Keeping Collections in Sync?

[djoverzero]

My Zune won't sync no matter what..it keeps saying you have no music in your collection. why?

Probably because you are a spammer. I'd stop spamming and see if that fixes your problem.

[djproben]

Yes I'm necrobumping this 5 year old thread to figure this out. I'd like to do exactly the below but aren't the paths named differently on the two computers? I have no trouble sharing the music files using Dropbox but then when I put the Traktor settings files in the Dropbox and point another computer to them, the computer has to update its database with the new filepaths. Will this keep happening?

I have both my Music Library and my Traktor settings folder synced to multiple computers using Dropbox. It has worked out great for me. If you have Traktor running on both machines at the same time, you may end up with conflicts that you need to manually resolve. If you start seeing something like "(laptop's conflicted copy 2011-12-30)" added to filenames, that is what is up.

[ErikMinekus]

If both computers have the same operating system and you use the Dropbox app, the paths would be the same.

[djproben]

Are you certain? Even if the hard drives are named differently? I guess it depends if Traktor uses a relative or absolute path. I shifted one computer to using the dropbox library, and I copied the Traktor settings files to the dropbox (from the other computer, which had my latest edits on it), but when I told the first computer to use that file for settings (collection.nml or whatever), it took about 20 minutes after restart to check consistency and find missing files. Will that happen again if I tell the other computer to use the same dropbox folder? I guess I can try it but I have a gig tomorrow and I want to get through that before I take any chances

[ErikMinekus]

There's no reason to rename the internal drive, it should always be C:\ for Windows or "Macintosh HD" for macOS. So if you store the Dropbox folder there, that path would be the same. If you don't store your music files in the Dropbox folder or even on the internal drive, then yes, make sure the path is the same for both computers.

[the_bastet]

Just privately share the music folder over your network. Whenever you are connected to your home network, your imac will see the folder.

[Not Applicable]

I am in the process of organizing my collection. I am using iTunes to manage my library as Serato has iTunes playlist integration.

To analyze my tracks for bpm, etc. I use beaTunes. It syncs with your iTunes library.