Saving Cues with CDs

This information would not be stored on the SD card or USB drive, they would be stored on the CDJ's internal memory.

I've tried that but when I take out the CD and put it back in the cues are gone.

@Pulse > Thanks. Any particular SD card or will any suffice?

Anything -- heck, you could store 10,000 on a 16MB card back in the CDJ-1000 days, so it certainly doesn't have to be anything fancy! It just can't be an SDXC ( >32GB) card; SDHC ( <32GB) will work just fine.

Thanks, I shall buy 2 to keep in each CDJ.

One more thing, how do the waveforms get saved? Do they have to fully build and then get saved automatically or is there something I need to do for them to save?

Will they load instantly when the CD is loaded in the deck?

As long as the players are linked, I believe they are able to share the data.

Waveforms are saved as the player is able to read the track. It typically reads-ahead while the audio is playing. If you were to change tracks mid-way through the waveform build, I can't recall, but it may only store that portion, then rebuild the rest later.

They are saved automatically.

I have them linked with a LAN hub.
I'll try one card first and see if the data is shared.

Thanks for the info!

OK, so I got an SD card and stuck it in one CDJ (player 3)
When loading a CD in the other CDJ (player 2) it asks if I want to use my player 3 memory card to save data [press memory].

Everything seemed to be going good until I wanted to save hot cues from multiple tracks from the same CD.
For example, my CD has 3 tracks.
I set hot cue A on track 1.
I cannot set another hot cue A for track 2 - pressing hot cue A triggers the hot cue point already set from track 1.
Hot cue A will remain lit until CD is ejected.

I have to use hot cue A for track 1, hot cue B for track 2, hot cue C for track 3, and so on.
OK if I'm only having one hot cue on each track but virtually impossible if I want to set several hot cues for each track, which for some CDs I will need to.

I don't think there is a way around this. If there is can you please tell me?

Thanks

I should have warned you about that -- hot cues are 3 per CD, and there's no way around that. This function heralds from the origins of being able to store CD data when it was internal; this allowed the DJ to jump around anywhere on the CD instantly.

Sorry, that's simply a limitation of the technology!

Ahh, I see - no mither.

I will use my hot cues wisely!

@Pulse> I have an SD card in both my CDJs and when I insert previously played CDs,
the waveform does not load, neither do any saved hot cues.

Am I missing something?

Any info please?

Frustrating how it won't work.

Found out why it wasn't working - I had the lock switched ON my SD cards. Duh!

But, something else; When I load a CD with saved cue-points/hot-cues, the hot cue lights flash until I press them, then they jump to the hot cue, which is good.

The problem I have is when I hit CUE on the CDJ it goes to the beginning on the first track on the CD - is there a way it can cue to the hot cue, which is where I saved the cue point anyway?

Sorry for the delay on getting back to you, I was going to ask if you were using an SDXC card, but you figured it out with the lock switch. ;)

Unfortunately the main cue and hot cues don't work the same way -- if you want to load it as a main cue, you'll have to store it as a memory point, not a hot cue. Then you press the CALL button and can then store it as the main cue. The Hot Cue will always play when it is pressed.

This works, thanks!

Pressing CALL goes to the first cue point (which is also my first hot cue) and also jumps to the cued track.
Hitting CUE on the CDJ cues it to this cue point and stays on the correct track instead of going to the beginning of the very first track on the CD.

I wish I'd have just kept the one SD card as when put my CD in player 3, and it was originally stored in player 2, I have to set the cue points again, and vice-versa.
I suppose I could take one SD card out and just use one to save from both CDJs.

I'm just a bit OCD and want the SD card slot lit up on both decks :)

lol - I hear ya. At least you've got it all sorted now!

OK, for some reason, whenever I load a CD which has already had data saved to the SD card, the hot cues no longer load. The waveform loads fine, however.

I have to press MENU, then press the browse button for the hot cues to load.
I've tried changing the CUE LINK settings but no difference.

I didn't have to do this before - they loaded automatically.

Any idea as to why this is happening?

Just to add, I'm only having issues with audio CDRs I've made myself - is this why?

If so, how is it any different to a commercial CD?

The CDR may not have a proper ID and/or it's blank, resulting in other CDRs having the same data.

I've since tried burning a CD with a title but still no different.
Even still the title doesn't display on the CDJ. It still says "Track 01"

It must be due to the fact they are CDRs.

Have you tried giving the CDR a TITLE? I'm also willing to bet you don't have the data being written to the disc either. Certainly this is an option in the software you're using to write the CDs, it has been for years. That would help differentiate your CDs and avoid any issues with the CDs being identified as the same disc.