Sharing Rekordbox Library across two Macs
Have read all the articles related to this issue, still can't get things to work. I have an iMac and a Macbook, both with the latest Rekordbox. I want to share the same music library, but I can't seem to figure out how. When I export the master library (on the laptop) onto a 500GB Flash drive, the process completes. When I then mount this on my iMac, I see my library, but the music files aren't there.
Anyone know what I'm missing? Thanks for any help you can extend!
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Works fine at my two Macs. My music files are in <myprofile>/Music on my Macbook Air. I export the library (the database, not an export as syncing playlists to usb) to <myprofile>/Rekordbox. On my Macbook Pro I have exactly the same folder structure. I copy both subdirectories to the other computer and re-import the libary. Works fine, but is a lot of work. Therefore I'm using Dropbox, so the music files are automatically in sync. Still I need to export/import the library. But I thought you could move the master database to an USB device too. That should be working too, however I've never tried it as I don't trust USB devices for storing everything.
Are the files on both computers in the same folder structure? Else check in the menu, there's an option "find missing files" -> there you can relocate your files to the exact folder structure.
Christophe, thanks for the pointers, and this workaround works.
However, this a heap of unnecessary work. My Rekordbox license expired and I had to pay Pioneer $128 USD to get back to where I was. The license is already valid for two systems. Clearly, Pioneer knows that we oftentimes use two systems, and so I assumed that synchronization of the music library would be (better) integrated than it currently is. We need to have the ability to work off of a single drive (USB, shared or on a NAS filer such as Synology).
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