Lordfarquaad321
Hello VDJ,
I am currently refreshing the songs in my library by replacing bad quality files with better ones (320 kbit/s).
I have a big batch of files ready to replace the old ones. Now, fyi: I created a VDJ-playlist with all the songs I want to "freshen up". Because there are so many files to be replaced and because the songs already are in other different playlists in VDJ my fthought was to backup all the bad quality files and then delete them from the source folder. This way I could paste in the new audio files in the source folder and then use the relocate function for all the songs I want to "freshen up" collectively within the new playlist.
However, (as I suspected), "relocate missing file" is highly inefficient unless all the filenames are 100% the same from the original source files.
I also noticed that once a file is "relocated" with a new source file and the song is reanalyzed, VDJ will not update information regarding bitrate when the new file has a higher bitrate.
Although I did not know how to solve the latter issue I was thinking about "relocating" the files one by one. My idea was to map a key to a "relocate missing file"-action to make the job easier instead of having to right-click for every song but it seems like there is no such action ?
Big thank you for any help!
I am currently refreshing the songs in my library by replacing bad quality files with better ones (320 kbit/s).
I have a big batch of files ready to replace the old ones. Now, fyi: I created a VDJ-playlist with all the songs I want to "freshen up". Because there are so many files to be replaced and because the songs already are in other different playlists in VDJ my fthought was to backup all the bad quality files and then delete them from the source folder. This way I could paste in the new audio files in the source folder and then use the relocate function for all the songs I want to "freshen up" collectively within the new playlist.
However, (as I suspected), "relocate missing file" is highly inefficient unless all the filenames are 100% the same from the original source files.
I also noticed that once a file is "relocated" with a new source file and the song is reanalyzed, VDJ will not update information regarding bitrate when the new file has a higher bitrate.
Although I did not know how to solve the latter issue I was thinking about "relocating" the files one by one. My idea was to map a key to a "relocate missing file"-action to make the job easier instead of having to right-click for every song but it seems like there is no such action ?
Big thank you for any help!
Mensajes Tue 18 Oct 22 @ 11:08 pm
The Magic.DJ
what I do is just Replace the old one with a new (overwriting the old). This way, if I had any setting I did with that song, it will remain in tack. After that just do a BATCH analyze BPM.
Mensajes Wed 19 Oct 22 @ 3:02 pm
Dj Chachi
If your are using playlist (m3u); the white ones not the VDJ Red Virtual Folders, you can relocate/fix your playlist using listfix (https://listfix.sourceforge.net/) also available for MAC if you google it.
In terms of quality just to make sure you really did a quality upgrade you should compare the files using a Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer or Spectrogram Viewer like Spek or Fakin' The Funk, just because the file says it's 320kbs is not necessarily 320kbs file.
http://spek.cc/
https://fakinthefunk.net/en
In terms of quality just to make sure you really did a quality upgrade you should compare the files using a Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer or Spectrogram Viewer like Spek or Fakin' The Funk, just because the file says it's 320kbs is not necessarily 320kbs file.
http://spek.cc/
https://fakinthefunk.net/en
Mensajes Wed 19 Oct 22 @ 3:46 pm
Lordfarquaad321
Thanks for the suggestion @DJ CHACHI. I tried the listfix app as you said. but for me sadly it did not perform well enough.
Mensajes Wed 19 Oct 22 @ 8:18 pm
Lordfarquaad321
@DJ CHACHI
My apologies, the "fix everything" - button was not very accurate so it did not solve everything in a heartbeat, but I found listfix to be useful in finding exact matches. If I double click on a lost entry it will give me options to choose from which is also good. Will become handy in the future. Thanks again for the tip on listfix!
My apologies, the "fix everything" - button was not very accurate so it did not solve everything in a heartbeat, but I found listfix to be useful in finding exact matches. If I double click on a lost entry it will give me options to choose from which is also good. Will become handy in the future. Thanks again for the tip on listfix!
Mensajes Thu 27 Oct 22 @ 8:19 pm