decoding cache problem-please help me!

djpowder1200 · Post by **djpowder1200** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:32 pm

okay, so i have a rather large template project that i use for djing with live. basically, i have my songs arranged by key in 12 different channels, and 4 channels i use as my ''decks''. you get the idea. i recently purchased a bunch of new music, and i'm dropping the tracks into one of the ''deck'' channels, keying them, and moving them to their appropriate key channel. but now i'm frequently getting messages saying i don't have enough space in my decoding cache, at which point a bunch of samples will go offline. i can save my project, reopen it, and everything will be fine, but that's kind of a pain in the ass. is there any way i can fix this problem?

jonny72 · Post by **jonny72** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:13 pm

Provided you've got enough disk space and I'd imagine you have, go in to preferences and change the size settings for the cache. I'm guessing it is still set to the default and loading all your songs at the same time needs more space.

djpowder1200 · Post by **djpowder1200** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 9:21 pm

well that's just it....i do have enough disk space, but it's telling me i don't. i changed the minimum disk space setting to 100mb and the max to something crazy like 20 gigs, but it's still doing it.
could it possibly be referencing my virtual memory?

djpowder1200 · Post by **djpowder1200** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:42 pm

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leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:28 pm

i feel your pain.

when i dj long sets, like 4 hours and up, i get this problem.

i go in and clear the cache, empty the trash, drop in another track and it still says there isn't enough space.

no idea what to do about it.

.lm.

jonny72 · Post by **jonny72** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:59 pm

Not sure why its is doing this. How many songs are in the set?

But there is a simple solution - convert the tracks to WAV then it won't need the decoding cache. You should be able to copy them from the decoding cache to where the original is stored, then I think you just need to rename the song and asd to match.

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:46 am

jonny72 wrote:Not sure why its is doing this. How many songs are in the set?

But there is a simple solution - convert the tracks to WAV then it won't need the decoding cache. You should be able to copy them from the decoding cache to where the original is stored, then I think you just need to rename the song and asd to match.

Indeed - I just drag the .wav out of the decoing cache into the folder where the .mp3 is. There's usually no need to rename the .wav as it should be called the same as the .mp3, but you will need to rename the .asd files (just change the extension to .wav.asd instead of .mp3.asd)

Edit: If this seems like a lot of work (for a big set, it is!) it's also worth considering that 20Gb might not be enough... I have a set with around 200 complete techno tunes in it and the .wavs for that take up around 15Gb.