Supporting Your Media
Fix the central record of truth before the dependent lists. Your VirtualDJ database is the heart if your live workflow. The last thing you want to be doing is searching for alternatives because your most played songs can’t be found, or trying to Locate missing file while mid mix. Also those folders/playlists you curated for … Read more
Let the tool find the likely matches, then keep control. As I’ve already mentioned, I’m really proud of this feature. It will save you a lot of time when running your repairs. It has two specific modes of operation. When you think about how VirtualDJ operates, the way Autofix works makes complete sense. Repair How … Read more
CrossRef and Autofix will do a great job, but they may not catch every one. So you may be required to update the New File Path cell yourself. Luckily, both Windows and macOS have keyboard shortcuts that can save you time. Windows macOS What it does shift+click shift+click Select a contiguous range (same on both) … Read more
Catch bad paths while you can still fix them safely. Validation is the checkpoint between editing and updating. It’s where VDJTools checks every new path before anything reaches your actual VirtualDJ files, and it’s your last real chance to catch a wrong path before it becomes a live change rather than an editable one. What … Read more
/stage:import is the only time VDJTools will make changes to any of your files. In this case the database(s) that hold the track details, cue points and all other meta data VirtualDJ uses at runtime. VDJTools will backup every file touched on import. Unlike a /backup, which backs up all files, during an import only … Read more
Trust your results because you checked them. Import Playlist — To help with identifying all the restored files, VDJTools will create a playlist within VirtualDJ of all the tracks restored. The primary reason for creating this was to allow all the tracks to be re-analysed quickly from a single location. The playlist is saved to … Read more
A bad import is recoverable when you planned for it. Every so often, something slips through, a wrong AutoFix guess that looked fine at a glance, or a workbook edit that turns out to be off. The instinct is to try and patch it live, chasing the fix with another fix. Resist that. It’s almost … Read more
Once the database has been repaired, it’s rinse and repeat, with a twist. By this point you know how the repair works: export → autofix → review → validate → import. Well, its the same process for the rest with one additonal step. Introducing CrossRef… Chances are, that if a file used to be somewhere … Read more
Use repeatable batches instead of one overwhelming rescue attempt. Older libraries, or ones that have moved drives a few times over the years, can turn up genuinely large numbers of broken paths, history in particular tends to accumulate a lot of stale entries over time. Facing a workbook with hundreds of rows in one sitting … Read more