# Smart lists in engine dj

**URL:** <https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613>\
**Category:** Questions & Help\
**Created:** [July 29, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613 "2023-07-29T15:08:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pod](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/user_avatar/discuss.lexicondj.com/pod/32/1324_2.png) [@pod](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/u/pod)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613/1 "2023-07-29T15:08:17Z")

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I have about 25 smart playlists in engine dj (latest version) but because I also use soundswitch I had to convert them to normal playlists, now when I import my playlists in to lexicon I get duplicates of the files showing in the dynamic playlist, and all files in the hard playlist are listed as missing and show a file location on a drive I don’t even have, yet they show up in engine just fine and play just fine,

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It’s even doing it with no smart lists in engine DJ, I’ve just removed everything from my playlists and created new ones, everything added fine in engine dj, but when I imported in to lexicon some of the playlists are showing as full of missing files and the path is on a drive I don’t even have,

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**Author:** ![Christiaan](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/user_avatar/discuss.lexicondj.com/christiaan/32/10_2.png) [@Christiaan](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/u/Christiaan)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613/2 "2023-07-29T20:30:15Z")

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The Lexicon beta actually supports Engine smartlists now.  
Just curious, why do you have to convert to normal playlists when using Soundswitch?

Can you check if you have a `Engine Library` folder on any of your drives? Maybe there is one somewhere that you don’t even use and is conflicting

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**Author:** ![pod](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/user_avatar/discuss.lexicondj.com/pod/32/1324_2.png) [@pod](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/u/pod)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 8:36pm UTC](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613/3 "2023-07-29T20:36:39Z")

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I have two engine library folder, all my music is stored on the E:\music\<subfolders\> there is an engine library folder on the root of E, and another on my C drive under users//music/engine library.

The reason I have to convert them to non smart playlists is that I use soundswitch to create the light shows, this currently doesn’t support smart lists yet, so I created loads of smart playlists, went to analyse them with soundswitch…NOPE! lol so now I have A playlist folder with smart playlists, and a duplicate with normal playlists, it works for now as far as soundswitch goes.

I’m just in the process of seeing if deleting the database in C:\users has helped at all, will report back

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**Author:** ![pod](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/user_avatar/discuss.lexicondj.com/pod/32/1324_2.png) [@pod](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/u/pod)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613/4 "2023-07-29T21:19:25Z")

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I’ve attached two screen grabs, this is after removing ALL engine library folders from all drives, then starting fresh and importing some tracks from my E: Drive, I then run lexicon to import the libraries and this is what I get, I don’t even have a q drive, yet the files play perfectly in enginedj

 ![LexiconFileError](https://d2jjm7r6i2krmb.cloudfront.net/original/2X/c/c1e77c392004265205901cce11f39c218032e0b8.png)  
 ![lexiconFileError2](https://d2jjm7r6i2krmb.cloudfront.net/original/2X/7/794c5c0b5e14d984054c6c4d0ef2d00b1a995614.png)

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**Author:** ![Christiaan](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/user_avatar/discuss.lexicondj.com/christiaan/32/10_2.png) [@Christiaan](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/u/Christiaan)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.lexicondj.com/t/smart-lists-in-engine-dj/1613/5 "2023-07-29T21:26:07Z")

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Okay not sure where the Q comes from… Lexicon doesn’t come up with that by itself 🤔 And Engine databases don’t contain drive letters so I have no idea where Q comes from.

Can you upload your Lexicon database & logs? From the Help menu. Maybe that tells me something.
