External Drive disconnected reconnected accidentally

[Armigo]

Question:
If on a set with an external drive and the drive accidentally disconnects, the music stops of course after a few seconds.
The question is: does the track and the rest of the playlist/library recover once drive reconnects with djay open and deck unchanged?
That’s how it works in serato, but in djay i always have to quit and relaunch djay after drive reconnects, only then the library works again. If I don’t quit, none of the tracks work (loads but without sound nor waveform, just track info and cue points show on a blank line

In another scenario, if i launch djay before I insert my drive, nothing works too (all tracks remain greyed out even after drive has successfully connected.

Is this the behaviour everybody experiences or it’s just my mac?
MBP 2019 i7, Tahoe
Samsung T7 SSD
Djay pro 5.4.3

Drive Connected - song playing on deck 1

Disconnected, song lost sound and waveform after 10 second. Reconnected drive and re-loaded same song, nothing on deck other than this

[Slak_Jaw]

Hi @Armigo, thanks for the detailed info. I tested this on my Mac and did not experience the same issue. Unplugging the drive resulted in the currently playing song to continue for another 20-30 seconds before stopping. Plugging the drive back in allowed me to continue playing from that playlist without having to reboot djay. So, it seems this could be something specific to your setup. I hope that helps!

MBAir M4
macOS 26.0.1
djay 5.4.4
DJ TechTools Chroma Drive

EDIT: I was able to replicate your second observation where the drive needs to be connected before launching djay.

[Slak_Jaw]

Hello! It’s been more than a week since my last reply. I’m going to consider this topic completed for now so I can focus on others. However, please feel free to respond and we can definitely revisit this. Thanks!