Nope. After you've added music to your Drive, you will go into serato, open the "File" tab, navigate to your new music, then add that new music to a crate. Then you can analyze.
@@WillCarterTech thanks for the informative video. Do you know how serato can auto import music from your drive? Or is that just not a feature supported?
Plug out? do you mean that you are take the external drive away from the computer by unpluging the USB? if that is what you mean, then the answer is simple. When you unplug the drive that has your crates on it, then your computer is no longer connected to your crates, so serato (on your computer) can no long read the drive that isn't plugged into the computer. Simply plug your drive into your computer.
Hello. I have lots of music on my desktop Mac. When I installed Serato I saw it all pop up. It’s weird because all of these files are on my external hard drive but it wasn’t connected to the computer when they appeared in Serato. Can I add the music to Serato and create crates? If so, how can I get them to appear on my laptop when I want to DJ? Thank you.
I'm gonna suggest that you watch some of my other serato tutorials. Serato creates a folder on every hard drive that you pull music from. that folder is important because it holds the metadata for all of the Crates that you create. when you plug that external hard drive into another computer, serato will read that folder on that hard drive and the crates will pop up. What you need to do is put all of your music in one external hard drive, then pull your music from only that drive. then when you move that external hard drive between computers, your crates will pop up on the new computer.
I might be a little slow. But I'm scared to click "Start" to configure my hard drive. Won't that delete all my music? Or am I missing it completely? Also, do you have a video showing what to do if you already have music in Serato and NOT starting from scratch? PLEASE HELP ME!!! LOL
I don't have a video about that specifically. This other video my help you along your path: th-cam.com/video/1ep2wSrFSqc/w-d-xo.html You don't NEED to format your HDD if you already have your music on your HDD. yes, formatting will erase all your files. You can skip to the step in the video this that starts at 3:30 since you already have your drive properly formatted and music copied onto it.
i have an hard drive i brought for my macbook but i put so much effort organizing all the music and im scare to do this cause i don't want to lose all my music in my hard drive and i want to put it in serato but im literally scare to do the first step honestly 🥺
I totally understand where you’re coming from, Alan. When I switched from using virtual DJ to Serato it took me months to go through my virtual DJ playlists and add each song into each playlist on Serato. It’s a pain. I haven’t found a reliable way to move music AND Serato crates from an internal boot drive to an external storage drive without having to manually recreate all of the Serato crates. What I’d suggest is backing up everything first. Then move your music and Serato folders to the target drive, then delete the music and Serato folders from the internal boot drive. Then restart the computer, plug the external drive in, boot Serato, and cross your fingers. It’s worked for me once, but all the other times I’ve tried it, it hasn’t worked. So I haven’t made a video about it because I can’t figure out what makes it work. 🤷🏻♂️ definitely BACK UP everything before you start because this is a good way to mess up everything and lose all of your crates. I’ll let you know if I figure out a way to move crates and playlists from an internal to external drive.
I have everything back up on my external hard drive but it suck when i create new crates to serato & drag my music in it from my hard drive once i close serato & open it back up it’s all gone but im going to try
That happens when there is two separate Serato folders. The Serato folder stores all of the crates and cue points and any other data that you put into Serato. If you look on your external drive, you will find a folder titled Serato. If you look on your internal drive, you will find another folder named Serato. Each time Serato boots it looks for that folder. So you need to have only one of those folders. The problem is, Serato will create a Serato folder on each drive that you pull music from. Then Serato will save your new crates to the new folder on the external drive. But when you close Serato and boot again, Serato will look for that folder on the internal drive first and because the old folder is there on your internal drive, it will stop looking for the other Serato folder on the external drive. What you can do is, delete your external serato folder, copy your internal Serato folder to your external drive, then delete the folder from the internal drive, try booting Serato and see what happens. Then make a new crate, add music, close Serato, reopen, and see if that new crate is still there. I’m sorry I took so long to get back to you. I didn’t receive a notification that you had replied, so I was scrolling back through my videos today to see if you had ever resolved your problem and I found that I had never replied to you. I’m sorry to be so late with my reply. I hope you have found a solution to your issue.
Will, The HomeSchool DJ It’s fine cause i reformatted my hard drives and lost everything good part i had all my music saved on google drive even though i had some organizing to do
no, you have to drag those new music files into a crate in serato each time. it's busy work and very annoying. i wish serato (the company) would fix this in Serato (the software).
I made a video specifically answering your question, called: Have you Backed Up your Music Library? I’d give you the link but I can post links in the comments. The video can be found in my “how to” playlist on my channel.
as long as you have put your music files in safe place, then they are safe. but if you throw your external hard drive in a river, then no, the only song that will play is Drowning by Boogie wit a hoodie
[SOLVED] Thanks for this video. It is helpful but it scares me! So I got a hard-drive with 1,73TB of music which I collected over 30 years now. It is sorted on the HDD in diffrent folders, as yours is too. Is there no way to drag and drop the whole device in serato and let it create a crate where a folder is so that my system keeps existing in Serato? I cant be the way to manually create every crate for any folder on my HDD. I have literally thousands of folders with over 210.000 tracks. It would take months without playing any music. Thanks for your help.
No, Serato does not have this function. I believe virtual DJ does have the ability to maintain your sub folders. I’m not sure, it’s been years since I’ve looked at VDJ. After 8 came out, I was so annoyed that I switched to Serato and it took me months to get back to where I was on virtual DJ in regards to organization. Maybe we should start bugging Serato about this. They explicitly state that they don’t thing you should have sub folders because it slows down Serato performance. But I think we should at least be able to make that decision for ourselves. Btw, you can drag your sub folder into the area where the crates go. Serato will make a crate out of that sub folder. Then drag the folder above that sub folder into that area and create another crate. Then you can drag that sub crate under the other crate and collapse them. I don’t know if that helps, since you have hundreds of thousands of songs, but that is a way faster way than creating a crate and dragging songs into it.
@@WillCarterTech I found something which is working. There is a 10 year old java program somebody coded which works perfectly fine. It's called 'serato-itch-sync'. You can download it from the Google Code Archive. It took one minute to create all 7845 crates which was the amount of folders and subfolders I got. Serato took its time to load all these files but all in all it works awesome. Look it up and try it. Again, it made the whole work for me with over 210.000 tracks and 7800 folders and subfolders in a few minutes. It is awesome! If you'll have any questions about it dont hesitate to ask. Greetings
@@tobismiley3462 ah man! That’s awesome! I need to look that up! Maybe I can make a video, informing people about its existence. That’s really cool that you found that. Thank you for telling me. Would you be alright if I mentioned you by name in the video? Or would you rather me say “a commenter”
@@WillCarterTech No problem, this can save hours of work so I am happy that I can share this with you. If or how you want to mention me is completely up to you. Feel free to follow your preferences.
@@WillCarterTech Just another question you hopefully give me an answer for: Im analyzing my Library since hours the whole night (I'm from Germany its 5am rn) and got the problem that it slowed down extremely. At the beginning 1000 Songs took around 10 minutes. Now 8 Tracks take around the same time. And that's not acceptable for the amount of tracks I still need to analyze. I have 8 virtual cores with my i7 7700k but my Processor isnt stressed and runnig at just 10%. Sometimes it starts working at 100% for some seconds and then falling back again. Its definitely not to hot at around 40 degrees Celsius. Furthermore I have enough memory and restarted the PC already. If I cancel the analyzing process and restart it, it will start using 100% CPU capacity for just a few seconds and then fall back again to just around 20%. Do you have any idea where this issue comes from and how to fix it? I mean rn it analyzed 113 tracks in nearly 60mins which should be done in 1 minute with my setup. Any ideas about my problem?
Yes. Serato will automatically create a folder (named “serato” and also another folder named “serato backup”) on each and every drive that you pull music from. All you have to do is drag music into a crate in serato, then there will be a serato folder with metadata for that music in that crate on the drive that you pulled the music from.
Hello. I am new to DJing. I have no idea how to get my Apple Music music and playlists to my external hard drive. I want to use an external instead of my laptop due to speed and space usage on my laptop . I have downloaded a software that is suppose to convert my Apple Music library to mp3 files so that I can DJ with them. These files don’t transfer to my external. Why would that be if I have converted them using the converting software? Do you have a better solution to this issue? Thanks!
Do you own the music? Apple has really good copyright protection on their audio files. You might have to strip the meta data off the audio file to get rid of the copyright protection.
STOP. dont write anything to the drive. The more you write to the drive, the more you are writing over top of your lost data. “Format” means “wipe clean.” There is levels to formatting (wiping clean) a drive. A quick format simply deletes all the information on where to find the data on the drive. But all the data is still there. This takes a second to do. Then there is a format that will write random 1s and 0s to the disk to corrupt any files that were on the disk. This is designed to make all the data on the drive unrecoverable. This takes about a min. Then there is a format that will write 0s over the entire drive. This is designed to make sure there is no data on the drive. This can take a few hours depending on the capacity of the drive. Then there is a format that writes 3 layers of 0s over the entire drive. This is designed to make sure even really good data recovery programs can’t dig down and find any data. This can take a day or so. Then there is the government format that rights 7 layers of 0s over the entire drive. This is for top secret documents that cannot be released to the public. This can take several days. Try buying a data recovery software like Macrium that will scan the entire drive and find as much data as possible. You will never recover everything, that’s just the nature of it. But you can most likely recover 50 - 70% of the data. You can also take your drive to a data recovery center like Drive Savers. They will be able to recover closer to 70% of your data. Most data recovery cost about $50-$100. Im sorry this happened man. I feel your pain. I had a 3tb drive that the controller went out and I lost 10 years of albums I had recorded but never released. I was never able to get my data recovery software to work on that drive because the control board was dead. The only thing I could do would be to take it to drive savers. But I didn’t have the money and I just told myself I would just re-record my music someday. I still haven’t taken the time to re-record anything yet.
My Exterminator who happens to be a DJ copied my Hard drive to a folder on my Lap Top when i go to Serato it looks like not all the song show up. i just subscribed to BPM supreme i dragged the BPM on to the desk top on my lap top trying to figure out how to put them on my hard drive.
Maybe I'm slow lol. so i have all my mp3's in my external. Every time I disconnect all my Serato crates delete. Is there a way around this or do I need to drag my files to a crate every time?
There are two things that cause this problem: 1. What is usually causing this problem is that you have a “Serato” folder on the internal drive. When you launch Serato, it looks for that folder on the internal drive first, then the external. If it finds one on the internal drive it will stop looking. Then when you pull music from your external drive into your crates, Serato will save those crate in a “Serato” folder on the drive that the music came from. So next time you open Serato, it will load up the internal Serato folder and forget about the folder that has all the crates saved on the external drive. To solve this simply delete the Serato folder that is on the internal drive. 2. If a crate has no songs added to it, Serato will automatically delete that crate when you exit the program. It’s to keep things clean and tidy. In order to keep a crate, you have to add at least one song to it. Hope this helps!
I need help anyone,serato won't read my Windows Media player playlists, they are just blank, so I had to just add all my music files but serato has broken them down into artists only so I added all of them and now I have three thousand songs with no organization, do I really have to go through all the songs and start adding them individually to specific crates or is there a way I can go into my PC or windows media player and make playlists that WILL show up in serato and I can just add the playlist from serato to the crates
So... I’ve never used an external software to organize music for me. I’m not the expert on this. But I googled this issue and it appears there are softwares that do this for you such as “MusConv.” I hope this helps solve your problem.
Any tips when you want use an internal library and an external one? I have my audio files (mp3's) on my internal drive on my macbook, my video files (mp4's) are on my external ssd drive. technically everything works fine except one annoying thing: sometimes when i connect my ssd all my crates (which contain the mp3 audio files) are not in the correct order anymore, they get mixed around. either i organize the crates manually everytime it happens (which is annoying as hell) or i change my neworder.pref file in the _serato_ folder. you can open it with a text editor and see that the crates are loading in a wrong order. i have made a backup of the correct order and just copy & paste the correct text. still i dont know why serato always goes back to that one wrong order of crates. i deleted my serato folders on the external drive because maybe they were the problem but they aren't. the problem still occurs. anyone having a solution? thanks
Im honestly, happy to hear that this is the only problem you are having. When i tried mixing two libraries of crates years ago it resulted in lost crates and a big mess. Im glad that the new version of serato is able to handle multiple libraries now. I cant help you though, im sorry. I have no experience successfully using two libraries on two separate drives. Nick Spinelli puts his music on his internal drive, maybe he has some insights for you.
I just got a SSD and this tutorial is exactly what I needed in order to finally get a grasp of my music management 😊🙏🏾🙌🏾
I'm so happy that my video helped! I'm glad you are enjoying your new SSD! 😊
What if you add music to your folders in the hard drive, will it automatically import the files on Serato?
Nope. After you've added music to your Drive, you will go into serato, open the "File" tab, navigate to your new music, then add that new music to a crate. Then you can analyze.
@@WillCarterTech thanks for the informative video. Do you know how serato can auto import music from your drive? Or is that just not a feature supported?
Gotta say this TOTTALY answered my initial query...thank you......blessup❤
I'm so glad to hear it! I definitely struggled to figure this out and there were no detailed set by step videos about this back then.
@@WillCarterTech blessings
Keep making these
Everytime I plug out my external all the crates disappear and I can't figure out why, what would be the reason for that?
Plug out? do you mean that you are take the external drive away from the computer by unpluging the USB? if that is what you mean, then the answer is simple. When you unplug the drive that has your crates on it, then your computer is no longer connected to your crates, so serato (on your computer) can no long read the drive that isn't plugged into the computer. Simply plug your drive into your computer.
Thank you so much it worked for me…. Your Awesome
Thanks for this. Very helpful.
I’m glad to hear it! Thanks for stopping by :-)
Hello. I have lots of music on my desktop Mac. When I installed Serato I saw it all pop up. It’s weird because all of these files are on my external hard drive but it wasn’t connected to the computer when they appeared in Serato.
Can I add the music to Serato and create crates? If so, how can I get them to appear on my laptop when I want to DJ?
Thank you.
I'm gonna suggest that you watch some of my other serato tutorials.
Serato creates a folder on every hard drive that you pull music from. that folder is important because it holds the metadata for all of the Crates that you create. when you plug that external hard drive into another computer, serato will read that folder on that hard drive and the crates will pop up.
What you need to do is put all of your music in one external hard drive, then pull your music from only that drive. then when you move that external hard drive between computers, your crates will pop up on the new computer.
Very good video my friend...thanks so much!
Another awesome video! 😊
LunaLadybug thanks 🤘🏼
I might be a little slow. But I'm scared to click "Start" to configure my hard drive. Won't that delete all my music? Or am I missing it completely? Also, do you have a video showing what to do if you already have music in Serato and NOT starting from scratch? PLEASE HELP ME!!! LOL
I don't have a video about that specifically. This other video my help you along your path:
th-cam.com/video/1ep2wSrFSqc/w-d-xo.html
You don't NEED to format your HDD if you already have your music on your HDD. yes, formatting will erase all your files. You can skip to the step in the video this that starts at 3:30 since you already have your drive properly formatted and music copied onto it.
i have an hard drive i brought for my macbook but i put so much effort organizing all the music and im scare to do this cause i don't want to lose all my music in my hard drive and i want to put it in serato but im literally scare to do the first step honestly 🥺
I totally understand where you’re coming from, Alan. When I switched from using virtual DJ to Serato it took me months to go through my virtual DJ playlists and add each song into each playlist on Serato. It’s a pain.
I haven’t found a reliable way to move music AND Serato crates from an internal boot drive to an external storage drive without having to manually recreate all of the Serato crates.
What I’d suggest is backing up everything first. Then move your music and Serato folders to the target drive, then delete the music and Serato folders from the internal boot drive. Then restart the computer, plug the external drive in, boot Serato, and cross your fingers. It’s worked for me once, but all the other times I’ve tried it, it hasn’t worked. So I haven’t made a video about it because I can’t figure out what makes it work.
🤷🏻♂️
definitely BACK UP everything before you start because this is a good way to mess up everything and lose all of your crates. I’ll let you know if I figure out a way to move crates and playlists from an internal to external drive.
I have everything back up on my external hard drive but it suck when i create new crates to serato & drag my music in it from my hard drive once i close serato & open it back up it’s all gone but im going to try
That happens when there is two separate Serato folders. The Serato folder stores all of the crates and cue points and any other data that you put into Serato. If you look on your external drive, you will find a folder titled Serato. If you look on your internal drive, you will find another folder named Serato. Each time Serato boots it looks for that folder. So you need to have only one of those folders. The problem is, Serato will create a Serato folder on each drive that you pull music from. Then Serato will save your new crates to the new folder on the external drive. But when you close Serato and boot again, Serato will look for that folder on the internal drive first and because the old folder is there on your internal drive, it will stop looking for the other Serato folder on the external drive.
What you can do is, delete your external serato folder, copy your internal Serato folder to your external drive, then delete the folder from the internal drive, try booting Serato and see what happens. Then make a new crate, add music, close Serato, reopen, and see if that new crate is still there.
I’m sorry I took so long to get back to you. I didn’t receive a notification that you had replied, so I was scrolling back through my videos today to see if you had ever resolved your problem and I found that I had never replied to you. I’m sorry to be so late with my reply. I hope you have found a solution to your issue.
Will, The HomeSchool DJ It’s fine cause i reformatted my hard drives and lost everything good part i had all my music saved on google drive even though i had some organizing to do
Aw man... that blows... I’m sorry man, nothing worse than losing all your crates...
Thank you
is Serato updating the playlists when you add new music to your usb stick?
no, you have to drag those new music files into a crate in serato each time. it's busy work and very annoying. i wish serato (the company) would fix this in Serato (the software).
@@WillCarterTechwhat about the opposite? If you add music to your crate on serato does it automatically update that folder in the hard drive?
Great job! Thanks for the info
Glad it was helpful!
What if you add music to your library after you did this? Will this update automaticly?
nope. gotta add everything manually everytime. serato hasn't figured this out yet.
So, how do I pass a my crates from one external hard drive to a new external hard drive ? Thanks
Copy the Serato folder that is on your original hard drive and paste that folder onto your target hard drive. :-)
I made a video specifically answering your question, called:
Have you Backed Up your Music Library?
I’d give you the link but I can post links in the comments. The video can be found in my “how to” playlist on my channel.
After doing this can I delete my music files from Mac? And they will be safe?
as long as you have put your music files in safe place, then they are safe. but if you throw your external hard drive in a river, then no, the only song that will play is Drowning by Boogie wit a hoodie
@@WillCarterTech 😆 gotcha thank you buddy
[SOLVED] Thanks for this video. It is helpful but it scares me! So I got a hard-drive with 1,73TB of music which I collected over 30 years now. It is sorted on the HDD in diffrent folders, as yours is too. Is there no way to drag and drop the whole device in serato and let it create a crate where a folder is so that my system keeps existing in Serato? I cant be the way to manually create every crate for any folder on my HDD. I have literally thousands of folders with over 210.000 tracks. It would take months without playing any music.
Thanks for your help.
No, Serato does not have this function. I believe virtual DJ does have the ability to maintain your sub folders. I’m not sure, it’s been years since I’ve looked at VDJ. After 8 came out, I was so annoyed that I switched to Serato and it took me months to get back to where I was on virtual DJ in regards to organization.
Maybe we should start bugging Serato about this. They explicitly state that they don’t thing you should have sub folders because it slows down Serato performance.
But I think we should at least be able to make that decision for ourselves.
Btw, you can drag your sub folder into the area where the crates go. Serato will make a crate out of that sub folder. Then drag the folder above that sub folder into that area and create another crate. Then you can drag that sub crate under the other crate and collapse them.
I don’t know if that helps, since you have hundreds of thousands of songs, but that is a way faster way than creating a crate and dragging songs into it.
@@WillCarterTech I found something which is working. There is a 10 year old java program somebody coded which works perfectly fine. It's called 'serato-itch-sync'. You can download it from the Google Code Archive. It took one minute to create all 7845 crates which was the amount of folders and subfolders I got. Serato took its time to load all these files but all in all it works awesome. Look it up and try it.
Again, it made the whole work for me with over 210.000 tracks and 7800 folders and subfolders in a few minutes. It is awesome!
If you'll have any questions about it dont hesitate to ask.
Greetings
@@tobismiley3462 ah man! That’s awesome! I need to look that up! Maybe I can make a video, informing people about its existence. That’s really cool that you found that. Thank you for telling me. Would you be alright if I mentioned you by name in the video? Or would you rather me say “a commenter”
@@WillCarterTech No problem, this can save hours of work so I am happy that I can share this with you. If or how you want to mention me is completely up to you. Feel free to follow your preferences.
@@WillCarterTech Just another question you hopefully give me an answer for: Im analyzing my Library since hours the whole night (I'm from Germany its 5am rn) and got the problem that it slowed down extremely. At the beginning 1000 Songs took around 10 minutes. Now 8 Tracks take around the same time. And that's not acceptable for the amount of tracks I still need to analyze. I have 8 virtual cores with my i7 7700k but my Processor isnt stressed and runnig at just 10%. Sometimes it starts working at 100% for some seconds and then falling back again. Its definitely not to hot at around 40 degrees Celsius. Furthermore I have enough memory and restarted the PC already. If I cancel the analyzing process and restart it, it will start using 100% CPU capacity for just a few seconds and then fall back again to just around 20%. Do you have any idea where this issue comes from and how to fix it? I mean rn it analyzed 113 tracks in nearly 60mins which should be done in 1 minute with my setup.
Any ideas about my problem?
How do transfer music from an external hard drive onto my pc?
copy paste
Does it automatically create a serato folder on your external hard drive ?
Yes. Serato will automatically create a folder (named “serato” and also another folder named “serato backup”) on each and every drive that you pull music from. All you have to do is drag music into a crate in serato, then there will be a serato folder with metadata for that music in that crate on the drive that you pulled the music from.
@@WillCarterTech thank you so much my bro
You’re welcome, hermono.
After you add music from your external hard drive to serato, do you have to connect your external hard drive every time to play the music?
yes
😂😂😂 cool video!! Thanks for the tips!!
You’re welcome! I’m glad it’s helping!
Hello. I am new to DJing. I have no idea how to get my Apple Music music and playlists to my external hard drive. I want to use an external instead of my laptop due to speed and space usage on my laptop . I have downloaded a software that is suppose to convert my Apple Music library to mp3 files so that I can DJ with them. These files don’t transfer to my external. Why would that be if I have converted them using the converting software? Do you have a better solution to this issue? Thanks!
Do you own the music? Apple has really good copyright protection on their audio files. You might have to strip the meta data off the audio file to get rid of the copyright protection.
great video
thank you, Dorrell
Thanks for the video
I had all my music on external drive and changed the format and now… all gone… help!
STOP. dont write anything to the drive. The more you write to the drive, the more you are writing over top of your lost data.
“Format” means “wipe clean.” There is levels to formatting (wiping clean) a drive.
A quick format simply deletes all the information on where to find the data on the drive. But all the data is still there. This takes a second to do.
Then there is a format that will write random 1s and 0s to the disk to corrupt any files that were on the disk. This is designed to make all the data on the drive unrecoverable. This takes about a min.
Then there is a format that will write 0s over the entire drive. This is designed to make sure there is no data on the drive. This can take a few hours depending on the capacity of the drive.
Then there is a format that writes 3 layers of 0s over the entire drive. This is designed to make sure even really good data recovery programs can’t dig down and find any data. This can take a day or so.
Then there is the government format that rights 7 layers of 0s over the entire drive. This is for top secret documents that cannot be released to the public. This can take several days.
Try buying a data recovery software like Macrium that will scan the entire drive and find as much data as possible. You will never recover everything, that’s just the nature of it. But you can most likely recover 50 - 70% of the data.
You can also take your drive to a data recovery center like Drive Savers. They will be able to recover closer to 70% of your data.
Most data recovery cost about $50-$100.
Im sorry this happened man. I feel your pain. I had a 3tb drive that the controller went out and I lost 10 years of albums I had recorded but never released. I was never able to get my data recovery software to work on that drive because the control board was dead. The only thing I could do would be to take it to drive savers. But I didn’t have the money and I just told myself I would just re-record my music someday. I still haven’t taken the time to re-record anything yet.
My Exterminator who happens to be a DJ copied my Hard drive to a folder on my Lap Top when i go to Serato it looks like not all the song show up. i just subscribed to BPM supreme i dragged the BPM on to the desk top on my lap top trying to figure out how to put them on my hard drive.
Copy the files that you want to move. Or you could select “move” on mac, “cut” on pc. Then navigate to where you want the music to be and paste.
Maybe I'm slow lol. so i have all my mp3's in my external. Every time I disconnect all my Serato crates delete. Is there a way around this or do I need to drag my files to a crate every time?
There are two things that cause this problem:
1. What is usually causing this problem is that you have a “Serato” folder on the internal drive. When you launch Serato, it looks for that folder on the internal drive first, then the external. If it finds one on the internal drive it will stop looking. Then when you pull music from your external drive into your crates, Serato will save those crate in a “Serato” folder on the drive that the music came from. So next time you open Serato, it will load up the internal Serato folder and forget about the folder that has all the crates saved on the external drive.
To solve this simply delete the Serato folder that is on the internal drive.
2. If a crate has no songs added to it, Serato will automatically delete that crate when you exit the program. It’s to keep things clean and tidy. In order to keep a crate, you have to add at least one song to it.
Hope this helps!
Awesome man! You need to have more subs!
Thanks man!
I need help anyone,serato won't read my Windows Media player playlists, they are just blank, so I had to just add all my music files but serato has broken them down into artists only so I added all of them and now I have three thousand songs with no organization, do I really have to go through all the songs and start adding them individually to specific crates or is there a way I can go into my PC or windows media player and make playlists that WILL show up in serato and I can just add the playlist from serato to the crates
So... I’ve never used an external software to organize music for me. I’m not the expert on this. But I googled this issue and it appears there are softwares that do this for you such as “MusConv.”
I hope this helps solve your problem.
Any tips when you want use an internal library and an external one? I have my audio files (mp3's) on my internal drive on my macbook, my video files (mp4's) are on my external ssd drive. technically everything works fine except one annoying thing: sometimes when i connect my ssd all my crates (which contain the mp3 audio files) are not in the correct order anymore, they get mixed around. either i organize the crates manually everytime it happens (which is annoying as hell) or i change my neworder.pref file in the _serato_ folder. you can open it with a text editor and see that the crates are loading in a wrong order. i have made a backup of the correct order and just copy & paste the correct text. still i dont know why serato always goes back to that one wrong order of crates. i deleted my serato folders on the external drive because maybe they were the problem but they aren't. the problem still occurs. anyone having a solution? thanks
Im honestly, happy to hear that this is the only problem you are having. When i tried mixing two libraries of crates years ago it resulted in lost crates and a big mess. Im glad that the new version of serato is able to handle multiple libraries now.
I cant help you though, im sorry. I have no experience successfully using two libraries on two separate drives.
Nick Spinelli puts his music on his internal drive, maybe he has some insights for you.
@@WillCarterTech okay thinks still. You got yourself one more subscriber :)
It made sense thanks.
I’m glad it’s helping people!
Cant find 2 crate
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