Music directly from external hard drive?
Music directly from external hard drive? Posted on: 12.11.2011 by Chassidy Popwell Using VDJ directly from an external hard-drive, I've found to be extremelly unreliable! And either skips or crashes. But use music on the internal HD an it's fine.How do people find this with Traktor? | |
| Chassidy Popwell 14.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
Traktor is running off the laptop, the only thing going on here will be my music. As dont want to clog up my internal HDD. |
| Carlee Pickard 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by martinlird
However if you are really convinced that's the route you want to go, Karlos's idea will work and won't be "too expensive". |
| Carlee Pickard 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by martinlird
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H7...ode=MTY1NDA0Nw |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by martinlird
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| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| Lisa Lochotzki 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by Bassline Brine
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| Machelle Ronge 19.10.2013 | I just need a fast lesson for a gig toevening
. My laptop doesn't have a large enough HD to put all my music on it. How do I play single tracks right from my external hard drive on the fly? There's no folder/directory to just open a connected device? There must be. Would be huge if you could help! 9hrs to show time. Thanks |
| Chassidy Popwell 14.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by Coldfuzion
Traktor is running off the laptop, the only thing going on here will be my music. As dont want to clog up my internal HDD. |
| Carlee Pickard 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by martinlird
However if you are really convinced that's the route you want to go, Karlos's idea will work and won't be "too expensive". |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 | Yeah unfortunately, I know of that one too :/ haha Looks like back to the FW idea, believe I'm going to follow Karlos's advice with the Rugged Drive |
| Carlee Pickard 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by martinlird
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H7...ode=MTY1NDA0Nw |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by martinlird
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| Carlee Pickard 13.11.2011 | One word: Thunderbolt. |
| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.11.2011 | http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10177 Exact one that i have. Totally bombproof, small footprint and genuinely bounces if you drop it. Dropped my from 4 feet and it was fine. Firewire 400 and 800 and ive used both with no issues. I even ran Traktor 3 off this drive on an underspec iBook G4. Native Instruments once recommended these on their website. They arent cheap but you get what you pay for i believe. |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by Karlos Santos
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| nayit ruiz jaramillo 13.11.2011 | Dude get a FireWire external drive if you have to use external. Ive used a LaCie FW (unpowered) with Traktor with zero issues. |
| Asha Poudrier 13.11.2011 | Your computer is prolly so overloaded with having to pull songs from the external hd when coupled with VDJ or whatever else you're running. I have my external hd with all my songs and only the good, playable ones on my computer. |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 | Anyone know of any decent priced thunderbolt externals for MB's? |
| Lisa Lochotzki 13.11.2011 |
Originally Posted by Bassline Brine
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| Lisa Lochotzki 13.11.2011 | For collection size and internal harddrive size limitations, I've always used an external powered one, no real problem whatsoever. One thing you may want is to use a faster port such as eSata, USB3, FireWire. |
| Audrey Pinda 13.11.2011 | Personally I wouldn't trust an external. Just adding another thing to the equation for something to go wrong. Upgrade the internal HD size imo :P or get a second one installed instead of the CD drive. |
| Belen Tallbull 13.11.2011 | I have been happily working from an external HDD for several years. Dont use the dual usb lead but do make sure I have good quality leads. |
| Chassidy Popwell 12.11.2011 | Sorted then. I'll go invest in a 2Tb Western Digital powered HDD tomorrow then Thanks for the advice |
| Leeanna Ayla 12.11.2011 | I would never DJ off a hard drive that wasn't powered. |
| Belen Wermes 12.11.2011 | yeh. i use a powered usb external drive as well, no issues w/ traktor. |
| Ethel Feigum 12.11.2011 | I use a powered hhd and have never had issues like that. That being said, I'm much more comfortable with all the tunes I need on my laptop. |
| Yong Aptekar 13.11.2011 | Take a thumb drive if you can then. Or, put your tunes on the MBP. You won't have to worry then, and its one less thing to carry |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 | Ahhhhh, i did not have a clue about that! I'll give that ago and see how it runs. The main reason I need to know is that we are DJ'ing an 18th next saturday and we are going to use my MPB instead of the Desktop that has all our music on it (12,000 songs (top40, old dads dancing albums for weddings you know the score). So we need this to be reliable. Cheers |
| Yong Aptekar 13.11.2011 | I run to a desktop too. Maybe try a new USB chord. They can only pass so much information through them before issues start popping up. Most people don't know that, I didn't until I started working where I do. The software load department switches out USB chords every other day, because they start getting errors after the second day due to the load on the chord. |
| Chassidy Popwell 13.11.2011 | No, it didn't have a separate power supply lead. However, I was running it to a desktop :-/ so I wouldn't have thought it mattered. |
| Yong Aptekar 13.11.2011 | Sounds like you might have a power issue to me. I have run both vdj and traktor, and I have always mixed straight off of the external HDD. My HDD came with a USB chord that had 2 male ends, one for power, one for backup power. If I had both plugged, no issues. But if I had only 1 end plugged in, or a regular usb chord, SOMETIMES I had issues. Did your HDD have a chord like this? |
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