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Avoid Using External USB Drives With RadioDJ

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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