Pioneer XDJ 1000's m4a not playing

[TonyRome]

When I said lossless I meant FLAC or Apple Lossless. (Mainly the latter, as Promo Only distributes their POOL music in that format).

I also ripped my CD library in Apple Lossless.. So it makes it more of a pain.

[jimmyv]

I decided I want to revisit this issue. Does anyone know if there is or is going to be an update to play these file types?
If I were to convert these files, how would I go about doing this? Here is what I would like to do if possible...
Put a certain playlist of songs on my USB drive and only convert the USB drive, not my entire collection. When I add songs, I just convert those as well. What software would I use? Either free or paid software doesn't bother me I just want something that works properly and can accomplish what I want to do.

[ImNoDJ]

Rekordbox has supported both AIFF and WAV since day one which are both industry standard lossless formats.

Neither WAV or AIFF are considered lossless as they are raw uncompressed files.

FLAC/ALAC have lossless compression which is a different thing.

Pioneer Nexus and XDJ Mk2 CDJs support FLAC etc.

[ErikMinekus]

For posterity, I have some M4A files that contain AAC audio which my XDJ-1000's play just fine. I would imagine if your M4A files are 1411kbps they actually contain AIFF or WAV audio, it should be able to decode that.

Anyway, to answer your question, if your songs are in iTunes you can convert them to AIFF. Never used it, but I assume iTunes is smart enough to keep the tags and not recode the audio.

[jimmyv]

For posterity, I have some M4A files that contain AAC audio which my XDJ-1000's play just fine. I would imagine if your M4A files are 1411kbps they actually contain AIFF or WAV audio, it should be able to decode that.

My songs are downloaded from promo only... So I'm not sure what else could be preventing them from being played. Are yours from promo only as well?

I don't want to convert my whole library. Just a handful of songs that I put on a jump drive.

I also don't want the MK2 unless they have HID mode for Traktor.

[ImNoDJ]

For posterity, I have some M4A files that contain AAC audio which my XDJ-1000's play just fine. I would imagine if your M4A files are 1411kbps they actually contain AIFF or WAV audio, it should be able to decode that.

M4A files can either be lossy (AAC) (256kbps), or lossless (ALAC). (1411kbps)

M4A files do not contain Wav or AIff as they are raw uncompressed formats, and you wont find them in a lossless compressed m4a container. Players need specific AAC or ALAC support to decode these files, Wav support wont allow you to play m4as.

[ErikMinekus]

Right, that makes sense. I assumed he meant a constant 1411 kbps (uncompressed), rather than up to 1411 kbps (lossless).

[jimmyv]

It is lossless m4a.

I appreciate the help. I'm good at DJ'ing, I'm good with technology, but not too good when you get way under the hood.image.jpg