I have music on an SD card that I connect to my iPhone via an adapter, and I also connect a Mixtour Pro controller to the phone.
Why SD card and not Apple Music or iCloud?
I play where there is no internet. I have 230 gigabytes of music and I’m not willing to pay iCloud to store it. I have a 2TB cloud drive that I pay $25 a year for.
I have set up a full sync of my music files from the cloud drive to my SD card.
I have the cloud drive connected as a regular disk to my Windows 10 computer. As soon as I add new tracks to it, I automatically synchronize (copy) them to the SD card.
I edit the metadata and it is automatically updated on the cloud disk and on the SD card.
As I see Djay Pro development in the direction of synchronization of libraries and transfer of files from one device to another.
I open Djay Pro. I have no tracks in the program. I connect the SD card to my computer and import all the tracks into Djay Pro.
Then I put CUE point, Save Loop, etc.
I make playlists.
Next…
In the Djay Pro program in the menu there should be a setting: Export Database…
When I select this option, I have a choice:
- Where to export to? I choose SD card.
- Export the whole database (including tracks, playlists, etc. information).
- Export only playlists (I will have the option to choose which playlists I want to export).
- Export only tracks (I will be able to choose which tracks I want to export to SD card.
- why export tracks to SD card if those tracks are already on the SD card? The main database can contain not only tracks from SD card, but also tracks added from other sources.
- Export only track metadata information, CUE points, save loop, etc.
After selecting the desired item, let’s say - 5, I press EXPORT and all information is written to my SD card.
Then I connect it to my iPhone.
- I open Djay Pro.
- I go to the settings.
- I find the item “Import Database”.
- I select item 5 (see above).
- I click “Import”.
- A window opens where I specify my SD card.
- Djay Pro itself scans the SD card for the presence of the database.
- Imports what I have selected.
I close the settings. I go to track selection. I see that all my tracks have CUE point, comments, rating, etc.
The same principle of work should be the reverse - Export database from phone.
I want to note that you can export (save) the database in the cloud disk. And when selecting Import, specify not SD card, but cloud disk and the necessary folder where the database is stored.
Djay Pro would be fantastic if it had such an option.
P.S. It is very important for Djay Pro to learn to read rating metadata (RATING field) or to be able to add a new field, say, DJAYPRO_RATING, DJAYPRO_COLOR and these metadata Djay Pro could read on mp3 files as well as on flac, wav, aiff, etc.
Please make such… I’m willing to wait a year or two… I love Djay Pro, but I really need this functionality so that as many club DJs as possible start using this wonderful program and forget about laptops when playing at festivals and nightclubs.
You are innovators! We believe in you!
