Entra:     

Forum: General Discussion

Topic: why does data disappear?

Questo argomento è obsoleto e potrebbe contenere informazioni obsolete o errate.

Ok the mystery of PC djing still baffles me on this one. I have about 45,000 tracks scanned in about 22 different folders on portable USB HDD. Every 3-4 weeks my tracks just seem to randomly lose the bpm and key data. It never fails that about every few weeks I have to go into EACH folder and sort by bpm, to find that 15 - 50 of the files just randomly lose the data. Then I rescan, (manually fix the ones the algorithm can't get) and wall-a all tracks are BPM'ed...then several weeks later.. the same process all over again with different tracks...Any body know anything about the database gremlins that are stealing my data? Its vey odd, no routine, some folders lose data, some keep it, some folders have more files than others losing data. I am religious to allow the program to fully close, I fix or clean the database regularly in the browser config screen.......anybody got a clue?
 
Inviato Thu 16 Apr 09 @ 6:58 pm
I used to have the same problem for years. Then I figured out that it had something to do with my tagging. If your tagging is off / incorrect then you really don't want to fix in config. Whenever you make a move or edit just check and clean.

Also in your config / browser, you may want to turn off tagging. especially if your files are not correctly done. Some poor down load services will not tag as you think.

This helped me a great deal because was highly annoying everytime I went into a folder it set off this " virtual red flag ".
 
Kat are you suggesting turn off the "read id3 tags" all together? won't this prevent from reading the right info as well?? What was your experience when loading up files ripped from say my promo only disc ripped in audigrabber software? Did the file data display properly since read id 3 tags is disabled?
 
Turn off ID tags. When you rip a new cd IE Promo Only.
Enable the tags. Everything will be read correctly.
When you are done disable the tags again. Your tags
will still be read. At least that's how it works for me.
 
I also recall having this problem in Vista - it turned out to be something to do with setting the file permissions in Windows.
 
bogart wrote :
Turn off ID tags. When you rip a new cd IE Promo Only.
Enable the tags. Everything will be read correctly.
When you are done disable the tags again. Your tags
will still be read. At least that's how it works for me.


I could be wrong here but i would guess this works because when you initially scan new files (with ID tags on) it will scan them, then add the information to the VDJ Database XML file. Thus then not needing to scan the ID Tag again so it can be switched off.
 


(Vecchi argomenti e forum sono automaticamente chiusi)