What you did is not the cause of the malfunction, your tracks would not cause the RX to brick. There is something else going on with the unit.
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My friend's XDJ bricked over the weekend and they are trying to blame me
So this morning I woke up to a very heated text from my friend. Apparently none of his tracks are loading on his pioneer hardware and he blames an unanalyzed USB for the cause of the issue.
This is what unfolded over the weekend.
I produce tracks with FL Studio and have recently finished enough content to pack into a 5 track EP. I was very excited to show everyone my new tracks so I simply loaded the tracks directly from Windows Explorer onto my media USB without analyzing the tracks in rekordbox. I felt that I did not need the tracks to be analyzed because I am able to mix and beatmatch them by ear. I get over to the hang spot and load up the USB on his XDJ-RX. Using the file explorer on the deck I am able to access the root contents and load the tracks outside of a rekordbox playlist and they played just fine, the only oddity is that the waveform does not show on the deck's screen which was no biggy for me. The deck continued to function the rest of the night. Flash-forward to today and here we are now.
Is there any potential that an unanalyzed USB could brick an entire deck or is this just misguided anger? I want to make things right if my actions did in fact cause harm to the hardware, but I also do not want to be branded for a mistake that I am not to blame for.
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I had a similar issue, on a gig someone told me to play a certain track he had on hand on different device, he copied the file to a flash drive and handed it over.
It was the same that it wouldn't display the waveform until it was fully played once but after that the XDJ got "stuck" with playing back other tracks.
The fix was quite easy, for some reason you have to re-format the USB sticks and move your Rekordbox files back on there, after that the XDJ was working again (and still is today a few years later with the same USB sticks ;))
My guess is that a different device may screw up the file system on there for the Pioneer unit.
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