Curious About A Problem With My CDJ 1000's, HELP!!!!

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Posted by mfitterer1 on Sep-26-2008 08:16:

Ok so I have deduced a few more things.

The problem is with the actual files, not the discs, not the cdj's. Although, the same discs that dont work in the cdj's DO work in my laptop, which is bullshit considering a laptop shouldnt have a better lens then a 1200 dollar piece of pro audio.

So with that said how do I go about fixing this issue. The stops I now find are ALL happening at the same spots in the same songs, I just didn't originally realize that. I also have every song on two cds so that I can play different stuff simultaneously. Both discs dont work for every song I have tried.

There are some tracks that were encoded back to 320. I collected music before I got into dj'ing so I put everything at 192 when I was buying it pre dj. I encoded all of those back to 320 but there were no errors in the encoding and they work on my computer, both via mp3 off the hard drive and off the discs that do NOT work on the cdj's. I really dont know what to do right now and I have a set tomorrow night arggghhh!

The real question that is bothering me is how the fuck does my computer drive read them but not the cdjs?

Posted by mfitterer1 on Sep-26-2008 09:27:

Update.

I believe the problem is with the encoding. I re-encoded one of the files that didn't work previously and reburnt it and it works. However, the identical spot where the error message pops it now skips instead of stopping. This is fucking ridiculous; the way its appearing there is no way around this problem.

Does anyone know why they would play in my laptop correctly but not the cdjs?

Posted by DJ RANN on Sep-26-2008 19:03:

quote:
Originally posted by mfitterer1
Update.

I believe the problem is with the encoding. I re-encoded one of the files that didn't work previously and reburnt it and it works. However, the identical spot where the error message pops it now skips instead of stopping. This is fucking ridiculous; the way its appearing there is no way around this problem.

Does anyone know why they would play in my laptop correctly but not the cdjs?

Dude, seriously get some fucking commercially pressed CD's already. Borrow, beg, buy, steal CD's - whatever but it's the only way to be sure of an encoding problem.

Posted by mfitterer1 on Sep-26-2008 20:27:

Just used a couple of commercial cds borrowed from a friend, and they work fine.

Which is bad news for me as I see it

Posted by DJ RANN on Sep-26-2008 20:40:

quote:
Originally posted by mfitterer1
Just used a couple of commercial cds borrowed from a friend, and they work fine.

Which is bad news for me as I see it

No that's good news! Your CDJ's aren't screwed.

Get hold of toast (for mac) or Nero (pc) and use them for burning and see if the fault happens again. If not then you know your itunes is buggered (maybe you need to check what version you're running?).

If nero/toast still produce CD's that jump or skip, then it's either your computers CD drive (sometimes they need firmware updates) or you have a bad batch of media (not uncommon).

Posted by mfitterer1 on Sep-26-2008 23:32:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ RANN
No that's good news! Your CDJ's aren't screwed.

Get hold of toast (for mac) or Nero (pc) and use them for burning and see if the fault happens again. If not then you know your itunes is buggered (maybe you need to check what version you're running?).

If nero/toast still produce CD's that jump or skip, then it's either your computers CD drive (sometimes they need firmware updates) or you have a bad batch of media (not uncommon).

Its definitely the media because when I re-encoded it it improved vastly. I dont understand why there is still an issue with the file I guess I'll just have to toss the songs that do it

Posted by DJ RANN on Sep-27-2008 01:43:

quote:
Originally posted by mfitterer1
Its definitely the media because when I re-encoded it it improved vastly. I dont understand why there is still an issue with the file I guess I'll just have to toss the songs that do it

Don't toss the tracks, just the CD's that you burnt.

The files are not corrupt - it's your burning process that doesn't work.

Posted by Yohan on Sep-27-2008 06:57:

Are you burning the tunes as mp3s or wav?

I get the same error at times if I burn the tunes as mp3s

Oh, don't cheap out on cds either

Posted by elFreak on Sep-27-2008 15:43:

the solution has been presented to you multiple times already...jesus stop being thick and listen.

Posted by wesleysnipez on Sep-28-2008 03:27:

Yeah the way it looks to me I have to agree with people above that Itunes is buggy or it could be one your drives in the computer. Do
what DJ RANN said and all because it narrow it down more because it is most likely not the tracks. You can get Nero and toast for a free trial if you do google search since I found it easy.

Posted by MACBOOK69 on Sep-28-2008 06:38:

ah yes thats why i say tech 1200's and traktor scratch. can't be beat with the proper mixer/midi. sorry to hear about your cdj's. probably a media issue

Posted by ZeJayMan on Oct-02-2008 03:48:

It's just your cds man, i've just finished a set on a set of Mk3's and its because there will have been a big dirty thumbprint on your cd.

Posted by ACDJ on Nov-16-2008 01:01:

ok, i registered just to answer your question even though the thread is a little bit old. i dont even like trance so, i think the mk3 has a problem with some mp3 blocks in your song that are encoded in some less common way. software on your computer can play the files because it has better mp3 support. i too have had that problem when using some mp3 files and the only way to fix it was to re-encode the mp3's using LAME compressor. personally i dont use mp3's anymore, i just write 10 audio tracks per cd and that's it.

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