Got a pair of cdj 2000s and have a very basic question (hold the laughter).

So, I know you can use a USB stick or SD card.

And I know you can plug a USB cable from the back of it to your computer...

My question is about the latter. Let's say I do that. I then click link on the cdj and I see USB Midi. It appears to be connected.

But what is the next step from there? Do I need Sareto or something similar to actually get music loaded unto the cdj?

My hope was that I'd not have to use Serato, etc., nor a USB stick, but to simply load songs from my hard drive to it - take the cdjs out and about - and just load what was on them.

How do I do this? If I can do this what is the hard drive space of the cdj 2000?

Thanks.

rekordbox. Came with your CDJ's

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yea i installed that.

I don't understand how you access the tunes you put in there from your cdj. How do you do that? How do you get them from the rekordbox app unto the cdj?

You read the f*cking manual.....

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Originally posted by Jarvmeister You read the f*cking manual.....

Nah... plugging stuff in, pressing buttons and hoping for the best is much more fun

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Actually did look through the manual, it helped.

Basically I'm understanding this to give three options:
use cds

use rekordbox to manage tunes and cues (if you want), etc. then put that stuff on a USB and use that

or, use something like seranto or traktor

That's what I understand of the options at this point. My initial thought was that you loaded the actual songs unto the cdj, like it had a hard drive or something like that. I don't think that is how it works though. Can someone confirm or deny this?

I'm not familiar with the 2000, but I don't recall it having an internal hard drive. I think your music has to be on some type of external platform. External hard drive, jump drive, and then play it from that source.

I will take a random stab here. I use TT's and a DVS (so have no idea what i am talking about), but from what I have read on the new CDJ's, I would say that you need to load your music onto the jump drive. Then plug that (jump drive) into the CDJ.
Your computer will recognize the CDJ, but to manipulate the music on your laptop you would need a DVS (again, pure speculation).
So load your music onto jump drives and plug those into the CDJ, not your CDJ into the computer.

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Originally posted by PivotTechno You: This will be my first car, whaddya got to sell me? Dealer: How about a nice, practical, 4 door sedan? You: That sounds just grea...hey now, what's this over here? Dealer: It's a Jaguar XE, just released to the market and only recommended for the experienced driver. You: *eyes light up*

After we've got this little issue licked we'll be moving onto 'how to mix'.

Funny.

Just first set of cd players is all, been using technics for quite a while. Had some very basic questions about it is all...

OK, fair enough. Maybe we're being a bit mean.

Seriously though, the information will be in the manual. Don't just skip through it, read it and follow the instructions. If you fail at any point then contact Pio support on thier Pro DJ Forums, because there are still not many people on here that actually have these decks at the moment.