how to do incremental library import?

"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 🙏

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

Remko

MIXO DJ team

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?

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

MIXO DJ team

awsome thank your Remko.

Hi Remko, I found that I have followed, your direction and the file numbers dont change, lets say my Mixo library shows 70k files, I have shrunk my library down to 60k files, but when I follow your direction by deleting my main crates,

re-imported my entire 60k library, restarted Mixo, and it still shows 70k files,

my only workaround is to Delete my entire crates and entire library from Mixo,

then I re-import my library, only then Mixo will show my true 60k library,

I dont think Mixo can delete files that dont exist anymore.

if you can look into this please Remko.

i tried this with the new update, 1.89

as per our discussion above, you advised deleting "crates" instead of deleting all files from Mixo as shown in my picture that I attatched.

You quoted

"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."

This didnt work, cause Mixo did not delete tracks that are no longer in my library (Hard drive)

am I doing something wrong?

Thanks Remko, The option does exist (“Delete old tracks (not in this import)”,

that feature would be ideal by default, to delete old tracks from Mixo library, to reflect your original library,

I'll do more testing and get back to you,

Yes, I've just logged in and can see that Import Serato does have it, so that should work.

I'm reluctant to make it a global 'sticky' setting because it's quite an intrusive feature! I think it's safer to turn it on when you import, in case you accidentally forget to turn it off when importing a single playlist, for example.

Remko

MIXO DJ team

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"I'm reluctant to make it a global 'sticky' setting because it's quite an intrusive feature! I think it's safer to turn it on when you import, in case you accidentally forget to turn it off when importing a single playlist, for example"

Yes I agree Remko:)