Automatically load next track

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Having spent a lifetime using broadcast software, I’d really like the option of turning on an “automatically load next item” feature.

The behaviour would be:

  1. Once a track has been played with the fader open (the default for DJay to tick it off) and stops
  2. That spent track is automatically ejected from the deck
  3. Whatever’s next in the queue is loaded [to its start cue] ready for the end-user to press play (i.e. no automatic play, just an automatic load)

When firing though a quick succession of audio, dropping a fader (to remove the warnings), grabbing the next track to drag/drop onto that deck to reopen the fader ready for playout could definitely be streamlined. In the current setup, once you’ve played a track, you rarely want it to remain there to play again.

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This is also one of my main feature requests.

Basically Automix, but with a checkbox to TURN OFF the "mix” part. Just load the next song and wait for the DJ to manually mix the decks. I guess you could call it Autoload (but keep all the other bells and whistles of Automix).

It would be a great Quality of Life feature.

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Thanks for the suggestion @djandrewmarston and the additional input @Michael_Wisniewski. I’ve passed this onto our devs.

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Hi again @djandrewmarston and @Michael_Wisniewski, as a potential workaround in the meantime, you can achieve similar behavior in One Deck Mode on macOS/iOS. First, disable “Start Playback” in the djay Settings → General → Song Loading. Then simply load the first song in the playlist and press play (no Automix necessary). When the song finishes, it loads the next one in the playlist.

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Thank you. I’m actually doing this in 4 deck mode so 1 simply wouldn’t be enough. But sounds like the functionality is there under the hood somewhat.

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You’re welcome. Thanks for the additional info @djandrewmarston. I’ll let our devs know.

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In conjunction with Autoload, would love to see mappable commands to quickly re-arrange tracks in the main Queue / Automix Manual queue.

  • move track up
  • move track down
  • send track to top
  • send track to bottom

Autoload + those features would make djay Pro a beast for Open Format.

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Thanks for the additional input @Michael_Wisniewski. I’ll let the team know.