External Hard Drive

[Mr P 0]

Hi Guys/Girls

 

Firstly welcome back DJ United

 

Right i have just copied all of the tracks from my laptop to an external hard dirve - i have encountered 2 problems.

First of all i tried to do a search on the external hard drive but a message popped up saying that the tracks were not formatted.

 

Secondly i use E-Jay DJ as the package on my Laptop, whilst trying to do a track search the song/artist was displaying but when i clicked on it to play it read 'Impossible to open file' and also when i returned to the main screen the artis and song title were coming up together and not the Artist in the Artist column and Song title in the Song Title column.

 

So is this an error on my part that can be fixed easily - any help/advice would be very much appreciated.

 

Many thanks and regards

 

Mr P (Chris)

[Mattaious 0]

Sounds like a tagging error to me,

with the names being all in one column,

 

There is a program for sorting tags out on mp3 files but for the life of me i cant remember,

 

Useless i iz!

[otronics 0]

Right i have just copied all of the tracks from my laptop to an external hard dirve - i have encountered 2 problems.

First of all i tried to do a search on the external hard drive but a message popped up saying that the tracks were not formatted.

 

How did you perform this search, using you computer's generic search tool?

 

Either way, what was the exact error message?

 

Secondly i use E-Jay DJ as the package on my Laptop, whilst trying to do a track search the song/artist was displaying but when i clicked on it to play it read 'Impossible to open file' and also when i returned to the main screen the artis and song title were coming up together and not the Artist in the Artist column and Song title in the Song Title column.

 

Optimistic error message.

 

By the sounds of it (depending on where the first error message came from) it sounds like your files are the incorrect format, or maybe there is some form of copyright on them perhaps...

 

I can't get details on what file format Ejay uses as there are many variants of the software.

 

If you can give these details please:

 

1) Operating System (ie/ Windows XP)

 

2) Make/Model of external hard drive

 

3) File formats Ejay uses (ie/ .wav, .mp3 etc) (.etc not being a file format !)

 

4) The format your files are in

 

I expect Ejay uses mp3 tags and these sound muddled. If your files are named Artist - Title.mp3 then there are several tools to fix the tags.

 

Download the demo of Flash Renamer

 

There is an mp3 section to sort it all out. May take a short while depending on how many files you have.

 

 

[Partyprint 0]

On your programe do you have to set the directory as to where the music is saved? and if so you may just need to change this to your external hd.

[otronics 0]

Partyprint has a point - if that software has a database and you have changed the location of the files, the move means the files will not play until the database is updated to the new location - in this case the external HDD

[rictic 0]

Partyprint has a point - if that software has a database and you have changed the location of the files, the move means the files will not play until the database is updated to the new location - in this case the external HDD

a quick fix is to add the hard drive to the software lbrary. delete the existing library and add new,using the hd as the source. should have no probs then. unless the files are orphaned?