I have a new music laptop. I installed Engine prime and dragged my whole music folder to the collection - this happened a few months ago. Today I noticed that some files are not in the collection. But they are in the music folder. Given that I added the whole music folder into the collection, it is a mistery to me how they are not there. So, now I checked: my music folder has 5500+ files. My Engine collection has 4400+ files. This means lots of files were not imported/added to collection (20%). Or maybe lost with the most recent update? Very annoying.
My question is: how do I identify tracks that are in my music folder but not in the Engine collection? I own ~ 100gb of music (I keep pruning my collection to only have stuff that I like), so obviously I wonāt be able to notice every file is missing. Is there a way to do it? Like: add the music folder to the collection again but tell engine prime to reject all duplicates?
Please do not tell me to re-import the music folder again, because I will lose all the metadata that i have been building:( I have already lost it once when I moved to the new laptop. This engine prime business makes me more likely to spend a lot money on cdjs. The newest version of CDJs looks a bit like my sc5000s - with easy cue points etc - so I am seriously thinking about switchingā¦ The price is painful, but Rekordbox has not failed me yetā¦ the only thing that is missing from cdjs is this loop knob/toggle that sc5000s have i use it all the time!
is it maybe a problem with your hd?
In whitch Typ ist the hd formated?
At the beginning of my Prime Collection i hat my Hd not formated in āexfatā and that was the Problem - your hd Must be in exfat.
hello. This is the HD that is built in my brand new Mac, not an external HD. The format is what apple calls APFS. I canāt easily format it to anything else. Plus I guess now itās too late - I do not want to format the hd, or use a different hd, I am just looking for a way to identify the tracks that are not in the collection and add them to it. Although I wonder if itās even possibleā¦
@SirReal hello, the files were fine on my previous laptop, are all in standard formats that EP accepts, and the few of them that I identified as missing I successfully added to the database manually. My question is: how do I identify other files that are missing - doing this will allow me to re-add these files to the EP collection. It seems that @joxaniās answer might be helpful.
@joxani - hello. Are you saying if I just add all my files to the collection again it will only add the files that are not there yet?
@mufasa
just did that. It is now adding a folder called āmusic (1)ā to my collection. The previous one is called āmusicā. Looks like āmusic (1)ā has about 20% more files than āmusicā, and the files that are common in both seem to have kept the metadataā¦ Do you think it is safe to remove āmusicā from the collection and just keep āmusic (1)ā? Losing metadata is my greatest fearā¦
edit: itās done now. 'music(1)" has 1500 more tracks than āmusicā. How is that possible given that they should be identical and both were generated by dragging and dropping? I am still afraid to delete 'music"ā¦
@mufasa no, itās the very same folder. That I first dragged into the collection a few months ago, and then dragged into the collection yesterday night. I did not rename anything. It is a Mac and there is just one drive and one partition (although it is visible as two identical volumes, itās called APFS volumes). just to repeat, āmusicā and āmusic (1)ā have mostly the same files, and if i look at the directory column in Engine Prime, they are in the very same place (of course - I only have one copy of each file on my hard drive).
To remove āmusicā i can simply right click this folder and click āremoveā. I did that and it was fine!
Thank you for your guidance everybody. I am glad the problem is solved, although I wish I could understand where it came fromā¦