Cd players that can play Mac formatted USB drives

[ANok?]

Does anyone know of any cd players that can play Mac formatted USB drives besides the pioneer Cdj 350?

[jasperjones]

well, basically every cd player with usb port out there. just use os x' disk utility to format the stick as fat/fat32

[ANok?]

Good point. Thanks!

[space monkey]

NDX 800 can read a Mac formatted disc/stick

[Afterhour Ali]

Mixdeck as well.

[fullenglishpint]

well, basically every cd player with usb port out there. just use os x' disk utility to format the stick as fat/fat32

That's not really an answer to the question is it...

FAT is a pretty crap formatting system but sadly it's the only one that's writeable by both OSX and windows. If you're only using OSX then I suggest you carry on looking for CD players compatible with Apple Format.

[Afterhour Ali]

NTFS is also natively readable by Mac OS X.
If you add NTFS-3G it can also write on it.
My hackintosh uses the exactly the same libraries of Serato Itch and Traktor this way on Windows and Mac OS X.

Problem is I guess there aren't many CD-players working with NTFS, but correct me if I'm wrong.

[jasperjones]

That's not really an answer to the question is it...

well, i guess it depends on how you interpret "Mac-formatted" in the OP. I thought he meant USB drives that have been/will be formatted on a Mac. You, apparently, thought that by "Mac-formatted" he really meant "formatted using the native OS X file system (i.e., HFS+)."

FAT is a pretty crap formatting system

For cheap and small flash devices (e.g., USB 2.0 flash drives, SD cards) FAT/FAT32 is actually just fine. You don't really need the advanced features of modern, journaling file systems such as HFS+ and NTFS on a small-capacity, slowish flash devices. In fact, because the cheap flash memory that's used in these devices, you don't want to write more than necessary on them (to reduce wear). Because of that, one could even argue that FAT is superior to modern file systems such as NTFS, HFS+, ext4, etc. for this application.

[space monkey]

For cheap and small flash devices (e.g., USB 2.0 flash drives, SD cards) FAT/FAT32 is actually just fine. You don't really need the advanced features of modern, journaling file systems such as HFS+ and NTFS on a small-capacity, slowish flash devices. In fact, because the cheap flash memory that's used in these devices, you don't want to write more than necessary on them (to reduce wear). Because of that, one could even argue that FAT is superior to modern file systems such as NTFS, HFS+, ext4, etc. for this application.

This. Although I do get annoying "fix" prompts when bouncing between OS'es after writing to such devices.

[Afterhour Ali]

Which OS'es are you using?