Locate track not working

  • mabook pro 16” 2.6. 8 core
  • Version of operating system (e.g. macOS 14.4.1):
  • djay 5.6.1
  • flx4

Hi, locate track very unpredictable, most of the time doestn’t work but when it does it only works for only 1 deck.

Thanks.

Hi @Donn, thanks for the video and details. What version of macOS are you using? I was not able to reproduce this on my setup. Thanks

Hi Slak_Jaw, I’m using Sonoma 14.8.1

This feature since it came out was always unpredictable. For example, as I mentioned when it did work it would only work for one deck or not at all. Other times especially if you have a song in a nested folder it wouldn’t work at all unless you triggered the command about 4-7 times in a row and then it might locate to the song inside the nested folder.

(actually I recall on rare occasions it did work for both decks when I randomly load a bunch of songs from different playlist (main list, sidebar list, search results, and trigger the Locate command a bunch of times but I couldn’t figure out any pattern to why it worked)

Thanks!

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Thanks for the additional info @Donn

Hi again @Donn, our engineers have tested this and everything seems to be working as expected. Please see below for further clarification. Thanks!

  • The locate command will toggle between the visible decks to choose which song to find
  • It won’t find tracks in search results, as they are not part of your library
  • The first locate track command locates the track on Deck 1 in the library. Triggering the command a second time would locate the track on Deck 2 in the library, and so on and so forth. As one track is loaded from search results, which are not covered by the locate file feature, the command would fail every second trigger as it won’t locate the track loaded from search results.

Thanks for the reply! In the video i happen to search a song but the exact issue happens without a search and I simply load songs from the main playlist to both decks. It’s random but I’ll try record a video.

Okay, thanks @Donn. A video would be super helpful in this case.

Here’s another video, this time the deck not working was loaded from the Match list.(video below)

Also in a different testing, when I loaded a song from the search result and used the Locate, it actually did locate the track from the search result deck. It showed the song from the search result in My Collection.

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Thanks for the additional info and videos @Donn