Preach! I spent several hours this weekend trying to move my library between computers. So many popups and warnings telling me that I need to do something with no explanation of why. The docs are a mess. The library compatibility is a mess. Every few months they do something that fucks up libraries or makes them incompatible with some hardware. I just refuse updates now.

Rather than trying to make a new, shiny library, they should just release rekordbox 2.0, and then everyone would have a common lexicon to ask whether something is “rekordbox 2 compatible”. But instead we have this questionably compatible library plus as part of old, busted software that tries to brow best you into wrecking your old libraries.

I just use Claude to explain rekordbox to me now, and it is a bit more helpful than forums, though it also often gets confused from the conflicting advice/docs on the internet

They do not care, AlphaTheta is well down the enshittification road. They captured all the DJs, then they captured all the venues, and now they'll squeeze both for profits until a sufficient critical mass has built to trigger a collective switch away from them. At which point executive bonuses will be paid, investors will get their returns, and the PioneerDJ brand will be sold to an even scummier company to wring a few more dollars out of it.