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If you tag a file with say, orange, in record box under the color criteria, when you import it into Cross the tag reads "orange" in the group tag, not the color tag.

Into Rekordbox, colors ARE groups.
We can do a colors -> groups + colors conversion if wished.

Ahh, I see. I would think that if you were going to color code everything in rekordbox, then it would be best if the conversion was colors -> colors, but something like colors -> groups + colors would be better than the current group text only.

Also, would there be a way to make it so that rekordbox matched 1 to 1 with every field in Cross? I really enjoy tagging and preparing in rekordbox, but it doesn't really benefit me doing that if the changes in 1 don't auto-correct the other, or am I missing a step that would update the tags in Cross without having to reanalyze the files?

Hi djphaidon,

I do not quite understand your last sentence, do you ask for a way to correct tags from Cross when importing same track from Rekordbox ?

If this is the case, yes there is a way, since Cross ask you if you want to load tags from the third party database you are trying to import.

Yes, very similar to what I was asking. Basically, I use iTunes to tag/prelisten/and categorize my tracks. because Cross has smart playlists, I could essentially do the same thing in Cross, however, if I update a tag in Cross, the change doesn't follow to iTunes when using AIFF because that is the only lossless file that is supported by both Cross and iTunes at the moment.

What I was wondering is if there is a way to have rekordbox act as my tagging/preslistening/labeling program similar to how I currently use iTunes, and have Cross be the DJ program. The requirement is that all changes made in one program, will follow to the other and visa versa.

Example. I'm going through my tracks and labeling them a certain way in rekordbox so that when I import them they show up in smart playlists in Cross, similar to the way I label and tag tracks in iTunes that show up in Cross as changed. Then, I am playing a show that night, and I decide that I want to add another label to a track. So I add the label, and close out the program. The next time I open rekordbox, the change should have followed into rekordbox that way each program is seeing the exact same "track data" as the other.

This prevents having to tag in multiple places which is currently the worst thing about file management in every other DJ software. Everyone has iTunes integration, however, none of the changes actually make it back to iTunes for further refinement. Rekordbox works great for library management, but only if you are using it on devices that can't modify tags, like cdj's.

You need to have the other application to reload the tags, it won't do it automatically.
I mean, if an application had to reload every tags at launch to refresh them it will take a lot of time at each launch.

So basically it can actually work within Cross/iTunes/Rekorbox :
- set each software to write into tags
- when opening one, ask it to reload all tags

I'm also guessing that because I'm using AIFF instead of an mp3 or m4a file, I get different results than those who use the filetypes with tags.

Kinda going off topic, but I noticed that in rekordbox you have the option of pointing the "bridge" to a different xml file than the iTunes xml. Would it be possible in future Cross versions to use the same type of pointing towards an xml so that both rekordbox and Cross ran off the same xml file, and therefore would updated each other when changes were made in either program?

Did you try to click on the [...] box above the path of the xml ?

Yes, I tried to get it to point the file, but the xml that Cross creates is in .db filetype, when in recordbox it's looking for a .xml, unless I'm looking in the wrong spot.

Not sure I understood :
- you want to change the xml that Cross is reading from
- now you want Cross to write into a xml...

What are you trying to do ?
Reading the Cross collection from Rekordbox ? Not possible.

All 3 softwares are based on tags, so you need to reload the tags each time you have write into them from the software you're using. If not tags won't be updated.