How to move a rekordbox database
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- čas přidán 1. 03. 2016
- This video provides step-by-step instructions on moving or migrating your rekordbox database to an external drive or to another computer, whether it's from Mac-Mac, Mac-PC, PC-PC, or PC-Mac.
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Congratulations on the video, Pulse. You saved me! When I needed to transfer the entire library from Mac to Win, I took days to create the points and hotkeys all over again.
Thank God, I found this video just as I was able to buy my Mac, but I was already crying about having to do it all over again.
I did the procedure yesterday and recognized absolutely EVERYTHING!
Thank you very much and once again, congratulations Pulse!
THE EASIEST AND SUPER EASY TO UNDERSTAND TUTORIAL. THANK YOU!
Super helpful. Easy to understand. Well explained. Thank you.
Great Video from 7 years ago, some updated may have had happened since then with rekordbox but the main concept of how to move database from one computer to another very very helpful as one of my laptop crashed so I wanted to make a smooth transfer from external hard drive to a new laptop and sync everything as it was on the old laptop and this video was very helpful. Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated
Thank you so much most helpful vid i ever watched ,your a star
That good old time, where Recordbox looked seriously nice. Thanks for that video
For the most part, it has the same looks today (for better or worse), at least this video is still useful! 😆
@@DeejayPulse sure the video is useful, absolutely. It's the design that made me reminisce about the past
This looks like the way to do it! No I get how transferring works with RecordBox. Thanks in advance Pulse, awesome video. Will try it out asap since I got a new computer. Really feel you guys who had to, just like me before, redo all the hot cues all over again. That truly is a hassle!.
The best,
Felix Persson AKA FLX (Sweden)
Was it possible to transfer the hot cues that are from A to H?
Wow massive thanks for making this video my MacBook is almost dead and was wondering how I transfer my record box liberty to my new mac and watching this got a much better understanding what to do now.😝🤜
This was ultra-helpful - thanks!
Thanks. Saved me a long wait
Thanks a lot, it was very helpful to me! Great video and nicely explained!
Very good explanation! Thank you so much!
This video saved my ass. I had a move my database from one user profile on mac os that had issues and was corrupt, and move it to another profile on the same mac. I tried to do it with the pioneer folder is Library and application support folders, but was not successful. your method worked like a charm using an external as an intermediary since you cannot use the move to move on the same internal drive.
thank you very much! your tutorial was super helpful
thanks a lot, very helpful
finally a solution that works. My main macbook has RB v6 and the secondary had v5. Had to update to v6 because it wouldn't do a restore with the v6 backups..just a note.
Thx pulse got it to work
Thanks for the great video
Thanks for this!
This was so helpful! Thanks so much for this!
Saved my gig bro!
Aweseome! Glad to hear. :D
Thankyou, you saved me some headache!
Thanks for great information. Helped a lot.
Hi, thanks for the upload !
I was wondering if there is a way to have two seperate back ups of rekordbox database?
e.g. my rekordbox database is not saved when I backed up my library onto a harddrive. (is there a way to have two seperate saved rekordbox databases 1 for my mac and 1 in my hard drive)
Thanks in advance
Thanks man for making this video, it's really helpful! :)
I'm going to make a recommendation on a faster fix to what I just went through over the last 8 hours or so.
If you're transferring onto say a new computer and your music is in a ton of different folders on your old computer; after you export the database onto the external drive, hook it up to the new computer, copy and paste the PIONEER folder onto the drive you wish to use on the new computer. Then from inside of rekordbox pull the database from that location. Then plug the external drive back into the original computer and move the database from the drive back to it's original place. This will give you the database info on both of the computers. I rerouted the destinations on about 1,000 tracks before I realized I was undoing the routes of the other computer by doing it off of the one database.
Quick tip while exporting ! If you press ctrl - cmd 5 times whilst holding f6 $250 appears in your bank account - just leave bank details below if your stuck on this ;-) Thanks Pulse great vid
Thank you so much!!!!
really helped. thanks
One extra important note when going from Windows to Mac: The external drive needs to be formatted to FAT32 (NTFS is not recognized on Mac in Rekordbox)
I've had a problem where it says 0 files found. Is that because there it is in ExFat format?
This is a great point! Even working from one PC to another it's recommended to pre-format the transfer device to FAT32. I had a bunch of minor errors working on mine so I imagine it's just a good habit to get into from the start.
HFS+ or otherwise MAC OS extended journaled may be better. It is supported and supposedly faster. The only set back is that this format can only be used on MAC and not on PC.
Or exfat
Hi moved the database to my external LaCie HD,but I can’t see any Pioneer folder that I learnt when you have your database set on the local drive,it’s hidden in ~Library folder.
Any solution to this?
I’m currently hanging the “corrupted library” issue and I’m looking for solutions to eventually safely restore my collections and tags/playlists.
Thanks for creating this video! I've been putting this off for a long time, so you've motivated me to make the move. Do you know if it is possible to "Move Database" from an older version (3.0.3) of Rekordbox to newer one (4.5) on my new Mac? I couldn't find a "Move Database" option in Rekordbox 3.0.3, but I did find a "Backup Library" option under File > Library > Backup Library. Would this be the same? Or would I need to update to 3.3? I really want to avoid updating my whole Mac OS on my old Mac (I'm on 10.6.8 and happily stable) just to install Rekordbox version 4 as this is a big reason I bought a new computer anyway. Thanks a lot!
If you're moving from 3.x to 4.x on a new computer, I'd recommend using the File > Library > Backup Library function, then on the new computer running 4.5, use File > Library > Restore Library and that will bring it all forward and updated. You may need to re-analyse in order to add key and updated waveforms, but the memory points and hot cues will remain.
great video, thank you
Thank you!
Hi Pulse! All my music is stored in my external harddrive but i just bought a cloud service to have a save copy of it but i was wondering how to copy/export my whole library to the cloud and also sync it so every change i made to my library is also made to the library on my cloud, is there a way to create a copy keeping all my cue points,etc.? thanks
thank you. if i want to record a mix in rek0ordbox straight into my 250gn external harddrive, would that be possible? if yes, would you know how?
Yes, but it depends on your hardware on how you configure the recording setup. Setting the location is simply a matter of changing the recording directory in the preferences.
you saved my live! love you
Is there a method to run your library on an external hard drive? Want to move everything to an external drive as quickly running out of space on my mac! Thanks for any info on this guys!
I'm travelling on saturday and would like to work with rekordbox on my laptop even though my master database is on my desktop computer. I only want to work with certain songs, can I somehow export those tracks/playlists and then set cue points and hot cue's on my laptop and then reload them into my desktop or do I have to export everything?
Thank u sir !
Thanks for the great vid. Will this work if i just want to take my database to play on my mate's cpu through rekordbox? Will I be able to select my external database and play from that on his cpu?
So if i have everything in year folders ie 2015, 2016 etc and inside them have jan to dec folders then in each one of them have my genre folders for the month, will it relocate/find all my tracks just from searching for one track?
Hi I hope maybe you can help me been trying a while. I had all my playlists on my laptop. but during a gig, the win 8 decided to uppdate even though set to not. so finally it crashed and all was deleted. what I have is the playslist on one usb. can i some how get the playlists back into my laptop?
Can the database also be moved via the "backup library" "restore library" options in case of a crash? Or is this method less good?
I want to ask a question here, yesterday I wanted to drag only 1 track into a playlist but instead a whole selection went into that playlist and now its analysing all those tracks in to that playlist. Is there a way to ‘force’ stop this because everytime I open recordbox it keep. continuing...
Thank u for the video it's great!!
i wantede to ask if there is a way to sync between a Pc and a laptop ?
Sync, not easily - but that will be coming in a future rekordbox update.
I used Laplink software to transfer all my old Windows Vista computer files / directories / settings / programs to my new Windows 10 computer, with Rekordbox being my number one concern and finally got it to work. I have about 50 playlists in Rekordbox, pulling from about 100 different folders, and sub-folders. I wanted to just move everything, utilizing all the same paths that I had on the old computer, into the new computer, eliminating the need to relocate any tracks. Initially, my User Name, was not exactly the same on both computers, so after making the data transmission the first time, Rekordbox could not find any tracks, requiring relocating all the songs, and because the path in the new computer was not exactly the same as the old computer, Rekordbox would not analyze any tracks. I decided to get help from the Laplink Technicians and they were willing to take control and help but they seemed to ignore all my requests and try to fix Rekordbox their way. Without even asking me, they decided on their own to delete all 5,000 songs I had processed into Rekordbox, and thought they could just dump all 25,000 songs I owned, into my Rekordbox program, and their job would be done. So I became a little angry with them and demanded they start listening to me and follow my instructions. They said what I was asking them to do, would not work, that I'd have the same problem because I was changing computers but I demanded they follow my instructions. I had them factory reset my computer, wiping out the first data transmission, then we made the user name the same in the new computer, as it was on the old computer, and then we re-transmitted all the data, and it worked on the second attempt, no relocating required!!!
+Dave L > Thanks for the comment -- yes, it's crucial that you keep the same user name on both if you're doing that kind of copy/paste, I note that in instructions on the Pioneer DJ forums. If users are following the basic export / move process from above, the user name isn't important. Cheers!
Pulse Pioneer DJ) After I posted my comment I thought I may have just compared apples to oranges. I bought my new Windows 10 computer because I could not upgrade to Rekordbox 4.0, with my old "Windows Vista" computer, I needed a newer version of Windows because I was stuck using the outdated Rekordbox 3.3 . So I can say with confidence that the process I described will work with Rekordbox 3.3, but it may not work with 4.0 or newer version(s).
+Dave L > Appreciate the follow-up comment, thanks!
Hey there what if you are using time machine from one Mac to a new one?
Hi pulse. Question on step by step video.. will also transfer my cue point beat grid and everything else?
Everything. Those are all in the database, so yes.
Thanks man
What if your collection is organised in multiple (a lot!) subfolders? Do you need to relocate the files for each seperate folder or can this be done in one go?
Same problem/question here
Solved it already, subfolders are no problem. Just choose one track to relocate and it processes all the tracks in the subfolders
Thanks for letting me now, gonna try it out tonight!
Doesn't work for me on my mac :(
@Tom > Provided you move all the subfolders in the same way (eg. you move X:\Music\Folder1 and X:\Music\Folder2 to X:\NewMusic\Folder1 and X:\NewMusic\Folder2 -- they both have the same parent folder in both cases), they can all be relocated with ease. Otherwise you will have to relocate in batches, which is not impossible, just time consuming.
Anyone know if you can copy all of your music from one database to another database? (If you decided to create a new database?)
hey, great video... can you do a video on the new RB 6.3 xml export? i got both 5.8 and 6.3 on my laptop. ive been updating my library on Rb 6.3. i want the same exact copy on my RB 5.8. looking forward to it. thank you!
Will it even move setting also
Tanks man...!!!
Hi, thank very much you helped a lot. I have a question.
Is it possible to copy the database and don't move. Because I need it to be the same in two computers.
Yeah, but you're better off having a database that you can keep updated between the two computers. As soon as you back it up on one machine and restore it on the other, you've split the database and can never merge the two.
How does this work, if you have - of course - multiple folders and subfolders?
I can't just send my collection to a single new folder then obviously. Would i have to it folder by folder then?
Thanks in advance :)
same problem here. has anyone else tried this?
Hey, thank you for the video. I import my songs directly to the USB device in rekordbox. Is there a way to synchronize data and songs with another USB?
Do you mean to export to another USB drive? If so, just inset the drive and export to that device the same as you did with the first one.
Pulse Pioneer DJ no...what i do usually is this..i plug my usb..i import songs to the device in rekordbox that analyses the track the by itself export the data back to same device..and i end by having all songs on the usb device. My issue is that i want to back up my first usb with another one..so the first idea is to copy all files from the 1st usb to the 2nd one..but the issue is when i update the 1st usb..i will have to copy everything again😅 so i am asking if there is a way to sync both usb together or if there is any other way to do it. Sorry for the long msg😅
This was a great help to move the music files but How do I get my cue points and things over?
@Mix It Mike > When you move your database, everything goes with it - cue points, hot cues, tags... everything. Same if you were to use the Database > Backup // Database > Restore - everything moves with the database.
Hi Pulse, first up thanks for the video, very helpful so far. I have been trying to transfer between windows to new mac and i follow the process up until 3.54 and then i don't get the message about syncing with tag and when i go to the preferences to select my drive from the mac hd there is no option as its not picking up my external drive. Any ideas on what the issue may be ? Many thanks in advance !
+Jon Paul Montgomery could it be because my external hd is ntts not fat32 ?
+Jon Paul Montgomery > That's likely it; the NTFS drive will be recognized and can even be used for a music source, but the problem is that OS X can't write to an NTFS drive so it can't use it for the database. Format the drive in FAT32 in OS X first, then export the database from Windows, then import it on the Mac.
Fricken Life Saver!!!
When i a single song i can select relocate, but when I select multiple at once I don't have the option. Any solutions for this?
Edit: Nvm, some songs that weren't in the same folder (and therefore not lost) were also selected.
Bro ! Thanks a lot, BUT how I can use Google drive 4 it !
Thank you ! :)
Hi! I was wondering if its neccesary to remove the tracks from the internal drive? I've tried reloading the tracks by only deleting one item off of the internal drive and then reloading, but then Rekordbox says it had only found that item and not the others which are still on the internal drive.
No - you can keep them internally if you want but have your database located externally, but to be honest, there isn't much point to that since the database isn't that large but your music files could certainly be.
Hello Pulse,
I kindly would like to ask a question.
I want to COPY my collection to another laptop (windows to windows) and that includes all my tags, hot cues and comments for each track.
How can I do this?
Many thanks
Did u know how? i want to sync it to the cloud without lossing the cue,loops,etc
What's the difference between going through this procedure and going file -> library -> backup on one computer then file ->library -> restore on the new one?
Amazing!
Hi Paul. When doing this procedure , form mac to external , from external to pc, does it also copied all the cue points , loops and hot cues?????
Yup - everything.
Hi Pulse! i have done a rekordbox backup to restore it on my new laptop (win7 to win10).
I restored everything on my new laptop but when i try to export my playlist on my usb appears: "Error During Export"
Do you think that following your instructions (Then migrating the database) i could solve this problem??
Thanks !
I want to have my musics on my Mac and Windows laptop and not on an external hard drive. how can i just export the database from my mac to windows while i keep it untouched on my Mac.
I Organise and manage my music and perform on my Mac and I use my Windows laptop as a Backup for the gigs.
You can use the Library > Backup process to make a backup, including your music, to move it to the other computer where you will do a Library > Restore.
Can i move the database to my actual new pc but keep the music on the external hard drive? This is because my newer pc has a smaller hard drive size and i want to keep it as free as i can.
Yes, but why would you? Keep the database on the external drive and you can move it around as you please!
Hello, i have 1 Macbook Pro which is 'the master' and i use one as a 'backup computer'. I always take two laptops with me because i play a lot of weddings and i don't want to spoil their big day. How can i easily keep my 'backup computer updated? Is this the way or should i just use a third party sync program? Thanks in advance.
What about the saved playlists and cue points? it will be migrated or need to be re-analyzed?
+Moh'd Ismail > Everything is automatically transferred; waveforms, memory and cue points, playlists, etc.
+Pulse Pioneer DJ Many thanks bro! Really appreciate your help! Keep it up ;)
I've seemed to have lost all my hotcues/playlist in following the video!
I followed your video apart from not deleting my original folder on my old mac (call it mac A)... I tried to then load the data and collection on new mac (mac B) from my external SSD, however, when following relocate on the video, because my folders are in sub folders, it could not locate the whole collection.
I migrated the data over as per video and when reviewing it again all of my hot cues, playlist had gone on both the external SSD and on Mac A. I tried to reload from external SSD and could not locate my original data from the Mac A transfer and didnt seem to transfer over to external B. My goal is to have external SSD as the main drive so i can switch between two macs.
Im not sure what I did here... my only conclusion is that I must if activated some thing or changed something by accident... please help as hours of playlist and hotcue settings have disappeared !
did you solve it? i am wondering how to keep my cue points,loops on my song and also sync my lubrary to the cloud
is this possible with a simple usb? or will it only work for an external drive?
thanks king
i only have the content folder with the sub folders of every artist is it possible to get my playlists back like it was on a new drive
I'm not sure what you did, post in the forums and we'll help you out.
Hi Pulse Pioneer DJ, Does this transfer also move all Cue points and playlists to the new computer as well? Thanks
Everything.
Ok I've done 80% of it but I'm struggling with the final step. Whenever I try to 're-locate' my music files, it only automatically recognises a very small percentage of them. Now on the rest of the songs, I go to relocate them but I have to do them individually. It does not give me the option to auto relocate. I believe it might have to do with the naming convention as for some reason the names of my music files in the new computer have numbers before them. Am I able to contact you directly? Thanks
I need this my laptop is not running as fast as I like and I want to clean things up so I plan to dump everything on to my external drive thanks
I have all my music on an external drive, I want to plug that into my external drive but I don't want to reexport them onto a playlist, how can I analyze all my tracks where they are?
Thank you very much for your great video. Little question : Is it ok also take the playlist coming from the history ? thanks again
Thanks for the great video.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong tho.. Going from PC to Mac: I've followed the instructions (moved files from PC to external, relocated missing files, then moved Database to external) but when I plug my external into my Mac, Rekordbox does not show a database to move. I've tried 2 different external drives in case one wasn't working properly but still no luck..
Scratch that.. I just realised its because of the NTFS format. #Noob #Sorry
No worries, simple mistake! Glad you were able to figure it out.
I want to ask you what about the playlists that i created , it will be the same if i format the PC !? However i move the databas to External drive , and i back up the library !? But what about the playlists i created !?
Thanks :-)
Does relocating also move your cue points/beat grids over?
Everything; the entire database moves.
Pulse Pioneer DJ awesome! Cheers for that!
and playlists and tags?
pulse I have a question, when I move database from the old laptop to the new one, will the playlist that I made on the rekordbox on old laptop will show up on the new one ? or only the songs and hot cue will show on the collection ( new laptop ) and I have to make playlist on the new laptop ? thank you
EVERYTHING lives in the database; playlists, hot cues, memory points, etc. Move that to the new computer and then copy your music over and presto!
Pulse Pioneer DJ alright thank you so much for your information bro
when i originally try and change the location of the master drive after having followed the steps, the f drive of my sd card doesn't show as an option. Do i have to use an external drive instead of an sd card?
Yep - can't use an SD card to host the master database.
Is it possible to use a home network for the database or does it have to be a locally connected drive?
You can, but I don't recommend it - it will work best if you use a symlink or any other method to make it look as if it's a locally mounted drive rather than a network path.
hi pulse, thanks for the video.
still i have a question. i have used rekordbox together with iTunes until now. in iTunes i only have my music where i dj with. on other locations on my mac i have other music just to listen to. i don't want to use iTunes anymore because every time i start a track of my other music it comes in iTunes and automatically it also comes in my rekordbox.
when i want to copy my iTunes tracks to another location on my mac it automatically makes supmabs of the artists. relocation is no problem but when i want rekordbox to find the other location it can't find the new source because of all the sub maps. i hope you understand my problem as i explain? i am trying to include a screenshot but that's not working.
regards
mario
Yeah, that's a problem with iTunes and how it manages the files / folders. Your best bet is to simply organize all of the music yourself, and either stop using iTunes or disable its ability to manage the music files for you. Once you move all your music into a consolidated location, go through rekordbox manually relocating everything. If you don't have many hot cues, loops, or memory points stored for those tracks, you may consider simply removing all the files from the collection and re-importing them once you've put them into their proper locations on your hard drive.
hi pulse, i have about 3000 tracks all analyses and also categorized by colors etc. so it would be a waste of time to throw that all away. is there a way to migrate all the tracks in rekordbox to an external storage location and when that is done to put it back to another location on my laptop ( without iTunes )? regards mario
Hey, thanks so much for this video.
I assume it is all the same process if going from mac to mac. Eg old one to new one?
Best,
Yup!
I am needing a workaround as my digital music collection is all organised in genre subfolders in which there would be hundreds of albums or singles located in their particular folders and they will contain the actual music files. But my problem arises from that that very little of those files are in my rekordbox collection, so what I want to do is export the files I am only using in RB instead of all my mp3 collection.
I have tried putting all my RB songs in single playlist and exporting it to an external device and then swapping them with the original files, but it turns out many of the exported files have shortened filenames, which prevents me from automatically relocate them in RB.
Is there a way of doing this so my database is on Dropbox then the 2 computers feed from that? I don't trust having my database on an external drive....
Yet you trust Dropbox? lol
Actually yes, I've got a few users testing some instructions right now but if you're interested... follow me and stay tuned!
Thx for this!
Just when you have made multiple folders it does not doing it at once… it take some Time To relocate each folder map… ps came here because my mac updated to ventura 😫
I want to mirror my playlist and music on another laptop pc version any ideas on how to do it ?
Put the music and database on an external drive and move the drive between computers as needed.
Hello Pulse...great video helped me out a lot. Question... I have a desktop and laptop, the Desktop has Windows 10 with Rekordbox 4.11 loaded. I would like to copy the master database from the desktop to the Laptop (which is Windows 7) without changing anything from the current desktop. All in All I need both computers to be mirrored.
+Dana “DaMixx” Ross > Why not put it on an external drive that you would move between the two computers? Having two databases that "sync" would only work in a method where you have one master and overwrite the other, but both computers would need to have the same collection of music in the EXACT same path in order for it to work properly.
I would do that, however i have to external drives one sits on the desk and the other moves around and they both have the EXACT same music.So what would i need to do to make this work?
+Dana “DaMixx” Ross > So long as everything is also in EXACTLY the same location (file name / path / etc), you could use a sync tool such as FreeFileSync to sync the database files over the network, or you could move your database into a Dropbox folder and have that sync between computers.
Thanks Pulse I will try the dropbox..thanks again.. Keep up the great work..
+Dana “DaMixx” Ross > If you have any doubts or challenges along the way, the best thing to do is STOP and ask for help! Better to get info before losing data or ruining something. Just shoot me a message here or pop in on the forums.
how did you get that express audio dff thing?
That's the "album name" given to those tracks by Promo Only; they're part of their weekly express audio - digital file format delivery.
If I want to move my account to another computer will I have it with all the settings etc that I've paid for ? Heard that you can only have a premium rekordbox account on one device so presuming I'd have to deactivate it on old computer and somehow transfer my premium account to new Mac. If you know anything about this would be really helpful rather than paying again.
@Stella > rekordbox can be installed on up to 2 computers with the same license. If you are no longer going to use the old computer, better to use the deactivation procedure on the old one first, then activate on the new one.
The settings are retained per-computer (in terms of the in-application settings), but all your cue points, etc., can be transferred / moved or copied to another computer by using either the rekordbox database backup procedure, or by moving to an external drive as I outline in this video.
Hi Pulse. Another Q.
I've recently cleaned up my rekordbox playlists and put unwanted/old tracks in a new playlist("UNWANTED") Retagged the info of these tracks(album_genre) so they are not in any playlist anymore(i use intelligent playlists).
When syncing , does rekordbox remove these track from the playlists on the device and does rekordbox remove them from the device????
if rekordbox doesnt remove them from the device , what is the best way to remove them from the device but still keeping these track on my computer in rekordbox???
I couln'd find a usefull answer anywehere thats why i'm asking these here.
Thanks in advance....
If you exclude them from an intelligent playlist; yes, they will be excluded, but they will persist on the drive. If you want to remove them from your export drive, you'll need to find them and manually remove them - but that's as simple as sorting by the album genre and then tanking the "UNWANTED" tracks (from the export drive).
Can you do a tutorial for itunes and rekordbox. I'm having an issue getting Rekorbox to find my itunes library files. Even though the song names/files are viewable, they are not loading and I get a loading error. This is after carefully selecting the proper filepath of the itunes xml file but maybe I missed a step somewhere?
Hi DJ Torch. I have the same issue like you. Did you find a solutions on that?
@@ThomasAndreasSchmidt I believe I did. I recall that I simply started from scratch. Since it's been a while, I can't find my notes on the solution and I've since moved to Serato. Not that it's any better but I changed hardware which only ran on Serato.
i seem to have lost my database. I had it on an external harddrive and it wasn't playing the music but showed the songs/playlists, ect. I was trying to move it to a new computer that had all of my itunes library on it. Not all of my itunes library is in rekord box. I only imported some songs from itunes. does rekordbox have a support line I can call into to help me get this right?
Nope, but you can file a support request here: rekordbox.com/en/support/inquiry.php