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Missing RealTracks? #328551 12/31/15 03:31 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida B Boca Bob OP Enthusiast
OP Boca Bob Enthusiast B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida	I'm a little frustrated. I can't figure out why it says under "what add-ons do I have," that I'm missing a ton of RealTracks. I first got suspicious when I tried to load a few songs and the pop-up says I'm missing the required RealTracks for that/those songs. I've re-loaded them three times from the 2016 Ultra Plus-Pak hard drive. No matter what I do, it seems I can't load all the ones I'm supposed to have. I bought the 2016 Ultra Plus-Pak upgrade, I had the 2015 version, and installed it on a new system after switching back to Windows 7 Pro from Windows 10 and reinstalling all my programs. Was I supposed to install this over my old 2015 version? I thought it was a complete system on the PG hard drive, so I could start over with a totally clean install. Here's what it says I'm missing. This is very long - I'm just showing all the stuff it says I don't have - but why? I thought I'd have every Real Tracks set made: RealTracks sets in C:\bb\RealTracks\ : 3- Swingin' Country, 11- All Bluegrass (Rhythm), 13- Older Jazz Swing Soloists, 19- Jazz Ballad - Soloists, 28- Jazz Waltz, 29- Freddie and Wes - Jazz Guitar Comping, 34- Country Train Beat, 36- Swingin' Country 2, 37- Swingin' Country 3, 38- Classic Country - Pedal Steel n' More, 39- Slow Country, 40- American Pop-Rock, 42- Boogie 'n Texas Rock, 44- Blues Guitar and Organ, 46- Medium Pop - Harmonica, Organ and Bass, 47- Slow and Fast Pop - Harmonica & Organ, 50- More Bossa!, 54- Slow Jazz Ballad - Soloists & Solo Piano Accompaniment, 61- Ballads and More, 62- Western Swing and Bluegrass, 65- Alt-Country, 66- Modern Nashville Pop, 67- Rockin' in 3/4 Time, 68- R 'n B Rock, 69- Rockin' in the North, Rockin' in the South, 70- Piano Pop, 77- Ballad, Stride & More, 78- Memphis Swing, 79- Medium Country Boogie, 80- Fast Country Boogie, 81- More Country Swing, 82- More Country Waltz, 86- Blues Rock, 87- Electric for all Occasions, 88- 12-String Electric, 90- Jazz Organ, 92- Smooth Jazz - Trumpet Soloing, 93- Smooth Jazz - Rhythm Guitar & Electric Piano Soloing, 94- Jazz Guitar Soloing and More, 95- Jazz Rhythm Guitar: Bossa and Swing, 97- Unplugged Country Swing, 100- More Western Swing: Pedal Steel & Electric Guitar, 105- Brent Mason Rock Soloing, 110- Gypsy Jazz - Ballad, 111- Jazz Vibes - Comping, 112- Jazz Vibes - Soloing, 113- Smooth Jazz - Cool Guitar and Electric Piano, 114- Smooth Jazz - Poppy Guitar and Electric Piano, 115- Mike LeDonne's Swingin' Jazz Piano, 118- Brent Mason Country Soloing, 130- Mike LeDonne - More Swingin' Piano & Organ, 131- More Swingin' Jazz Guitar, 132- Paul Franklin - Pedal Steel Country Soloing, 133- More Brent Mason Country Soloing, 137- John Jarvis Rockin' Piano, 146- Jazz Fusion Soloing, 147- Mike LeDonne Bossa, 148- Solo Accompaniment Jazz Guitar, 149- Pedal Steel Country with Paul Franklin, 154- Brent Mason Classic Country, 155- John Jarvis Pop Piano, 158- Modern Dance Pop, 161- Mike LeDonne Jazz Waltz Organ, 165- John Jarvis Country Piano, 168- Western Swing Soloists, 169- Killer Country Soloing, 172- EuroDance, 180- Classic Jazz Piano, 181- Smooth Jazz Piano, 182- More Pedal Steel Country with Paul Franklin, 184- More John Jarvis Country Piano, 185- More Killer Country Soloing, 186- John Jarvis Solo-Accompaniment Piano, 192- Dance: GirlPop, 90s & more!, 193- Dance: Disco & More, 195- Jazz Pollwinners 2 - Pat Martino Guitar, 196- Jazz Pollwinners 3 - Killer JazzSwing Rhythm Sections, 198- Jazz Electric Piano, 199- JazzPop Piano, 201- Brent Mason Nylon & Electric, 203- Country Waltz, 204- Country Shuffle, 205- Country Award Winners - Mandolin (Andy), Piano (John) & Resonator Guitar (Rob), 206- Pop String Quartet, 212- World Synths, 213- Country Piano and Strings, 220- Flute and Saxes with Jack Stafford, 228- Modern Pop with Zane Carney, 231- Retro Synths and Modern R 'n' B, 233- New Age Piano and more, 236- Crooner Big Band Horns!, 237- Jon Herington Jazz-Rock Guitar, 246- Country Bent-Note Piano with John Jarvis, 250- Rockabilly Swing, 252- Modern Country Pedal Steel

Re: Missing RealTracks? Boca Bob #328554 12/31/15 03:44 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 299 Florida P P Glaser Apprentice
P Glaser Apprentice P Joined: Jul 2015 Posts: 299 Florida	Do you have multiple drives? I store my RT's on a HD other than the main "C" drive. There's an option somewhere, (sorry, I don't remember where), that allows you to tell BiaB where the RT's are located. One of the pro's will jump in here shortly. HTH Paul Paul BIAB 2025 Intel i7-4790K, Win10 Pro, 16GB Ram 1TB OS, 2TB Audio, 1TB Samples Focusrite Scarlett 16i16 4th Gen Cakewalk Sonar, 64 bit

Re: Missing RealTracks? Boca Bob #328565 12/31/15 04:27 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,574 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY Matt Finley Veteran
Matt Finley Veteran Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 27,574 Hudson Valley & Lake George NY	Yes, there is a setting in Preferences, RealTracks to specify a custom location. You have to do the same thing in Preferences, RealDrums if they are also on a different drive from the program. BIAB 2026 Win Audiophile. Software: Fender Studio One 8, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Fender Quantom HD8 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.

Re: Missing RealTracks? Matt Finley #328609 12/31/15 07:49 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida B Boca Bob OP Enthusiast
OP Boca Bob Enthusiast B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida	Nope. I'm a good boy - they're all where they belong, on C:/bb/realtracks

Re: Missing RealTracks? Boca Bob #328622 12/31/15 08:08 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,836 Victoria, BC Andrew - PG Music PG Music Staff
Andrew - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,836 Victoria, BC	Did you run the Setup on the 2016 hard drive and choose 'option 2' for the Band-in-a-Box install? Andrew PG Music Inc.

Re: Missing RealTracks? Andrew - PG Music #328634 12/31/15 08:50 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida B Boca Bob OP Enthusiast
OP Boca Bob Enthusiast B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida	No, I picked option 3 to put the whole thing on my PC. After I found I was missing some realtracks, I reloaded picking option 4 (custom), and only picked to load RealTracks. It went about its business, and an hour later I had the same results. BTW, curious as to why you asked if I used option 2 as I'm not missing all the realtracks. Just the ones posted in my first email. Bob S. Florida

Re: Missing RealTracks? Boca Bob #328639 12/31/15 09:38 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,836 Victoria, BC Andrew - PG Music PG Music Staff
Andrew - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,836 Victoria, BC	Not sure why that would be. Try just copying the bb folder from the external HD (just a regular copy and paste in Windows Explorer). That will probably take 1-2 hours to copy the whole thing. Andrew PG Music Inc.

Re: Missing RealTracks? Andrew - PG Music #328670 12/31/15 01:17 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida B Boca Bob OP Enthusiast
OP Boca Bob Enthusiast B Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 49 South Florida	I'll give that a shot. Didn't know I could do that - thought I had to use the setup program. Piece of cake if I can just copy the realband folder over. One other thing. Could there be some missing realtracks because I bought the upgrade hard drive instead of like if I were a new buyer? And thanks for your suggestions and advice :-)

Re: Missing RealTracks? Boca Bob #328673 12/31/15 01:33 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,836 Victoria, BC Andrew - PG Music PG Music Staff
Andrew - PG Music PG Music Staff Joined: May 2002 Posts: 7,836 Victoria, BC	No, your hard drive is the full program, that wouldn't be the reason. Andrew PG Music Inc.

Re: Missing RealTracks? Boca Bob #328737 01/01/16 01:39 AM Band-in-a-Box for Windows
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,492 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany GHinCH Expert
GHinCH Expert Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,492 Schleswig-Holstein, Germany	I had some RealTracks missing on my desktop. They were present on my laptop. The "fun" part came when the downloaded file did install the folder but not the content -- and refused to install it. (I tried it more than once.) I downloaded the file again using the new downlad manager for the desktop and installed it. It didn't run the install, probably (?) because it showed the status "installed". Btw, the newly downloaded is even larger than the one I downloaded first. I simply copied the files from my laptop to the desktop and everything was there. Desktop; i7-2600k, 8 GB mem., Win 10 Pro, BIAB 2017; RB 2017 - latest build Laptop: i5-2410M, 4 GB mem, Win 10 Pro, BIAB 2017; RB 2017 - latest build

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