No More Worries About Pulling the Wrong Stick Thumb Drive Out

0:01 How you can eliminate one

Right, ladies and gentlemen, you have before you the Pioneer XDJ-AZ. In this video, I'm going to show you how you can eliminate one of the worst nightmares known to DJ, not known to man, known to DJ in the history of being a DJ. Okay, so back in the day, I'm going to turn it on now so you can see it. From beginning to end, back in the day when it was vinyl, on the odd occasion, I've done it no end of times. You take the needle off the record and all of a sudden there's silence and you're thinking, oops, put the needle back on the record and problem solved. But more recently, there is that pull the thumb drive out and the sound has gone and everyone's panicking. You're running around like a headless chicken and you're just thinking, what on earth have I done? And it's a horrible situation to be in. But suffice to say, it does happen. So you'll notice I've loaded a track there. You can see right hand side, the thumb drive now is flashing.

1:18 You can hear that track's playing

So I'm going to go back. Let's pick another tune or anything. It doesn't really matter for this demo. And I'm going to load that tune over there on that side. Okay, so and again, for copyright reasons, I'm not going to play much audio just because I don't want to get copyright strikes or anything like that. So you can hear that track's playing. You can see it's playing on the screen. We can zip forward. We can zip back. Just let it play. I'm going to press play on the right hand deck. You can see that's playing forward and back. Now we're going to concentrate now on the thumb drive, also known as the stick drive. You'll notice that that's flashing. Now when that's flashing, that should tell you

That that thumb drive is being used. But let's imagine now that the other DJ turns up and puts his thumb drive in and starts playing a tune. You disappear or turn your head for two minutes and just hold on what's going on? Your track still playing or is it their track? Trust me, I don't care how professional you are unless you're an absolute genius or you're a bit dyslexic. I can't even say the word. Why do they spell a word dyslexia? That dyslexic people can't even spell. It's ridiculous. Anyway, so you're in a situation now where you do not know which thumb drive to unplug. Now, of course, the first thing you've got to do is you've got to make sure that you press the eject button. So I'm going to press the eject button now. So I'm pretty sure that that's my thumb drive because, of course, it is. And I'm thinking, OK, so I'll press that.

2:50 Previous players, I can't remember which ones

And I'll eject the thumb drive. Now, previous players, I can't remember which ones. But if you did that, if you were very lucky, you'd get sort of a four bar loop. But with the XDJ-AZ, guess what? It will carry on playing the entire track, which is an absolute godsend. It's one of the great features of this player. So it basically means that you haven't got to worry. So for example, I can still skip through. I can skip back. So the internal genius has basically recorded the entire tracks in some kind of memory inside there. So gone are the days now of you worrying about pulling out the wrong thumb drive. Now, of course, you're not going to pull out your mate's thumb drive because they've just put that in. But what I'm trying to say here is that maybe you're thinking, should I

Pull mine out now? Or is it too late? Or maybe the other DJ accidentally pulls out your thumb drive without thinking. Well, think no more because it doesn't matter. Because by the time they put their next track on and they say accidentally pull it out, hand it to you. Trust me, it's going to happen at some point or it has happened in the past. You don't have to worry anymore. Don't forget, leave a comment. Let me know what you think. Have you been in a situation where you pulled the thumb drive out and all of a sudden there's silence? A bit like that, really. Or are you very, very clever and you're thinking I'd never do I've never done anything like that. I want to hear your side of the story. Thank you for watching. Don't forget, leave a comment, practice and enjoy. Thank you

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