b370 on an ASUS laptop with win7 x64; 4gb memory
I have music on my laptop C drive, music and karaoke on an external 'E' drive, and videos on a 2nd external 'V' drive. When I add music to VDJ, I'm connected to the externals through my network LAN cable. When I play the files, I'm connected to the externals through USB. Drive letters remain the same.
Here's the issue:
I'll add music to the drives, then recurse the directories in VDJ, then do a database check, clean and fix. Songs add fine. I then scan the new music for bpms, length etc. I'll go out and do a job. Everything is fine; everything plays perfectly. I come home next day, connect the external drives to my laptop through my network and recurse. It re-adds the music I played the night before! It all shows up in "First Seen" as being added 0 minutes ago, and all UNSCANNED, yet nothing has been added, changed or deleted.
There are xml files in the roots of the E and V drive that are written to whenVDJ is used. I'm not sure what exactly they're for. I can't find an xml file on the c drive. I also don't know where on the drive the VDJ database is stored. 'Search Database' is set to "Add Automatically".
Thoughts?
I have music on my laptop C drive, music and karaoke on an external 'E' drive, and videos on a 2nd external 'V' drive. When I add music to VDJ, I'm connected to the externals through my network LAN cable. When I play the files, I'm connected to the externals through USB. Drive letters remain the same.
Here's the issue:
I'll add music to the drives, then recurse the directories in VDJ, then do a database check, clean and fix. Songs add fine. I then scan the new music for bpms, length etc. I'll go out and do a job. Everything is fine; everything plays perfectly. I come home next day, connect the external drives to my laptop through my network and recurse. It re-adds the music I played the night before! It all shows up in "First Seen" as being added 0 minutes ago, and all UNSCANNED, yet nothing has been added, changed or deleted.
There are xml files in the roots of the E and V drive that are written to whenVDJ is used. I'm not sure what exactly they're for. I can't find an xml file on the c drive. I also don't know where on the drive the VDJ database is stored. 'Search Database' is set to "Add Automatically".
Thoughts?
Posté Fri 06 Jan 12 @ 12:49 pm
djdonn
Update: I found the VirtualDJ Database V6.xml file (about 48,000k in size) on my C drive at C:\Users\djdon\Documents\VirtualDJ. But there are still the same file names in the roots of the E and V drives, much smaller in size (about 46k on the E drive and 147k on the V drive. Should they be there? Shouldn't there be only 1 database file? Not sure how it works.
In the browser tab in Config, the Database Drive only lists Drive C in the dropdown box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
In the browser tab in Config, the Database Drive only lists Drive C in the dropdown box.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posté Fri 06 Jan 12 @ 5:35 pm
djdonn
Update: Apparently, VDJ is writing an xml file to the root of both external drives after I use VDJ... but why? Is it supposed to?
Posté Sat 07 Jan 12 @ 10:10 am
Maikiv
Hi. VDJ always saves the database info ie the .xml file to the root of a drive. This ensures that if you take you music drive elsewhere, maybe on another computer, you always have your music ready to played without the need to rescan. All info you have entered, like cue points is saved here. So maybe you have 5 drives with music, be it hard disk, flash, micro sd or whatever, each of the drive will have its own .xml file.
Posté Sat 14 Jan 12 @ 8:27 am