Hi guys, I know the MDJ-500 is neither a CD or vinyl player, but I couldn’t find anywhere else to ask this. Basically my issue is there is a clicking sound that occurs when I play tracks. I have tried cycling through the different sound card modes (44.1/16, 48/16, 96/24, etc.) to no avail. All my tracks are MP3 320/44.1 or 48. I have made sure all my cables and other hardware is not the cause. I have played with NTFS/FAT formatting of my USB keys. Basically I have done everything and the clicking continues. Has anyone else had this issue? Is this something that Gemini could fix on a firmware update?
Here is an example of what it sounds like. First sample is how it should sound. Second sample is with clicking/ticking.
Does it click when keylock is turned off?
Does it click when pitch is set to zero and range is 8% or lower?
If you encode the track to WAV instead of MP3, does it still click?
Do you see the clicks in the track waveform on the MDJ screen?
What USB drive are you using?
What is your current firmware version?
It doesn’t seem to matter if the track is 320, 192, CBR, or VBR.
Yes it clicks when keylock is off.
Yes it clicks at 0.
I have not tried encoding to WAV but that wouldn’t be an acceptable solution for me.
The clicks are not on the screen.
USB key I’m using was cheap one but I switched it out for a fast Verbetim one and it still clicked.
Current firmware is 6.7
Solved. If you disable ANALYSE TRACK in the settings, the problem stops.
I believe what’s happening is when ANALYSE TRACK is enabled, the deck is writing, on the fly, the wave form image back onto the USB stick, in order to display it on the screen. The processor can only handle reading the track, not writing back info at the same time without glitching out.
Confirmed: The USB stick with ANALYSE TRACK enabled created a ~1 MB file for each track that got analysed. Without ANALYSE TRACK the only file the deck created was the text file list of the tracks on the volume (about a 4 kb file).
Hope this helps to anyone experiencing the same issues.