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how to do incremental library import?

prooodj shared this question ago

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Hi, I cant seem to figure out how to do just incrimental imports of my library,

How do I just update recent changes in my library without importing my whole library,

I just want Mixo to only update changes that Ive made in my library like, renaming of crates, deletion of files, moving of files to different crates,

Can Mixo just go in and make those changes automatically?

my workaround is to remove all my crates and music files from mixo then re-import my whole library,

is there an easy way to do this?

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Remko ●

When you move crates to new parent crates in Serato, MIXO has no way of knowing that it’s the original crate and imports it as a new crate causing some duplication.

So the easiest thing to do for you if you’ve made lots of changes to crates by moving them to different parents is to delete all your playlists and folders in MIXO then import from Serato and it will rebuild the playlist tree correctly. It should be super fast because only new and changed tracks are analysed.

Remko

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prooodj ●

Thank you Remko, I thought so, Thats what I'm currently doing, I appreciate your quick response🙏

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Remko ●

No worries. So in summary you don't need to delete your tracks, just your playlists and folders.

We could automate this slightly, by adding another import option, similar to "Delete old tracks (not in this import)", but it could be something like "Delete old playlists & folders (not in this import)", which would just delete them all first.

I'll see what we can do!

Remko

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prooodj ●

"So in summary you don't need to delete your tracks, just your playlists and folders."

Yes thats right I just delete from Mixo and not from my library.

"We could automate this slightly, by adding another import option, similar to "Delete old tracks (not in this import)", but it could be something like "Delete old playlists & folders (not in this import)", which would just delete them all first.

I'll see what we can do!"

Thank you so much Remko 🙏

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Remko ●

No what I mean is you only need to delete the playlists and folders, not your tracks from All Tracks.

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prooodj ●

Oh ok, so Just delete the folders but leave the files, but wouldnt the files double up when I re-import my whole library again?

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Remko ●

Exactly. Like I said earlier, MIXO only analyses new or updated tracks (by checking the last update time in MIXO with the last update time of the file itself). All other existing tracks are ignored, which is why it’s so much faster.

So your flow should be like this:

1. You make changes to your crate structure in Serato, and maybe update a few tracks. Let’s say 5.

2. In MIXO you select all playlists and folders using Select All in the context menu, then delete them.

3. Import Serato. MIXO rebuilds the playlists tree and reanalyses the 5 tracks.

Done ✅

Remko

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prooodj ●

awsome thank your Remko.

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