For several years I had a good system for keeping my music library on an external drive and moving between systems...using iTunes on my Mac desktop as the master database management (with the actual music files on the external), Traktor and Serato worked great on my laptop with the external, I'd use Rekordbox on the desktop to make flash drives for CDJs, both Pioneer and Denon, and it worked great. In the past year or so, macOS, Rekordbox, Engine, and iTunes have all had drastic updates and now nothing works. Engine crashes in the middle of export, Denon hardware doesn't read Rekordbox drives, Serato has a really hard time with the combination of Apple's new music software and the external drive...due to Covid I don't have Pioneer players to test right now... the only thing I can barely do is use Serato on the external but there's still complications with the new .musiclibrary format. I had to sell my Denon SC5000s because they were pretty useless to me after all this. I had ordered a Prime GO before Covid and then like 6 months later it finally came, and in those 6 months everything changed. Even Tidal integration sucks because there's no BPM data and no on board analyzing. I posted in the Denon forums and got nothing. I guess I have to buy a new hard drive for my laptop that is big enough to hold my entire library? There's a possibility that Pioneer decks would work correctly but I don't have 3 grand to get some. Does anyone have any suggestions? Anyone out there using Apple Music-based external drives across multiple systems? Yes all my software is up to date.
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