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Hi

Whenever I play from my external SSD I lose significantly space on my Windows 7 C: drive. I assume this has to do with CrossDJ making a (wav) file a played mp3 to be able to process the music better. However I have been unsuccessful finding these files, could you point me where I am losing all this space ?


(CrossDJ 2.30 RC / Windows 7 PRO 64-bit)

There is a small amount of space being taken up by the database during use, but that shouldn't be that much.

The audio is likely loaded into memory so it shouldn't take up much space either, but someone else may be able to tell you what's going on more so than I.

for the peak-folder (=analysis-files) you can say 5000 tracks are app. 1GB.
Maybe more if you have locators set on every track.

What is "significantly much space" to you?

About the peak files, it does not depends on the number of files in your collection, but on the duration of them.

A minute of audio is approx. 35Ko in an analysis (peak) file.

Then, to have 1GB in your peak folder, you must have something like 30,000 minutes of music analyzed.

Otherwise, your database collection file can grow up, if all your tracks have artwork. A small snapshot of all every cover is stored in the database.
You can check the size of your main.db file in your Music/MixVibes folder.

If you record you mixes, it write temporary files on the disk that are deleted at the end of the recording session to be copied in your Music folder.

Apart from this, Cross doesn't write any file on the disq...

However, if your computer has only a small amount of RAM memory, windows can be obliged to "swap" (i.e. dumping the RAM data onto the disq when possible).

Thanks, now my latest 'session' did not eat up space at all. I really have no explanation why several hundred Mb of data was being used by some application. I take that the sample pad data also gets deleted when not saved. Cheers.

sylMV wrote:About the peak files, it does not depends on the number of files in your collection, but on the duration of them.

A minute of audio is approx. 35Ko in an analysis (peak) file.

Then, to have 1GB in your peak folder, you must have something like 30,000 minutes of music analyzed.

Otherwise, your database collection file can grow up, if all your tracks have artwork. A small snapshot of all every cover is stored in the database.
You can check the size of your main.db file in your Music/MixVibes folder.

If you record you mixes, it write temporary files on the disk that are deleted at the end of the recording session to be copied in your Music folder.

Apart from this, Cross doesn't write any file on the disq...

However, if your computer has only a small amount of RAM memory, windows can be obliged to "swap" (i.e. dumping the RAM data onto the disq when possible).

Thanks for another look unter the hood!!! Merci beaucoup!!!