Why Did My USB's Not Work In The Club??

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Why Did My USB's Not Work In The Club??

Harry Freq

Why Did My USB's Not Work In The Club??

So i have a DDJ-1000, 2 Sandisk USB sticks, One 16GB and 32GB and both formatted to FAT32.

I have had trouble before with USBS and the CDJ 2000 Nexus Mk2's.

So on Rekordbox i exported my playlists onto both USB's, Went to a couple of friends and tested on a Pioneer XDJ-XZ and on CDJ 3000s and the sticks worked perfect.

Get to the club a couple of nights later and both CDJ's say No Disc with a red flashing light. This is around 3 times it has happened now and i cannot for the life of me figure out why they wont work but will work on XDJ-XZ and on CDJ 3000s

Can someone help me out here for future gigs! 

 

Yves
Yves

Hi Harry Freq

Please be sure to format the USB drive to FAT32 with a "single MBR partition".

Especially for old player models, a single MBR partition is required, so make sure your USB key has an MBR partition or GUID partition.

Also, it has been reported to us by our engineering team that the more you edit and export playlists to a USB drive, the more it can cause issues with it. So if you format your USB drive to refresh it, it will work better than when using a long-used database.

Could you try the steps below and see if they make any difference?

  • Try to format your USB drive again to FAT32 format;
  • Please also note that USB memory drives will fail after a certain number of years of use. So try to export your playlists to a brand new USB drive, ideally, FAT32 formatted, and let us know if that makes any difference.
  • If you have a Mac at home, you can also try an HFS+ formatted (Mac OS Extended Journaled format) USB drive instead (make sure that HFS+ is supported by the CDJs you'll be playing with).
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