In the media bay, I have been using the rating field to rate factory presets, instruments and samples according to my own liking. However, as I’m often switching between two computers (laptop and pc), I would like to migrate the adjusted media bay ratings to the other computer.
As we’re talking here about the factory presets cubase ships with, this wouldn’t work with the volume database option.
Is there any folder in the cubase installation which I can copy to the other computer, so that my ratings are copied to the other instance of cubase? The two instances on both machines are exactly the same, in the sense that they have both the same plugins installed.
The mediabay uses a mysql database, whose file is located in the prefs folder. I’ve never done it, but copying this file to the destination PC could work.
Some more info, if anyone else wants to do this:
There are 2 mediabay3.db files, one under [username]\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\Cubase*, and one under …Steinberg\HalionSonicSE_64.
And of course, as with windows, for every user there is a separate location with these files, so that each user can make his own ratings.
Hi,
the aformentioned file mediabay3.db does no longer exist in Cubase 13. Any ideas where I might find my ratings? And also ratings made within 3rd party products like Native Istruments perhaps? My gosh, why do these files always linger in the last and darkest corner of the system hiding from daylight…
Any help is highly appreciated!
Hi,
I upgraded from Cubase 12 Pro to Cubase 13 Pro on Windows 10 and surprisingly, most of my old settings and templates seemed to have survived the dreaded migration. But - many thousands of tags and ratings of various 3rd party samples in Cubase 12 have not been so lucky and are not displayed by the media bay. I have tried to copy the old mediabay3.db file from Cubase 12’ appdata/roaming/steinberg/cubase12_64 to the /cubase13_64 folder but the issue remained. I noticed there is a folder named Steinberg MediaBay Server, that also contains a mediabay3.db file, although much smaller in size. I have deleted the contents of this folder and copied over the mediabay3.db file from Cubase 12. Unfortunately this seemed to have worsened the issue and the media bay is now completely unresponsive. Any advice on how I can get my tags and ratings back without spending weeks tagging and rating thousands of samples for each new update of Cubase?
Thanks,
Rob
