Serato DJ Pro General Discussion

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Serato Itch

DJ Laurex 6:05 PM - 5 February, 2012
I use a Pioneer DDJ-S1 with Itch and a Mac with an external hard drive and the latest itch software.Why is it that I can't eject any hard drive I plug in without closing itch first and when there is a song loaded I can't eject the song but you can do that in Scratchlive so what am I missing or doing wrong?BTW I also use 2 Denon 3700 with SL3 as my main console with no problems.
ontime1269 12:54 AM - 6 February, 2012
Any time a program is using an external HD an Operating System isn't gonna let that HD be ejected without closing the program first. That protects the HD. Control + Z can eject the last track loaded. I don't think there is an eject for each player though. Maybe in a later update.
phatbob 12:58 AM - 6 February, 2012
Ctrl+alt+shift+left arrow ejects left deck

Ctrl+alt+shift+right arrow ejects right deck
ontime1269 1:17 AM - 6 February, 2012
That's good to know. A lot of buttons to press.....lol.
DJ Laurex 4:54 AM - 6 February, 2012
Yep thanks I went back and tried phatbob's suggestion and it worked and after doing that I was also able to eject the external without shutting down itch.
DJ Laurex 4:56 AM - 6 February, 2012
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Any time a program is using an external HD an Operating System isn't gonna let that HD be ejected without closing the program first. That protects the HD. Control + Z can eject the last track loaded. I don't think there is an eject for each player though. Maybe in a later update.

You have to make the itch page smaller so you can see the HD icon then click on it,drop down menu click eject.
ontime1269 5:24 AM - 6 February, 2012
So, I guess as long as no songs are loaded in the decks the HD can be ejected without shutting down Itch?
DJ Laurex 8:20 PM - 6 February, 2012
Thats correct and the same thing goes for SL but SL has an eject for each player which I'm hoping they fix for Itch.
djcerla 8:22 PM - 6 February, 2012
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Ctrl+alt+shift+left arrow ejects left deckCtrl+alt+shift+right arrow ejects right deck


We have a kraal replacement at long last! :)
phatbob 8:40 PM - 6 February, 2012
I'm a bit anal about ejecting both decks and unplugging the controller before quitting... Don't think it's needed, just a bit OCD. I do it with Scratch Live too...
Solidsnake 8:43 PM - 6 February, 2012
I still wouldn't suggest ejecting your External while SSL or ITCH is running. Both programs check up and constantly write to the database when closing out the program. If you eject the drive before closing the program out, you risk corrupting the database and if you use iTunes you can risk corrupting your iTunes library file.
phatbob 8:46 PM - 6 February, 2012
+1

Also connecting drives whilst Itch is running.

It can be done, but it's not best practice.
DJ Laurex 11:20 PM - 6 February, 2012
I was doing a gig when another DJ I know wanted to connect a flash drive to my computer because he didn't have his computer and while I would usually say no I took a chance on him.Unfortunately we had to stop itch for the change over because as you know Mac only has two USB ports already being used.Thats when I switched to my itunes library to eject my external but couldn't do it.