User Guide

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Throughout the guide there have been a few ‘Power User’ info items provided. Here is a
straight comprehensive list of those items plus items that didn’t fit in the original context.
HISTORY – [Registry: TrackCutHour] – by default VirtualDJ will separate the history play lists at
9AM this is based on a registry entry titled TrackCutHour – change this value to have your history play
lists split at a different time. Time is based on a 24-hour clock, so 9PM would be 21.
HISTORY – [Registry: HistoryTimer] – allows the setting of when a track gets marked/flagged as a
played track. Changing the registry entry HistoryTimer using increments in seconds controls how long
a track must be played for it to be marked as played. Default is 5 (5 secs) a nominal value would be 20
or 30, so tracks played longer than 20 or 30 seconds then get marked as played and recorded to the
History Play list.
DATABASE – [Registry: IgnoreDrives] – by default if VirtualDJ recognizes a viable track on a drive
it will create and use the database on that drive to represent that tracks information. The ability to
restrict access to specific drives from VirtualDJ was created so drives with ‘junk’ or ‘undesirable’ data
will be ignored. The registry entry IgnoreDrives is used to ignore drives from VirtualDJ creating a DB
on those drives. The registry entry is a DWORD value and using the HEX value grid below you can
determine which drives to restrict from VirtualDJ.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
8192
16384
32768
65536
131072
262144
524288
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Default
1048576
2097152
4194304
8388608
16777216
33554432
0
To restrict drive D: you would use a registry value of 8.
To restrict multiple drives sum their values – drives D:,F:, and I: 8+32+256 = 296
**NOTE** You CAN NOT restrict access to the drive containing the MASTER Core database file in the
MyDocuments\VirtualDJ folder
SORTING – [Registry: SortOrderDefault] – "AutoSort" has been removed and replaced with
“SortOrderDefault” in the registry. SortOrderDefault provides a ‘default’ type setting that VirtualDJ will
use to sort browsed folders or search result before a column sort changes the sort order. A value of
SortOrderDefault=1 sorts on the "smart" icon column which provides organization of the files typically
found in past versions – common played songs at top, already played songs at the bottom, and
everything else in-between. The following column order represents the sequential values 2-19 –
Title, Artist, Album, Genre, Bpm, Key, Length, Bitrate, Year, Comment, Play Count, First Seen, First
Play, Last Play, Drive, Filepath, Filename, Filetype
** If you reorder columns in the browser it will not change the meaning of the numbers in the registry
SORTING – [Registry: SortOrderForce] – Force the order to be set again to a specific column each
time you change folder. (0 means keep previous, 1 is smart, etc...)
** The same values for SortOrderDefault are used here in representing the various columns
POWER USER (Tweaks, Registry, etc.)