I got a last minute call to work tonight so I just graabed my laptop and ssl (what a joy to do rather than lugging crates of vinyl) and off I went. I set up at the club and ssl was ok... I had one audio dropout during the night but it was with a file that had crashed ssl before- I just forgot about it on the night... silly me.
Anyway, the strange thing was some of my songs from itunes did not translate over to ssl. I had to search for the files using the finder and drag them into ssl to play them. This was strange because I assumed itunes playlists translate into ssl 'crates' with no problem.
When I got home I deleted the 'ssl-library' and 'databaseV2' files and relaunched ssl. Then, it could only read itunes files that were actually on my hard drive. Most of the files I play out with are on an external hard drive. Is it normal for ssl to only import files (via itunes) that it can access straight away? It would seem that I would have to delete the above files and re-read itunes library with the external drive connected everytime I play out. Is this normal behaviour?