Pioneer XDJ 1000's m4a not playing

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Pioneer XDJ 1000’s m4a not playing

I recently bought 2 Pioneer XDJ 1000’s to use with Traktor. It works great with Traktor.
I am having a problem using them with my music on USB drives. I am having a problem specifically with m4a files. These are songs that are purchased and downloaded from Promo Only.

A few details about my gear:
XDJ’s are updated to the latest firmware
MacBook Pro OSX 10.9.4
iTunes version 11.4
mp3’s are usually 320 kbps some 192, but they are ok
m4a are 1411 kbps

I drag and drop on my usb drive, eject from my computer plug it into the XDJ. It will play everything except my Promo Only music.

What am I doing wrong here?

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Pioneer players don’t support loseless m4a files.

Recode them into a playable format (AAC 320kbps?)

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That sucks… I guess I won’t be using USB sticks.

I have an 8000 song library on my computer and another 20,000 + on a hard drive… there is no way I am re-encoding them. Plus I don’t want to lose the sound quality. yes, I can tell the difference and yes I have a very high end sound system that you can hear the difference.

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pics of your sound systm? it sounds awesome!

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offtopic: why?

ontopic: majority of dj’s i know tend to use usb sticks only when playing out in clubs, i suspect you will also. when you do - make your playlist(s) in traktor, export it by copying files into a separate folder and re-encode just that files. that’s what I would do.

or as you said - just bring the laptop with traktor and use it with HID mode on players, what’s ever easier for you :wink:

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I’m a mobile DJ, so I am always out with my laptop and controller (kontrol s4) now xdj’s. Any bar or club that I do, I bring the S4.

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One of the main reasons why I never used Rekordbox or been tempted to move to CDJs. (No lossless support… I’ve been a Promo Only subscriber for almost 20 years)
The new CDJ 2000 NXS2 supports flac and apple lossless (as does the new Rekordbox)…
I would think Pioneer should send an upgrade to your decks before long because they are fairly new.
At least that would make sense

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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