Oh yes! They shoulda just fixed the "My Crates section of library so that it remains independent and “LIVE” for both internal and external drive crates! such that whenever I wish to change i just click there, just like we can optinally swap from My Collections to Music.
Thanks for putting this up. I just needed to input my experience today and I may follow this up with a question to @Slak_Jaw in a bit.
I just did the import of my 15000 video tracks serato library on my 2TB T5 samsung and it took (literally) forever (sorry i didn’t time it but could be just about (or over) 4hrs!) - i had the time though.
What I didn’t like:
- It was importing (and duplicating) tracks from the same source that were already in my collection, so I had to initally stop the process, and delete my old djay library file into a backup folder first)…otherwise i was gonna end up with a 30,000 track lbrary!
- The new playslits it created contained additional playlists that have the name of a crate folder in serato. Meaning every serato crate folder becomes not only a folder but also a playlist in the same folder, This i think is a bug that needs reporting…
- I lost all my keys (I had to re-analyze the entire new “My Crate” playlist folder that it created. Not nice because the analysis took another 4+hrs! It’s still analyzing as i type this but 90% done though…which leads me to another point: why can’t I tell djay to only analyse for keys? I already have bpm and grid from serato!
What I don’t know but hope for:
If I change my serato library (like add crates, or new loops/cues), and I re-import my crates, will it duplicate itself, or just merge the changes cumulatively? And this is the question for Algoriddim team.
