Ideal Workflow with MIXO via Dropbox -> Serato -> Mixed In Key -> Rekordbox
Hey guys,
so I am recently trying to do the following:
- Have my music library in one central cloud place, in this case dropbox;
- I turned the dropbox library to "make availible offline" so I have the dropbox library availible on my main DJ macbook, in the long turn I will switch to selective crate downloads to save disk space
- Have dropbox as a reference to both rekordbox and serato
- Import new songs and downloads via drag into MIXO
- Edit and update ID3 Tags with Mixed In Key, Apple Music and other Editing Software
- As soon as MIXO Tag editing functionality improves, including iTunes like tag editing and batch editing, I may consider using solely MIXO but seems like we're not there yet
- I need to handle duplicates with an external program "Gemini 2". if you can implement that kind of functionality, namely similarity scans, option to thin out your library by keeping either WAV, AIFF or MP3 versions of the same file. that would be great.
Problems I have encountered so far:
Crate Folder structure in MIXO is not synced to Serato properly, neglecting some of the upper and subfolders, rekordbox seems to work okay; also I noticed I had all crates duplicated, one time neatly like before and another time just with a plain create structure without subfolders
After moving the songs to MIXO, I deleted the local music folder thinking "I have my music in the cloud now, what do I need a local music folder for?"; Matter of fact after doing that many tracks in the playlist greyed out and were not playable so they pulled their reference point from the local disk instead of the dropbox drive, this may be a bug that needs to be fixed becuse it confused the *** out of me
When I try to selectively pull crates and right-click the crate in MIXO, kind of nothing happens, no visible download action
I do not want my whole music library to be on my local computer if its not required because that makes my library much easier to manage and also makes me independent of what system I am running from. I wished for MIXO to be much more plug and play, but it probably will get to that state. Feel free to reach out if you have similar issues or have a functioning workflow like that in place.
All best