Question about Rekordbox and CDJ-2000's

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Question about Rekordbox and CDJ-2000’s

So I made my playlist in Rekordbox and I chose Export to my thumbdrive.

It copied all my files.

So that’s it? Now the playlist will pop up on the CDJ’s?

Because I don’t see the playlist file anywhere in my thumbdrive?

Just trying to make sure all is good.

thanks.

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As long as you exported the Playlist directly by right-clicking it, that’s all you need to do. Rekordbox does not export individual files for each playlist.

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but where is the file that will tell the CDJ what songs to group together? The playlist info file.

I guess it just works?

Thanks for the reply .

Cheers.

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There are many database files present on the USB stick, so playlist info will be stored in one of them.

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There is (should be) an invisible folder called “PIONEER”, which was created on the USB stick by Rekordbox. If you change your settings in Finder/WindowsExplorer to show invisible folders you can check it (though I never heard there was any problem with that folder not being created).

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So it did not work. I had no playlist info. So i had a bunch of folders with artists that’s it.

Luckily I made a separate folder and cut and pasted my 90 tracks straight form iTunes. Just in case

I ended up mixing from there. No waveforms and a very inaccurate BPM read.

I should have just brought 2 CD’s lol.

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What do you mean by a “bunch of folders”? You don’t browse folders when using Rekordbox USB sticks.

Did you go to the Playlist node and find no playlists there?

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the guy who owned the CDJ’s was helping me and nothing ???

oh well. Next time maybe.

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Here’s a tutorial on using Rekordbox to prepare and export tracks

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSucXcd_weI"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSucXcd_weI[/URL]

And another for browsing on the CDJ

[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzH8PgnNrZg"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzH8PgnNrZg[/URL]