Hi @Slak_Jaw Apologies: been a long time away from this post.
I wish to request you to revisit this behaviour once more. I tested on 3 different intel macs and same result: unplugging and replugging external SSD while gigging with djay breaks the djay library completely until djay is relaunched. No single track loads. In the same way, plugging a drive with djay open does not load library for use - all tracks remain greyed (you observed this already). What mac did you test on?
In the video below, I used a test 60GB Samsung USB thumb drive with just 5 freshly downloaded video tracks (mp4, H264), and created a playlist “TEST PLAY” in my collection. Check what happens as I unplugged and replugged it in.
These 2 behaviours are unpleasant for 2 reasons:
- It is common for drives to accidentally disconnect during gigs, most notably USB-C cables as they tend to be alot more prone. Once it reconnects, playback should continue as usual (from wherever the playhead is). This shortens up the anxious waiting time compared to additionally having to re-launch djay (which btw, can take a lot longer to open during such gig hours when the mac is "heated up"and everybody is anxious.
- When swapping dj’s on the same laptop, both dj’s using djay, wouldn’t it be nice for the 2nd dj to enjoy a hot swap? That is: to just plug his drive onto the mac without having to stop music, quit and relaunch djay?
If these reasons sound compelling enough, and if this is a behaviour you can reproduce, I wish to request this be listed as a bug report, so developers can take a 2nd look at it to decide if it can be fixed.
Thanks
