Riqeee Musiq cool, good to here. Hope you are well, I was in preparation of a trip to your country to come and give these training. Perhaps one day this will happen:)
Glad you liked it and that is could be of help. Yes I disable everything iTunes related, there is no need for it anymore as Rekordbox can pretty much do most of the things.
In fact you are right @Ves, it is actually v2.2 and v2.3, but out of habbit I called it V2 and V3 tags. Good that you mentioned it, I'll be updating my presentation so next time it's more accurate reflection of what I mean !
When showing the graph, you did not explain why both ID3 V2 and V3 are stored and which Rekordbox uses. I used to organize my tags outside Rekordbox in Windows with tag&rename software as, for example, I would only use 1 song per CD to import in Rekordbox. (it gave sometimes problems though, as when you change a star rating inside rekorbox, it was not always transferred back to what T&R could see, as apparently rekorbox uses an other system to rate stars than e.g., itunes) Do you have any suggestion of a program to deal with ID3 tags on mac, as I am transferring my collection from windows to mac and unfortunately T&R is not supported by mac
If you also have a recommendation for a syncing software for mac, that would be great. In windows I used syncback which was really handy as I had the same folder structure on my C drive than on the external drive (my main drive), but just with less files. Eg on the external are folders like "Solid Sound 1 - CD 1" with 20 songs, and on my C drive it's the same folder but only with 2 songs that were worthy of being dropped into Rekordbox. If I changed the star rating of that song, or added comments, then I could sync those changes back to the external. Any program on mac that you recommend for this?
The software I use is called File Synchronisation and is Mac only software. apps.apple.com/nl/app/file-synchronization/id414421761?l=en&mt=12 I explain more about this in another video : ruclips.net/video/jDTl7Bf_Im8/видео.html
@@DJResourceTV Thank you so much! I will buy it directly from their website as they highlight there are some minor differences if you buy it via them compared to the apple shop www.nemesys-soft.com/MacOS/FileSynchronization/FSRegistration_EN.html
Great overview, I just disagree about the flac and software thing (I am mostly a traktor user myself) but thank God those are thing based on personal preference. Thumbs up!
Great video but I need more clarification on how you tag your music please. How does your rekordbox recognise which genre/album folder each song is located within in your hard drive? I.e when you are filtering your tracks, how does your rekordbox know what to filter? And when you import a new song, how does the rekordbox know what genre or folder it belongs in?
Hi @Natisha, Rekordbox does not recognize files or puts in Tags, this is something I do manually. I use Tagscanner to tag files, sort all the files by file location and than manually add the tags to the proper Genres and Album names I've chosen. Unfortunately this is a manual job.
question, do you save your music in a usb or on your laptop...so i use to store my music in my laptop but when im trying to transfer my music to a new laptop i lost all of my tags
@DJ Ctai, I have my tracks on the internal harddrive of my computer. ID3 tags (artist/title/etc) are stored within the MP3 file, for WAV it is stored in Rekordbox database. MyTags are different things and they are stored in the rekordbox database. When moving to new computer, I would upgrade to Rekordbox 6 (for the auto relocate), and set this up in Preferences>Other>Auto Relocate Location. Then restore a backup of your collection and use the auto relocator to link all your files. Should be a few minutes if you moved all your files.
Yes that is possible. I found out that this is possible aswell but not very widely supported yet unfortunately. Officially Wav with meta data layer should be called WBF (Wav Broadcast Format)
As a source drive for your files? Yes As an export drive to play on cdjs : yes If you want to use as export drive I would suggest using different drives for both things. The export drive for rekordbox needs to be reformatted every now and then so it would be convinoent if that drive would also hold other important files.
You've got quite a lot of mistakes in your Audio File Formats chapter. Bitraite is not Sample-Rate and Flac and Alac are both compressed formats (compressed as in ZIP, not as in MP3 or JPG where information are lost)
You are right and I try to avoid giving the definitions in the stream to not make it to confuzing. I do mention FLAC/ALAC is losseless compression (without loss of quality). Sample rate is the amount of samples taken each second. Bitdepth is the amount of bits used in each sample, bitrate is the amount of bits used per second. But feel free to post better definitions :)
@@DJResourceTV in uncompressed audio, the bitrate results from bit-depth and the sample-rate. Bit depth is how many different audio levels can be reproduced. if you have 2 bits, you can produce 4 different levels (00, 01, 10 and 11) => your graphic here is also wrong, you only show one step for 2 bit. for 16 bit its 2^16 levels. It becomes special, if you take 32 bit floating point, but that's another story. Sample rate is indeed how often per second (=Hz) you check the level of the audio. In theory ~40kHz sould be enough as a human cannot hear above ~20kHz (and if you have an appropriate low-pass filter at ~20kHz a ~40kHz sample rate is enough to avoid aliasing = wrong waveform rebuilt from samples because original waveform fits in between samples) Now about compression: There are at least three different types of compression in digital audio: Audio Compression and Lossy File Compression and Lossless. A very reduced example: Losless File Compression is looking for patterns in the file and is referencing them. e.g. if I write "hahahahahahahaha funny" I could also say "ha*8 + funny". Here no information is lost. To be oversimplified that kind of compression is what ZIP uses or Flac etc. The other thing is audio compression. Here the Levels are compressed to a smaller range, reducing headroom => the track sounds louder when you set the peak to the same volume. But you loose all the small hits. To some level, this is wanted (e.g. to get the singer louder in a mix or to make a snare drum sound more "fat") but if you overdo it, the track starts to become mushy. The next thing is lossy compression. In case of a picture for example, you reduce the resolution of colors, because we humans are bad at spotting different colors if they are close together. In audio this is done very similarly: Remove things that sound so similar that a human ear can hardly sport the difference. In Lossy Compressed Audio, usually all three come together. --- the reason why I actually came here was that I was looking for a video that describes how to manage Memory Cues, "My Tags" and so on as I was moving from Serato to Rekordbox
Thanks for posting this info, you are right, that image is not correct. I'm redoing my presentation and that one is Allready on the list for adjustments. I'm aware of how stuff works. Oh and In you previous comment you where right about clipping of the mic. The belt pack send out to loud and was adjusted after this recording. But I didn't felt like doing it again ;) That is a good idea for one of my next videos: cue memories. For conversion between collections you can use the DJ Converter utility DJCU
What a pearl of a video this is for somebody who's not that familiar with Rekordbox
Glad it helped you out !
This video is so high quality great job. Lots of useful info with great visuals. I hope you are sponsored!
Great you like it.
very detailed. unique approach. unique management. thank you in your sons Karma. Olyandra
What an incredible presentation! Learned a tonnnnnn thank you!!!
great video love the information shared much respect from South Africa
Riqeee Musiq cool, good to here. Hope you are well, I was in preparation of a trip to your country to come and give these training. Perhaps one day this will happen:)
@@DJResourceTV You most welcome once the chaos around the world finds its peace feel free to drop me a line once you here. I live in Johannesburg SA
@@@djclovisa5463 I hope that day will come, I would go Johannesburg and Capetown so who knows :)
Finally some help in managing my files. Do you unclick the iTune structure file setting in Rekordbox?
Glad you liked it and that is could be of help. Yes I disable everything iTunes related, there is no need for it anymore as Rekordbox can pretty much do most of the things.
ID V3? Did I miss an update there?
Thanks for the video Jeroen.
In fact you are right @Ves, it is actually v2.2 and v2.3, but out of habbit I called it V2 and V3 tags. Good that you mentioned it, I'll be updating my presentation so next time it's more accurate reflection of what I mean !
Thanks i enjoyed this, i learned a few new things.
Good to here you learned some thing, that triggers me to put in more info in the next video !
When showing the graph, you did not explain why both ID3 V2 and V3 are stored and which Rekordbox uses.
I used to organize my tags outside Rekordbox in Windows with tag&rename software as, for example, I would only use 1 song per CD to import in Rekordbox. (it gave sometimes problems though, as when you change a star rating inside rekorbox, it was not always transferred back to what T&R could see, as apparently rekorbox uses an other system to rate stars than e.g., itunes)
Do you have any suggestion of a program to deal with ID3 tags on mac, as I am transferring my collection from windows to mac and unfortunately T&R is not supported by mac
The v2.3 tags are an improved version of the 2.2 tags, rekordbox reads them both or one of them if only one version is available
If you also have a recommendation for a syncing software for mac, that would be great. In windows I used syncback which was really handy as I had the same folder structure on my C drive than on the external drive (my main drive), but just with less files. Eg on the external are folders like "Solid Sound 1 - CD 1" with 20 songs, and on my C drive it's the same folder but only with 2 songs that were worthy of being dropped into Rekordbox. If I changed the star rating of that song, or added comments, then I could sync those changes back to the external. Any program on mac that you recommend for this?
The software I use is called File Synchronisation and is Mac only software.
apps.apple.com/nl/app/file-synchronization/id414421761?l=en&mt=12
I explain more about this in another video :
ruclips.net/video/jDTl7Bf_Im8/видео.html
@@DJResourceTV Thank you so much! I will buy it directly from their website as they highlight there are some minor differences if you buy it via them compared to the apple shop www.nemesys-soft.com/MacOS/FileSynchronization/FSRegistration_EN.html
Great overview, I just disagree about the flac and software thing (I am mostly a traktor user myself) but thank God those are thing based on personal preference. Thumbs up!
Fair enough! Glad you like most of it :)
Great video but I need more clarification on how you tag your music please. How does your rekordbox recognise which genre/album folder each song is located within in your hard drive?
I.e when you are filtering your tracks, how does your rekordbox know what to filter? And when you import a new song, how does the rekordbox know what genre or folder it belongs in?
Hi @Natisha, Rekordbox does not recognize files or puts in Tags, this is something I do manually. I use Tagscanner to tag files, sort all the files by file location and than manually add the tags to the proper Genres and Album names I've chosen. Unfortunately this is a manual job.
@@DJResourceTV I have just seen you have another video all about this! Thank you for the help
@@natisha266 can you share the video -- I can't understand how to sync folder location with genre and album thanks
You have to add those tags manually with Rekordbox or any other tag program like Tagscanner
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question, do you save your music in a usb or on your laptop...so i use to store my music in my laptop but when im trying to transfer my music to a new laptop i lost all of my tags
@DJ Ctai, I have my tracks on the internal harddrive of my computer. ID3 tags (artist/title/etc) are stored within the MP3 file, for WAV it is stored in Rekordbox database.
MyTags are different things and they are stored in the rekordbox database.
When moving to new computer, I would upgrade to Rekordbox 6 (for the auto relocate), and set this up in Preferences>Other>Auto Relocate Location.
Then restore a backup of your collection and use the auto relocator to link all your files. Should be a few minutes if you moved all your files.
Great video. Stangely the audio and video don't sync up and get more and more dis-synchronised
I do manage to put metadata into WAV files
Yes that is possible. I found out that this is possible aswell but not very widely supported yet unfortunately. Officially Wav with meta data layer should be called WBF (Wav Broadcast Format)
@@DJResourceTV Yes, MP3TAG does the trick.
Tagscanner also does it, but not always able to read it back.
Good afternoon ,can help I use an external hard drive that I use on Traktor ,can I use the same Hardrive in rekordbox
As a source drive for your files? Yes
As an export drive to play on cdjs : yes
If you want to use as export drive I would suggest using different drives for both things. The export drive for rekordbox needs to be reformatted every now and then so it would be convinoent if that drive would also hold other important files.
Why does Rekordbox and Piioneer CDJ use 32bit file system, when 64bit file system is now the more common file system?
What do you mean ? Formatting the devices? This can be done on a mac as HFS+ (MacOS Extended) if that is what you mean.
You've got quite a lot of mistakes in your Audio File Formats chapter. Bitraite is not Sample-Rate and Flac and Alac are both compressed formats (compressed as in ZIP, not as in MP3 or JPG where information are lost)
You are right and I try to avoid giving the definitions in the stream to not make it to confuzing. I do mention FLAC/ALAC is losseless compression (without loss of quality). Sample rate is the amount of samples taken each second. Bitdepth is the amount of bits used in each sample, bitrate is the amount of bits used per second. But feel free to post better definitions :)
@@DJResourceTV in uncompressed audio, the bitrate results from bit-depth and the sample-rate. Bit depth is how many different audio levels can be reproduced. if you have 2 bits, you can produce 4 different levels (00, 01, 10 and 11) => your graphic here is also wrong, you only show one step for 2 bit. for 16 bit its 2^16 levels. It becomes special, if you take 32 bit floating point, but that's another story.
Sample rate is indeed how often per second (=Hz) you check the level of the audio. In theory ~40kHz sould be enough as a human cannot hear above ~20kHz (and if you have an appropriate low-pass filter at ~20kHz a ~40kHz sample rate is enough to avoid aliasing = wrong waveform rebuilt from samples because original waveform fits in between samples)
Now about compression: There are at least three different types of compression in digital audio: Audio Compression and Lossy File Compression and Lossless.
A very reduced example: Losless File Compression is looking for patterns in the file and is referencing them. e.g. if I write "hahahahahahahaha funny" I could also say "ha*8 + funny". Here no information is lost. To be oversimplified that kind of compression is what ZIP uses or Flac etc.
The other thing is audio compression. Here the Levels are compressed to a smaller range, reducing headroom => the track sounds louder when you set the peak to the same volume. But you loose all the small hits. To some level, this is wanted (e.g. to get the singer louder in a mix or to make a snare drum sound more "fat") but if you overdo it, the track starts to become mushy.
The next thing is lossy compression. In case of a picture for example, you reduce the resolution of colors, because we humans are bad at spotting different colors if they are close together.
In audio this is done very similarly: Remove things that sound so similar that a human ear can hardly sport the difference.
In Lossy Compressed Audio, usually all three come together.
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the reason why I actually came here was that I was looking for a video that describes how to manage Memory Cues, "My Tags" and so on as I was moving from Serato to Rekordbox
Thanks for posting this info, you are right, that image is not correct. I'm redoing my presentation and that one is Allready on the list for adjustments.
I'm aware of how stuff works. Oh and In you previous comment you where right about clipping of the mic. The belt pack send out to loud and was adjusted after this recording. But I didn't felt like doing it again ;)
That is a good idea for one of my next videos: cue memories.
For conversion between collections you can use the DJ Converter utility DJCU