Hi guys got a new laptop tried to consolidate the collections off my old laptop and my desktop messed it all up real bad as they were near enough the same but with different folder trees so i just ended up with duplicates of stuff tried a few apps to sort it werent really much help
in the end i used windows search for mp3 tags and then copied them all to one big folder now im kinda stuck as of where to go now i was thinking maybe just name that folder âlegacyâ and then go back to my old system of making monthly folders of 2014 august 2014 september etc but it gets messy and hard to keep files on both computers (transfer by old slow external)
ideally id like a system thats a bit more refined but cant thin k of anyway of doing all my googling is just giving me guides on how to make playlists but i really wanna sort the files themselves out ideally in a way i can set up some kind of network sync that would let me make playlists on itunes, anylyse+prep in traktor on the desktop and have it all sync with my laptop if anyone knows if this is possible could really do with a lil help here guys
yeaah i figured it might be a bit confusing sorry lol ill try and simplify, my music got real jumbled up duplicates of everything etc
i pulled all the individual mp3s out into one big folder so i could get rid of all the dupes at once from here im stuck as of what to do next
realistically id like to call this folder legacy and organize all the stuff i download from now on so it dont get messy again in a way that i can download stuff on the desktop create playlists in itunes , then analyze and set grids in traktor then have it all sync over to my laptop on the network so that i have the same file trees on both desktop and laptop
If youâre files are properly tagged, you could use software like Tags 2 Folders to mass move files to a new folder tree, ex by Genre or Artist. I used it once, and it worked quite well. For finding and deleting duplicates I used a software called Similarity, which not only scans filenams and tags, but also acoustic fingerprint (I think), to find duplicate files.
I just use iTunes. Every song iâve ever collected (dismissing the hundreds of cdâs i have yet to get round to ripping) .. the ones want in traktor get run through mp3gain and then drag nâ dropped into the collection.
I think ean had an article about this. Something about the right combination of âcopy to iTunes folderâ, âkeep itunes folder organizedâ, and âconsolidate collectionâ.
Mine is a huge freaking mess spread between a couple computers and a NAS that both stores music and backs the other 2 upâŚbut I can usually find what I want without too much trouble.
NowâŚmy POS Android phoneâŚI have no idea whatâs on it. I kind of just put it on shuffle and hope for the best. Stupid google music cloud crap royally screwed that one up.
First of all, my music is in folders by Genre, Artist, and Album, which I do by hand because Iâm very particular about how my music is organized (and tagged, and file-named). My method assumes that your collection itself is already organized.
To sync, I use Box, the cloud storage service, but you could just as easily use Dropbox, Mega, Google Drive, etc. Yes, you have to pay for this - $10/month gives me 1TB of storage, which is more than enough. Google Drive will sell you 100 GB for about $2/month.
On my desktop PC, I moved my music collection âtreeâ into my Box folder, and over the next few days, my music was uploaded to my Box account online. Once it was all up there, I installed Box on my laptop and let it sync - after a day or two, my entire collection had downloaded and synced. Now, I can manage all of my music on my desktop with huge monitors, nice keyboard, etc., and any changes are synced to Box automatically. Before a gig, I let the laptop run for a couple of hours to sync any changes I might have made, and Iâm all set. I did the same on my backup laptop, so now it too is identical. Plus, this gives me a cloud backup of my music as well (I still have an external hard drive as an additional backup).
I use Traktor, and it is possible to sync my Traktor settings/sessions as well, but right now, I donât do it that way. I may do so in the future.
box does sound very interesting but with my upload speed bing 1mbps it would probs take me about 3 weeks to upload it all but thats generally the kinda thing i want was just hoping there was a way to set it up on just my local network and yeah would be brilliant if the traktor libraries were synced as i spend most of my time on the desktop i only really use the laptop for djing or if im out and about
If you just want to do this over your LAN, there are apps that can sync folders on the same network. Do a quick search for âapp to sync foldersâ and Iâm sure youâll find what you need. I just wanted the additional convenience of a cloud backup and the ability to sync from remote locations, just in case.
If all your files on your main drive get corrupted, and you then sync it with another copy, you have just overwritten all your good files with corrupt files.
Backup means you have an incremental backup where you can roll back to the data on a certain day or week.
Right, which is why I have a couple of external hard drives as backups. But it IS a backup in a conventional sense, as if my primary desktop drive crashed, I could reinstall Windows on a new drive, log in to Box, and it would sync my music back down to my PC. Of course, I understand your caution, and itâs legit, and this should not be the ONLY backup you have of your collection (I also have the original CDs in most cases, but I wouldnât want to have to re-rip and tag them all again!).
