
The difference between synchronisation and exporting is that synchronisation will delete files on your USB drive when you delete them from Rekordbox, exporting does not. It looks also for files that already exist on your USB drive and skips the ones that already exist to reduce export time. Instead I would advise you to opt for exporting. I’m not a fan of synchronisation, because there were some bugs in older versions of Rekordbox which led to improper synchronisation.

There are mainly two ways to get songs from Rekordbox on your USB I’ve written tutorial on how to import songs in Rekordbox, check it out if you don’t know how to do this. Import songsīefore you can export songs from Rekordbox to USB, Rekordbox needs to have songs imported to begin with. If you don’t know how to do this, check out my Rekordbox USB formatting tutorial for Mac and Windows. It needs to be formatted as FAT32 or HFS+ on the MBR (Master Boot Record) setting. Format your USB drive correctlyĪn essential part of preparing your USB drive is to format your USB drive correctly.

To get the most out of your DJ set, use Rekordbox to prepare your USB drive for spinning with the CDJ and XDJ machines. Nothing is more confusing than a wrong beatgrid when you are spinning. This takes a while and is sometimes wrong. On top of that, the CDJ needs to analyze the file on the fly. However, the machine is extremely picky in its accepted file formats. Technically you could slap some mp3 files on a USB drive and load it in the CDJ 2000.


The software Rekordbox prepares your music for the XDJ and CDJ players by Pioneer, like the CDJ 2000.
