This is a good reason for having backup gear.

How do you transfer music?

I’d bet if you were willing to learn there are dozens of YouTube videos you could watch

MIXMASTERMACHOM said:

I have a big issue with my main laptop. I tried turning it on several times and it might come on for a few seconds and then just go off. I plugged it into another socket and still nothing. Everything is connected that I know. Anybody here can give me suggestions as to why this is happening and what I can do to get it to come on and stay on? Never had this happen before. Strange.

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Try using contact cleaner. I go though all my connections maybe once a year.

MIXMASTERMACHOM said:

Sorry for starting this thread. I unplugged the power cord from the laptop, put it back in and it began to work. It had to go back to a restore point and after that I got it to work. Just strange to me because I never had this ever happen since I had this laptop.

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Try using contact cleaner. I go though all my connections maybe once a year. View attachment 54988
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A little off topic, but I use the contact cleaner anytime I working on the car and have to disconnect a sensor, a little goes a long way. I like Deoxit more that QR but QR is easier to find.

Just pull the drive and get a new laptop and transfer the music. Consider it a lesson learned. I won’t trust a laptop for events once water damaged nor would I trust an older laptop. Decent laptops have come down in price and Black Friday sales are starting.

JP_HTX said:

A little off topic, but I use the contact cleaner anytime I working on the car and have to disconnect a sensor, a little goes a long way. I like Deoxit more that QR but QR is easier to find.

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I use the QR on my trailer 7 way on my truck. got all three Deoxit sprays in the shop. Brings faders back to life and smooth them out like glass.

Mix,

Update on laptop?

Is there ever a good reason NOT to have back up?

Scott Hanna said:

Is there ever a good reason NOT to have back up?

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Yea, somebody stole it out of the van. We forgot to pack it the van when we picked up the gear from my friends basement.

In this digital age I wouldn't feel comfortable without a live backup on deck. I had a DJ software freeze and stop mid song at a wedding just this weekend - but, I also had another live laptop beside we with the same available playlist, so it was just a hiccup with respect to dancing.

Even for casual poolside gigs - I'll at least have an iPod or some other live device I can go to if a PC develops an issue. When music was on hard media like CDs, it was rare to lose both decks simultaneously, so while having a backup was necessary it may not need to be live. At worse, you might have to power cycle a CD controller and that can be done while using the mic and feigning a request. On a computer - all decks crash as one - and we should never persuade ourselves to believe that our PC or MAC unlike anyone else's is immune to failure.