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Corrupt Files Might Be The Cause of Connection Issues and Horrible Latency

CMOS 9:18 PM - 3 April, 2018
Had an issue on a friends laptop last night.

He came over, plugged into my S9 and we both spun for about 3 hours, everything was fine.

We were spinning old school hip hop and he noticed he had some really old files that were not analyzed.

Unplugged the S9, analyzed the files, plugged S9 back in, things seemed fine.

He loaded up one of the newly scanned files and playback crawled, the tracking bars on both decks instantly went red, waveforms were laggy as hell, and processor usage shot up very high.

Unloaded the corrupt files from the decks, Serato never recovered with known good files. Still horrible sound, waveforms, and tracking.

Ok, shut down Serato, rebooted mixer. Launching Serato took forever. When it did finally launch and load, again red tracking bars, delayed waveforms, horrible sound.

Unplugged S9, removed corrupt files from Serato and iTunes library (he uses iTunes playlists).

Relaunch Serato now with corrupt files deleted, same issue, red tracking, horrible sound, laggy waves.



It wasnt until we unchecked Read iTunes Library in the Serato setup, then reenabled it that Serato was back to normal. Its seems somehow those corrupt files even though not loaded to a deck were causing Serato to run like shit after being analyzed and loaded.


Hope this helps someone out there.
DJ Tecniq 2:08 AM - 4 April, 2018
I was told if you have corrupt files on your hard drive but not physically in your Serato library they can still cause playback issues. It’s best to just rid them and delete them out of trash. It’s interesting that the files would cause that much issue.
DJ Val-BKNY11203 10:58 AM - 4 April, 2018
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I was told if you have corrupt files on your hard drive but not physically in your Serato library they can still cause playback issues. It’s best to just rid them and delete them out of trash. It’s interesting that the files would cause that much issue.


What's more interesting it that people would keep corrupt files knowing that will cause problems.
The Return of Dj Sparky 11:34 AM - 4 April, 2018
Thing with setato is that tracks that play fine then rescan in a new version and all of a sudden files that were fine are now showing as broken,

Also as far as having corrupt tracks serato should clarify how a file that is not even being read by the sotlftware can be causing an issue, when serato loads the database it's just loading a list of filenames
CMOS 4:11 PM - 4 April, 2018
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Also as far as having corrupt tracks serato should clarify how a file that is not even being read by the sotlftware can be causing an issue, when serato loads the database it's just loading a list of filenames



THIS!!!!!

I can fully understand loading a corrupt track screwing up the software. But how does a track sitting there not being played, not being loaded into memory cause issues with playback.

Also why did removing the track from itunes then relaunching not fix the issue? Seemed like unchecking and rechecking the itunes library forced some sort of rescan of the library that just restarting the software did not.
Aptidda 5:06 PM - 4 April, 2018
sounds like just using ITunes is causing this issue
djaction 5:55 PM - 4 April, 2018
legit Serato (Scratch Live) has been like this since 1.0.. just having a corrupt file in your library can cause serato to crash. If it's in the library, serato can read it, if it can read it, it can crash or lag.
djcrap 3:04 AM - 5 April, 2018
The funny thing is that if you take that same said corrupt file causing issues in serato and play it in another do software like vdj or traktor or ableton it plays nice with no issues😂😂😂🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
djcrap 3:17 AM - 5 April, 2018
What I have discovered is that there are certain characters in corrupt files that serato does not play nice with. So if you take that same file serato marked as corrupt and strip it of all its metadata plus tags by using mpegstream or any other app that does that. Then use metablis to rename the tags then load the file back into serato it will play nice and also it won't be marked corrupt any more.


Basically if a file is marked corrupt in serato it maybe that there are some tags or characters that serato doesn't play nice with