Numark iDJ²

Release Note v1.09a 2008-02-15

Copyright © Numark Industries Inc. 2007, 2008

Your iDJ2 has been loaded with the latest firmware (1.09a) and Librarian (1.50) at the time of
manufacturing. Please check for more recent firmware at www.numark.com/idj2

What's New in v1.09a

Fixed an issue that prevented successfully entering iPod Direct mode in some cases.

What's New in v1.09

Implemented support for USB CD/DVD drives, for playback of audio CDs and data CDs/DVDs. When
inserted, discs appear as volumes in the Library and tracks can be sent to a deck or the crate as if from a
hard disk. To send an entire audio CD to the crate, use the Library Album browser and press To Crate at
album level. For data discs the Librarian “build in folder” feature can be used to build a library on hard
disk before burning the tracks and .library folder to CD or DVD. Simultaneous playback of two tracks
from the same CD or DVD is not recommended.

Substantial improvements to Library Search performance. Search results are now returned within a few
seconds even for libraries with tens of thousands of tracks. The data necessary to support this is
prepared during a library build by Librarian. It is necessary to update earlier libraries before they can be
used with this firmware, and it should be noted that the Search feature is no longer available for libraries
built on the player.

Implemented silence removal for continuous playback modes. Consecutive tracks will now play back to
back without a gap. This eliminates the moment of silence inserted at the start and end of tracks by
many MP3 and AAC encoders, allowing for uninterrupted playback of continuous mix albums. Silence
parameters are calculated by Librarian during BPM and Profile generation, or on the product the first time
a track is played. It is recommended to use Librarian to update the library to ensure gapless playback in
all circumstances.

Library Search and Crate lists now display additional columns of information to help identify each track.
The crate shows title, artist and duration while search lists show the field appropriate to the current
search criteria.

Tags starting "The " are now sorted by the first character of the next word, for example “The Beatles”
and “Beatles” will be recognized as equivalent and sorted under “B”.

Implemented Repeat play mode. This repeats the track on deck continuously, and is enabled from each
Mode window.

Pitch adjustment is now shown to two decimal places for 6%, 12% and 25% ranges. The pitch slider has
always been processed to this level of accuracy, but previously the display was rounded to one decimal
place.

Added support for implied decimal BPM tags, written by some DJ applications. BPM values >1000 are
divided by 100 on import.

Cosmetic enhancements to soft menu buttons, multi-page (tabbed) windows and popup windows.

Tracks with no stored BPM no longer appear as “?” in the Library BPM browser.

The iPod database importer no longer stores zero in empty BPM and year tags.

Now only the Automatic play mode causes the next track to load if paused before (but near) the end of
the track. Continuous and cyclic modes only proceed to the next track if the previous tracks has played
fully to the end.

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Changes to the pitch range in the Mode window now take effect when the window closes rather than
immediately.

The number of tracks in the crate are now displayed in the title bar.

Option selection controls no longer wrap around at each end.

The time code display is now completely smooth.

The default screen brightness after restoring factory settings is now maximum.

The iPod dock is now referred to as “Dock” in the Library.

Fixed a stability issue with HFS+ formatted devices.

The letter picker now also works for BPM ranges in the Library BPM browser.

The keyboard arrow keys now navigate through tracks in the Info window.

iPod Direct mode now honors the Fader Start setting.

Fixed an issue whereby a multi-partition drive with a different volume_name.txt file on each partition
resulted in incorrect Library operation.

Track listings under “All” and “Unknown” are now correctly ordered alphabetically.

Improved Letter Picker performance on large volumes.

Improved performance sending tracks to a deck or to the crate from the Library File browser.

Fixed various stability issues with the Library Playlists browser.

When both decks are in cyclic play mode, and both tracks end at almost the same instant, the next track
will no longer be loaded onto both decks.

Long filenames and paths now properly truncate in the the Info window.

Ejecting an iPod during a library build now works every time.

Cascading hubs (i.e. hubs connected to hubs) are now supported. This is primarily to support devices
with internal hubs which may be connected to an external hub, however it is still recommended in
general to avoid cascading external hubs.

Added Genre and BPM tags to Info window.

Fixed stability issues with the Crate on fast repetitive operations such as rapidly removing tracks, or
playing a series of very short tracks in cyclic mode.

Fixed stability issues with the Library, in particular a rare crash when sending a track to a deck.

Optimized the AAC decoder for improved product performance when playing M4A tracks.

Improved AAC (M4A) decoder robustness.

Improved WAV decoder robustness when playing truncated tracks.

Improved detection and rejection of invalid files such as Apple Lossless files within an M4A container.
These will not now be imported into the library.

Improved disk spin down prevention, so most (if not all) hard drives will no longer spin down after a
period of inactivity. This prevents potential breakup of audio when playing back during spin up.

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Improved tolerance of badly corrupted file systems which previously resulted in product instability.

Fixed an issue where switching to iPod Direct mode with a 6th generation iPod caused an improper
ejection warning.

Removed "cleaning" library import stage from the product. The importer will no longer take (a long) time
during an update to check for tracks that have been removed. If you attempt to play a removed track
nothing bad will happen. The cleaning stage is now an option within Librarian.

Changed the way seek tables and track profiles are stored on disk, saving a large amount of disk space
on large volumes and improving track loading performance.

Pressing View while a popup is open no longer causes the view to cycle even though it is not visible.

The Library BPM browser list no longer regenerates every time a track is sent to a deck, unless a BPM tag
is updated by the Beatkeeper in the interim.

New searches now make the search list cursor revert to the top of the list.

Tracks with leading or trailing spaces in a tag now sort into the correct order in browser lists.

The ID3v1 tag parser is now more robust against tags incorrectly padded with spaces rather than Nulls.

Devices are now correctly ejected during the power down sequence, eliminating a problem with HFS+ file
systems becoming read only until connected to a Mac.

Improved performance scrolling through tracks from the Track Info window.

Implemented more detailed progress reporting during library import.

What's New in v1.08

Fixed an issue whereby button presses would occasionally operate an unrelated function.

Fixed the sort order for "All" lists in the Library.

What's New in v1.07

The correct iDJ2 update URL is now shown in Utility/Updates.

Fixed an issue whereby multiple artist fields, if present, could take precedence over the main artist. With
some media programs this made it likely that the artist for a track from a compilation CD would be
imported as “Various Artists” instead of the track artist.

End of Release Note.

Numark iDJ² Firmware Release v1.09a 2008-02-15