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If you've manually moved some music files or their folders around on your disk using Finder/Windows Explorer.There are various reasons why rekordbox might have tracks with missing files: How do tracks in rekordbox end up with missing files? This is useful since you may have files lurking in your library which either should be in rekordbox but somehow got missed, or shouldn't be there and can be safely deleted. rekordbox's 'Relocate All' tool doesn't give you a list of files on disk which haven't been imported into rekordbox yet.That can be a chore if there are a lot of duplicates, but it is a much safer approach. rekordbox Repair will not attempt to repair this situation - instead you'll be told there were duplicates and be given a list of them, so you can deal with them manually. For example, if you have two albums, Artist 1/Album 1/Track 1.mp3 and Artist 2/Album 2/Track 1.mp3, rekordbox may incorrectly repair those, getting the Track 1.mp3 mixed up between the two albums. rekordbox's 'Relocate All' tool ignores duplicate matches for a given track, and will just do a repair against the first match it finds, a risky strategy which could easily make a big mess.Users can configure multiple library folders on their computer to scan, then any files which have been moved around will be repaired automatically.įor now (May 2022), rekordbox Repair still offers at least two advantages:

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The 'Relocate' tool still exists, plus a new 'Relocate All' tool has been added which is a big improvement and would ideally make my tool here redundant. Since I originally developed this tool, rekordbox 6 was released. Users/You/ Dropbox/Music/iTunes, without moving anything within the iTunes folder itself, then Relocate should work. For example, if you moved your /Users/You/Music/iTunes folder to a different location, e.g.

In rekordbox 5, the version I was originally working against, there is a 'Relocate' tool for repairing tracks with missing files which operates either on a track-by-track basis, or on a hierarchy of folders and sub-folders assuming that the only thing that's moved is the top-most folder.

Files on disk which haven't been imported into rekordbox yet.Ĭan't rekordbox fix missing files itself?.

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Files on disk which can't be imported to rekordbox because the full path to their location exceeds rekordbox's 255 character limit (only applies to macOS).Tracks which genuinely do have their file missing, and should therefore be removed from rekordbox.Tracks which rekordbox is reporting as 'File missing', but which have really just moved location on the disk and can therefore be repaired.A detailed report listing the following issues the tool has detected:.This option is useful if there's a large number of repaired tracks spread over many playlists which would be too time-consuming to fix using the first option above. Rebuild your entire collection and all playlists - A new XML file is generated containing your entire collection, including the tracks which the tool was able to repair.Selectively repair tracks in your existing collection and playlists - A new XML file is generated containing only the tracks the tool was able to repair, and the playlists they belong to.This XML file can be loaded into rekordbox via its 'rekordbox xml' area, and can be generated in two ways depending on how you want to repair your collection and playlists: A new rekordbox XML file containing the repaired tracks with their correct file locations, original cue points and loops, and the playlists they belong to.It analyses an exported rekordbox collection in XML format, searches the folder on disk where your music files live, then produces the following two files: Rekordbox Repair is a simple command line tool which works on both macOS and Windows. George has a macOS rekordbox collection of around 7200 tracks and counting, so it's against that this tool has initially been battle-tested. Nightmares on Wax sort out his studio and DJ'ing computers.

I wrote it while helping George Evelyn a.k.a.

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Rekordbox Repair is designed to help users of Pioneer's rekordbox DJ software fix problems with their rekordbox collections, as well as keep them clean on an ongoing basis.

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