Straight to the Booth

Stop repairing. Start playing.

You are on soon and the export is not fixed. Stop repairing it. Four moves get music out of the speakers with the drive you have, and one of them works even when the playlists never wrote.

• Is the music actually on the drive? If you can still open it on a computer, look for the audio files. A failed export sometimes writes the database and not the music, and a drive that looks full can be full of nothing you can play.
• Music there? Then the folder move on the next screen plays it, playlists or no playlists.
• Music not there? That drive cannot save this gig. Ask the DJ either side of you for theirs before you walk to the booth.

The next screen is written for a drive that died mid-set. Two of its opening lines do not fit you: nothing was playing when this went wrong, and nobody has asked you to reseat anything. Everything else on it does, including "do not yank anything". The four moves all apply.

Which one is it?

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