Bloated djay Media Library size

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Thanks for that @Party_Cardy

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@Slak_Jaw do you know if the bug was fixed in 5.2.4 or is the dev team still working on it?

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Hi joining in the conversation @Slak_Jaw iā€™ve also opened another thread.

So i had preforamnce issues while i had a gig :(((

Mac M1, Sonoma 14.6.1
Djay 5.2.3 + 5.2.4
Rane 4 updated firmware

How to reproduce - transfer a lot of files (maybe again and again) from Serato (i have 10,000 plus) and then try to play with the sofware.

What happed is that moments before ivā€™e transfered A LOT of playlists from Serato using the Crate Importer. Like my whole updated Library basically.
And the whole program was SO SLOW during the gig!

Songs loaded slowly, button werent responsive, even the graphics on the screens of my RANE FOUR were slow!
it made transitions almost imposibleā€¦ let alone using neural mix properly.

Anyway!
After the gig, after iā€™ve updated to 5.2.4, and again, everything was unreponsive, expecilly loading songs was slow and cuts the software to a full halt (except the music).

Now ivā€™e read this thread iā€™ve looked at my library file size and saw its 420mb-ish.
So iā€™ve transfered it to a different folder just to see what happens, and djay opened ā€œcleanā€ without any playlists and it worked SMOOTH!

So new clean empty library file = smoother preformence.
But now again i have to load in the songs from Seratoā€¦

something is deffinitaly there with the library size-management and it affects preformance BADLY.

Thanks.

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Hello everyone, please follow the process below to reset the iCloud state:

  1. Quit djay.
  2. Make sure you have a backup of your djay Media Library.djayMediaLibrary file.
  3. If you have previously disabled iCloud for djay Pro in System settings, please make sure it is re-enabled for djay Pro.
  4. Open the app Terminal.app
  5. Run this command: defaults write com.algoriddim.djay-iphone-free CMCResetCloudKitState -bool true
  6. Launch djay
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Thanks @Slak_Jaw , is it still safer to keep iCloud disabled for the time being or can we assume that we can safely re-enable iCloud ?

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Youā€™re welcome @Markouchio. You can keep it enabled if you want now.

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This did not work. It did fix the iCloud synchronization flag within djay Pro system settings (from Initializing to Active). However, running the terminal command removes all previously saved cue points and beat grid modifications. I had a backup of my library, per the instructions, so I was able to recover everything. That being said, I still have the problem of a huge djay Pro media library file.

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@Culte_du_Soleil sorry to hear that. On my side, my library shrunk from 170MB to 114MB after upgrading to 5.2.4. I did not lose cue points (did not check about beat grids changes).
It seems that the bug is definitely fixed for me.
Thanks @Slak_Jaw for your support!

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Hello all, I wanted to chime in and leave an update.
Here are some of the issues I was having:
The app took a really long time to launch.
Slow responsiveness, up to 4 seconds lag.
Duplicate songs appearing in the library that could not be deleted.
Missing songs appearing in the library that could not be relinked.
Any kind of file management would cause the app to quit.
I was still able to adjust the beat grid and set cues and loops.
I had a library database that balloon from 500 to over 5gbā€™s and was still growing.
10 back up files where all over 5gbā€™s.
Problem with syncing to the cloud. Status stuck on initializing.

At first, the 5.2.4 update did not seam to fix any of these bugs until I followed the steps to reset iCloud syncing. That cleared out the library and fixed the syncing, status is now: Active with current date. I was able to put in around 10 hours of play and just moving playlists and files around from within the app. The responsiveness is good and the app did not quit. I was able to relink and delete files.
The djay Media Library is back down to 267mbā€™s but itā€™s growing fast. Iā€™m looking at the file and the size keeps increasing. It finally stop at 758mb.
I do still have the glitching song icons.

I think the problem happened after I loaded around 1000 songs into the library. I used the drag and drop method, from folder to app.

Edit: I just got through another session. The app has developed the lag again. Itā€™s quite frustrating when cueing, looping, or try to release a track on beat. The library file grew to 1.2gbā€™s

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This library problem is really a big issue almost everyone using djay pro 5.2.4 with a huge music library would encounter this problem i faced it also and i was given a solution to fix it by resetting my library with a command but i guess that was a short term fix because after sometimes and some imports my media library still grows and scrolling so fast on my library doesnā€™t responds well even loading songs after i scrolled down so fast would delay for some seconds pls we need a permanent fix to this please :face_holding_back_tears::face_holding_back_tears: link below on how it looks like n my MacBook @Slak_Jaw

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This is also happening to me. I have a Macbook Pro 15ā€™ā€™ with M1 Pro, and Djay Pro started to take a few seconds to open. I had a feeling there was something wrong with the database and voilĆ”: it went from less than 100MB to almost 2GB in a few days (I checked the backups). I am using Apple Music sometimes, and I have been re-organizing my playlists. I have no idea what is going on, but a fix would be greatly appreciated.
I have around 800 tracks.
I am not willing to share my db for privacy reasons.

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Hi,
As mentioned before,
This thing happend to me exactly the same. like you guys, unrelated to iCloud (I think, i didnt do anything with synghing it)

After transferring new files to the system, the whole software had a lag and went super slow and it was during a gig.

Sadly it only solved when I deleted the library file (after backing it up) and transffring my library from Serato again.

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Hi @Temitope_Oyebode, please enable sharing permissions on this file. Thanks!

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Thanks for all of the feedback everyone. I have passed this onto engineering for further review and will report back when I have more news.

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Thank you please we need a permanent fix to rhis bcos this is really frustrating and its ruin my set tonight it takes 4 minutes to load song and my Macbook was just unresponsive it takes longer to search songs all my playlist while well analyzed i had re analyze last night to find this frustrating issue again https://drive.google.com/file/d/13OwvWQBdJ2w9niK1bvfRp_UA7Bat2NKX/view?usp=drive_link

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@Temitope_Oyebode you need to enable sharing permission on the Google Drive link so that I can access the shared file.

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I have done that right now i have enabled the viewing option

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Thanks @Temitope_Oyebode, Iā€™ve shared your video with engineering.

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Hi @Temitope_Oyebode,

  1. Can you please confirm if you are running djay 5.2.4?
  2. Also, can you please capture a Sample Process using Activity Monitor on your Mac while you are experiencing the lag shown in your video?
    a. In the Activity Monitor app on your Mac, click the System diagnostics options pop-up menu, then choose Sample Process to create a report on a selected process over a period of 3 seconds.
  3. Then upload the report to your Google Drive/Dropbox, enable sharing permissions, then share a link to the file here.

Thanks!

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hello @Slak_Jaw I have djay pro 5.2.4 running on my MacBook
my MacBook spec goes thus
MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
Processor 1.6 GHz Dual core intel core i5
memory 8GB 1600 MHZ DDR3
Startup Disk SSD 128 GIG with an external hdd of 1tb
Graphics Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB
running macOS Monterey

I hope I got the activity monitor sample process right ?