Support exporting to Pioneer format

[dromer]

Obvious feature request.

As most clubs use CDJ's (or these days sometimes XDJ, digital only) it would be very useful to be able to export to their format.

I don't know if there has been preliminary work done on this yet, maybe this Issue can be used to track any efforts to that regard.

[mr-smidge]

Hi @dromer,

Mixxx has the ability to read (not write) the Pioneer Rekordbox format, which was achieved by reverse-engineering the binary format. That format has been documented here, and was implemented using the kaitai struct library.

You can see the Mixxx kaitai definition files here:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/tree/master/src/library/rekordbox

This could be a useful resource to start from in order to add support to libdjinterop.

Personally, I don't own any recent Pioneer equipment (I migrated from CDJ-1000s to SC5000s), so we would need a willing developer to implement and test!

[dromer]

Thank you for the links and info. Sounds like a good place to start indeed.

I don't own any pioneer (or denon) equipment myself, but I'm tempted to get a xdj-r1 (or similar) for home practice and could at least test on this (if/when I do).

[mr-smidge]

Thanks - I've tagged this with help wanted to reflect the fact that Pioneer hardware would be needed to properly test any new functionality along these lines.

[kimtore]

https://github.com/ambientsound/rex has preliminary support for writing export.pdb files that looks promising, it has been tested out and can be loaded into at least one kind of CDJ player. Perhaps worthwhile to check out the code?