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I just bought my Macbook Pro 17" and need all the help I can get to make the transition smooth. I'm currently using a 500gb external hard drive with my eMachines laptop and was wondering if it is possible to transfer over my playlist and database without having to rescan and analyze the drive again.

Also, I have the Numark Total Control on order and should be here any day now. Does anyone know if this controller works with a Mac or did I just waste my money?

Lastly, I'd like to know how to add more sound effects (like the flanged loopout and various others) to the line up...how do I do that?

I'd appreciate any tips I can get since I'm new to Macs....Thanks in advance!

P.S. I think us mac users should have our own nifty little icon...so I know the advise is coming from someone with experience.
 
Posté Wed 08 Aug 07 @ 8:49 am
Welcome to the VDJ and Mac communities mikcer!

As far as the transfer of your playlist and database, if it works anything like on the windows version, you should just be able to take the "VirtualDJ Database.xml" files in your Virtual DJ folder of your windows version and copy them over to the Mac Virtual DJ folder. However (being extremely tired right now but not wanting to not respond to your post as the Mac Ambassador and Mac Forum Moderator), I'm not too sure of that, so I'll send a message to skyfxl to see if he can either confirm or deny that this will work.

The Total Control should work fine with your Mac.

The effects and plug-ins are being ported to the Mac version as we speak, but for now, skyfxl has a workaround for it. I'll ask him to address this as well.

Talk to you soon mikcer, and once again, welcome!

- VT ConQuest
(Visual Turntablist)

P.S.
I like the way that you are referring to the Mac community and yourself as "us Mac users" seeing as how you are such a recent windows switcher. NOT that it's unusual at all, in fact it's the exact opposite. I've dealt with switchers directly for 5 years now and have often seen this feeling of fellowship that current windows users just don't "get" about us Mac users, only because they're still windows users. ;)

BTW, skyfxl is very respected around here, a moderator, and recently became a Mac user himself. =D

Good luck with your new Mac and remember, as they say, "Once you go Mac..." =D
 
welcome :)

it is possible to transfer all the music and playlists ,

first confirm that ur drive is formated in a format mac can read

then , go to C:/programfiles/virtualdj

and copy
Virtualdjdatabase.xml
virtualdjdatabase(yourname).xml
mp3database.txt

and place them in Documents/virtual dj on the mac

backup the existing files here first ,

as to the total control yes its 100% mac compatable :) and has a nattive mapper so u just need to tick the box on options > remote control
 
skyfxl wrote :
first confirm that ur drive is formated in a format mac can read


Thanks sky.

mikser-

You're Unix Mac OS X based Mac will be a able to read pretty much all formats (upcoming Mac OS X Leopard will even support Sun's ZFS).

You're windows formatted drive should be either FAT32 or NTFS.

Just plug it into your Mac and drag the files that skyfxl listed from that drive to where he said to on your Mac since he has confirmed that this will work.
 


I thought mac could only read FAT formated PC drives, and not NTFS..

But guess I thought wrong? ;)
 
mm , says Fat only here and ntfs support with plugins
 
dj-in-norway wrote :


I thought mac could only read FAT formated PC drives, and not NTFS..

But guess I thought wrong? ;)


Where the confusion comes from is with BootCamp.

Mac OS X has ALWAYS been able to read both FAT32 and NTFS. The difference is that if you partition your Macs hard drive for windows using FAT32, the windows partition can be read from AND WRITTEN to from the Mac side.

If you partition your Macs drive with NTFS for the windows portion, you can ONLY read the windows portion from the Mac side and CANNOT write to it.

So whether FAT32 or NTFS, the Mac will be able to recognize and read either.
 
Thanks guys. I'll keep you posted with my progress and feel free to let me in on any mac tips you know of.
 
mikcer wrote :
Thanks guys. I'll keep you posted with my progress and feel free to let me in on any mac tips you know of.


We'll do that and feel free to come on the forums anytime to see the threads that other users have started with any helpful tips as well.
 
How are you guys using your XML dB's and playlist interchaningly between windows and mac os. Windows references files drive letters and Mac os uses volumes, how are you accomplishing this without changing the paths in your respective files...ie

Windows: M:\music\filename.mp3
Mac /Volume/music/filename.mp3

Also if I decide to move from windows to mac do you have to reanalyze your files, if you are utilizing the write VDJ tags to file option?
 
OK the database has been switched but the playlists are going to need some work just as djbeware suggests. I tested this on one playlist and it worked just fine: open the m3u file with word (right click the playlist and choose to open with office 2004, and choose Word as the editor) use the replace function to change the windows path from f:music to /volume/music/ or whatever the location of the file is and presto...working playlists.

As far as having to re-analyze my database, when I copied the XML files over to the Mac all files showed the correct BPM and length of time. I think it even saved my cue points (I must have had "write ID tags" enabled on the windows machine)
 
I got a Mac But I cant control The Cross fader it allways is at 0 and where i can locate the virtualdj database
 

I have the same problem as alanorellana, no matter where I set the "Auto-Cross Length", it sets itself to 0.
Could anyone help please?
 
DigitALL2 wrote :

I have the same problem as alanorellana, no matter where I set the "Auto-Cross Length", it sets itself to 0.
Could anyone help please?



Hi there.

It's best u reigstered ur serial n updates to the recent version V5.2.1.

Regards;)
 
Help!! I just became part of the Mac DJ family! I have been using Numark Cue on my windows based laptop. I transferred my files over to the new (BEAUTIFUL) Mac. I went into the Cue software and scanned for tags, scanned for BPMs and added the iTunes library to the directory...but my stuff is still not searchable. Help! I used to be able to type in "deep" and all my deep house would show up. Or "hip" and all my hip-hop would show up. Now only a handful of songs show up in the search window. I tried going into the settings and it all matches how I was configured on the windows laptop. Still nothing. I may have gone thru this 2 years ago when I originally set up my laptop, but so much time has passed and I dont know how I did this before. I cannot wait to begin playing with this software on the Mac version, which is a bit different.

Thanks in advance to the "family" for any help you can offer!
-ET
 
Which version of Cue are you using?, there's probably a newer update you can download.

Please register your serial on this site to be able to download the latest version. If you're not a registered user, please download the latest trial version of Virtual DJ here:

http://www.virtualdj.com/download/trial.html

Keith
 


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