WWYD? New Hard Drive and Music....

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knardini

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Dec 3, 2006
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I've used a 250 gig Rocstor Hard Drive with about 30,000 tracks on it for the past 4 years...now one of my DJ's has spent 6 months ripping his CD collection and has 550 gigs worth to add!! I just bought a Rocstor Terabyte and want to put my collection plus his on the new hard drive....


my question....

If I put my collection plus his in two seperate folders on the new hard drive there will be tons of duplicates. When I search for music with virtual DJ will both copies of the same song show up?

What would you do?
 
jtnichol said:
Sounds like a laptop issue. Sell me yours and your hard drives for real cheap.
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You're probably right....shipping as we speak. Please send me all your heavy ass CD cases and coffin...I'll start practicing my beat matching instead of just hitting my "sync" button.

Could you please send me an instruction sheet on the proper dance moves for the "white tornado" you do during "Jump on it"....and the foam hat!
 
Yes they will since you will be adding both folders to the VDJ database.
 
knardini said:
You're probably right....shipping as we speak. Please send me all your heavy ass CD cases and coffin...I'll start practicing my beat matching instead of just hitting my "sync" button.

Could you please send me an instruction sheet on the proper dance moves for the "white tornado" you do during "Jump on it"....and the foam hat!
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NEVER will I share my foam cowboy hat secrets!!!








CD's and coffin maybe.....
 
knardini said:
What would you do?
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Well, first I'd go buy legal copies of all his CDs for CMA purposes. :sqwink:

Yes, as has been said, you will get duplicates in the search.

My suggestion would be to:

1. Copy your drive to the new one.
2. Reorganize the folder structure on the new drive like the structure your DJ uses.
3. Make sure the name of the files are set up in the same way. Tag and Rename should help there.
4. Get a copy of File Synchronizer from Latshaw Systems. It is free.
5. Synchronize his drive and the new one.

That should minimize any duplication. You might want to "give" :sqwink: him any of yours he does not have.
 
I was waiting to see who would be the first. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.
GoodKnightDJ said:
Well, first I'd go buy legal copies of all his CDs for CMA purposes. :sqwink:

You might want to "give" him any of yours he does not have.
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Contradicting ourselves are we?
 
Media Monkey has a plugin that makes finding and dealing with duplicates simple(r). AdvancedDuplicateFindAndFix is the name of the plugin. The plugin provides the ability to select which songs to keep based on measurable criteria: higher bitrate, newer file, longer time, etc, etc. This is very handy. I found about 15% of my collection was dups, and I was able to get rid of them over a long weekend.
 
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