DJ Garybaldy - The Only sound you need

In 2013 I had a traditional spindle hard drive fail on me taking some of my music collection with it. I'd backed up some of my music to another hard drive but not all of it by the time the drive finally gave us I/O read errors. My Husband suggested we go to a well known electronics store at the time (Maplins Now Closed) for a Solid State upgrade kit. Getting a Solid State Drive in my Computer was my best move ever! The 240GB drive is in my current computer and to have it functioning 10 years later means its been worth every £££ we paid. I've used the SSD to run my Copies of RadioDJ Free radio Automation and its been plain sailing since 2013 The only DOWNTIME I've had is Windows Updates or Driver Updates in CCleaner. The whole Windows experience is a LOT better on Solid State Drives Windows 10/11 seem to be stable I haven't had a BSOD or crash in ages Solid state makes my computers run faster and the CPU runs cooler

Seen a few posts over the last few months of users saying that music files have gone missing from RadioDJ between restarts of the computer. Then it transpires that these users are trying run RadioDJ with the music files on an external USB storage device. That's where the problems start if you're using RadioDJ for full time radio playout automation Another thing to keep in mind is never use an USB drive for the music. When the drive "falls asleep" or the computer decides to apply "power saving" on the USB drive, no music is there to be found and played by RadioDJ. We tried using a USB 2TB hard drive a few years back and had no end of issues with tracks being disabled because they couldn't be found. It wasn't the fault of RadioDJ that the music files weren't available it was the external hard drive going to sleep and the USB port powering down. Even though I switched off powering down in device manager. Then one day out of the blue the ...