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"Why are we still putting up with this?": AlphaTheta suspends CDJ-3000 firmware update after DJs complain of vanishing playlists

Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000 connected to a controller and headphones.

AlphaTheta has withdrawn a recent Ver3.30 firmware update for its Pioneer DJ CDJ-3000 DJ player following complaints that the software was "deleting" playlists and tracks from customers' USB drives.

Over the weekend, multiple artists shared reports on social media of problems with the CDJ-3000. "Pulled up to a gig with a USB I haven't touched since last weekend (it worked then). Nothing was showing, no playlists, not a single track, fully empty", reads a post on X from Polish DJ/producer VTSS. "Connected it to Rekordbox now - it reads perfectly, also with the history for a week before. WTH?"

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