#REKORDBOX EXPORT TO USB MAC OS#

Start “ Disk Utility” by pressing Command + Spacebar and type “disk”, select the first item in the list or press Enter.Apple HFS+ Formatting USB drive for Rekordbox on Mac.The Pioneer CDJ machines support three types of file system formats: We can only guess as to why Pioneer choose to support these older standards instead of the newer standards, more than likely something to do with licensing issues. FAT32 is replaced by NTFS in 1993, HFS+ is replaced by APFS in 2017. Supported standards have been replaced by newer more reliable ones with less (storage) limitations. HFS+ however is notorious for getting corrupt after a while. You can can only format and read a USB drive with HFS+ on a Mac, not Windows. Because of the broad support this is the recommended format.Īpple’s Hierarchical File System is an alternative to FAT32 (also known as “OS X extended” in Apple’s Disk Utility) and allows you a bigger storage than 32GB. You should be ok if you don’t format your drive above 32GB. It might work at first glance, but it will lead strange behaviour later in your DJ set. You can get tools that “force” formatting above 32GB, however, since it does not conform to the FAT32 industry standard, Pioneer does not support it.

#REKORDBOX EXPORT TO USB MAC OS#

FAT32 is supported on Mac OS and Windows, but is limited to 32GB. Don’t use it.įAT32 is the follow up of FAT16. Also, all modern Windows & Mac computers support FAT32 nowadays. I disregard FAT because it is a old format. Below is a table of the different format options, and details of what is supported by Rekordbox and what is not.Īlso known as FAT16 is an acronym for File Allocation Table 16 bit.

There are many different options to choose from, some work and some won't. Before we start there are some things you need to know about formatting, like what is supported and what is not.

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